LC falls in high-scoring affair to Goretti

AMBLER >> In the last game of the season for both teams, the defending District 1 champions Lansdale Catholic Crusaders suffered a tough loss in a high-scoring affair to Neumann-Goretti (3-7) at Wissahickon High School with a final score of 53-34.

Before the game, Lansdale Catholic High School honored its 11 seniors to celebrate senior night including Mike Shragher, Evan Zawadski, Jason Carr, Jack Griffin, Brian Allen, Sean Gallagher, Matt Brulenski, John McCabe, Timmy Quinn, Sean Sweeney, and Colin McKeever.

Both teams were knotted up at 14-14 at the end of the first quarter as both teams ran for two touchdowns, including a 35-yard and 60-yard touchdown run for junior runningback Danny Dutkiewicz.

In total, Dutkiewicz finished the game with four rushing touchdowns with all of them coming in the first half.

“I have to thank the line for helping me today,” said Dutkiewicz. “They had great blocks and I was just there to get those touchdowns.”

Highlighting the victory for Neumann-Goretti was running back Malik Griffin who also had four touchdowns in the game.

After having a close 28-27 lead at halftime, the Neumann-Goretti defense came up big in the second half winning the third quarter 12-7 and the fourth quarter 13-0.

Lansdale Catholic head coach Tom Kirk was sad to see the season end with a tough loss in a high scoring game.

“I thought this was going to be like a 50-49 game,” said Kirk. “It’s just that Nuemann-Goretti

is a tough team to stop and they really had the defense going.

“In a shootout, it’s a tough win for us to get,” added Kirk. “I’m proud of the way the kids came out and battled. It has been a difficult year for us so I’m proud of the way they finished the season.”

In total, it was more of a running game for both teams as both teams combined for 728 rushing yards with Lansdale Catholic outrunning Neumann-Goretti 374 to 354.

Dutkiewicz finished the

game with 229 rushing yards and four touchdowns in the loss.

Neumann-Goretti had two running backs run for over 100 yards including Tysheem Johnson and Griffin.

Griffin finished the game with 129 yards and four touchdowns while Johnson finished with 181 yards and

ALEX WAHL/FOR DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA Lansdale Catholic’s Danny Dutkiewicz (5) finished the game with over 200 yards rushing and four touchdowns Saturday against Neumann Goretti.