The Blue Demons rack up another win, this time against the outmatched Raiders
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
Kennett's Brett Rose goes up for the ball against Twin Valley, Saturday.
KENNETT SQUARE—Was it a case of shooting fish in a barrel? Maybe, though no one would admit it openly
“There’s no such thing as an easy game,” Kennett Head Coach Scott Green sad, even though the performance of the Twin Valley Raiders was even more dismal than the drizzly weather on the overcast Saturday morning.
Early in the first quarter the tone of the game was set with a fumble from the Raiders recovered by Anthony Torello. This eventually allowed Kennett’s Jordan Lardani to drive into the Twin Valley end zone for a TD with 3:06 left in the first. The blocked two-point conversion resulted in a score of 6-0, Kennett.
Twin Valley’s experiments in option offense, while ambitious in theory, were in practice a nightmare for them. The next possession was also fumbled and subsequently recovered by the Demons at the Raider 25 yard line.
Barry Tomasetti Jr. pitched to Lardani for a gain of six yards. From there Torello broke through the line to score another Kennett TD, the extra point making it 13-0.
By the second quarter a grim trend was being set by Twin Valley. Try as they might, the Raiders just couldn’t compete with the superior Kennett team. After a long possession Lardani made his way to the Raider end zone, which was becoming familiar territory for the Blue Demons, and scored yet another TD. With the extra point the score advanced to 20-0.
Kennett quarterback Barry Tomasetti Jr. fights off a Twin Valley tackler breaking into open ground.
At this point Twin Valley fans were beginning to wonder if their team’s hands were coated in Crisco, as in its subsequent possession—you guessed it—the ball was fumbled, this time recovered by Kennett’s Brandon Liddick.
Would the half prove to be a miraculous turn around in events, a proverbial reversal of fortune for a beleaguered Twin Valley?
Nah.
The Demons continued to dominate, as Torello scored another TD, coupled by an extra point. The score, 27-0, clearly indicated that the game was becoming a runaway. Lardani contributed as well, scoring yet another Demon touch down, with an extra point by Bret Rose, making the score a ridiculous 34-0.
Adding insult to injury, in the fourth, junior C.J. Lowe took possession of the ball and made a remarkable 65-yard TD run, leaving Twin Vay defenders in his wake, heads spinning like pin wheels trying to figure out what had just happened. And extra point resulted in a score of 41-0.
In an ironic twist of fate Twin Valley scored a TD of its own, as if to say “yes, it’s possible,” within the final moments of the fourth quarter, however, it was far too little, far too late. Kennett’s victory was complete.
The game also was a record breaker: Torello, who was a starter since his sophomore year, broke Kennett’s record for career rushing touchdowns with 15, the previous record set by Justin Clark in 2006 with 14.
“I feel really good about it,” said Torello, “I couldn’t have done it without the help of my teammates.”
