Friday’s high school football: Cheverus routs Biddeford, earns playoff berth
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Nick Deschambault threw two touchdown passes in the first quarter, Colton Jewett rushed for two scores, and Cheverus secured a Class B South playoff berth with a 44-8 win over Biddeford on Friday night at Waterhouse Field in Biddeford.
Cheverus improved to 3-5 with its second straight win. Biddeford fell to 5-3 and missed out on a chance to secure a first-round bye.
A 66-yard yard run by Jackson Holmes set up an 8-yard touchdown pass from Deschambault to Sam Minervino on the Stags’ first drive. Deschambault then hit Holmes for a 35-yard touchdown pass just over two minutes later.
Will Baker scored on a 3-yard run and Jewett on a 31-yard run in the second quarter, before Ernie Dore got Biddeford on the board with a 2-yard run after throwing a 61-yard pass to Cameron Rowe.
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Kevin True scored on a 6-yard run for Cheverus in the third quarter, Holmes kicked a 36-yard field goal, and Jewett scored on a 2-yard run in the fourth.
Jackson Holmes and Isaiah Hounchell each had an interception for Cheverus.
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WESTBROOK 21, GORHAM 17: Cole Tanner rushed for more than 200 yards and three touchdowns in the first half, and the Blue Blazes (3-5) survived a late comeback by the visiting Rams (2-6) as they clinched a spot in the Class B South playoffs and eliminated Gorham.
Tanner raced 76 yards on the first play from scrimmage, then added a 1-yard TD run later in the first quarter and a 43-yard touchdown in the second as Westbrook built a 21-0.
Gorham’s Caleb Yaeger kicked a 30-yard field goal in the third quarter. Midway through the fourth, the Rams struck for two quick touchdowns. Wyatt Walker made it 21-11 with a 1-yard run and a 2-point conversion, and after Gorham recovered an onside kick, Isaac Vail scored on a 12-yard run around right end.
The Rams got the ball back at midfield with 3:36 left after a Westbrook punt, but the Blue Blazes eventually held on downs and ran out the clock.
GREELY 21, FALMOUTH 20: Jackson Justice scored the go-ahead touchdown in the third quarter, and a missed extra point in the fourth quarter proved costly for Falmouth (3-5) in a loss to visiting Greely (7-1).
Justice broke a 14-14 tie when he dove to catch a 5-yard pass from Luke Piper. Jack Carthy’s extra point gave Greely a 21-14 lead.
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Falmouth had a chance to pull even midway through the fourth quarter when Harper Drosdik threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Alex Hau on fourth-and-8, but a bad snap enabled Greely to block Theo Roediger extra-point kick.
Greely, ranked 10th in the Varsity Maine poll, did all of its scoring through the air as it twice rallied from deficits in the first half.
Falmouth’s Owen Ross opened the scoring with an 8-yard run, set up by a 47-yard pass from Micah Derrig to Dane Langelier.
The Rangers answered in the second quarter with a 20-yard halfback option pass from Justice to Rocky Axelsen. Derrig then threw a 12-yard TD pass to Hau, but Greely converted a fourth-and-15 gamble near midfield, then tied the game again on a 40-yard pass from Piper to Thomas Brown.
PORTLAND 33, DEERING 18: Alex Martin rushed for three touchdown, leading the Bulldogs (6-2) to a hard-fought win over the host Rams (1-7).
Martin scored on a 28-yard run in the first quarter and a 1-yard plunge from the Wildcat formation in the second. He made it 21-0 with a 4-yard run in the third quarter.
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Deering fought back with three touchdowns in the second half including two TD pass by Anthony Profenno, who connected with Matt Ciampi (33 yards) and Nathan Foley (38 yards). Ciampi added a 1-yard scoring run.
Portland stayed in control, however, with the help of a 36-yard strike from Reece Wildes to Maddox Meas, and a 7-yard TD run by David Gomes.
FRYEBURG ACADEMY 48, SKOWHEGAN 32: Marcus Sutton ran 56 yards for a touchdown 19 seconds into the third quarter to give the Raiders (4-4) the lead, and they pulled away from the River Hawks (5-3) in a Class B North regular-season finale in Fryeburg.
Fryeburg earned its second straight win and will be the No. 4 seed in the upcoming playoffs. Skowhegan, which had a four-game winning streak snapped, is the No. 3 seed. Both teams will be at home in the quarterfinals next week.
Sutton threw a 22-yard pass to his brother, Darryl, with 25.2 seconds left in the second quarter to pull the Raiders within 24-20.
In the third quarter, Lars Bruhn returned an interception 45 yards for a score and Buk Awe ran 21 yards for a touchdown. Bruhn scored on a 33-yard run after an interception by Riley Hodges in the fourth quarter.
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Austin Lancaster threw touchdown passes to Blake Kenyon (61 yards) and Matthew Keister (15 yards) and scored on a 14-yard run in the first half as Skowhegan built a 24-14 lead. Mike Stantze scored twice for Fryeburg in the first half on runs on 1 and 3 yards.
Lancaster threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Kaden Pelletier in the fourth quarter.
OXFORD HILLS 34, NOBLE 14: The Vikings (6-1) used big plays to spark their offense in a Class A matchup against the Knights (3-5) in Paris.
Carter Davis had a 33-yard catch in the first quarter that set up the only touchdown in the first half — an 11-yard screen pass from Toby Oufiero to Mason Ridley.
Davis then opened the second half with a 95-yard kickoff return that made it 13-0. On the ensuing Noble drive, Tucker Hilden returned an interception 36 yards for a TD, extending the lead to 20-0.
Tristan Miniutti put Noble on the board when he reversed field on a 43-yard touchdown run.
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Oufiero, though, found Davis for a 30-yard reception and scored on a 3-yard keeper on the next play for a 27-7 advantage.
Noble’s Mark LaPointe connected with Bryson McCormack for a 36-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.
Ridley answered with a 34-yard TD reception from Oufiero.
MOUNTAIN VALLEY 26, POLAND 21: Colton Gallant ran for two scores as the Falcons (2-6) secured a postseason berth with a victory over the Knights (1-7) in a back-and-forth Class D South contest in Poland.
Mountain Valley moves into the sixth and final playoff spot in Class D South, while Poland’s season comes to an end.
Gallant scored the first touchdown on an 8-yard run in the opening quarter. Poland went ahead 14-6 on pair of second-quarter TDs on screen passes from Lucas Gayton — a 17-yarder to Christian Benson and an 8-yarder to Lucas Verrill. On both plays, the receivers weaved their way through traffic and into the end zone.
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Early in the third quarter, Mountain Valley pass rusher Josh Pollis got into the backfield so quickly that he was able to tip Gayton’s pitch away just as it left the quarterback’s hand. Pollis picked up the fumble and ran 43 yards to the end zone, and Gallant’s 2-point conversion run tied the game.
An interception by Jimmy Arsenault set up Mountain Valley’s next score, a 24-yard TD run by Gallant. Benson answered for Poland with a 23-yard TD run, and Verrill’s kick gave Poland a 21-20 advantage.
Cole Curtis put the Falcons ahead for good with a 72-yard scamper late in the third quarter. Curtis also had an interception in the fourth.
A Falcons punt with 1:19 left gave the Knights the ball at their own 45. Big plays by Shawn West and Benson moved them near the red zone, but Mountain Valley’s Keygan Boucher knocked down a fourth-down pass to preserve the victory.
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