Red Raiders capitalize on opportunities, defeat Downingtown East

Written by: Paul Sarpen on Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Follow Paul Sarpen on Twitter.

Most games that are hyped to be “games of the year”, turn out to be major disappointments. Not tonight’s Ches-Mont National division game between Coatesville and Downingtown East. For the third year in a row, the game was decided by seven points or less, and the Red Raiders won for the second year in a row, this time by a score of 15-9.In an interesting trend, the visiting team is 10-2 in this series.

The game was expected to be a showcase of two high octane offenses, where neither team scored fewer than 24 points in a game this season. Until tonight, where both defenses stole the show.Downingtown East scored the first half’s only points, on a four-yard run by John Kincade, who ran for 55 yards tonight.

Coatesville took the lead in the third, on a four-yard run by Ahkeema Evans, to cap off a nine-play, 80 yard drive. Ibrahim Kallie’s extra point put Coatesville up 7-6.

Drew Brennan capped off a 14 play, 63-yard drive with a 31-yard field goal, to put the Cougars up 9-7, and set up a fun finish. Following a 45-yard punt by Drew Brennan, putting Coatesville at their 22-yard line. It took the Red Raiders ten plays to score on Evans’ second touchdown tonight. The completed conversion pass, forced the cougars to get a touchdown in 47 seconds. They got to midfield, where a Hail Mary fell incomplete.

My thoughts on tonight’s game were this: It was a case of both opportunities converted (in Coatesville’s case), or squandered (in Downingtown East’s case). Coatesville converted a fake punt on the game winning drive, a 23 yard run by Jordan Young, and 44 yards passing on the ten-play drive to put Coatesville up.

Downingtown East squandered at least three opportunities for points, a missed field goal following an intercepted pass, lost a fumbled snap inside the Coatesville five, and a missed extra point.

Jordan Young completed 14-27 passes (212 yards), and ran for 99 yards on 14 rushes. Coleman had 53 yards on 4 catches and Amir Ealey had 63 yards (2 catches).

For Downingtown East, Andrew Hudson was 10-19 passing (144 yards). Cary Angeline had five receptions (60 yards), Dan Chisena had four catches (66 yards).

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3 Responses to “Red Raiders capitalize on opportunities, defeat Downingtown East”

1. Cregg McCormack says:
   October 4th, 2014 at 10:24 pm

   Nicely done ! Dean has taken all of my thunder. A fair assessment of the game.

2. marie hess says:
   October 4th, 2014 at 10:23 pm

   Awesome article!!

3. Dean Kaiser says:
   October 4th, 2014 at 5:37 pm

   nicely written article, doesn’t seem to favor either side… We need more reports like this!!