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A Dark'n Stormy Night in Rocky Point
The East Hampton/Pierson/Bridgehampton football team played at a rain-soaked Rocky Point on Thursday, October 30.
It was a dark and stormy night, but, undaunted, the East Hampton/Pierson/Bridgehampton football team blew away its host, Rocky Point, 35-0, on Thursday, October 30, an impressive shutout that assured the 5-3 Bonackers of a berth in the Suffolk County Division III playoffs.
Directly following a pivotal Islip/Westhampton Beach matchup on Saturday afternoon, which Islip won, 21-7, the playoff brackets were quickly set. East Hampton was seeded sixth and will play at No. 3 Islip this Friday, November 7, at 6 p.m.
Chris Carney, who was at the game, and whose son, Jackson, plays for East Hampton, said this past Friday that “the weather was really bad. It wasn’t just the rain, but the wind too, with 40-mile-per-hour gusts. I thought the weather would favor them, theirs being a running game, and ours mixing passes in with running. It was close in the first quarter. We scored first and then we scored again right before the half, and got the ball back when the second half began. Our linemen were great, Tiger Brew in particular. We shut down their running game. And the conditions were perfect for Jackson Ronick, who’s a north-south runner … the whole team played well.”
McKee, when questioned, said, “We started off with a goal-line stand, and when we got the ball back, Jackson Ronick ran for an 87-yard touchdown. Then Alex Davis scored on a 3-yard run right before the half, putting us up, 14-0, going into the break. The first play of the second half, Alex ran for a 60-yard touchdown, and Manny Morales’s point-after kick made it 21-0. Late in the third, Theo [Ball] threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Stern, and late in the fourth Jai Feaster ran for a 24-yard touchdown.”
“Our team rushed for 387 yards — Ronick for 213 of them — including that 87-yard touchdown run. Alex Davis ran for 122 yards, including two touchdowns, and Jai had that 24-yard touchdown run. We got a lot of kids in — it was our first shutout of the season.”
It had been a must-win game as far as the playoffs went, McKee said, and his energized players soon showed him they were well up to the challenge.
