Brighton, Leviner run by Tech Boston

DORCHESTER – Head coach Randolph Abraham led the post-game huddle along with his mantra that his Brighton Bengals should crawl first to stroll after which stroll to run as they put together for a deep playoff run.

Timel Leviner took the proverb to coronary heart.

The 5-foot-8, 180-pound tailback battled again spasms all through the sport however tallied 139 yards on solely 14 carries to steer Brighton to a 34-12 victory over Boston Metropolis League rival Tech Boston (3-1).

The Bengals improved to 4-1 on the season however it wasn’t as fairly Abraham would have favored.

“I needed to be strategic with (Leviner), however he had a heck of a recreation, acquired the sport ball, and our quarterback struggled and Leviner picked us up,” stated Abraham. “We’ve been preaching self-discipline and the workforce that makes the least quantity of errors would win. We knew they’d have an aggressive protection and we took benefit of that.”

On the primary sequence, Brighton racked up 14 performs from the road of scrimmage, together with three encroachment penalties on the Bears as James Burrell completed off the drive on a four-yard run.

A cross interference penalty prolonged one other clock-killing 15-play drive as Anthony Monteiro-Pires scored the primary of his two touchdowns on a reasonably nook route cross from Sahmir Morales for twenty-four yards.

Penalties gave the impression to be the demise for Tech Boston all recreation lengthy with 5 encroachment penalties, the cross interference which led to a rating and two late hits on punt returns that handed the ball to the Bengals deep into Bears territory.

“Not taking part in for 2 weeks actually damage us and never having that stay really feel and taking part in towards competitors for 2 weeks can drag on you,” stated Tech Boston head coach, Raul Brown. “I need to see what workforce reveals up after this (loss) as a result of our protection coordinator did an excellent job planning this recreation, our offense didn’t actually do a lot due to penalties. If the workforce I’ve had all yr reveals up subsequent week – we needs to be high quality.”

The protection is what acquired the Bears on the board as Xavier Landrum picked off Morales for a 30-yard interception return for a landing to get Tech Boston again in issues 14-6.

The groups exchanged touchdowns scores on the subsequent 4 possessions, however it was the embattled Morales who took a damaged play on fourth-and-16 to the top zone on a 21-yard quarterback scamper to place issues away for the Bengals.

Morales completed 16-for-25 for 133 yards and an interception principally within the brief passing recreation on screens to Yariel Ortiz and Quentyn Dulin on the skin.

“That run was spectacular, however I want we didn’t put ourselves in that state of affairs,” added Abraham. “I give credit score to Tech Boston, they’re workforce and I don’t see them shedding once more this season – they put up a hell of a battle.”