Kamari Brathwaite likes to play on each side of the ball. On Friday night time in Reisterstown, the Dundalk soccer workforce was positive glad he did.
Brathwaite scored the sport’s solely landing and recorded an interception, and the Owls’ protection did the remaining in a key 7-0 win over Franklin in a Baltimore County League recreation that served because the Ravens RISE High School Showdown.
No. 13 Dundalk (6-1, 5-0) was led on offense by Jordan Fiorenza, who ran for 113 yards on 20 carries.
“It’s big to win here,” Fiorenza mentioned of successful on Franklin’s subject. “I know I’ve take a few loses here. I think this is the first time Dundalk’s won here since 2015. Our O-line and defense played great for us tonight.”
The groups performed scoreless nicely into the second quarter, however then the Owls bought a brief subject and cashed in just a few performs later. At his personal 19-yard line, Franklin quarterback Billy Hartman threw a go that was picked off by Dundalk’s Adonis Fuller with 1:39 left within the first half. The Owls bought the ball on the Indians’ 14, and Brathwaite made them pay three performs later when he drifted into the nook of the top zone and outjumped a Franklin defender for the sport’s solely landing.
“He was playing off me a little, and I knew I had to make a play,” Brathwaite mentioned. “It was a called play, and I just went up and got it.”
“I told our coaches we should try and isolate Kamari. He was playing well, and we needed to take a shot,” Owls coach Tom Abel mentioned. “He’s our biggest receiver, and he came up big for us.”
On the primary play of Franklin’s subsequent drive, Brathwaite picked off Hartman on the Dundalk 49.
Franklin (4-3, 4-2) mounted just a few drives within the second half, however the Indians’ finest probability to attain got here on their final possession.
Franklin took over in nice subject place after a 30-yard punt return by Jamari Lewis set the Indians up on the Dundalk 33. Three performs and two penalties into the drive, Franklin confronted a third-and-21, however freshman quarterback Zander McCracken discovered receiver Khalil Bilal for a 33-yard completion to the Dundalk 11 with 1:37 left. As it had completed all night time, the Owls’ protection stiffened and held Franklin to no acquire on 4 performs.
After that, Dundalk ran out the clock.
“We’re a high-pressure team on defense, and it paid off for us,” Abel mentioned. “We like to mix and match coverages and fronts, and I think we confused them a little. That’s a good team we beat over there. We earned this one, but we earned it in a little different way.”
Franklin coach Anthony Burgos mentioned he was pleased with the trouble his workforce gave regardless of the result.
“We’re still trying to find ourselves. We need to learn how to do things like finish drives, and we didn’t do that,” he mentioned. “All year we’ve played solid defense, and I think we did that again tonight. We played a freshman quarterback in the second half, and four to five freshmen and sophomores at other spots, so we’re still young. I think we fought hard, and we’ll go back and watch the film and make the corrections.”
Dundalk 7, Franklin 0
DUN 0 7 0 0 – 7
FRA 0 0 0 0 – 0
D – Brathwaite 14 go from Bonner (Keener kick)
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