Junior Varsity Football: Middletown Falls at Linganore, 35-7

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

 

The Middletown High School Knights Junior Varsity Football team’s match-up against the Lignanore High School Lancers could be deceiving. One look at the box score would show that the Knights had fallen to the Lancers by a 35-7 score. Based on that, it would be easy for one to assume that Middletown was blown out of the water against Linganore and couldn’t hang with the Lancers.

That assumption would be very wrong.

Instead, it was a situation where the Knights battled for four quarters and were very much in the game when they went into the fourth quarter but a strong fourth quarter from the Lancers would widen the lead and give Linganore the victory.

The Knights and the Lancers were almost inseparable for the first three quarters as both teams registered solid defensive stops and both teams played excellent throughout the game as they would trade stops and trade scores during the first three quarters as the Lancers would enter the final quarter holding a slight 14-7 lead over Middletown.

At that point both teams were very much in striking distance and it seemed that the game could go either way and that either team could end up picking up the victory.

Unfortunately, for Middletown the Lancers would open things up in the fourth quarter as they would put together three scores which would get the score to where it ended at 35-7 Linganore.

Middletown will look to move on as next week they’ll have another challenge when they take on the Boonsboro High School Warriors at home as they’ll hope to get back into a winning streak against the Warriors.

The Knights (1-1) will hope to use a still potent offense against the Warriors as Middletown will still do most of their damage using a rushing attack that has shown a lot of talent over the first two games.