Legends vs Spartans

Friday night the Lancaster Legends will be traveling to Williamsville North High School to face the Spartans in a non-conference matchup. The squads both won last week in big wins and will be looking to continue the momentum this week.

Last Time Out

Legends vs Niagara Falls

Lancaster traveled to Niagara Falls to play the Wolverines and came away with a 45-6 victory. The Legends used the ground game to move the ball and got across the goal line 5 of 6 times rushing.

Lancaster Legends Touchdown Celebration against Niagara Falls

Lancaster jumped out in the 1st Q with a 20 yard sweep around the right side that crossed the goal line, 7-0 Lancaster. Their 3rd TD would be an option play with the pitch given to the RB who would run into the endzone to push the score by 21-0.

The Legends would continue to score and get the victory for their first win in Class AA of the 2022 season.

Williamvsille North vs Frontier

Williamsville North traveled south to face the Falcons of Frontier High School in a Class A match up.

The Spartans received the kickoff and moved the ball down the field with a mix of run and pass against the Frontier defense. They would face a 4th and short near midfield and went for it and picked up the 1st on a QB sneak.

The drive would continue moving when they would throw a swing pass to a receiver that would end up in the endzone. The play would be called back as their was a penalty on the play against the Spartans.

The next play would be a 3rd and long when they threw a pass in the middle of the field and picked up the 1st down. Later in the drive a run up the middle would get the ball over the goal line and 6 points, extra point good, 7-0.

Frontier would get the ball and run down the field and get themselves a TD with a QB sweep to the right side, extra point hit the up right, 7-6 WN.

Picture courtesy of the Connolly Cup

The Spartans got the ball off the kickoff at the 36 yard line. The offense came out and put a man in motion who ended up getting the ball on a sweep to the left and would pick up over 20 yards and a 1st down.

The QB ran for 8 yards and the threw a quick pass to a WR who moved the ball inside the 20 yard line. The Spartans would come out in a spread formation and on the snap, the quarterback started running to the right but handed the ball off to a receiver going left. He was able to take it up the middle and was untouched until he found the goalline, extra point good, 14-6 WN.

Williamsville North would pick off a Falcon pass in their own endzone and got the ball on their own 20 yard line. The ensuing drive they continued to mix the pass with the run and went down the field. A QB sneak made the score 20-6, extra point good, 21-6.

Picture courtesy of the Connolly Cup

Frontier would drive the field to the WN 17 yard line but would fumble the ball with the Spartans recovering.

That drive would end in a punt that was blocked by the Falcons who would get the ball inside the WN end. It was near the end of the 1st half and on 4th down, the Falcons threw up a jump ball to the end zone.

The ball was tipped and came down in the arms of a Spartans DB who was 4 yards deep in the end zone but brought it out. He was tackled at the 37 yard line but fumbled the ball which was picked up by another WN player who ran it all the way into the endzone. They went for 2 points but the pass was knocked down, 27-6 Spartans up.

The 2nd half started with both teams having the ball but it was the Spartans that would fumble it with Frontier jumping on it. They would drive the ball down the field and scored on a long run, 27-13 WN up.

WN would get 2 more TD’s in the 4th Q with the 1st one being a QB sneak and the 2nd a 16 yard run up the middle, 41-13 final

Lancaster/Williamsville North History

Lancaster and Williamsville North have only played each other 10 times but 2 of those times have been in the Section VI post season. In 2017 they met at New Era Field in the Section VI Championship game. Lancaster would get the victory and move on.

Watch the 2017 Section VI Championship Game:

In 2018, they met at Foyle-Kling Field in the first round for the right to play for the Section Championship.

The Legends would have to come back to win this one. Williamsville North went up late and the offense for the Legends had to find the end zone to get back ahead. Read more about the 2018 Lancaster/WN game.

Class AA

Hutch Tech will be playing Starpoint this week Saturday. Niagara Falls will face Frontier as both teams will be looking for a win after last weekend. Bennett will travel to Ohio to face Austin-Fitch Falcons which is near Youngstown, OH. The Falcons are 4-0 on the season with a win over Foothills Falcons from Nevada who traveled to Ohio to face Austin-Fitch.

Orchard Park will be facing Sweet Home after playing Jamestown in what turned into a shootout.

Quakers vs Red Raiders

The Quakers received the ball to start this game and came out throwing it right down the field. The TD they earned on that drive would be a run up the middle, extra point good, 7-0 OP.

The squads would both have to punt on their next possessions as the defense stepped up.

The next time Jamestown got the ball, they started at the OP 39 yard line. On 1 play they scored a TD by throwing the ball under good coverage from the OP DB, game tied at 7.

The Red Raiders stopped the OP offense and got the ball back. Another long pass set up Jamestown, this time at the OP 20 yard line. A couple of plays later and a Quaker penalty, Jamestown was back in the endzone on a tough run up the middle, 14-7.

Orchard Park would not be out done, they would move deep inside the visitors end on a screen play to the left side of the offense. All the movement was to the right but the throw was back to the other side of the play. OP would have to overcome a penalty to get a TD but were able to on a pass and another 6 points early in the 2nd Quarter, 14-14.

After the teams would have a couple of chances with the ball but were unable to get points, OP threw a 53 yard TD pass for 6 points. Extra point was good, 21-14 OP up at the half.

Jamestown would get the ball to start the 2nd half and moved down the field with both the pass and run plays. They got down to the OP 25 yard line and put up a jump ball to the goal line with a Red Raider coming down with a score, 21-21.

The Quakers would get into position to move ahead right after that on a pass play up the seam and down to the Red Raider 15 yard line. A couple of plays later, a slant pass would connect and the receiver found pay dirt, OP back up 28-21.

OP would attempt a short kickoff to surprise the visiting team but the ball went out of bounds at the Jamestown 39 yard line.

The Jamestown offense would once again move the ball down the field and into the red zone. A run up the middle would get 6 points for the team from Chautauqua County, 28 up.

The home team got the ball again and moved it to the end zone, 34-28, a 2 point conversion was no good.

OP would stop Jamestown and would gain control of the ball. The Quakers would throw a long ball along the sideline but a OP receiver would tip the pass up and it landed in the hands of a Red Raider defender. He would bring he ball back inside the Quaker 15 yard line, 1st and 10 Jamestown.

A few plays later and another pass to the back of the end zone was caught by a visiting player bringing the score to 35-34 Jamestown up late in the 3rd Q.

OP did what they had been doing all night and find the goal line again to get back up on a run, 40-35, 2 point conversion was intercepted.

Early in the 4th quarter Orchard Park stopped Jamestown and would get the ball back. They did not waste time with it as a short pass would go the distance making the score 47-35.

There would still be over 8 minutes left in the game but Jamestown would be unable to find any more points ending a wild game.

Read more about OP/Jamestown game from week 2.