FA to face Madison-Carrabec in football home opener
By Ernie Clark
Staff Writer
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Foxcroft Academy Ponies will face a familiar opponent in their home-opening football game Friday night.
Coach Danny White’s club will face Madison-Carrabec in a 7 p.m. start at Oakes Field.
The teams met twice in 2015, with Madison-Carrabec winning 33-12 in a Week 2 regular-season meeting at Madison before Foxcroft returned to the road and topped the Bulldogs 21-14 in overtime in the first round of the Class C North playoffs.
Foxcroft is coming off a hard-fought 28-20 loss at Mount Desert Island of Bar Harbor last Friday night in a season-opening matchup of teams that both advanced to the regional semifinals a year ago.
MDI raced out to a 21-0 halftime lead on three second-quarter rushing touchdowns, two by junior fullback Croix Albee and the third on a 40-yard dash by senior halfback Colby Lee, before Foxcroft rallied with three unanswered rushing scores by senior running back Billy Brock.
Brock scored on two 1-yard runs during the third period, with Levi Stedman adding both extra points to pull Foxcroft within 21-14.
Brock scored his third touchdown of the night in the fourth quarter to cut the deficit to 21-20, but MDI retained the lead as the extra-point attempt was unsuccessful.
MDI followed with an insurance touchdown on a 4-yard run by Albee, with Drew Rich converting his fourth extra-point of the game to round out the scoring.
Brock finished with 100 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 19 carries along with a team-best 15 tackles and two quarterback sacks defensively.
Quarterback Nick Clawson completed 10 of 14 passes for 107 yards and rushed for 82 yards on 13 tries. Jeremy Richard had six pass receptions for 60 yards, and Hyatt Smith had three catches for 39 yards.
Lee paced MDI with 182 yards and a touchdowns on 16 rushes, and Albee ran 20 times for 84 yards and three scores.
MDI outgained Foxcroft 348-295, with 305 of the Trojans’ yards coming on the ground.
Madison-Carrabec is coming off a 35-0 road win at Oceanside of Rockland-Thomaston in Week 1.
The Bulldogs’ Sean Whalen ran 62 yards down the right sideline for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage as Madison-Carrabec went on to build a 28-0 halftime lead.
Whalen finished with 117 rushing yards, while Nick Morales added 68 yards on the ground with touchdown runs of 1 and 2 yards.
Junior quarterback Evan Bess passed for 101 yards and had touchdown runs of 2 and 50 yards for Madison-Carrabec.
The Bulldogs totaled 231 yards on 33 rushing attempts.