WORCESTER — It is not any totally different than the autumn. Same went for this spring. And in the event that they performed highschool soccer in the summertime and winter, it might most likely be an identical: Bo MacCormack can tote the dang rock with the perfect of them.
Behind MacCormack’s standout efficiency, the Boston Junkyard Dogs defeated the Northern Knights, 19-16, within the championship of The League.
With its just-completed third 12 months, The League provides full-padded soccer within the spring, one thing you can not get wherever else in Massachusetts.
And whereas everybody received to showcase their stuff, it was as soon as once more MacCormack — the sophomore from BB&N — who stole the present. He completed with 232 yards and a 40-yard landing on 25 carries. Unofficially, 200 of these yards got here within the second half because the Dogs, made up principally of BB&N gamers, rallied from a 9-0 halftime deficit.
The Knights did properly to bottle MacCormack up within the first half, however it’s not if he’ll bust out, however when.
“It’s kind of like, you have to keep pushing, applying pressure, and then eventually something will break through,” MacCormack mentioned. “Once it breaks through, you have to apply all the pressure, and the floodgates will (break). We just kept hitting it up the middle, then went outside, and eventually things broke.”
The Dogs took over within the second half and marched proper downfield. MacCormack had 50 yards on the drive, and helped arrange Henry Machnik’s 9-yard landing go to tight finish Brett Elliott to deliver the Dogs to inside 9-6.
A Dogs fumble was recovered by the Knights’ Cam Worster, and his crew capitalized. Tiger An of Windham (NH) rumbled in for an 11-yard landing, and the Knights took a 16-6 lead. An completed with 112 yards on 18 carries.
MacCormack struck with a 65-yard run deep into Northern territory, and Machnik once more hit Elliott, this time for a 5-yard landing because the Dogs sliced the deficit to 16-13.
“Outside linebackers were playing outside most of the day today, so I kind of tried to just get equal pad level with them to get equal leverage,” Elliott mentioned. “Make my move there, get outside to make those two plays.”
Dogs linebacker Tyler Blum recovered a Knights fumble, and two performs later, within the fourth quarter, MacCormack burst by way of the center of the Knights’ line for a 40-yard landing as Boston grabbed its first — and closing — lead.
Blum then made a fourth-down cease contained in the Dogs’ 5-yard line, and AJ Azuakolam made an interception to seal it late.
In the primary half, Peyton Harmony booted a 22-yard area purpose for the Knights within the second quarter. Then, An caught a 22-yard display screen go for a landing from North Andover’s Drew Fitzgerald (146 yards passing).
But the Knights couldn’t comprise MacCormack and the Dogs within the second half.
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