FOXBORO – Winning Super Bowls at St. John’s Prep is nothing new. But for one father and son, they now have a typical bond.
On a windy and wet Saturday afternoon, St. John’s Prep sophomore quarterback Carl Michael Monks spent the primary half of the Div. 1 Super Bowl on the sidelines, not likely anticipating to get out on the Gillette Stadium turf.
Hundreds of miles south, his father and St. John’s Prep alum Carmen was sitting in a lodge room in Bermuda on a enterprise journey watching the Eagles. By the time the sport was over, the Eagles had upset closely favored Springfield Central, 13-0, and the youthful Monks had taken over the reins and engineered the sixth Super Bowl title in program historical past.
“He really is a fantastic kid and I’m so proud of him,” Carmen Monks stated. “Ever since he was little, all he wanted to do was be the starting quarterback at St. John’s Prep.”
When the day began, Deacon Robillard was below heart however late within the first half, he went out with dislocated fingers on his throwing hand and was completed for the sport. Aidan Driscoll got here in and threw a landing move to Joenel Aguero to provide the Eagles a 7-0 halftime lead.
Walking to the locker room, St. John’s coach Brian St. Pierre started to ponder a change when the second half was to start.
“Coach came to me at the half and told me to be ready because I might be needed,” Carl Michael Monks stated. “And when we came out he told me that he was going to give me a chance.”
The reasoning behind the change? To St. Pierre, it was somewhat easy.
“It was just a gut feeling,” St. Pierre stated. “I thought that it was what we needed but I could definitely see Carl’s heartbeat when I was giving him the plays. But he did a great job of managing the game.”
When St. John’s gained its first Super Bowl in 1982 on the outdated Sullivan Stadium in opposition to Whitman-Hanson, Monks’ father was the backup quarterback and didn’t get to take a snap. How did he react when he noticed his son come out below heart on the primary drive of the third quarter?
“I was watching it on the live stream and started crying like a baby,” Carmen Monks stated. “When I was there, I never got the chance to be out there and take a snap, so he’s got that one on me.”
With the St. John’s protection stifling the explosive Springfield Central offense, the Eagles have been relying closely on the legs of Carson Browne, who completed with 131 yards within the recreation. But late within the third, Monks’ accomplished passes to Stephen Patrick and Jesse Ofurie as a part of a 12-play drive that lined 46 yards in just below six minutes. And when Browne plowed in from the 2 to provide St. John’s a 13-0 lead, the Eagles may really feel a title.
“Our defense was great,” Monks stated. “This was all like a dream. It was so much better than I could have ever imagined.”
After St. John’s stopped the Golden Eagles on downs halfway by the fourth, Monks engineered an eight-minute drive that didn’t end in factors however successfully sealed the inconceivable title for the Eagles.
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