Sunday, April 24th, 2010

Granite Bowl Flag Football Tournament

 

The Patriots from Peabody who were last years League Champions and Championship Series Champions made the trip to NH to enter their team into the tournament in preparation for the Football festival tournament and the NFL regional. The team consisted of CJ Alimonte, Cody and Cory Greenlee, David Cravotta, Ian Ferguson, Jordan Manthorne, Michael Montague, Nicholas Manthorne and Travis Hardy.

In the first game Peabody beat Salem in a close fought game 14-12 then the Patriots played the younger Red Storm team and won more convincingly 32-13, in the last round robin game the Patriots sealed the #1 ranking with another close game over Lynn 14-13.

In the first game of the play-offs Peabody played Salem one more time as Salem received the #4 seed. Salem was winning the game 14-0 with less than 3 minutes in the game but Peabody connected on 2 deep passes to tie the game 14-14 and send it into over time. In sudden death over time Peabody stopped Salem and then scored on their next play to win 15-14. In the Championship game Peabody played the Red Storm team and was

  
 
 
  winning for the majority of the game when with less than a minute left Red Storm scored the go ahead TD to put them up 20-18, Peabody had several plays and moved the ball into Red Storm territory but could not find the endzone as the Red Storm won an exciting Championship game.

The Patriots played well and finished with a 4-1 record, each player received a runners up medal and Jordan Manthorne received the MVP Honors for his play, the team is now focusing on the Football festival tournament this coming June 19th/20th.

Round Robin Scores
Peabody Patriots 14 - Salem Witches 12
Peabody Patriots 32- Red Storm 13
Peabody Patriots 14 - Lynn Chargers 13

Round 1 Play-offs
Peabody Patriots 15 - Salem Witches 14

Championship Game
Peabody Patriots 18 - Red Storm 20