{"id":23050,"date":"2014-09-06T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23050"},"modified":"2014-09-06T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T16:03:48","slug":"unionville-cant-overcome-mistakes-falls-38-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23050","title":{"rendered":"Unionville can\u2019t overcome mistakes, falls 38-35"},"content":{"rendered":"

While offense clicks, defense struggles against Exeter<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Mike McGann<\/b>,\u00a0Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Unionville quarterback Alex Pechin turned in a strong performance, throwing for 210 yards and four TD, while rushing for another 56 yards on the ground, but the Indians fell to Exeter, 38-35, Friday night.<\/p><\/div>\n

EXETER \u2014 If you read the stat sheet and saw the following: Alex Pechin threw for more than 200 yards and four touchdowns and the home Exeter team was flagged a startling 13 times for penalties, you\u2019d draw the obvious conclusion: Unionville won in a romp.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n

Despite a bevy of miscues \u2014 and the halftime ejection of Eagles\u2019 starting quarterback Chase Yocum \u2014 The Indians lost a tough 38-35 decision on the road in a non-league game up in Berks County, Friday night.<\/p>\n

Two things plagued Unionville, a pair of untimely turnovers \u2014 avoiding either might well have allowed the Indians to escape with an ugly win \u2014 and missed assignments and tackles on defense, as the Eagles were able to pretty much run at will behind powerful back Jeremy Tibbets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t help but feel like we gave that game away in a couple of different ways,\u201d Unionville Head Coach Pat Clark said afterward. \u201cThey (Exeter) absolutely made plays when they had to, and their quarterback did a nice job in the first half. But we have some stuff to work on, we\u2019re a young football team and that showed tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while Clark and his staff say they feel they will have things to work on before next Saturday\u2019s match up at Avon Grove \u2014 and old friend Harry O\u2019Neill, now the Red Devils\u2019 Head Coach after many years as the Indians\u2019 defensive coordinator \u2014 the final play the first half was replete with the bizarre and, possibly, a timing error that may have allowed the play to happen in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Unionville junior running back Brandon Boon was held to just 29 yards on 13 carries on the ground, but excelled Friday in the passing game, catching three TD passes. Jim Gill Photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

With the Eagles leading 24-21, in the final seconds of the first half, after a Yocum pass fell incomplete \u2014 apparently leaving :01.2 seconds on the clock, it appeared that the back judge felt that time in the half had expired and the half should have ended. While the officials spent some time sorting it out \u2014 and both teams got a moment to catch their breath on the sticky, humid evening \u2014 it was decided to allow a final play.<\/p>\n

And that was, as Hunter S. Thompson once famously said \u201cwhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the ensuing play, Yocum rolled to his left and threw a strike to Gabe Shappell for a 27-yard touchdown that appeared to end the half. But Unionville\u2019s Ian Larson was closing on Yocum just as he released the pass and hit him. The quarterback appeared to take issue with that, and the two began shoving and apparently, blows may have been exchanged (as the scrum around the two enveloped them, it was impossible to see from the sideline). Both Yocum and Larson were ejected from the game.<\/p>\n

Although the loss of the Eagles\u2019 quarterback \u2014 one of the top QBs in southeast Pennsylvania \u2014 should have been a blow to Exeter, it was Unionville that continued to see the winds of back luck combine with shaky play to doom them.<\/p>\n

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The young Unionville defense struggled with bringing down the powerful runners of Exeter, including quarterback Chase Yocum, here seen breaking away for a first-half score.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Indians muffed the kickoff for the second half and Exeter\u2019s Joan Echavarria recoving the ball to set up a short field for freshman quarterback Brandon Unterkoffer, who took the place of Yocum, on the Unionville 24. But it was the senior, Tibbetts and Braelin Gill, who powered a quick, three-play scoring drive _ putting the Indians down 38-21, just a little over a minute into the second half.<\/p>\n

And while the Unionville defense stiffened \u2014 and didn\u2019t allow any further points \u2014 the offense was not quite the unstoppable force in the second half it had been in the first.<\/p>\n

The Indians did come right back with a score \u2014 a six-play drive capped by a Pechin to Brandon Boon 39-yard TD pass \u2014 but saw their next drive stopped deep in Eagles\u2019 territory when Pechin was picked off by Leroy Longenecker at the Exeter 16, late in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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