DOYLESTOWN – The North all-stars led 10-0 early in the 35th annual Bob Sands Memorial/Bucks County Lions Football Classic Saturday night.
The rest of the game belonged to the South All-Stars. Scoring five times, Conwell-Egan quarterback Anthony Singlar threw a pair of touchdown passes and Pennsbury’s Dante Devin scored three times on the way to the 34-10 win.
Singlar led the offense completing 9 of 18 passes for 187 yards. He rushed for 63 yards and his team amassed 427 total yards.
South’s head coach Kevin Kelly ran the same offense that Singlar ran during his career.
Singlar said, “I played in it the last four years, so I’m used to it. It actually made it easier playing the game because I knew what to expect.”
The North all-stars jumped out to an early lead on a 13-yard touchdown run by Tyler Hamlet of William Tennent. Kicker Sean Banner added a 37-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter to give the North All-Stars a 10-0 lead.
The South’s defense would spark a comeback by recovering a North fumble near midfield. On the drive Singlar found Council Rock North’s Drew Petersen for the 16-yard touchdown.
Trailing 10-7 at halftime the South took the lead for good when Bristol’s Woodrow Vorters went right up the middle for the 46-yard touchdown.
Late in the third quarter Devine scored on a three-yard touchdown with 1:58 remaining in the quarter.
Leading 20-10 at the start of the fourth quarter, the South All-Stars struck again. Devine caught a pass from Singlar and went 81 yards for the score with 5:41 left in the game.
Devine would finish off the scoring on a 51-yard run with 1:58 left in the game.
Devine said, “I followed Steve Stemme to the outside and just got around the corner.”
Anthony Singlar was named the South MVP. The North MVP was Quakertown’s Tony Latronica who rushed for 55 yards.
