Warriors Football weekend highlights, league standings

Flag Division

The following players turned in outstanding plays:

Patricia’s II Black Feet – Brandon Muniz and Nicholas Lee

Busco’s Deli & Catering Cherokee – Damin Gonzalez and Johnny Guevara

Parkview Sports Center Delaware – Jeremy Fuentes and Justin Franceschini

Barino’s Market Mohicans – Aiden Rodriguez and Nicholas Tulipano

Westchester Medical Shawnee – Jaiden Sepulveda and Mateo Nonis

Middletown Animal Clinic Sioux – Jayden Robles and Napoleon Fergus

Mite Division

In the first Mite game played on Sunday, the North Bronx Paint and Hardware Jets beat the O’Conner Carpet Bears 19 to 7. The Bears ended the first quarter down 19 to 0, but they did not give up. Down by three touchdowns mainly due to turnovers, the Bears defense held the Jets offense scoreless the rest of the game. With this the Bear offense regained their composure and QB Matthew Careccia was able to score on a QB sneak just before the half. Outstanding play by the Bears defense with key tackles by Justin Fernandez and fumble recoveries by Darryl Hagans and Tyler Carreras gave the Bears much needed opportunities to score some points on offense.

Despite their second loss of the season the Bears left Sunday’s game with a positive attitude and a promise to work harder at being the best.

The American A-1 Automotive Chiefs and the Villa Barone Manor Eagles played to a 6 to 6 tie. The Eagles had a great running game going. Richard Rodriguez had a 15-yard carry for a first down, while Latrel Ambersly had a total of 50 yards on the ground and scored the Eagles only touchdown. The Eagles had great blocking along the offensive line, led by Joseph Scovotti, Ethan Butler and Jason Castellanos, which enabled the running game to succeed. On defense, Gino Galella had a sack and two solo tackles and Tyler Carr chipped in with two quarterback sacks. Playing in their first game of the season, the Chief’s offense showed great teamwork when Jacob Tlaesca ran a 40-yard touchdown behind the blocking of Carlos Pena and Anthony Santiago, resulting in their first touchdown. Strong running by Liam O’Neal led to three drives but no further touchdowns. Defensively, the line provided continuous pressure led by Zach Hoina playing in their first game of the season, the Chief’s offense showed great teamwork when Jacob Tlaesca ran a 40 yard touchdown behind the blocking of Carlos Pena and Anthony Santiago, resulting in their first touchdown. Strong running by Liam O’Neal led to three drives but no further touchdowns. Defensively, the line provided continuous pressure with several open field tackles by Hoina, Erim Pelinkovic, Liam O’Neal and Lorenzo Maida.

Pee Wee Division

The Jimmy Ryan’s Crusaders beat The Food Factory Ramblers by a score of 6-0. Edwin Feliciano scored the game’s only points and caught an interception to seal the game in the 4th quarter. The offense was also sparked by the outstanding blocking by Jayare Wise and Fabian Bonilla. The Crusaders defense played strong and united as Avery Perez and Geoffrey Ogando led them to a shutout.

The Kleen-Awn Blue Devils defeated the Anthony’s Collision Redskins 19 to 0. Once again, this week, the Blue Devils defense has proven to be a solid defense as they held the Redskins scoreless. The defensive stand was led by Navin Harripersad , Billy Rueger, Bo Kendrick-Holmes and Izayah Powell. Scoring for the Blue Devils was Richard Mameli & Powell. The Blue Devils continue to work hard on and off the field and its starting to show.

The game between the Dr. David Stevens Steelers and Silvestri Carpet Spartans was canceled. A make-up date has not been determined.

Junior Division

On October 3, 2009 a great battle took place at 1:30pm. The undefeated and last year champs the Giordano F. H. Saints faced the 2008 runner-up Balsamo’s F. H. Javelins at Pelham Bay Park. The Javelins started off with a couple of good runs by halfback Jayson Ramos and fullback Antoine Stone. They moved the ball down field with great blocks from offensive linemen James Glenn, Cory Gonzalez, Nelson Rivera and Trenaine Whitaker. The Javelins scored the first of their touchdowns with a strong 10-yard run. The extra point was scored by Aaron Gardner on a reverse. The half ended with the Javelins up 7 – 0. The Saints only scoring drive of the game came in the third quarter as Jeremy Vega ran for over 50 yards on 3 carries and David Rivas-Torres scored on a 4-yard TD run. Quarterback Joshua Nugent completed two short passes and had a fundamentally sound game in his first game at the helm. The Javelins turned this game around in the fourth quarter. Gardner turned it up with two 40-yard runs, and then Eric Bachelder culminated the drive with a 2-yard dive into the end zone to end the game. The Javelins defense led by Anthony Muniz, Melvin Harrell, Antonio Arroyo, Marc Bowens and Mar’kiel Bowens all had a great game in keeping the Saints high power offense to only one score. Final score Javelins 13, Saints 6.

In the last game played on Saturday the McNulty F. H. Rams beat the Paddy Doherty’s Black Knights 7 to 0. The only touchdown of the game was made by Jovan Rivera of the Rams behind the solid run blocking of Vincent Gonzalez, Steven Redrovan and Carlos Burgos. Christian Monteavaro added the extra point. Rivera also contributed on defense along with Sammy Maldonado and Dominick Zarba with multiple tackles to keep the Knights scoreless.

The Knights offensive played a great game, but came up short when it came to putting the ball in the end zone. Malachi Lozada and Tony Monserrate had great runs, but the bulk of the yards came from some great passes by Monserrate and amazing catches by Richard Johnson. The Knights defense played weak the first half giving up the one touchdown to the Rams. Richard Guzman, Dionys Deleon and Lozada tightened up the Knights defense in the second half to keep the Rams scoreless.

Big Apple Team

Sunday, October 4, pitted the Bronx Warriors, who have not lost a game in their two year history of playing travel football, against Brooklyn’s New York Warriors who came into the contest riding a 39 game winning streak and a #4 ranking in the country. In a battle of champions, only one team’s streak could continue. The NY Warriors quickly scored on their first possession and made it look easy as they moved 52 yards in 4 plays to go up 7-0. But their Bronx rivals responded with a time consuming 14 play drive that ate up 61 yards and 8 minutes on the clock. Jayson Gonzalez and Shane Cherry did the damage as the Warriors advanced to the 12-yard line where QB James Werner hit SE Tyrell Halliman with a TD strike. The extra point failed but cut the lead to 7-6. Defensively, things didn’t get any better as the Warriors once again moved 57 yards in 6 plays to take a 13-6 lead into the half. With the NY team getting the ball to start the second half things had to change defensively for the Bronx squad. It did as ILB’s CJ Holcomb and Edwin Webber along with OLB Steven Bradley were everywhere making plays. The NY Warriors would only get one first down in the entire second half. This gave the offense an opportunity to attack and they finally struck with 2:52 left in the game as Werner called a hot route audible to TB Domenic Arena who weaved his way to a 79-yard TD reception off the screen pass. Jayson Gonzalez bulled in for the PAT to tie the game and the defense once again took over as it forced a four and out giving the Bronx team one last chance with 46 seconds remaining. The rest will always be remembered by players, coaches and fans alike. Using a mix of runs, passes, and timeouts the Warriors stood at the 27-yard line with 9 seconds left.

Werner dropped back to pass and launched a prefect spiral towards the back of the end zone that was hauled in by Domenic Arena with 4 seconds left to end the NY Warriors streak at 39 and increase the Bronx Warriors streak five games without a defeat. On the day Werner completed 7out of 11 passes for 205 yards with Arena accounting for three of those completions and 129 of the yards. Jayson Gonzalez tallied 86 tough yards and Shane Cherry chipped in with 45.

The Warriors look to extend their streak on Sunday 10/11 against the Brooklyn Renegades.