Perk Valley dispatches Norristown
Vikings clinch Liberty Division title
WEST NORRITON » After dispatching rival Spring-Ford last weekend, Perkiomen Valley’s football team was due for a major letdown Saturday at Norristown High School.
But on this day, the Vikings defense simply wouldn’t allow it.
The PV defense limited the host Eagles to a mere 62 yards of total offense on the afternoon. The Vikings got two touchdown runs and two touchdown passes from Cole Peterlin and hammered Nor-
ristown, 44-0, to keep their PAC record clean and further whet appetites for a possible showdown in two weeks with unbeaten Pottsgrove.
With the win, Perk Valley (7-1 overall) puts the clamps down on the top seed in the Pioneer Athletic Conference’s Liberty Division where they sit 4-0. Norristown drops to 1-2 in the Liberty Division and 2-6 overall.
Peterlin was the show in the first quarter, streaking for touchdown runs of 35 and 31 yards in the game’s first 5:01, then adding a touchdown pass to Brendan Schimpf early in the second quarter as PV bludgeoned Norristown, taking a 34-0 halftime lead, then putting the contest out of reach with 10 second-half points.
“We know at this point in the year we’re going to get everyone’s best punch,” said Vikings head coach Rob Heist. “Our message all week was don’t get too high.
“Norristown is a couple of tweaks away from being pretty good.”
For the Eagles part, their thoughts of an upset died quickly, following the Vikings’ two quick scores.
“I thought we made a good accounting of ourselves, but that early hole was too much,” said Norristown head coach Jason Powel. “Things kind of unfolded from there.”
It got worse in the second quarter, which saw the Vikings score on a fumble (returned 21 yards by Austin Rowley) and two touchdown passes by Peterlin (the aforementioned strike to Schimpf and a 24-yarder to Isaiah Domine in the half’s final minute).
Perkiomen Valley running back Jon Moccia tries to get outside of Norristown’s Naji Beccles.
Up 34-0 at the break, the Vikings did what they needed to do in the second half.
They scored on their initial drive – a 30-yard run by Schimpf capping a nineplay march — then got a 24yard field goal from Mike Weir with 9:46 left in the game to set the final score.
And it was time to await the showdown with Pottsgrove. Up first, though, is next week’s visit from Methacton.
“Our kids did a good job of concentrating on our goal which was to go 1-0,” said a smiling Heist.