O'Hara 7 Richmond 51 in Quarterfinals

O'HARA STOPPED AT QUARTERFINALS BY RICHMOND AGAIN For the second year in a row, the Archbishop O'Hara High School Celtics football team made it to the quarterfinals and were stopped by the Richmond Spartans. The score this year was 51-7. Last year Richmond went on to win the State Title. _____ Without the services of Ronnie Sailer, O'Hara's leading scorer with 80 points this season, the Celtics were not able to muster much offense until Jake Fortin completed a 20 yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to D. J. Griffin for their only points in the afternoon game. _____ The only first period scoring was a 34 yard pass from Kyle Caroll to Lendarius Pritchett on a fourth down play with the extra point kicked by by Trent Dial. _____ Three times the Spartens scored in the second period to bring the halftime score to 28-0. These were an 8 yard run by Jimmy Hamm, a 20 yard run by Gabe Vandiver, and another run by Jimmy Hamm for 15 yards. _____ Just befor halftime, Celtics advanced the ball from their own 22 yard line all the way as far as the 16 yard line but came up emptyhanded. _____ At the start of the third quarter, the Celtcs again advanced the ball from their own 20 as far as the 13 yard line before giving up possession on downs. In that drive D.J. Griffin ad a pass recption for 26 yards and Brett Coatney had one for 29 yards. _____ The Spartens added two third quarter touchdowns. A 14 yard pass to Luke Hook and a 29 yard pass to Jake Stafford from Kyle Carroll resulted in the game being played with a running clock. _____ The last 9 points for Richmond were on a 6 yard run by Caleb Dunwoodie and a safety caused by a bad snap. _____ Senior Julian Gidley kicked O'Hara's lone extra point of the game.