Blues Win Opener

The UCC Varsity Football team opened up their regular season on the road against the Trinity College School Bears. The game was the marquee event of TCS’s Bear-Fair, Trinity’s homecoming event.

 

Defense was the name of the game during the first quarter with both teams coming up with impressive stops. The Blues broke through late in the first with a four-yard touchdown pass. The score was set up by a fumble recovery by the UCC defense that was returned down to the Bears goal-line. After forcing a two-and-out, the road team continued the offensive pressure scoring a 46-yard touchdown to open the second quarter and extend their lead to 14-0. Both sides of the ball were clicking for UCC as they took a 23-0 lead into the half, capped off with a 33-yard field goal late in the second quarter.

 

The Bears made a push in the third quarter to get back into the game. After forcing a two-and-out deep in the Blue’s territory the Bears were able to get possession on the one yard-line. A bad snap forced the Blues’ punter to scramble around trying to make a play but the TCS defense was able to rally around the make a tackle deep in UCC territory, a penalty on the Blues compounded these mistakes and the Bears made them pay scoring from one yard out on the next play to cut the lead to 23-7.

 

On the Blues next possession, they were able to respond, marching down the field on a seven-play drive capped off by a 25-yard touchdown pass to regain their advantage. UCC rode some strong defense and methodical offensive drives to kill the time remaining on the clock and leave Port Hope with a 30-7 season-opening victory on the road.