Week Six Review

Jay Harris on the move and looking for a block against the Cowboys.

COWBOYS AVENGE AN '06 HEARTBREAKER

Yesterday, the Bensalem Cowboys paid there first ever visit to Penn Wood Middle School's Athletic Field aka the Moose and home of the Darby Monarchs. On there minds was nothing but revenge. In last season's contest the Monarchs slipped past the Cowboys with a late 4th quarter touchdown scored by the since departed Eric McClellan. Unfortunately, this year was a different story as the young and inexperienced Monarchs dropped another tough decision. The final score was 14 - 7 but the Cowboys blitzing 3-5-3 defense kept the Monarchs offense off balanced and out of sync all day.

As usual, the Monarch's defense led by Edwin Seals, Jaleel Smith, Jaleel McMillian, Ayub Ferron, and Jay Harris kept the game close. Edwin's interception return for a touchdown was the Monarchs only score and cut the Cowboys lead to 8-7. That's as close as the Monarchs would get as Bensalem's suffocating defense halted every Monarch's offensive possession. There defense was better than advertised Coach Greg indicated after the game. When I was scouting them, I knew that they played a pressure defense. All they want to do is blitz, blitz, and blitz. So, I put some new offensive wrinkles in thinking we could catch them blitzing. It worked momentarily but then they made some adjustments. That's what good teams do. I'm a little disappointed in our performance but the bottom line is we don't practice. Some kids show up and some kids don't. It makes it very hard to get things done when only 10 or 11 kids are present.