{"id":18941,"date":"2013-10-19T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=18941"},"modified":"2013-10-19T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:00:05","slug":"rustin-overpowers-unionville-34-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=18941","title":{"rendered":"Rustin overpowers Unionville, 34-20"},"content":{"rendered":"

With division title hopes gone, Indians need wins to make state playoffs<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Unionville’s Mark Caputo doesn’t quite have Rustin’s Terry Loper, who rushed for 183 yards in the Knights’ 34-20 win over the Indians, Friday night. Jim Gill photo.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span>
\nEAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Ultimately, it wasn\u2019t any one thing, but a lot of small things that ended Unionville High School\u2019s hopes of repeating as Ches Mont American Division\u00a0 football champs \u2014 as the Indians were defeated by West Chester Rustin, 34-20, Friday night.<\/p>\n

Although there were issues in a number of facets of the game, largely it came down to the line of scrimmage where the Knights (8-0, 4-0 Ches Mont) controlled the game. The Indians (6-2, 3-1) couldn\u2019t stop Terry Loper, the league\u2019s best running back, and they couldn\u2019t run the ball themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could never get momentum,\u201d Unionville Head Coach Pat Clark said. \u201cAnd it was to their credit. And any mistake we made, they took advantage of it. They played a much better football game than we played tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

With division title hopes out \u2014 Rustin now looks likely to win its fifth league title in six years \u2014 Unionville will at minimum need one more win against tough Great Valley (6-2, 3-1) and Oxford (6-2, 3-1) and maybe both wins to make the District 1, AAAA playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Unionville’s Garrett Scargill looks for yardage as a Rustin defended bears down on him. Jim Gill photo.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re only guaranteed two more games,\u201d Clark said. \u201cAnd if we don\u2019t win both, we\u2019re going to finish in fourth place, which we\u2019ve never done in 10 years. So we need to wake up. We need to coach better, we need to play better, because we just didn\u2019t get the job done tonight at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loper gashed Unionville for 183 yards \u2014 often running the same sweep play, much of it coming in five and six yard bites.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a good back, and we couldn\u2019t get stops when we needed to get stops,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

On the other side, the Indians couldn\u2019t do much of anything on the ground \u2014 senior Garrett Scargill found little in the way of holes when he hit the line, forcing quarterback Alex Pechin to go to the air. While Pechin threw for 201 yards, he also threw two interceptions and struggled most of the night for time to get his receivers open.<\/p>\n

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Unionville’s Alex Pechin looks for open space. While the junior quarterback again threw for more than 200 yards, he struggled to get time to throw the ball, Friday night, in the face of a furious Rustin pass rush. Jim Gill photo.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

From the opening kickoff \u2014 which left Unionville buried at its own 8 \u2014 the offense struggled to move the ball and defense didn\u2019t seem to have answer to Loper or the roadgraders up front for Rustin. After a three-and-out, the Knights behind Loper, pounded right down the field. Although a failed extra point attempt and a 42-yard field goal by Pechin left the game 6-3 at the end of one quarter, the scoreboard didn\u2019t truly reflect what was happening on the field.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the second quarter rectified that.<\/p>\n

After Loper converted a 4th-and-1 into a 42-yard scoring run and then three plays later, Ethan Ridgeway picked off a Pechin pass, giving the Knights the ball on the Unionville 16. Ridgeway scored on the next play \u2014 and the game went from close to well, not, at 21-3, in the space of a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n

Pechin added another field goal in the closing seconds of the half, but the Indians were looking at 20-6 deficit knowing that Rustin would get the ball to start the second half.<\/p>\n

The Knights, seeing the opportunity to largely put the game away, embarked on another ground war, clock-eating drive, featuring Loper. Quarterback Dave Fithian hit bruising tight end Matt Hosking with a 16-yard pass to cap the drive and give Rustin a 27-6 lead.<\/p>\n

To its credit, Unionville didn\u2019t quit \u2014 and managed its best drive of the game, driven by sideline passes from Pechin to David Daly and Chris Koehler, finally finding the end zone on a 22-yard pass to Koehler.<\/p>\n

Any momentum from that score dissipated quickly: a T.J. Kirk 47-yard TD run for the Knights put the game away, just three minutes later.<\/p>\n

Austin Hofman-Reardon capped the Indians\u2019 scoring with a one-yard run in the final minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With division title hopes gone, Indians need wins to make state playoffs By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Ultimately, it wasn\u2019t any one thing, but a lot of small things that ended Unionville High School\u2019s hopes of repeating as Ches Mont American Division\u00a0 football champs \u2014 as the Indians were defeated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[4348,31,32,4347,7427,4346],"class_list":["post-18941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-ches-mont-american-division","tag-football","tag-indians","tag-knights","tag-unionville-high-school","tag-west-chester-bayard-rustin-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}