Housy drops third in a row

FALLS VILLAGE — In the case of the Housatonic/Wamogo Mountaineers football team’s 33-12 loss Monday, Nov. 7, to the Coventry/Windham Tech Patriots, it was speed that mattered. “Speed kills,” said Head Coach Deron Bayer immediately after the loss. “They are a very well-coached team, just a very good team,” he said of Coventry Head coach Tony Bonito’s players, still unbeaten in Pequot Uncas division play (7-0).The final score is not indicative of how close this game was, with the Mountaineers leading 6-0 at one point in the first quarter. This came on the first possession of the game, a clock-eating drive that featured a huge call by Bayer on fourth and one at midfield. Jake Sutterlin (29 carries, 200 yards, one touchdown) busted through for a 2-yard gain, enough to keep the drive alive. It ended with the other Jake, Jake Foley (seven carries, 79 yards, one touchdown) powering in from 15 yards out at the 3:38 mark. The point after failed and this would be the only lead of the night for Bayer’s squad.On the ensuing kickoff, the host Patriots got a huge return by Jeremy Weeks,a 40-yard return that gave Coventry a short field to work with, setting up on the Housy 45-yard line. They wasted little time scoring at 2:11 on a Mike Fahy 11-yard touchdown run. With the extra point, Coventry would assume the lead 7-6.Housy went to work on another time-consuming drive, starting on their own 9-yard line with 1:15 to go in the first quarter. The Mountaineers overcame penalties and bad snaps to keep the drive going. The last of three bad snaps would cost the visitors: On third and long, Sutterlin went to the air but was intercepted by Fahy with 2:10 left in the half.The Patriots wasted little time as Weeks again broke off a huge 70-yard run, setting the host team up deep in Housy territory. With 1:02 left in the half, Coventry seemed to have shot its drive down by taking a double penalty (holding and an unsportsmanlike conduct) that pushed them back to their own 45-yard line. But another weapon was about to be revealed. Alex Amarante rumbled off the right side for a 45-yard run to set up Fahy for a 10-yard touchdown run with 29 seconds left in the half. The point after failed and the lead was 13-6 at the half.Amarante picked up where he left off as the Patriots received the ball to start the second half. After breaking off a 12-yard run, Amarante broke through the Housy line for 47 yards, setting up deep in Mountaineers territory. Just two plays later, he would punch it in from four yards out. Another missed extra point. And the lead was up to 19-6.Housy’s offense sputtered after getting the ball back with 8:55 to go in the third. Bayer again went for a fourth down-and-short; this time, however, his squad came up short, giving Coventry excellent field position on the Mountaineers’ 34-yard line. Again the fast-moving Patriots wasted little time, starting with 6:59 to go and another Fahy touchdown run, this time from 15 yards out, at the 5:35 mark.The point after was good and the lead was now 26-6. Housy’s last drive of the third ended with Perotti throwing an interception with 2:16 left in the third. Amarante and company went on a drive that ate up 6:05 before Amarante jogged in from four yards out. The point after failed and the lead was now 33-6.Once again, Bayer’s offensive squad burned up a large portion of the fourth. Foley and Sutterlin would each have big runs on this drive, including what appeared to be a 34-yard touchdown run by Foley that the officials ruled out of bounds at the 1-yard line. Sutterlin punched in the touchdown from one yard out, the extra point failed and the game ended 33-12. Bayer knew coming in that this would be a tough game, especially following two very tough leave-it-all-on-the-table losses. “We left a lot on the field the last two weeks: blood and sweat, everything,” he stated, referring to the very close losses to Enfield and Avon. Next up for the Mountaineers will be a pair of home games, Saturday, Nov. 12, against SMSA and Saturday, Nov. 19, versus Ellington. On Nov. 19, the Friends of Football will have their second annual bake sale starting at 9 a.m. Thomas Brissett is the statistcian for the Mountaineers.

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