Malvern Prep over Roman Catholic

by Benjamin Yankelitis

Malvern Prep Friars 28 , Roman Catholic Cahillites 7

Thursday October 8th 7:00 PM at Malvern Prep

1st Quarter

No scores

2nd Quarter

O’Shaan Allison 10 yard TD run (Garrett Reilly XP good) – 9:17 (7-0 MP)

Nick Maras to Mike Fay 9 yard TD pass (Reilly XP good) – 6:18 (14-0 MP)

J Butler 1 yard TD run (Maller XP good) – 0:00 (14-7 MP)

3rd Quarter

No scores

4th Quarter

Maras to Rashon Lusane 13 yard TD pass (Reilly XP good) – 5:24 (21-7 MP)

Zac Fernandez 29 yard TD run (Reilly XP good) – 1:05 (28-7 MP)

On a beautiful Thursday night, the Malvern Prep Friars pulled away from the Roman Catholic Cahillites to move to 4-1 on the season.

After slow starts from both teams and a scoreless first quarter, the Friars struck quickly in the second quarter scoring two touchdowns in three minutes. O’Shaan Allison scored on a run up the middle from ten yards out. Malvern QB Nick Maras followed that up with a nine yard fade pass in the corner of the end zone to Mike Fay.

Roman Catholic responded with a 6 minute, 18 second drive that took them down to the Friars’ one yard line with under a minute left in the first half. Two QB sneaks on second and goal and third and goal were stuffed by the Malvern defense. However, as time expired in the half Roman Catholic finally converted the sneak and crossed the goal line to cut the lead to seven going into the half.

The two teams traded punts without any scoring in the second half until Nick Maras found Rashon Lusane on a crossing pattern for a 13 yard TD halfway through the fourth quarter.

The Malvern win was then sealed with a 29 yard run from Zac Fernandez with one minute left.

“We started off slow but we got the job done,” said senior wide receiver defensive back Rashon Lusane. “We got the job done and that’s all that matters.”

Malvern’s stats attached below.

Malvern opens up its Inter Ac season next Friday night at Episcopal Academy.

“We’re coming to win the Inter Ac,” said Lusane. “We’ll go hard all week to win [next week].”

-Ben Yankelitis, Editor in Chief of the Blackfriar Chronicle and Malvern Prep Football Statistician and Media Relations Specialist

Notes

There were no turnovers by either team.

Malvern finished with 186 passing yards and 119 rushing yards.

MP quarterback play was split between junior Nick Maras and sophomore Kevin Doyle. Doyle started the game. Doyle finished 5/12 for 110 yards. Maras finished 5/11 for 76 yards and 2 TD’s.

Malvern Preparatory School, An Independent, Augustinian, Catholic School