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Hawks roll to win

Hendricken bounces back to beat East

Posted 9/23/21

By ALEX SPONSELLER The Bishop Hendricken football team cruised past visiting Cranston East 45-0 in the team's home opener last Friday. Hendricken's special teams unit stole the show in the win, getting return touchdowns from Peter Bibby and Joel Felix

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Hawks roll to win

Hendricken bounces back to beat East

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By ALEX SPONSELLER The Bishop Hendricken football team cruised past visiting Cranston East 45-0 in the team’s home opener last Friday.

Hendricken’s special teams unit stole the show in the win, getting return touchdowns from Peter Bibby and Joel Felix while routinely setting the Hawks’ offense up with favorable field position throughout.

“We were happy, at the beginning of the year you don’t really know about special teams. With the personnel, guys paying attention, but the coaches worked really hard this week to prepare and to try to clean up some of the mistakes that we made against Iona Prep. It’s not the glamorous thing to say, but we just felt that we had to tackle better and block better. We practiced that all week long and were very physical at practice, I think that helped today,” said Hendricken head coach Keith Croft.

“Special teams is something that we try to work on a lot, and we are going to continue to work on it a lot especially after tonight. Special teams can win a game for you, if you can’t make a play on offense or defense, sometimes that play on special teams can be a spark plug. It’s a huge part of football and that’s what got (Hendricken) going tonight,” said East head coach Isaiah McDaniel.

Hendricken took a quick 25-0 lead in the opening quarter. Bibby returned East’s first punt of the game for a score, then quarterback David Lynch would connect with Teighan Jeremy for two scores as well as another score with Kamalie Pemberton.

Felix would return the second half kickoff for Hendricken and Kvorn Pemberton rolled for another touchdown in the fourth quarter to secure the win.

Croft was pleased with the performance of his seniors, including Lynch, Bibby, Kamalie Pemberton and Jeremy.

“It’s huge, it’s a new team and they’re the leaders of the team. Every team needs to write its own story and that story can’t be written unless it has great senior leadership. You’re seeing them start to come together which is a really great thing,” said Croft. “Our mantra is the same, we have to be ourselves. We need to play tough, physical football. We need to play fast and work hard at practice to see the results.”

Despite the loss, McDaniel was glad to see his team keep fighting and feels that things are looking up moving forward.

“They fought and they finished the football game when people would have thought that they would lay down and quit. I’m proud of the way they finished, they responded and played hard. I couldn’t have asked them for anything more tonight,” said McDaniel. “I told them that they would be better for this for the rest of the season. They won’t see anything like this for the rest of the season so if they fought through this, they can fight through anything. Their heads are high, their spirits are high, so we’ll just have to get back to work and try to get a win against Woonsocket.”

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