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La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 2007 La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 2007 Game 1, August 31, 2007: La Salle 27 – Plymouth-Whitemarsh 7 by Ted Silary, Daily News Day lights up La Salle win New year, new Day, for La Salle High football. Gone are nine of the starters that last season helped to produce a Catholic Red championship. But one who's back is Matt Day, a 6-foot, 170-pound senior cornerback, and now he's different. "You have to change when you're a leader," Day said. "You have to make sure everything's going right, and show more responsibility. "If you're in the weight room and you see guys aren't doing what they're supposed to, you have to say something. Maybe even yell. Yes, I've done that. You have to make sure their energy's up." When the Explorers last night visited Plymouth-Whitemarsh for their nonleague opener, the game was almost played in Day's backyard. He lives 2 minutes away. And his performance wasn't too shabby. Day made seven tackles (five solos) and recovered an early, momentum-changing fumble as La Salle triumphed, 27-7. Among the surprised? Not Matt Day. "I go into every game expecting our defense to get a shutout and our offense to score a lot of points," he said. "Our only other returning starter is [linebacker] Andrew Wood, but I'm friendly with all of the new guys and they've shown we can have confidence in them. They have heart and talent." P-W opened the game with two quick first downs and even the next play went for 9 yards. But Matt Alba (seven solos) forced a fumble and Day recovered on the Colonials' 36. Soon, sophomore Mike Bennett was putting the Explorers ahead for good with a 22-yard field goal. "They were getting a bunch of yardage right off," Day said. Mike Donohoe added six stops for La Salle. John Harrison led the offense by passing 17-for-29 for 184 yards and one touchdown apiece to Joe Migliarese and Tyler Houchins. Sam Feleccia added 93 yards of rushing and receiving. P-W's stadium now features an artificial surface and Day, who's receiving preliminary contact from colleges on all three levels, was perhaps the first Explorer to, well, explore it. "I was here [Thursday night]," he said. "I ran around on it a little to decide whether to wear sneakers or cleats. It's pretty nice. I was able to go with cleats. "I had a lot of La Salle friends at the game, of course. Also watching was a good friend from my neighborhood. He graduated last year from P-W, but didn't play football. He said he'd be rooting for La Salle." Did the guy keep his promise? Hey, Matt Day was too busy providing heroics to check. by Huck Palmer, Ted Silary’s website The defending CL Red Champion Explorers opened their season tonight on the brand new turf of Colonial Stadium at P-W. When the final ticks came off the game clock the Explorers had to feel great about their performance, especially since they have many new players sprinkled throughout both their offensive and defensive units. However, the victory probably lost a little of its luster because of what happened on the game’s first play. La Salle’s deep return man soph. DB Shane Brady and his teammate soph. RB Sam Feleccia, who was stationed a little closer up-field on the kick, collided as Feleccia hauled 1 La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 2007 in the ball slightly over his shoulder. Feleccia returned the ball 18 yards to the 38 yard line. Meanwhile, Brady lay sprawled in excruciating pain with a serious leg injury. All the trainers on site reacted immediately and you could just tell by the looks on their faces that the injury was serious. An ambulance was summoned and arrived within minutes. I was told that Brady had a compound fracture to one of his legs. At first look the play seemed very innocent. There was a collision between the two players, but it didn’t appear all that hard. Very strange and freakish to say the least! Aside from returning kicks Brady was to be counted on a starting safety for the Explorers. I wish this youngster nothing but the best and a speedy recovery!!! It’s a terrible thing when any player gets hurt, but to suffer an injury as devastating as this just nine seconds into the season is extremely tough to swallow. The one constant for the Explorers is sr. QB John Harrison who brings 4,000+ career passing yards into this campaign. Tonight, he was solid and pretty much gave you what one would expect for a first game performance. He finished 17-for- 29, for 184 yards and two scores. He did throw a pick, but the ball was deflected at the line of scrimmage before finding a Colonial defender. The Explorers started the scoring with a 22-yard field goal by soph. K Mike Bennett. The score was set up by a fumble recovery by sr. DB Matt Day, which was forced by sr. LB Matt Alba. It was a key play because the Colonials had reached the 36-yard line on five straight runs after starting at their own one. The Explorers seemed to have good field position throughout the first half and finally took advantage midway through the second quarter. After a poor Colonial punt the Explorers set-up shop at the P-W thirty-three. Six plays later Harrison hit his favorite target sr. WR Joe Migliarese for 6-yard score. Earlier in the drive Harrison connected with soph. WR Connor Hoffman for nine yards to convert a fourth-and-six play. Seemingly in control the Explorers opened the door a little when Feleccia got caught in-between on a punt that resulted in muff, with P-W recovering at the LaSalle six-yard line. Two plays later the Colonials bulled in and cut the deficit to 10-7. At the beginning of the second half the Colonials put forth a decent drive that reached the La Salle twenty-yard line, but the drive stalled and La Salle took over. The Explorers methodically marched 72 yards on 13 plays for another score. The highly touted Feleccia found the end zone from nine yards out. In the fourth quarter the Explorer offense added another field goal by Bennett, this time good from 29 yards and an easy-as-pie 31-yard scoring toss from Harrison to jr. FB Tyler Houchins. Somehow Houchins was alone on a seam-rout down the middle of the field. There wasn’t a Colonial defender within 10 yards. Meanwhile, the Explorer defense was zeroing in and allowed just one more first down by P-W after the opening drive of the second half. Leading the way on that unit was Day with seven stops (5 solos) and the hard-hitting Alba with seven solo tackles of his own. Jr. DB Mike Donohoe added six tackles, while jr. DE Ryan Eidenshink made five stops, including a sack. Also adding sacks were; sr. DB Drew Ciammetti and a combo sack for sr. DE Jim McNally and soph. DT Steve Szostak (Also 5 solos tackles). Donohoe punted three times for a 36.3 average, but all three of his punts resided inside the fifteen and put his defense in great position to make stops. Offensively, Feleccia managed 38 rushing yards on 11 carries and another 55 yards on 5 catches. He added 18 yards on a return and finished with a total of 111 all-purpose yards. This kid has potential! He still a little raw, especially when rushing the ball, but he’s 6’2”, 195 lbs and displays great hands out of the backfield. Houchins added 46 yards on 11 lugs and another 40 on two grabs. Migliarese caught four balls for 30 yards. In all, six different Explorers made receptions. I don’t think this La Salle team is as good as it was last year, but they should get better with each week. They have a chance to be pretty good in the end and I don’t think anyone on their schedule should take them lightly. Next week’s game versus Malvern should tell us a little more about them. P-W’s field looks awesome with the new turf. The people there really did a nice job! One cool feature they added was a play clock in the corner of each end zone. First time I’ve seen this. Very nice! 2 La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 2007 Game 2, September 7, 2007: Malvern Prep 21 – La Salle 14 by Rick O’Brien, Inquirer Friars' front steps up big in opener. The young line and a trio of speedy backs overshadowed an expected QB matchup. Spectators showed up for last night's game between Malvern Prep and La Salle expecting to see a big- time passing show. The game featured two of Southeastern Pennsylvania's most dangerous quarterbacks: Ryan Nassib and John Harrison. While Nassib and Harrison were sharp, it was Malvern Prep's inexperienced offensive line and running back corps that garnered the spotlight. Not needing Nassib as much as originally anticipated, Malvern Prep racked up 259 rushing yards and opened the season with a 21-14 nonleague victory over La Salle at Plymouth-Whitemarsh High. Running backs Jim Connolly (18 carries for 108 yards), Chris Layne (15-82), and Neil Willis (10-63) sliced through La Salle's defense behind a rebuilt offensive line.
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