New England Football Notes 9/27

Luke Catarius

Posted on September 27th 2011

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"10" Top Performances

Each week we will highlight 10 of the top performances in New England for the prior week.

Catholic Memorial High School (MA) WR/CB Armani Reeves ’12 was our New England Prep Stars Player of the Week for his three TD performance and stellar defense in a big 28-20 victory over St. John's Shrewsbury on Saturday. The win was CM's first of the year.

Not to be out done is our Next 9:

Casey Cochran '12 QB, Masuk (CT) - passed for 325 yards and five TDs in 64-14 win over New Fairfield.

Kenny Pierce ’12 WR, Beverly (MA) – Scored five TDs in a big comeback win over Lynn English on Friday night.

Aaron Berardino '12 Windsor (CT) - Berardino took a kickoff back 90 yards for a TD, caught two TD passes and ran for one TD in a win against Bristol Central.

Anthony Morales '12 Cromwell (CT) was 8-for-8 passing for 309 yards and four TDs as Cromwell defeated Lewis Mills 51-12.

Melquawn Pinkney '12 RB Springfield Putnam (MA) - ran for a Western MA record 421 yards on just 17 carries, to go along with six touchdowns. See ESPN Boston for more on this breakout star.

Matt O'Keefe '12 QB - Duxbury (MA) - The Dragons QB completed 14 of 20 passing for 220 yards and three TDs. He also added two rushing touchdowns.

Luke Catarius '13 LB/FB - BC High (MA) - Catarius was everywhere for the Eagles in a win over Chelmsford Friday night as the junior MLB had 15 tackles and scored a decisive fourth quarter rushing TD in the win.

Preston Cooper '12 QB - Chelmsford (MA) - Scored one rushing TD with 123 yards and had an 82-yard kickoff return for a TD in win over a strong Chelmsford defense on Friday night.

Chris Bettano '12 RB - Tewksbury (MA) - Rushed for 244 yards on 23 carries and three TDs in a stunning 38-28 upset win over Andover.

New England Prep Stars Live Coverage

We were at three games this week and will also be at three games this upcoming weekend. Below are recaps with links and posts from our game coverage.

BC High flexes its muscles in Chelmsford

Special Teams got the Eagles started on Friday night as senior captain Gordon McLeod (pictured below left) took the opening kickoff back 83 yards to set the tone in the game and give BC High the momentum they needed on a rainy and sloppy night.

The offensive star of the game this week was RB Preston Cooper (pictured below right), who scored two rushing touchdowns and returned an 82-yarder back for a score.

The defensive star was junior MLB Luke Catarius '13 (pictured top photo above left) who had 15 tackles on the night and also had a 6-yard rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter to ice the game. The fullback opened up some nice holes for Cooper on the day as well.

"Everyone played well tonight for us tonight," Catarius told New England Prep Stars after the game. "We had guys step up all over. From Coop, to our offensive line, to our return teams we all made plays out there."

Chelmsford received a strong effort from senior RB Eddie Sheridan who amassed 250 all purpose yards to go along with one TD.

CHS travels to Lawrence this Friday night at 7 p.m. in their opening MVC game of the 2011 season.

Read more about this game including photo galleries at Chelmsford Patch

Beverly completes HUGE comeback win

Junior running back Kenny Pierce '13 scored five touchdowns and QB Dave Rollins scored a last minute touchdown for the Beverly Panthers to defeat the previously undefeated Lynn English Bulldogs, 36-35, at Manning Field in Lynn. Read more about the game here.

Catholic Memorial gets first win of season

On Saturday afternoon in Shrewsbury CM's Armani Reeves '12 stole the show as the Penn State commit scored three touchdowns to lead CM to their first win of the season.

CM QB A.J. Doyle '12, LB Cam Williams '12 and RB Donovan Henry also played well in the team win.

Read more about this game, including the scoring summary on ESPN Boston

See the photo gallery from the game here.