Three seasons: three titles, baby.
The Barnstable High School Red Raider football team (6-1) was crowned Old Colony League champions for the third straight season Friday night (Oct. 25) at W. Leo Shields Memorial Field in Hyannis, defeating the visiting Dartmouth Indians to the tune of a 41-6 rout.
The Red Raiders have not lost a league game in three years and with this victory likely solidified a home-field advantage for the Division 2 South Sectional quarterfinals next weekend versus either Marshfield or Duxbury.
Senior co-captain Hayden Murphy ran for 117 yards on 10 carries and scored three touchdowns, including a 73-yard jaunt that circumnavigated the entire width and length of W. Leo Shields Memorial Field. It was Murphy's second three-touchdown game this season and yet another reason why the 4th generation Red Raider should be at the top of the ESPN Mr. Football rankings.
Senior quarterback Kristian Lucashensky was no slouch either, as the rifle-armed helmsman went 16-20 in the air for 225 yards and two touchdowns (1 interception).
Other scores came from senior running back Justus Chaffee (14 carries/70 yards) and an intense, 78-yard touchdown reception by Colby Blaze on a Lucashensky slant that pretty much put the icing on the cake in the 2nd quarter. Junior wideout Bo Delaney placed he finishing touch on the BHS offensive with a 19-yard reception into paydirt in the fourth quarter.
Dartmouth quarterback Blane Almeida scored Dartmouth's lone tally - a one-yard plunge in the third quarter.
Senior kicker Dereck Pacheco went 5-6 on PAT kicks for the night and played a fine game at defensive end, as did most of the rest of the Barnstable defensive unit.
Senior Timmy Rodrigues had a sweet interception in the end zone late in the affair and defensive lineman Henry Shaughnessy played very well as did seniors Cam Travassos, Nathan Yingling and Johnny Hardy who recovered a fumble early in the first quarter on a kickoff to set up Barnstable's second score.
