Cyclones A team wins Tri-Valley League championship
CAMDEN – The Norwich Cyclones A team continued its Tri-Valley League dominance winnings its fourth league championship in five years with a convincing 34-7 win over Ilion Sunday.
Grant Wessels started the Cyclones scoring with a tackle of an Ilion player in the endzone for a two-point safety. On the ensuing Golden Angels kickoff, Drew Walsh raced 55 yards for an 8-0 first-quarter lead. In the second quarter, Ty Rifanburg scored on a five-yard run, and later in the quarter, Payton Stirone ran for a three-yard score, and Cameron Ivan’s two-point kick made it 22-0. With time running out in the first half – and on the last play from scrimmage – Zack Race found Ivan on a 34-yard scoring reception to raise the lead to 28-0 at the halftime break.
Ilion found the endzone in the third quarter cutting the Cyclones lead to 28-7, but on the Cyclones’ last play of an outstanding season, Scott “Oakley” Manwarren raced half a yard for the final score. The A team finished with a 6-1 record with the lone defeat, a 19-14 setback, coming Syracuse-area powerhouse, the Valley Stallions of Liverpool.
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