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Marple Newtown beats Radnor

By 29 October, 2011August 18th, 2012No Comments

By Tom Sunnergren, Patch.com
October 29, 2011

Friday night at Harry R. Harvey Field, Marple Newtown got touchdowns from four different players and kept explosive Radnor halfback Tajee Bryant in check to claim the 27-13 win.
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Marple Newtown
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Radnor
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IN SHORT
A night after the Flyers allowed nine goals in a home loss, another local and team that wears orange and black had a better go of things.
Despite falling behind 7-0 after Radnor fullback TJ Hines finished a lengthy drive by plowing in from short yardage, Marple Newtown got touchdowns from Jamie Ridinger, Joey Pham, Cimarrow Moat, and Nick Ciarrocchi to cruise to the 27-13 win.
The shorthanded Raiders—one assistant coach admitted they dressed only 31 players for the contest—played the Tigers to a tie for the first 20 minutes of Friday’s action, but gave up a 29-yard touchdown strike from Ridinger to Pham in the waning minutes of the second half and seemed to lose their footing from that point on.
In the first drive after the break, Moat scored, untouched, from 55-yards out to advance the Marple lead to 21-7 then, after the game entered a brief holding pattern, the Tigers struck again: this time in the form of a 51-yard touchdown pass from Ridinger to Ciarrocchi.
Ridinger completed two passes on the evening. Both went for touchdowns.
Radnor, after the series of gut punches they took in the second and third quarters, composed themselves and made a late run. Quarterback Mike Koerick found Tim Wilson in the back of the endzone for a 22-yard score two cut the deficit to 27-13—both kickers missed PATs—but on the subsequent drive, Koernick went for the endzone again, but instead found Ciarrocchi, who hung on for the interception and, for all intents and purposes, the win.