CELTICS WIN 48-25 REACHING QUARTER FINALS

With a 48-25 victory on November 8 over Pembroke Hill, the Archbishop O'Hara football team reached the final eight in the State playoffs and will travel to undefeated Richmond on Saturday for a 1:30 game. _____ Last year the Celtics got to the final four before losing to Cassville, the State Champions. _______ Richmond won their game with Maryville 21-14 to get to the final eight. _______ The last time O'Hara and Pembroke Hill played, the score was 48-28. _____ In O'Hara's last four games, the Celtics scored 48 or more points in each game. _____ Raphael Spencer became O'Hara's all-time top scorer with his four touchdowns reaching a total of 366 eclipsing Matt Patterson's 346 points. ______ The rest of the O'Hara scoring in this game came from two touchdowns by Brett Coatney and one by Brandon Dennis along with six successful extra point kicks by Julian Gidley. _____ In the Monday night game, the Celtics jumped off to a 28-0 halftime advantage. _____ On O'Hara's first running play, Brett Coatney had an end run for 64 yards for the Celtics' first TD. _____ The Raiders' offense sputtered and the Celtics scored again on a six yard run by Raphael Spencer. ______ The touchdown was set up by a 26 yard pass by Jake Fortin to Brandon Dennis. _____ The next time the Celtics got the ball, Brandon Dennis pulled in a Jake Fortin pass for a 27 yard touchdown boosting the score to 21-0 while still in the first quarter. _____ The longest play of the evening was in the second quarter and it was a 70 yard touchdown run by Raphael Spencer. ______ The Raiders scored three touchdowns in the third quarter to make the game interesting. _____An 10 yard TD run by Pembroke Hill's Patrick Freitag was followed by a 5 yard TD run by O'Hara's Brett Coatney. ______ On the ensuing kick, Jacob Gerson returned the kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown. ______ Gerson also scored on a 5 yard run for a touchdown before the third quarter ended. _____ In the fourth quarter, Pembroke Hill scored first on a 10 yard pass play from Jacob Gerson to Charlie Mueller for their 25th and final points for the day and putting the score at 34-25. _____ O'Hara played ball control on their next drive capped by a 15 yard touchdown run by Raphael Spencer. ______ Shifting to a passing game, the Raiders lost the ball on an interception by Jimmy Clark who returned the ball all the way to the one yard line. _____ Raphael Spencer plunged over the goal line for to final points of the game.