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	1st Qtr	2nd Qtr	3rd Qtr	4th Qtr	Final
Spring-Ford	7	17	0	0	24
Exeter	0	7	0	0	7

Highlights: By Don Stewart

Reading Eagle Correspondent

Many of the Eagles walked toward the locker room afterward in a daze, as if still trying to process what had just happened.

All night, Exeter had seemed ready to grab the momentum on its home turf. But each time the Eagles got something going, Spring-Ford found an opening for the counterpunch.

The result was a one-sided 24-7 non-league win for the Rams at Exeter’s Don Thomas Stadium.

“We felt the momentum was going to shift our way,” Eagles senior Devon Scott said, “but sadly the mistakes killed us the whole night.”

Mistakes and Ryan Engro. Spring-Ford’s senior quarterback threw for 302 yards and two touchdowns on 23-for-39 passing, shredding a defense that had only given up 32 passing yards and 20 points all season before Friday.

Engro connected with James Albert on a fourth-and-eight for a 19-yard completion, setting up an Armante Haynes 1-yard punch-in that put the Rams up 7-0 late in the first quarter.

That drive was set up by Exeter’s first big mistake, a fumble on a punt return that gave Spring-Ford the ball back at the Exeter 25.

The Eagles (2-2) were on the verge of tying it up midway through the second after driving to the Spring-Ford 10, but a grounding call on Gavin McCusker pushed the Eagles back to the 33. A Josh Cupitt 49-yard field goal try fell just short.

Spring-Ford (2-2) answered with a field goal of its own to move ahead 10-0, then took over at the Exeter 29 with 95 seconds left in the half after an errant Eagles punt. Three plays later, Engro found B.J. Beard for a 10-yard touchdown pass.

On the ensuing kickoff, Scott brought Exeter back to life, albeit briefly. He initially dropped the ball, but picked it up in time to race through the Rams coverage for a 97-yard return touchdown that brought Exeter’s deficit back to 10.

But with 1:09 still remaining in the half, Engro needed just three plays – a pass interference call and completions of 29 and 28 yards – to get the Rams back into the end zone.

“You can’t win football games with mistakes,” Scott said. “We just gotta clean it up all week, get ready for the next game. Nothing else we can do now.”

The Eagles held the Rams scoreless after the break, but couldn’t take advantage as the offense turned it over three more times in the second half.

“Our defense played as hard as we could,” Scott said. “We let up some key big plays. Nothing that a hard week of practice can’t fix.”

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Scoring Summary 

Team	Play By	Yards	From	Extra Point By	Extra Point
Spring-Ford	Haynes	1 run		Sillyman	kick
Spring-Ford	Sillyman	35 FG			N/A
Spring-Ford	Beard	10 pass from	Engro	Sillyman	kick
Exeter	Scott	97 kickoff return		Cupitt	kick
Spring-Ford	Scarcelle	28 pass from	Engro	Sillyman	kick

Team Statistics

Category	Spring-Ford	Exeter
First downs	18	10
Rushes-yards	28 - 27	27 - 85
Passing yards	302	70
Total yards	329	155
Passes	23 - 39 - 1	9 - 23 - 1
Fumbles-lost	0 - 0	4 - 3
Punts-avg.	5 - 38.00	5 - 35.00
Penalties-yards	9 - 99	6 - 61