O'Hara Wins First District Football Game 48-28

Six touchdowns (one for 53 yards in the fourth quarter) by Raphael Spencer was too much for Pembroke Hill as they lost to the O'Hara Celtics 48-28 on October 15th in the first round of District football games. _____ O'Hara's next District opponent was to be Westport but the game was cancelled after the school closed its doors this past summer. _____ The Celtics play on the following Thursday against Central. _____ _____A pass from Jake Fortin to Brandon Dennis for a 6 yard TD in the first quarter gave O'Hara an early lead; the Celtics covered 68 yards in ten plays for the only points scored in the first period. _____ A 32 yard pass from Jacob Gershon to David Kipke four minutes into the second quarter put the Raiders on the board, but David Kipke's extra point kick failed and the Celtics had a slim 7-6 lead. _____ Julian Gidley's extra point kick made the difference and he would continue to be successful in all but one of the remaining extra points of the game. _____ Two touchdowns were scored on runs of 15 yards and 8 yards by Raphael Spencer before halftime at which time the score became 21-6. _____ The Raiders were able to tie up the score at 21-21 at the beginning of the third quarter with two TD's, one was a 7 yard run by Marquelle Smith and the other a 3 yard pass from Gershon to Kipke. _____ Following this first touchdown Marquelle Smith ran in a two-point conversion and Kipke kicked the extra point after the second one. ______ Spencer went back to work to break the tie scoring on a 47 yard run before the third quarter was over, and adding an 18 yard TD run at the start of the fourth quarter. _____ Pembroke Hill narrowed the margin to 35-28 on a short 4 yard touchdown run by Dylen Sen, but that wes the end of the Raiders' scoring. _____ Spencer was in the endzone twice more on runs of 53 yards and 4 yards beore the game came to an end. _____ _____ Spencer was again among the area's rushing leaders with 294 yards to go with his six touchdowns. _____ O'HARA SCHOOL TOP TEN: Raphael Spencer has a career total of 2938 yards and is now in second place to Matt Patterson who hold the school record of 5396 yard. ______ Spencer is also second in career scoring with 301 with Patterson holding the #1 spot with 346. _____ Junior Julian Gidley is now tied with Shawn Geraghty for 6th place in most career extra points made with a total of 48.