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Jamestown Falls To Rival OP 47-35

ORCHARD PARK — Ben Gocella passed for 354 yards and four touchdowns, and Carter Switek rushed for 120 yards and two touchdowns and caught two passes for 90 yards and another score to lead Orchard Park to a wild 47-35 nonleague football victory over Jamestown on Friday night.

The Quakers trailed 35-34 after three quarters, but tacked on a pair of fourth-quarter TDs to hold off the Red Raiders, who suffered their second straight close loss to a Class AA opponent.

“I thought we showed a lot of growth from last week to this week,” Jamestown head coach Tom Langworthy said, “and that’s what I’m focusing on. We played a tough opening two weeks (the Red Raiders lost at Lancaster 16-9 on Sept. 2). We’re looking forward to opening the (Class A1) season at home.”

Jamestown will do that at 7 p.m. next Friday when its entertains Lockport (0-1, 0-0), which plays host to Niagara Wheatfield this afternoon in its A1 opener. That game will have to go some to rival the offensive fireworks the Red Raiders and Quakers produced last night.

Jamestown quarterback Trey Drake completed 24 of 48 passes for 338 yards and three touchdowns, one each to Colin Melendez (12 receptions 137 yards), Darius Freeney (six catches, 132 yards) and Carson Panebianco (two receptions, 23 yards). Sean O’Brien also caught three passes for 50 yards. On the ground, Radon Wright rushed for 93 yards on 16 carries and a score; and Carsen Bane added 41 yards on five carries and another TD.

“I’m just really pleased that our offense scored a lot more points and finished drives,” Langworthy said. “Trey had a really gutty performance, and I thought all our players played hard again. That’s the pattern.

“We’ve played really good teams, we’ve been right there with both of them and we’ve played extremely hard. I’m proud of our players.”

“We wanted to get two wins rather than two losses, but the fact of the matter is that during the regular season you want to win the league games, because that gets you where you want to be,” Langowrthy added.

Defensively, O’Brien had a huge game, collecting 17 total tackles, including three four loss; Bane had 11 stops, including two for loss; and Michael Boron (eight total tackles), Eric Reese (six tackles), Mason McVinney (nine tackles) and Gavin Pantojas (eight tackles) made plays as well.

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