D.L.B

  Saturday night took me back to White Field in Newark to watch the Newark Catholic Green Wave host the Utica Redskins. Utica needed a win to make the state playoffs, while Newark Catholic, thanks to a couple of losses to two good teams in weeks six and nine, along with a hurtful loss to a much bigger school in week five, was set to play a road game in week eleven. The Green Wave converted a fourth and one at the 8:52 mark of the opening quarter when Malone Hutchison picked up eleven. Hutchison found Graeme Gillespie for a 28-yard touchdown, then #4 Hal Gillespie made this a 7-0 game with his P.A. Aaron Hays hit Weston Simon for a gain of thirty, on a play that Simon was all alone, making the completion pretty easy. Hays used his legs to convert a fourth and one with 1:38 left in the quarter, picking up 9 yards. The drive continued into the 2nd quarter, where Hays picked up 2 yards on a fourth and one at the Green Wave eight-yard line. Hays polished off the drive going through the ...