By Nicole Todd
The Magicians and the Jugglers. This sounds like a show at
the circus, but instead it was high school football at the Syracuse University Carrier Dome.
The top-seeded Herkimer Magicians and the six-seed Utica Notre Dame Jugglers fought for the Section III Title and the Jugglers worked the magic.
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| Section III Class C Champions, Utica Notre Dame (c.) Nicole Todd |
The top-seeded Herkimer Magicians and the six-seed Utica Notre Dame Jugglers fought for the Section III Title and the Jugglers worked the magic.
The last game these two played, Herkimer won 28-24 on October 3. But this time Notre Dame came out on top, winning 32-20 to take the Class C Championship Trophy back to Utica with them.
"This is part of the deal winning and losing," Herkimer coach Alan Steele said after the game.
It was Herkimer's first loss of the season. The game plan going in was to control the ball, but the Magicians came up
short multiple times with fumbles, dropped passes and failed attempts at two-point conversions. Steele said in his post game interview this was a game uncharacteristic of the team.
"I thought we played offensively pretty well," he said. "It is what it is."
Fumbles
The first quarter was a series of fumble exchanges until Notre Dame's Jack Heaton took off on a 73-yard touchdown run with eleven seconds left. It stayed at 6-0 when the two-point conversion attempt failed.
Herkimer's Brennan Thompson tied it in the second quarter on an 8-yard run and his 2-point conversion made the score 8-6 with Herkimer on top for the first and only time during the game.
Notre Dame retaliated with a 19-yard touchdown pass from Jerome Bradham to Kevin Warmack to make it 12-8.
After a Herkimer punt, the Jugglers scored again with under 30 seconds left in the half, on a 47-yard pass play, Warmack to Joe Sullivan to make it 18-8.
Extending the Lead
Herkimer did not score in the third quarter. The Magicians picked off a Warmack pass but failed to capitalize and ND then extended the lead to 24-8 on a 47-yard run by Warmack..
In the 4th, Herkimer got within ten on a 7-yard TD run by Mitchell Scherer. But the two-point attempt failed, leaving the Magicians trailing 24-14 Notre Dame put the cap on it with a 74-yard touchdown and finally converted a two-point extra to make it 32-14 just under 5 minutes in the game.
Around this time, Notre Dame fans starting chanting "Hey, hey, good-bye" and waving to the Herkimer fans on the other side of the Dome.
Herkimer did get another touchdown on a 5-yard Scherer run, but it was too little, too late and the game ended with Notre Dame winning 32-20.
Defending Champs next for ND
“Our school is well deserved,” Notre Dame's first year coach Jake DerCola told Syracuse.com. “All I knew Notre Dame was for is football and it’s good to bring it back and it’s good for our kids, its all for them.”
The Herkimer Magicians went home empty-handed, but aren't changing anything for next season Coach Steele said.
As for the ND Jugglers, they will play in the quarterfinals on Saturday, November, 15
against the defending champions Chenango Forks.
Herkimer Coach Alan Steele
Fumbles
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| (c.) Nicole Todd |
Herkimer's Brennan Thompson tied it in the second quarter on an 8-yard run and his 2-point conversion made the score 8-6 with Herkimer on top for the first and only time during the game.
Notre Dame retaliated with a 19-yard touchdown pass from Jerome Bradham to Kevin Warmack to make it 12-8.
After a Herkimer punt, the Jugglers scored again with under 30 seconds left in the half, on a 47-yard pass play, Warmack to Joe Sullivan to make it 18-8.
Extending the Lead
Herkimer did not score in the third quarter. The Magicians picked off a Warmack pass but failed to capitalize and ND then extended the lead to 24-8 on a 47-yard run by Warmack..
In the 4th, Herkimer got within ten on a 7-yard TD run by Mitchell Scherer. But the two-point attempt failed, leaving the Magicians trailing 24-14 Notre Dame put the cap on it with a 74-yard touchdown and finally converted a two-point extra to make it 32-14 just under 5 minutes in the game.
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| (c.) Nicole Todd |
Herkimer did get another touchdown on a 5-yard Scherer run, but it was too little, too late and the game ended with Notre Dame winning 32-20.
Defending Champs next for ND
“Our school is well deserved,” Notre Dame's first year coach Jake DerCola told Syracuse.com. “All I knew Notre Dame was for is football and it’s good to bring it back and it’s good for our kids, its all for them.”
The Herkimer Magicians went home empty-handed, but aren't changing anything for next season Coach Steele said.
As for the ND Jugglers, they will play in the quarterfinals on Saturday, November, 15
against the defending champions Chenango Forks.
Herkimer Coach Alan Steele
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| (c.) Nicole Todd |
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