Opportunity knocks, bold Knights answer

MILTON — Buckingham, Browne and Nichols tipped the pendulum of momentum with one big push.

Well, more of a heave from quarterback Ryan Eamer.

Leading by two touchdowns, BB&N halted a Milton Academy drive at the Knights 24 when Matthew Bulman pounced on a bad snap with 22.3 seconds left in the first half to start the swing.

Instead of playing it safe, the Knights aired it out with Eamer hitting Timothy Maley on a 76-yard touchdown pass to go into the break up three scores en route to a 28-7 Independent School League win over the Mustangs yesterday at Stokinger Field.

“We’re going to be aggressive. That’s just what we are and who we are,” said BB&N coach Mike Willey. “We knew Milton Academy is a great football program so we wanted to make sure that we took every opportunity we could.”

BB&N (4-1) didn’t even think about passing to start the game, instead it ran the ball on all 14 plays of a 92yard scoring drive.

Bulman was the fourth back on the series to gain yardage behind a behemoth offensive line, and he capped the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run.

Before Eamer’s momentum-swinging pass to Maley, he tossed a 41-yard touchdown on BB&N’s first play of its second series to Cameron Impemba — Eamer’s only two completions went for scores — for a 14-0 lead.

Milton Academy (2-3) hung around when quarterback Jake Willcox stayed in the pocket on third-and-8 and delivered an 18-yard scoring strike to Eddie Duggan to cut it to 20-7 with 4:16 left in the third quarter.

But the Mustangs had no answer for the Knights offensive line, which bulldozed massive running lanes for the backs.

BB&N stayed on the ground for all eight plays of the ensuing drive, handing it off to Zach Cyr (14 carries, 104 yards) on half of them, as Cyr scored on a 6-yard TD run to take a 26-7 lead.

“Almost every play, there’s a huge hole for me to go through,” Cyr said, “and then I just make moves on the secondary.”