by Another beautiful night for football at Pirates stadium. The Rocky River Pirates were taking on the Fairview Warriors in week seven of the High School football season.
Fairview went into the game missing a couple key players due to injury and illness. It was going to make it very difficult on their squad.
The Pirates received the opening kick and immediately went to work handing the ball off to Tommy Bebie. A few plays into the drive Braden Spies went back to pass with nothing available so he scrambled left and ran up the left sideline for a 53 yard touchdown. The extra point made it 7-0.. The Warriors ran a few plays, but couldn’t get anything going on their first possession and punted.
On River’s second possession they had success again. After a screen pass from Spies to Bebie for 16 yards, Spies hit Senior Wide Receiver Patrick Lange for a 21-yard TD pass on a post pattern. Halfway through the first quarter and the Pirates were already up 14 to 0.
Fairview’s offense was led by Senior Quarterback Sean McNamara. Their main running back was Junior Nate Glanc. But with Rocky River’s storming defense led by none other than Linebacker Tommy Bebie, the Warriors had little room to gain any yardage.
After several stalled drives by the Warriors, QB Spies hit Lange again for a 30-yard touchdown, this time up the right sideline. After the kickoff, and just 20 seconds off the game clock, Senior Jacob Gura intercepted a pass and took it to the house. With 2:35 still left in the first quarter the Pirates were leading 28-0 over the Warriors and the route was on.
On the next possession another three and out had Fairview ready to punt. Then # 70 Junior Aiden Draco blocked the punt and gave the Pirates another short field at the 23 yard line. Senior stand out Tommy Bebie took a short run into the end zone. At the end of the first quarter the game was 35 to nothing.
The Pirates took Tommy Bebie out of the game and put in Junior Running Back brother Johnny Bebie. After several nice runs from the other Bebie, he also scored a touchdown on a two yard plunge.
Rocky River even tacked on a field goal making the score 45 to 0. About midway through the second quarter, the Rocky River Coach Josh Wells took his first team out and played his second team. The score at the end of the first half was 45-0 Pirates easily leading.
The Warriors managed a touchdown in the second half with a Sean McNamara run to avoid the shutout. The final score was Pirates 45, Warriors 7. The Rocky River fans went home happy, and the Warriors are left to try to regroup and live to play again next Friday.
