{"id":1681,"date":"2017-11-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:50:45","slug":"stepinac-wins-3rd-ny-catholic-league-title-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac wins 3rd NY Catholic league title in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"

  \"Stepinac<\/a><\/p>\n

And will go to Buffalo Saturday to try and repeat their 2015 state championship.<\/p>\n

Here's the LoHud coverage, but the second link from Newsday on Long Island is a little better.<\/p>\n

After falling behind 14-0, Stepinac rolled over St. Anthony's 47-22 to take the CHSFL AAA League Championship <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Trill<\/p>\n

Here''s Newsday –<\/p>\n

Stepinac\u2019s Williams too much for St. Anthony\u2019s in AAA final<\/a><\/p>\n

The Crusaders\u2019 Atrilleon \u201cTrill\u201d Williams accounted for 183 yards of total offense and four touchdowns as second-seeded Stepinac defeated No. 1 St. Anthony\u2019s, 47-22, in the CHSFL AAA championship game at Mitchel Athletic Complex on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rich Reichert has been the St. Anthony\u2019s coach for 31 seasons. He\u2019s coached and watched some of the best players in the CHSFL\u2019s history. So where does Williams rank?<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s right up there,\u201d Reichert said. \u201cHe\u2019s a playmaker. We tried to keep the ball away from him, but on the punt return [for a touchdown], he catches on one side, and goes to the other. He catches the ball well. He had two picks; the kid is a tremendous, tremendous football player. That\u2019s why he\u2019s going to Syracuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. Anthony\u2019s (9-2) jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter thanks to an electrifying 75-yard punt return by Makhai Murphy, and an 8-yard touchdown run from Sean Bryan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were energetic and rolling,\u201d offensive tackle Christopher Wright said. \u201cEverything seemed to be right at that point, but that obviously wasn\u2019t the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stepinac (9-2) rallied with a 19-point second quarter \u2014 which included a spectacular 56-yard scoring run by Williams \u2014 and led 19-14 at the half.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost the momentum,\u201d Reichert said, \u201cand we never seemed to get it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Friars tried a fake punt early in the third quarter on a fourth-and-6 from its own 31-yard line, but punter Jeremy Miller was stopped a yard short. Stepinac did not score with the short field, but after St. Anthony\u2019s went three-and-out, Williams returned the ensuing punt 73 yards to give the Crusaders a 25-14 lead with 7:01 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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  And will go to Buffalo Saturday to try and repeat their 2015 state championship. Here's the LoHud coverage, but the second link from Newsday on Long Island is a little better. After falling behind 14-0, Stepinac rolled over St. Anthony's 47-22 to take the CHSFL AAA League Championship Here''s Newsday – Stepinac\u2019s Williams too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}