Silver Bullets Division 1 Mites Head to Super Bowl With Win!

 
The Barnstable Silver Bullets Division 1 Mites advanced to the Old Colony Youth Football League Super Bowl Sunday (Nov. 6) with a sound, 30-16 victory over Scituate, its second victory over Scituate in as many weeks.
      Quarterback Hayden Murphy and halfback Dereck Pacheco each punched in two touchdowns on the day, with Pacheco adding three two-point conversion runs. Murphy had the top score of the day with a nice, 20-yard run early in the fourth quarter (7:27). Halfback Matt Lambert staged an exceptional performance throughout the affair, consistently churning up yards to put Barnstable in position to score from within the Red Zone. All totaled, Lambert collected 65 yards on six carries. Pacheco and Murphy also fared well on defense for the Silver Bullets.
      Barnstable will play versus Old Colony Youth Football League rival Marshfield this Saturday, Nov. 12, at W. Leo Shields Memorial Field. Please check www.barnstablesilverbullets.org for the game time.
Barnstable kicked off with Darien Kaski making a nice open-field tackle and on Scituate’s first play Barnstable’s Seamus Murray recovered a fumble to put the Bullets in great position to launch a scoring drive.
      Matt Lambert took the reigns on that drive, ripping off runs of 7, 10, 5 and 10 yards to put Barnstable deep in Scituate territory. Noah Johnson added a nice run, then Murphy punched it in to make it 6-0 on a quarterback sneak. The two-point conversion failed.
      Scituate then took a brief lead when it surprised the Barnstable defense with a 59-yard touchdown run to make it 6-6, then added a two-point conversion to make it 8-6 with 2:15 left in the first quarter. Matt Lambert, Kaski, Marcus Cunningham and Pacheco then took turns advancing the pigskin before Pacheco punched in a 5-yarder to make it 12-8, Barnstable. He followed with the two-point conversion to make it 14-8. Scituate did not want to go down quietly, however, as it chipped away at the yard marker to find itself on the Barnstable goal line with just over two minutes remaining in the half.
      The Bullets made some defensive adjustments and it was just the spark it needed as they stuffed Scituate on the paint. The half ended with Barnstable ahead, 14-8.
      Matt Lambert again ripped off a pair of beautiful runs of 10 and 18 yards to put the Bullets on the Scituate goal line late in the third quarter, followed by another Pacheco touchdown run (2:49) to make it 20-8. He added the two-point conversion to make it 22-8. After a solid defensive stint, Barnstable Quarterback Hayden Murphy sprinted on a naked bootleg 20 yards to paydirt to make it 28-8 and Pacheco followed with a two-point conversion to make it 30-8.
      With 58.8 second remaining in the fourth quarter, Scituate added a touchdown and two-point conversion to make it 30-16 (the scoreboard did not change from 28-16, when the official scorer missed one of Pacheco’s two-point conversions.)

Barnstable Division 1 and Division 5 Pee Wees Fall in Playoffs

      Both Barnstable Silver Bullets Pee Wee Teams fell Saturday night (Nov. 5) in the Old Colony League playoffs, with the Division 5 Pee Wees falling 6-0 in overtime to Hingham and the Division 1 Pee Wees falling 6-2 to Marshfield.
      The Division 5 Pee Wees ended the season at 4-4. The Division 1 Pee Wees ended at 3-4-1.
In what many league officials called the “best youth football game” they had ever seen last Saturday night at Marshfield High School, the Barnstable Division 1 Pee Wees fell to rival Marshfield, 6-2. Both scores came from each team’s defensive units; neither team’s offense scored on the evening, even with Barnstable ripping off 50 offensive plays, three trips to the Red Zone and a 1st and goal series from the Marshfield one-yard line.
      In eight quarters of play versus Marshfield this season, the Barnstable defense did not allow its opponent to score. In Barnstable’s 6-2 loss to its rival, it fumbled on its own one-yard line and Marshfield recovered in the end zone to go ahead 6-0. After Marshfield took over on its own one-yard line late in the third quarter, Barnstable’s Nick Cincotta and Everett Walsh stuffed the Marshfield ball carrier in the end zone for a safety to make it 6-2, but it was too little too late as Barnstable ran out of gas in the midst of a late fourth quarter drive that went from 1st and 10 on the 50 yard line to 4th and 42 after a series of penalties in the game’s waning moments.
      Barnstable running back Kevin Ostrom and split end Charlie Rice were the stars of the day on offense as Ostrom bulled his way to 43 yards on six carries and Rice made a pair of spectacular grabs on Damon Blake passes for a total of 35 yards.
      Defensive end Zach Stevens and linebackers Everett Walsh and Tevin Hill were the top dogs on defense.