Hurricanes Continue Shutout Streak with Senior Day Win
CHESHIRE, Mass. -- Hoosac Valley senior Carson Meczywor Saturday threw for one touchdown and ran for another as the Hurricanes celebrated Senior Day with a 14-0 win over Frontier.
The Hurricanes held the ball most of the afternoon but only managed two scoring drives: a 68-yard march in the first quarter and a 61-yard drive in the fourth.
Nearly half the first drive came on its final play, a 32-yard bomb down the right side from Meczwor to classmate Caleb Harrington.
A third senior, Aaron Bush, ran in the 2-point conversion, and the Hurricanes (4-1) had an 8-0 lead.
"They did what they had to do, and it will be a good learning experience even going into next week, but the seniors did what they had to do today," Hoosac Valley coach Mike Bostwick said.
"They really showed it on defense. And offensively, it's going to be great because it gave us lots of stuff to work on and improve on because we've got to remedy some things on the offensive side of the ball."
Hoosac Valley cannot do much better on defense than it has the last few weeks.
After giving up 14 points to Taconic in Week 2, Hoosac Valley has not surrendered a point in the last three games.
The closest Frontier came was midway through the second quarter, when the Hurricanes fumbled the ball away on their own 9.
On first and goal, Bush stopped Josh Semanski (team-high 61 yards rushing) at the line of scrimmage. On second down, Griffin Mucci tackled Semanski for a 3-yard gain. On third and goal from the 6, Nicholas Pompi and Jake Mucci pressured Frontier's quarterback into an incompletion.
And on fourth and goal, Meczywor picked off a pass in the end zone to end the threat.
Hoosac Valley had another stand deep in its zone in the fourth quarter with a two-score lead, stopping Frontier on a fourth-and-5 run at the Hurricanes' 9.
Hoosac Valley got that two-score cushion with a drive that spanned the third and fourth quarters.
Meczywor completed two passes on the eight-play drive -- hitting Bush for 15 yards to cross midfield and Harrington for 32 yards to get to the 17.
Meczywor finished the drive with keepers on the last three plays to go 11 yards, the last 2 for the score.
He finished with 30 yards rushing to go with 98 yards of passing. Bush ran for 65.
"The defense got after it today," Bostwick said. "We had to make a lot of last-minute changes this week, and I think that put some doubt in some of their heads today. They didn't bring it the way they should have.
"However, I want to give a lot of credit to Frontier. Hard-hitting team, stuck with it, finished the game."
Bostwick said Hoosac Valley is injury free for the most part, but it had some other issues that kept players off the field on Saturday -- a big problem for an already relatively short bench.
The Hurricanes will hope to be firing on all cylinders Friday when they visit Belchertown.