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Haverhill Hillies Football '08

Fri, Oct 31, 2008 07:00 PM @ Haverhill
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Dracut 14 21 14 0 49
Haverhill 6 0 0 7 13

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Saturday, November, 01 By Tim Donovan
Staff writer

HAVERHILL — What started out as a warm Halloween evening finished as a cold, somber night for the Haverhill Hillies, who ended up on the wrong end of a 49-13 beating by the Dracut Middies, a team ranked fourth in Eastern Mass.

“Those guys came together as a team and really put in a lot of hard work,” Haverhill head coach Tim Briggs commented after the game. “That’s what we need to do. They’re really a great team.”

The dark cloud’s silver lining came in the form of new quarterback Tim Nutter, a junior who threw for 45 yards and scored twice for the Hillies in place of injured starter Isiah Ocasio (ankle).

“He’s really only been a quarterback for a week or a week and a half. Before that he was a running back and back-up QB,” said Briggs. “He just keeps getting better.”

The aggressive Middie defense gave Nutter a shocking introduction to the position. Early in the first quarter, Nutter was flattened in the process of throwing an incompletion and left dazed by the encounter. The stoic QB ran off the field after the play stoppage, but returned after just one play.

“He got banged up pretty good out there,” Briggs commented. “They’re a very physical team.”

Fortunately for Haverhill, Dracut, which steamrolled highly-regarded Billerica last week, wasn’t the only intimidating presence in the building. Aaron Bard was a constant thorn in the side of the bigger Middies, constantly harassing Dracut quarterback Matt Grimard, forcing a key incompletion in the middle of the third quarter that led to a Dracut turnover on downs.

Bard made solid tackles throughout the night including an explosive head-on blast that stopped Dracut’s John Rivera dead in his tracks on that same third-quarter drive.

Bard wasn’t alone in his defensive stand, Mac Milewski, Danny Triplett and Evan Pare were all hard hitters for the Hillies, with Pare taking the 240-pound Grimard head-on late in the third quarter and coming up on the winning end.

The Hillies are at Methuen Friday night.

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