Chaminade Falls to Fordham 28-6

A drive, a game, an entire season can change on the shifting of the wind. As a blustery late Halloween afternoon turned into evening on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham Univerity at Coffey Field, for two-plus quarters, it seemed as though would stage a massive upset of the Rams of Fordham Prep.

"Frankly going into this year, I didn't think it was possible that we'd be at this point," said Rams head coach Peter Gorynski. Fordham (8-0, 7-0) clinched its first undefeated season of AAA football with a 28-6 victory, sending the Flyers home winless on the season. "I told them they have tremendous character on the team," Chaminade head coach Stephen Boyd said of his players walking off the field. "They never quit, they practice harder than any group of guys I've been around and they ought to be proud of that."

For the entire first half, the breaks kept going the way of the Flyers: an offsides penalty against the Rams allowed Chaminade (0-8, 0-7) to score on the first drive of the game, junior DBs James Monohan and Robert Vassalo had each picked off Fordham QB Max Kinder and Rams kicker Steven Broccoli missed two field goal attempts from 36 and 30-yards out, the former bouncing off the right upright.

"As good as we've done things this year, that's how bad we were in the first half," Gorynski said. "It was extraordinarily frustrating."

The Fordham offense had one simple mantra: get the ball to Logan Williamson. Making only his third start at the varsity level, the 5'10" RB literally ran away with the ballgame in the second half, after running in several non-scoring drives during the first two quarters. Williamson started the third with a rush straight up the middle for 20 before doubling it on two more plays, allowing senior SS Allan Bronzo to carry the ball in for a three-yard TD and a 7-6 Fordham lead.

"The first half we definitely came out a little flat," Williamson said. "Holes started opening up… its like the mistakes never happened." The New Rochelle sophomore ended the day with 194 total yards in 29 carries in the contest, and scored a one-yard TD.

"We didn't tackle him," Boyd said of Williamson after the game, adding that he is "looking forward" to the AA playoffs, which start next week.

Late in the third, Fordham was able to score two more times in 53 seconds, capping drives of 48 and 15-yards to make it 21-6, the latter coming off a fumble after Flyer QB Joseph Anile was sacked hard by the Ram defense.  The Rams widened their lead to 28-6 in the fourth after Fordham junior DB Francis Volpe intercepted a pass from Flyer QB Kyle Johnson at the 33, returning it for a touchdown.