The Eastside Catholic Crusaders got a big win against Bishop Blanchet Bears at EC. EC is coming off of a win vs Ballard. Blanchet lost to O’Dea the week before. Last times these teams played EC won 48:14.
EC was in control the whole game, starting off on defense and consistently swallowed up the Blanchet offense. Then on offense, EC drove the ball down field and scored a 4 yard touch down run. JB was the one who scored. JB Burroughs, a junior running back, punched in a 4-yard score to put EC up 7-0 to start off the prolific scoring. Captain Jake Tiryakioglu threw a 75 yard touchdown pass to Andrew Needham to tack on another score and make it 14-0 before the game ever really got going.
On defense EC continued to put a lot of pressure on Blanchet’s QB forcing him to make a bad throw which results in an interception by #8 Ambrose Marsh. He has a great return. EC takes possession at the 45. On first down Blanchet makes a great play by sacking the EC QB. EC picks up the first down on the next play with a screen pass which goes for 20 yards. On first down Tiryakioglu hits Needham again for anther touchdown.
EC drives the ball down felid and they get an 11 yard touch down run from Nick Jones. EC running back Achilliez Mika-Togiola walked in for a 5 yard touch down run. On Blanchet’s next drive on third down they throw an interception to #12 David Osau. That wraps up the first half. EC dominated Bishop Blanchet. First drive of the second half EC goes three and out for the first time of the game. EC’s defense continues to stop Bishop Blanchet’s Offense. The next drive EC scores their last TD of the game. It is a 38 yard run by River Shute. After that play, EC puts in their back up players and continue to dominate on defense. The final score of the game was EC 55-0.
The top players of the game were #11 Jake Tiryakioglu , #14 Andrew Needham, and #10 Aca Thompson. Jake threw for 279 yards, 4 td”s, no interceptions and a completion rate of 80 percent. Andrew Needham had 2 catches for 91 yards and 2 td’s. He averaged 45.5 yards per catch. Aca Thompson had 4 catches for 74 yards and 2 td’s he averaged 18.5 yards.
In conclusion, this was a dominant performance by the Crusaders. Tune in next Saturday for the next match-up against Lincoln at 2P
