s sports t v in collaboration with watertown cable is proud to bring you the thanksgiving day football rivalry that's been going on since one thousand nine hundred twenty one the belmont marauders and the watertown raiders here from harris field at belmont high school hello everyone happy thanksgiving my name is todd lonnie hours long time producer and co host of time out for sports talk on the v m c being joined by a couple of the gentlemen here for our for the first low and snowy field yes the snow came down last night we got a nice little wintry fields of the game it's got to be exciting for the players who gets to play on that all they've done is brushed out the yard lines which will help us broadcasters be able to see a little bit better but it's perfect for the players you know i think every player you know with the first time they touch a football or dreams about playing a game in the snow of course it's the thanksgiving day game ninety third edition between these two long time rivals i think it's  again it's thanksgiving is and is a great time so actually propose ballplayers and i think the field conditions are great for watching the game but it's also a bit difficult you know because both teams like to run five ties so i want to town is want to head in the in the ninety three ninety three games played some bit of trivia well tells you how close the rivalry is and in fact watertown has won the last two games to actually take the lead in the series belmont at life as of two years ago now watertown leads by a game so belmont is a chance to even up a long time series today you talk about the running games and you talk about perhaps a lack of office frank on the interesting thing as last year when these two teams played in watertown on thanksgiving day they actually set a record for this rivalry for most combined points eighty nine and that was on a windy day and where they were able to run the ball effectively will was i guess we'll see how the conditions bear out today it that it all comes down to how they how each  will change their game plan for the conditions as always well belmont is bringing a a record of three in seven into this game they won their past three games they beat med food salem and i a playoff format and they start the playoffs so early now your regular season basically a september and october and then in november beginning in november they start the playoffs so interesting way enough you know record wise watertown is the better record but when you talk about the momentum that you're right i mean belmont probably has a little bit more but again watertown started seven zero qualify for the division for north playoffs and then lost their zero quarterfinal game and then came back won the following week and against assad yes then lost last week so that's they've lost two of the last three but they started seven a novella but on the other hand started zero one seven and had a a losing streak that extended to what to twenty three games and then that once they got into the non playoff fortune of their schedule and playing non league opponents completely wild against salem where he already picked up two hundred sixty eight yards and five touchdowns in the last three games jones has has picked up five hundred fifty six yards ten touchdowns is pretty much pretty much  question again you know it's a great great matchup here today with these two rival then of course you know with that you've got to throw the records out the window of course you know momentum this whatever but you know you throw the records out the window when these two schools play because you just never know i mean last year you know we ended up with a shoot out of a game i think watertown was went into last year's game with a similar record were heavily favored and yet it turned out to be a you know a pretty exciting back and forth game so you really do never know some final thoughts on this segment just about what we might be saying here again it's the conditions i think it's going to really neutralize some of the running you know a lot of a lot of cut backs that are going to be tenuous and that's i think if the defense can just rise up on both the defensive lines can can really show some will they can really control the one of the reasons belmont's been bouncing back there was they were a step or twenty three game losing streak a little earlier this month a lot of it has to do with first your head coach john human our very own b m c r b h s sports t v s james deal had a chance to sit down with coach cumin to talk about d about my players i mean i think i've i've i've learned that i've i've got guys who are bought and i've got guys who who care about what they're doing and i've got guys who care about one another i've got guys who care about the tradition and the legacy that we're trying to instill here about the philosophy that we're trying to instill and above all i've got guys who are who are willing to work and that i think is what every coach is really looking for in their in their players as is a willingness to do work and a willingness to embrace the grind and a willingness to to learn and to embrace failure as a means of future success and i've got a bunch of guys in this room who are who are really into that and i'm lucky i'm definitely lucky what key differences did you notice from week one to week ten of your games your players your coaches and yourself i mean from my players i think the biggest the biggest difference for us was really twofold one was just  communicate adjustments to have checks systems in place to understand where we want to attack often severely our players just have a tremendously much more diverse and and effective knowledge of of how the game works and there's no moment in a football game that's a small moment and so if you look at us and you know our scrimmage weeks i'm very early in the season you see a lot of guys on the back side of the play kind of it's not my play it's going the other way  know you see a lot of guys kind of expect it even in rallying to the ball expecting somebody else to make the tackle and saying oh he's got him locked up i'll lay off you don't see that on our on our defense i are often so anymore eleven guys on the field are consistently working all the time and that's probably two biggest things for our players for our coaches i mean i've got a young staff where we're one of the youngest staff in the middle sexily without a doubt and there was a steep learning curve for those guys to coaching is communicating knowledge to players it's giving them the skills that they need in order to be successful my guys have really learned over i think this season how to be effective and how to be efficient and how to communicate directly also in a manner that conveys their faith in the ability of that player to do the job he's being asked to do and also to do so efficiently i've got a great staff i love those  guys the learning curve has been just exponential it's been a really humbling process you know because i think that as coaches we have this grand sense of ourselves but there has to be kind of that  confidence and self in order to be a good coach a big piece for me is trying to find that balance now is the boss between being energetic and emotional and getting that out of my players and yet being even keeled enough to manage my program i've gotten better at managing my staff i've gotten better at managing my players i've gotten better at managing my program i'm excited to break down what needs to get done going into next year and move forward how much of a factor snapping the twenty three games  has that kind of explosive ability just a tremendously tremendously explosive back his ability to go from zero to top speed is unparalleled i think definitely on our team and quite possibly allowed us to change our offensive approach a little bit we've got this kid and he's running well let's give him the ball and find different ways to try and get the football his hands top of all of that he's just a great human being and he's a great got a couple of wrinkles here and there that were that were put an end to try and accomplish some things but really our focus has been on stuff that we talked about all the way back in august living in the rat staying within ourselves doing our job to the best of our abilities playing with passion playing with control and focusing on the moment focusing on the rap focusing on the d on is right up above our door there and keeping our focus there and that's it's not a great thing to be accustomed to but i think you know a lot of other teams kind of want to stop and freaked out and and you know we that's just not really our style you know we one of our big managers that we haven't really talked a lot about as big pla you know and so yeah it's a big moment to lose a guy like chris or to lose a guy like but who's next you know who's next on the depth chart who's going to who's going to rotate positions you know who's going to tackle the guard and be successful who's going to fill in at that tackle spot  so really i think it's a testament to our philosophy that we just kind of keep plugging and just kind of keep going and you know we'll put the next guy in there and we do a lot of work to make sure that those guys are prepared and ready to play the game and you know so hopefully  eight you know that was obviously my first career win as a head coach so it bore personal significance to me you know to get to see my guys to get to do with these guys who are just showing up every day and worked and believed in what we were teaching them to see the looks of pride and joy and human relief on their faces after we won that game was really really special for my my number one and coach pereira presented me with the game ball not i'm a man who talks a and david came in over the top and said you know i want to do this right here for his first career when here's here's the game ball and there's been with me it's gone i'm and i played for me when i was an assistant coach at mountain on i've known him for since he was sixteen years old and seventeen years old and i and that was just a really really really special moment for me i get kind of emotional just thinking about it you know because it's an example of football coming full  circle to have you know a kid that played for me and now coaches with me who i'm proud to call my brother and then to to see these kids kind of gratified what it is that they've been doing a good to see them get what they deserve you know to see him get what they deserve man was was a really really special long because i said to them i said you know i i don't know that i would have had the wherewithal as a high school student to keep showing up every day in this program when people in the school are asking you why you're still playing football or people in the community are asking you why you're still playing football or maybe even people in your own family are asking you why you still play football programs on twenty three what are you doing you know to keep coming to practice every day ra know shine hot coal to keep working to keep learning to keep trying to get better at your craft for them to finally see that that does pay off you know that that belief and hard work and ethic and effort and family and caring for your brothers that that gets you somewhere was the greatest moment of my professional career to date as a coach without a doubt it was a really really special day special  us along with franklin tucker from the belmont sony and and probably in from watertown table and guys talking a little bit about cumin we saw him in that interview talking about you know where he's been where he's come from the season for belmont human story is really a great one i mean you know this is his first head coaching job and i mean over the last two weeks we've really seen the team grow but you know before that he was an assistant to bob i'll meet it stoneham they go back to their days at multan catholic and finally had the opportunity  a head coaching job and even though the season started very slowly it has really picked up steam the last three weeks it's not just that but how the it's it's how the players have caught you have got on with this coach's philosophy and just the way he wants the game played winning that game i mean again first wins for the for the teams road or home in two years right exactly and you know it has a lot to do with just as approach and the way he you know and own seven to start was a lot to do with just getting a new program and getting kids to believe in the program and the and it certainly has taken time but now you see these kids really just just it being part of that of that unified force almost any he's just a cumin would like to get to with the kashi and the fine program that watertown has had the last few years i mean another great season this year qualified for the for the playoffs oh well i think one of the good decisions that was made was when they hired the football coach who is actually have him as part of the faculty so that he is in the building and i believe that that's a big advantage for the coach to be integrated into the whole wanted town school system and and it just  who i'm a big fan of his really jumped in both feet totally committed he's a twelve month football coach and he's had winning seasons i think the first twenty years he did not but it's and we are back here and here is feel part of our thanksgiving day pre game show up be it just sports t v top lawyers franklin tucker from the belmont tony i'm very pleased to be joined here by former belmont high class of two thousand and fourteen former football captain chris back and play one more game i would do it just feeling part of family like this we got back there and everyone's so so tied into each other it's a great culture and these kids seem like they're doing a great job so i was you had a chance to catch up with some i've been busy at school this year you probably haven't had a chance to necessarily see other belmont team this year but with coach kim and coming in what do you think his presence is meant to the team they finally you know step to the losing streak yeah absolutely i think it's i think it's awesome the kids just they have a new face their new new bunch new role models and they all look up to him seems like a great coach on the set don't know too much about him too much about the team but whatever they're doing it's been work in the past two games so keep it going and let me just ask you a little bit of the difference between high school and college football and you know with any team sport especially in college they always talk about the quickness and how much you ask for this talk a little bit how how you especially coming in as a freshman you know a lot so you want to you go from being the biggest guy on the field to one of the smallest guys in the field but honestly you just got a it's just like a feel sad to like that's what football is and so on but the speed is definitely so much faster a lot more plays in the game not a lot of time wasted looking at looking around seeing what's going on everyone knows what they're doing you get to a certain level and you're there because you're you're all equal and it's just it's really it's tough it is a ground you probably noticed it on your very first the first time you got tackled yeah college you know but just the impact of a hit right no one no one slows down for anybody everything's every game is like this everyone hates each other pretty much so there's an honest yes no doubt about what it is like everyone's when you're as hard as they can like it's it's not so much you playing football for fun anymore it is fun but it's almost like a job what you're up four days a week at six am to go lift and no one else the schools doing that you don't even do that here so that is one of the reasons why you'd love to play another high school football game probably i mean getting more sleep would be nice when it's fun but you talk about getting more sleep but i think if there was the one game you know that in your high school career you know every year that you looked forward to was this this ten fifteen kickoff on thanksgiving day talk a little bit about the just the whole tradition of that it's unique to this area you know to syria the country and just talk about how much you know meant to you and the memories have turkey day you get a group of guys that are we had a small team last year you get a bunch of people like a small team like that everyone's really it's a tight knit team tight knit community you wake up and there's just the streets  you're the only ones up and you get to the locker room everyone's there and it's just quiet like there's there's no way to describe how the locker room feels but once you get out on the on the field and you look around you just to get my last moment you just look around you take that in and i'll have that with me for the rest of my life you see people lined up from end zone to end zone it's it's korea it's unbelievable and then playing it's nothing like it gets you to play with your best friends realize that's what it is states and in the two hundred meter sprint outdoor so this guy just has ross me in ways so when he gets on the corner who's going to catch him it's going to be a forum for watertown's quarterbacks and especially the safeties two because they're going to be able it is interview with with james and elin and yeah it's just he's very special course like he likes to do it like any good running back likes to do and i was like that's a further credit to his line and the guys blocking for him i mean they have done a pretty good job of course early in the year they had some these three guys are on the right side they do clear out and i know that you know when i was talking to him yesterday he said you just can't get enough praise because they've now become a unit and again there's a lot of experience between them only one of them is even brought up in his interview and yet you've got four of the five players on that old line right now are seniors two of them captains and they've really come together over these last three weeks where the marauders of been able to post victories and that's been it's been really nice to see the seniors coming together as a unit because you know obviously they won two years without a win and to put that much effort and not get anything out it was very disappointing for a long time i can imagine and you know it's nice to see that they're actually getting wins run right through any front anybody trying to tackle him and most of the time will get through because he is a very big body you know that's great for a day like this you know when you're when you don't want to make a lot of cuts you just want to go down hill so we may see a lot of him and we may  in this the starting power for for the basketball team he's tall he runs he's now gotten he's gotten a lot heavier so he's going to be a force today and if you don't believe i just sat three state championships in division two and she is really one of the best lawyers in the country and it's great to have her coming back for a c year which is always great she's just a junior and the team finished second in division two  which is a great accomplishment of the second year in a row they finished second and then we look at field hockey field hockey had a great season they only had four losses they went to the quarterfinals against in over high school now you have to understand that when you're when you're competing against an over high school you have a you have a school that has twelve hundred students like belmont ear be competing against a team that has come from a school that has one thousand nine hundred kids so you have a population of kids that you can recruit for your for field hockey that's almost as big as a senior class in belmont they took them on into overtime which is just a phenomenal accomplishment for small school like belmont and then you have  boston at t d bank garden this january go see them there because it's always great to see them in a in a big arena it's going to be one of those holiday tournaments so you go see them girls oh richard yes right exactly stephen russo over at watertown is having the girls there's a combined watertown belmont girls ice hockey team that is a favorite to win the division two state championship this year so we've got great great  great winter coming on and on with along with boys hockey and you can see that you also saw a lot of the fall games those tournament games that frankel was alluding to i be it just sports coverage they'll be continuing that coverage right through the winter sports season go give a plug at a especially when they're seniors and they you know that that's the end of their career but that was always the thing in pop warner you know there was that anticipation that hey one day we're going to be across each other on the field and that's kind of where the french fr so i mean there was a is that in the back of everyone's minds here on upon one that's probably why we didn't win a lot of kids all right well hey it's all right nick thank you very much for joining us here in the pre game we're going to see you up on the other broadcast with franklin tucker from the  belmont tony thank you very much with the check out your show on the p m c chattels well thank you for joining us here at the pre game that sounds great thank you very much for having me here it's great and i wish and just one just one thing i would ask anybody who's watching this go see a high school sporting event they're  f sports t v in collaboration with watertown and cable is pleased to bring you belmont versus watertown the ninety third edition from harris memorial field here at belmont high school a snow covered paris memorial field but we welcome you to again install the ninety three of this longtime rivalry watertown leading the all time series with forty four wins forty three for belmont in there in five as well happy thanksgiving everybody and a welcome to what should be an exciting gave today my name is todd blown ers being joined alongside by nick roach as well as bob corporately and from watertown cable and gentlemen  here your thoughts here as we are just moments away from the kickoff belmont watertown belmont eighteen two bell i'm sorry bell i want to turn into belmont three and seven throw the records out the window that when these teams play on turkey day well i think you hit the nail on the head of you said throw the  show yeah last year's game fifty four thirty five a watertown victory to take the overall lead in the series and the fifty four points for watertown an all time best for them in this series again which goes all the way back to one thousand twenty one the only year they didn't play a nine hundred forty because of snow there was snow on the field as you can clearly see but credit to the grounds crew great job getting everything cleared off tearing shann kicks it off we are underway ninety third edition belmont versus watertown and the raiders take the opening kick off and finding a hole up the middle is kyle foley and he is over midfield an independent territory at the forty seven yard line that's where the raiders will get started as a high kick from chan there as usually that's really good for a picking team as they're able to get your kyle fully on the return hill now while line up on the far side and his wide receiver set the back for the raiders is austin ferry one of the senior captains along with quarterback number eight dano your donal last year a ran for one hundred thirty six yards and a couple of touchdowns in this thanksgiving day game in the handoff on first down goes to full hour to watch at that ferry and austin ferry gets out of bounds watertown picks up a first down at the twenty seven yard line at belmont so two big place to start things off here for the raiders who of course won their first seven games this year to qualify for the division four north playoffs before losing a tough game break a tackle but marco perowne who you brought up in the pre game show did does it nice job on the tackle it is a really good job reading the play as is very experienced the safety route from inside linebacker early in his career and he's done a really good job again of a couple we've only played thirty seconds here in the opening quarter again of actually one they'll say the ball spotted at the twenty six yard line and did this time it will be a ferry going out splitting out to the wide side get his couldn't get the good good footing on that particular play footing is definitely going to be an issue in this one as you can see they did clear all the they cleared the line the yard markers every five yards there's also winds going down the middle  first down inside the fifteen down to about the twelve yard line nice blocking right up the middle there sprung fairy for a first down this is going home last in florida have to tell you thought you could have gone through that whole lot we just gave me i was good joe diving after the run by year when these teams played on thanksgiving day and certainly off to a good start here it's a first in ten for watertown football the belmont thirteen yard line the center is angel carry on another one of the watertown senior captains gonna dictate appollo back and he's only a sophomore he's a sophomore so we'll be looking at him for him in the couple of years but once defenses kind of struggled in the red zone even over the course of the three games they've had so far of course last game then only a lot of two points of the four that was because they often sieve safety but they have not been their best in the red zone be a challenge for them here early on no question about that this time is the up back and the deep back is austin ferry back to the i formation for giordano and watertown raiders first and goal handoff will go to the up box of the deep back very nice into the end zone for a watertown touchdown that did not take long for the raiders marching down the field forty seven yards after an impress positioning in the off of the line as being quite dominant early on this one yeah angel carry on the center help in a way because it seems like those holes are have been right up the middle for watertown at least they were on that opening drive and the kicker as they try to clear a spot for him as a freshman and he's going to try to attack on the point after here it's a high snap nice put down and the kick is up and it is good i have to wait for the officials to put their arms up because from my angle they all look good but as i learned a few we know they are not always but that one isn't and so want to tell the seven nothing with seven thirty nine to go here in the first quarter and you know someone's office they have gotten off to quite a hot start the last couple weeks and they're going to have to hear it down seven points not airing on thanksgiving evening along with a whole bunch of other times ninety third edition of this historic rivalry that dates all the way back to one thousand nine hundred twenty one and it's been back and forth over the years we'll tell you a little bit more as we move along with the broadcast as we said watertown leads all time but only by one game so belmont with a win today would be an upset but with a win today the writers can tie up the all time series between these two programs kind of wishing they didn't have those five ties now well on that series actually if you go back to last year's game watertown jumped out to a forty nothing we take like this game that we're watching right now they scored watertown scored on the opening kickoff last year that belmont on their first off it's a possession fumble the ball watertown scored again they were up fourteen nothing in there were trailed in the game they went on to win fifty four thirty five setting an all time high in points for the match of that's a little bit of a squid kick and roger just to follow on it on their own journey one yard line van jones is a really good job getting the ball and falling right on it good while you listening there to make sure that the of course is max jones the up back is bryce christian and the quarterback is sophomore cal krista for a under center hill he adopted jones on first and ten jones as per his usual self manages to get about four five yards on his first a thousand combine yards both running the ball and receiving and in fact he's actually closing in on a thousand yards rushing which he should probably reach some time during this game we can only imagine being a starting running back on how to run heavy off and sometimes moments coming into the in the season has an average of twenty six yards per catch of course because the four likes to go to justin wagner and robbie aiello in the slot and they're just a really dangerous passing attack and that's often supplied from left to right senior captain nick ryan a looking for a flag was job market all solid coverage down there buy into rebel look like get a little bit of a hand on him but you can get away with that pretty easily it's not not too much contact there at all i didn't see the contact i think it was  forced to punt and it will be max jones to do the punting and two men back deep for the raiders i believe one of them is austin fairy and jones will boot this one away it's going to the far side again not much of a b raiders get their second turn on off and some riders end up going three and out on their first attempt so it looks like it's going to be a cheer donna working out of the shotgun playing in his final high school game here today for losing in the quarter final round to swampscott and so again this marks the final game of the season for the eight and two raiders who were actually hoping they would have a chance to do something only one of the watertown team has ever done and that is reach double digits in a victories but unfortunately that is not going to happen at best they will have a nine win season if they were able to emerge victorious today and here's ferry on the second down kerry and he gets a first down across  and he's going to get a gain of about five down of the forty four yard line gentlemen interesting a formation there by watertown because you got the quarterbacks you're done in the shotgun with rims up the front but then you've got a tail back behind the quarterback usually when the quarterbacks in the shotgun he's the furthest bat man wonder if the weather conditions are playing a factor in why maybe maybe they want to have someone behind the quarterback in case there's an errant snap or were not even once a day we have already seen one today so again it's working out of the shotgun this time cheer dano and  helping to lead his raiders to victory that's how he broke one behind the line of scrimmage in the ring of the two past and so and that's what he has the ability to do as you guys are saying i mean you know looked like he was thinking of passing then he just kept it and gained about twenty yards so it's a first in ten for watertown with the ball spotted inside the twenty five yard line at belmont and this time the pitch outs going to go to ferry austin ferry going to the left side and he's looks like he might be close to one another first down knocked out of bounds over there by watertown first down ball spotted at the belmont eleven yard line clock stopping momentarily three forty one to go here in the first quarter watertown leading seven nothing over belmont here in the ninety third installment of the th two touchdowns watertown up thirteen nothing with two forty four to go here in the first i don't think they i don't think anybody the ball put a hand them i think you just an injury look like a tag football play it's like one of the belmont players is slow to get up being tended to by the training staff so we will pause it momentarily before watertown attempts the point after and it looks like trying to see who that is it's i see all four but i think there's a number in front of that snap and the kick is up and it is good once again so the team will come back up field to forty four to go here in the first quarter and watertown dominating the game off sensibly and leading belmont fourteen nothing and i think really underestimate is how well water really not only motivating but shows they gave planning that went into this game i watered down yeah i mean obviously we're looking at field conditions being a little slippery out there and we talked about this a little bit in the pregame show the edge in a game like this goes to the office because they know where they're going and watertown certainly with their senior interior linemen are just creating huge holes for their running backs here in the early going bob difference of lee jones doesn't come as a surprise to the  just playing very like the plea so we got belmont on their second office of series they went three and out the first time around and it's calculus to four eva sophomore under center he three touchdown passes against watertown these teams played a year ago it does victory field eleven touchdowns and averaging close to ten yards a carry and that's why it's only two hundred thirty one your hearts because that does the mike quite a bit here horse came into the game nine hundred fifty yards rushing on the yourself or watertown tell them and check on three carries  you're keeping within about a five yard average maybe less this time the watertown defensive line just piles up on match jones and knocks him back for little to no game tonight you can see it's a a team defense is that they closing on the  and it will be third down and eight here for belmont with the ball their own thirty yard line krista for he goes to the sideline to get the play seen a similar places from belmont first second and third down a try to run outside on the first of an insi sam ford with the interception for watertown and that's the first turnover of the ball game it's going to set up watertown in great position inside the belmont thirty yard line not a good read lakers for an hour but you have to be accredited watertown they had tremendous coverage in the secondary they knew the pass was coming and they were at it there were other routes really well there was something kind of odd looking about that plan all of you guys noticed it but it almost seemed like you know christopher tried to quick snap it maybe and catch the watertown defense sleeping but that was far from the dano will hand off to ferry on second and seven and very gets inside the belmont twenty games maybe two or three bring up a third down marauders where they are that time to kind of close up the hole up the middle which watertown to add for the majority of this first quarter which has now come to a close here at harris field and other score after one here in this ninety third installment of the thanksgiving day rivalry between these two neighboring towns and his watertown fourteen  belmont nothing is going to be really important third down coming up here for about one third and i believe one percent and i mean that was the offense has been really just run over the first quarter here and there really wasn't  reunion of sorts of people coming back to town we saw chris kelly last year's belmont one of the captains last year now he's a freshman at plymouth state he's back here we want to thank him again for joining us on our pre game show and of course right now we are listening to the belmont high school and was austin ferry on both touchdowns i believe i might yes very sort all the touchdowns for watertown to give them this fourteen nothing lead so it's first and goal actually balls just inside the ten so it is first and goal and it's your d under ten minutes to go in watertown now looking to take a three score lead austin fairly deep back at me i keep an eye on him as he scored the first two touchdowns or watertown senior co s one of the seniors the full back really enough getting the touchdown going to get twenty to nothing with nine thirty three to go here in the first half and again just superior oftens of a lot of work by watertown on the way it really was office moving if they want to stay in the ballgame they're going to have to switch up something off uncivilly because they've been in the same formation the same three players so for now they're going to need to get a first down as well they've not been able to do that so far to possessions for belmont and of going take a lot to take the senior captains out of there or any of the seniors for that matter to get him out of a game like this you dream about this game it's thanksgiving day and you probably as a kid dream about the fact there's snow on the field when you're playing the game so it's nice to see i mean they don't call it football weather gun with his two backs flanking them then it goes to jones again on second down not much this time he tries to run right side and he is just swarmed over by several raiders including up big number seventy seven who is not on our roster all right well you know when i get very much up to the course we had the tony and zo nuff franklin tucker joining us in the pre game show he's covering the game from the belmont side and the handoff on third and four goes to the i went to jones again here i believe and he again did not get much no i'm sorry it's not jones that's johnson who did not pick up the first down so once again it's fourth down and the marauders are going to have to punt they are still have still not gotten a first down in this game and good pun an affair catch there by steve may right at nate field so watertown has the ball for the fourth time in this game seven zero seven to go here in the second quarter annum rogers now need to really come up big entire crew we've got cameraman galore folks in the truck and it's a wonderful production here you're seeing today on thanksgiving and on the first down hand lost in theory just keeps running and running and it picks up a first down inside and now here comes ferry in motion over to the far side in they're going to run that way ferries going to help try to plot for your donald a quarterback who picks up probably about seven yards on that first and ten carry and again big big yardage on first down for the around either with the quarterback or the running backs so misting is to see how they apply that going forward because with a twenty one point lead with five minutes left they're probably just trying to beat the clock and maybe put a couple more points on the board and belmont might have caught a little bit of a break there in th charity grillo senior getting in touch on off fans here and he picks up a first down for the raiders inside the belmont twenty yard line that double reverse goes back a lot of years we want to tell you used to be a bread and butter and i remember talking to coach we got you finally he's a incorporated to his office so planned and it just it's working to perfection at the bread was buttered eisley there so far as the raiders were concerned picking up about twenty yards on that carries so the ball spotted right at the belmont twenty yard line first and ten watertown with five ten to go walk running here first half and checking into the game here on the fly is over thirty five obviously you want to keep everything fresh you know trying to fuse the defense but they really did not get too much of the play even with the holding pen of the right so you had to add insult to injury the whole didn't even resulted anything positive for watertown now you tack on the ten yard penalty it's first  pass on first down earlier this drive the one they got called back with a weak side rush with everyone lined up on the near side trying to confuse the belmont defense and they're kind of getting away from what works for them as they now face a third and fift already but we have not seen him catch a passion yet here dano this time will play action and then get it back to the fullback room sunroom has a little bit of room but he's going to be short of the first down by about six yards at any trysting fourth down coming up for watertown yards actually about private thirty five yards and you can't punish the school of skin no there's no point so it's really a it's four down territory it might as well go overboard and that's exactly what the raiders are going to do here up twenty one in under three minutes to go clock running in the first half year dano works out of the shotgun is flanked to his immediate right and in the right slot is senior austin ferry will see this time of year don it looks in his direction you're going to keep it himself he's going to go right importantly it puts belmont on the scoreboard with two fourteen to go here in the first half max jones who was we were talking with franklin tucker in the pre game show about finished seventh in the state in the chair wondered woks the extra point is blocked mean he is also a track star for belmont and upper to speed in the two hundred meters in the heat in the state a little earlier this month and came in seventh place in the entire state and you say when that distance you say you're surprised but that doesn't go away it always it's anything and have a boise at a water tower that really kills your momentum going in the house so the really important drive here for the beaumont defense ball a spot on the watertown thirty seven and third down in ninety seconds to go here in the second quarter and if that watertown's just no huddle they go right to it third down in a long chew and it's going to be cheered on a working out of the down by ben jones all the way down at about the five yard line what are run by senior quarterback nick cheered on oh he just willed that you know he was it must have been three times he was hit the should've gone don didn't go attackers eventually getting to what looks like the three yard line and a question that is a momentum turning play in this game after up belmont's defense it made a stop on watertown's previous office of series and then jones with the ninety yard touchdown run and now  of watertown and business first and goal the belmont inside the belmont five here this close to the end zone time stops being a factor for watertown they can let the clock run if they do so choose nine seconds to go here in the first half and there you go that's all the men are from on has just gone on that one drive right there to touch down runs for austin ferry now an apparent touchdown runs for the soft more full left here in the first half watertown twenty eight belmont six in this fifty year search is a ninety third installment of this historic thanksgiving day rivalry as watertown looking to win their third straight in the overall series and take a t game lead in the overall standings which watertown leads coming into this forty four to forty three and the teams have tied five times the last time i spent a while though since yes tied and he got to go back to so i break my little sheet  to keep in mind too before you know we here in the twenty first century both harris field in belmont and victory field and water temple have the new feel turf but back in the day they were playing in a regular grass field conditions if it rained heavily you were talking about  six watertown actually won twenty three of the thirty eight games twenty three thirteen in two and then starting in one thousand eight hundred seven rogers one eighteen of the next twenty five games to what then take the one game lead in the series first time they a lot of downhill you're not going to get it with arm tackles and break a couple there the junior johnson ray and four hundred fourteen yards back on october twenty fourth just fifteen carries it's a season high came against winchester playoff format where they've won their last three coming into today's holiday tilt and now it's the fake kind of a sort of a reverse statue of liberty or an upfront one where the fake from dato and then that was that those are always really hard throws and that's all timing by christopher or ian is a good connection with a bad jones right there first completion of the day for krista for a end the sixth catch of the season for the soft war ben jones younger brother of senior co captain we've got twenty seconds to go the clock was running there for on the belmont apparently had another timeout left i thought they might use the ball but they had one left they took they take it here with twenty seconds remaining the ball is at their own thirty yard line so i mean we're talking you know really sixty two yards here in twenty seconds and no more time outs and they don't have that ninety yard her on but i don't think what we see well i think they're hoping that maybe mel just to break another one here that would be sort of the play in young humans playbook so we've got a first in ten for belmont their own thirty eight yard line it's no working out of the shock a lot of links between these two neighboring towns belmont and watertown of course going all the way back to pop warner football where the team a lot of these touchdown and again with these conditions i would even try a kick and also for a navy some issues with terry chance health not sure i'd be trying any kind of long kicks either so your you look at sixty two yards nine seconds maybe time for two plays or just one long heave down the fiel with the assistance of watertown cable really unique massachusetts high school football traditions nah lot of places in the car can really say this is the ninety third or ninety eight seventy fifth meeting of two high school football programs you know to get the chance to be a part of this this rivalry and this tradition it's been an absolute on or for me watertown's a great football programs to great football community and i'm just really honored and excited to get a crack at it and to kind of kind of start us off away in a new era of this rivalry communities that you know on turkey day watertown belmont i think it happens we make a habit of really not being overly concerned with the nature of our poll and you know our focus has been and will continue to be on ourselves you know we said hey we want to win this game in order to win this game we have to get better over the next ten days of practice so you know that's kind of where our focus is and and that's kind of what it is that we're trying to do our montrose in the deed the glory you know and so really focus in on the nature of the linebacker number eight very quarterback wide receiver twenty six go well i just as the ball or we'll be getting the ball to start the second half of course want to thank our entire hardworking crew here at p h s sports working in collaboration with watertown table we got a lot of hard work in camera people just checking to make sure i do call games for many different fields so it's possible i could've put another word in there so after the long t v timeout apparently it was one of the longest  have helped on that last carry for sure is the office of back field for belmont was right in that green patch right that you could see in need feel if you're watching this game rogers moving from right to left on your t v your monitor wherever you're watching us from today here's max jones in ten belmont at the watertown forty and krista for you deep in the shotgun jones to his left and it's going to be a throw from christopher out of an air very dangerous it falls incomplete but boy that was a free ball anyone could have caught it nick ryan was trying to make sure it did not land in the hands of a watertown player even if it wasn't tipped in the air by the live and it looked like a very tight coverage outside the gators for a try that quick thro town touchdowns well belmont certainly come out fired up in the second half here and so here is a give to max jones on first down and go down max jones almost lost yardage for what probably would've been one of the few times this season but i have a feeling that young humans going to take two cracks at this if they can't convert on third down fake to yellow and now here's my chance of running left looking for some rule not have any like talk about the you know the penetration defensively from the raiders as they just spread out the so that's what they're more comfortable with doing is the running it's a can see how they implement it here in the second half one of the four senior captains for the raiders nick g or dano under center as quite a first half for obviously the sensible thing here for john to kashi to do is to punt this away on fourth of two from your own forty three look like by twenty two points but it does not appear that they are going to do that so this kind of leaves the door open at the marauders can come up with a big stop on fourth down to get themselves back into the ballgame here is g or dano working out of the shotgun receivers are split to each side and cheered on going to keep it up self has the first down with confidence and i guess that's why coach conny went for watertown football program which again coming off a great year eighty two coming into this one qualifying for the d for playoffs into the new m i a format more strong i hear here we go and here's ferry on first and ten he first half and it carries over here in the third quarter watertown with the new set of downs actually up second down and six in the series and it's all over the ball stops on the ground it looks like the rod really gets that it's the first turnover jones can do in the open field yes exactly that's why i think that probably was a t d saving tackle your under three minutes to go here in the third quarter again for jones was three yards totally thirty seven degrees yeah so you know what there is melting but it's happening at a very slow pace i don't think it's going have any effect on the remainder of this game but it's certainly the touch of winter here as you can see on the field they get  great shot by the the belmont high school the grounds crew here to kind of clear out the yard markers and the house marks they had to do that before and also the response of the cheerleaders so they could perform here on this thanksgiving day krista for the fire staff at all even far has had a tremendous year this year christopher coming into this game is completed over yet over five percent of his passes we have a timeout he also actually had passed for over a thousand yards coming it's a day's game thousand and thirty two to be exact seven touchdowns were not penalize the ball is sitting at the thirty yard line of watertown again great opportunity for belmont to get back in this game down twenty eight six time running down in the third quarter big pass completion one of the few we've seen today krista for you last year in the thanksgiving day game between these teams threw for three touchdown passes it's been a little tougher sledding today and literally we could say that because the conditions warrant fan growing up in western mass had acquaintance they joined the league just as i was kind of following the n h l so it was a perfect timing that was perfect timing several years later eighteen years later not as much for a time when the team that's a town left new england but holder for watertown i'm not sure why they keep changing it up it's everyone has worked well actually this one did not work as well as the kick from kitty lee is no good so it remains a twenty one point lead for watertown but they are back up by three scores thirty four thirteen with fifty two seconds left here in the third quarter oh well it's off it's going to have to go right back to work this was game playing kind of similar to the thanksgiving day game last year watertown scored the first two touchdowns at belmont spent the entire rest of the game trying to play catch hardworking cameraman with his truck goes james neal and neil much rate and hamill and also from watertown helping us out today ethan skardu z and mike wilbur who had to leave and go deep fry a turkey awesome well like that does sound pretty that's exactly what i think he was hoping for especially with our one hour pre game show which we hope you enjoy watching as well as the game broadcast mci johnson on the kickoff gets across the thirty and then is shoved back in what looks like a giant rugby  was like each other with these teams three really don't like each other just today otherwise there's still a lot of n g o s to mention it you you played pop warner and you played with some kids from watertown i mean it was a you know the teams of at that level are from both watertown  next year is going to be lucky to have him his skill set could very well play could play very well in a division three school no question about down no where he's off to next year but we have reached the end of the third quarter here we know where we're off to at least for the moment a break and we'll get ready to start the fourth quarter with the score watertown thirty four belmont thirteen in the ninety third edition of belmont watertown football here on thanksgiving day from harris field and we are thankful you can join us up each a sports t v in conjunction with watertown cable on top loney us along with nick roach and bob properly and they're so happy to join us on this thanksgiving day turned out to be a beautiful day after it snowed last night but the snow is beautiful out there on the field it gives it a nice holiday feel here today and belmont coming up here will have a big second down into as they try to get themselves back in the game after they had a momentary got themselves back they got within two scores on the thirty yard touchdown pass from sophomore q shot mar paul courson high school we'll have eleven minutes for a quarter to work with the belmont big down three touchdowns here they're going to have their work cut out for the sellout crowd capacity crowd here at harris  it always is on thanksgiving and we've got the belmont band playing in the background so the rudder is going left to right here in the fourth and final quarter and christopher he's got plenty of time but can he find a receiver it's going to look for drills and practice with everybody has it ever know where the balls get it up especially when it gets up in the second turnover of the game for the marauders and the second interception a hard luck interception for krista for eon that place in watertown takes over first instead of the belmont forty five ten fifty to go and the raiders are already up thirty four thirteen looking to add on and the belmont for the forty fifth time in this all time series that goes back  series it was made it really look easy now belmont is really tightened up defensively and it's become a lot more contested and we've had some big plays and that's allowed watertown to to maintain and extend on their lead which right now is twenty one point second and kwok you've got the three score lead but anyway the door's been opened once again for the you know you take away a couple of the big place from watertown over the last couple of quarters and you might argue that since maybe early to mid second quarter belmont is out playing watertown on the line of scrimmage well that showing on the scoreboard but they are just i mean you're seeing them getting the intended receiver number eighty seven childe shaughnessy jr and we you know it's important to mention he was the intended receiver because he was there in the neighborhood otherwise that could have been called intentional grounding yes the first row was an intense pass or if you see it from watertown today and think grounding anyway apparently shaughnessy was not close enough down i didn't ever see anything like thrown well i just saw that your oh yeah just motioned intentional grounding so i don't know how you can call it that late i mean i realize another  hasn't been run but that is a really really late call and a big call because all of a sudden now it's going to go to second down and about time twenty second down about twenty yet ten your penalty so along with the yardage we see build on actually do quite a bit of work or these second and third and long situations over the last couple years so it's definitely not something they're e once but it's something that they can handle was down at the thirty seven yard line of watertown it's going to be second in twenty four belmont from that spot after the attentional grounding call so apparently joe shaughnessy not close enough in the neighborhood end when you just said everybody and it's going to be third and twenty again i'll bring it up late because there's eighteen to go in the game and belmont's down three scores i have to think this is four down territory been tremendously accurate all game long had a couple young audience probably thinking not to get all the yardage on one place they fired its incomplete in and out of the hands of the intended receiver just didn't wagner the tight end first time we've called his number got to get the ball to the about the nineteen yard line of watertown to pick up a first down they are obviously going for it here down by twenty one dollars on the rush here christopher he's not getting pressure now they're simply pressured that prefers going to heave it down the field because the younger guys are s using if the game gets really close belmont watertown thanksgiving day harris field belmont mass are so happy you could join us for the special b h f sports t v watertown cable joint broadcast want to thank our very  hardworking crew here today bringing you all the great sights and sounds of this one watertown with a first down at the belmont forty yard line there in the i formation will handoff on first and ten i'm going to guess that's a senior perhaps young human this is a source thanksgiving day game i know he's got to be enjoying every moment of it even if they're not the greatest of positions right now right right well it's still just you know it's been a season  now yeah he did not get out of bounds soviet clock still running to forty four to forty three tick tick tick and the marauders kind of being a little deliberate here down by three scores as they huddle up in the final high school game for all of the seniors here on thanksgiving day a lot of emotions of got to be going through the players minds right now even the ones that are just lined up on the get up to the thirty five yard line for a gain of about seven and now we've got a flag down here stories of history it was to go to wagner was covered at the time it was broke off his defender and was wide open for a good five yards being pursued now he's blocked out here is a long throw down over thirty over should spend jones and complete second down with one forty to go it was good job blocking on the back end by max jones as he really sealed off wen job of the time yeah it really is literally feel like the contact was simultaneous to the ball being in the air one thirty four to go thirteen ten for belmont just on the there side of midfield basically kind of at this point i think just kind of trying to close the thanksgiving day game out on a positive note a lot of four serious sets here for a moment it's been a very successful month in november for belmont high school football and i know young human no matter what the final score say is going to take all that to the bank here is match jones and he gets a gain of about five to the forty five yard line to be fourth and five o'clock a running here is we're now down under ninety seconds to go big brother max played in his final game here today and he is back there with christopher he was back looking to throw again and his incomplete looking at right through the hands of joe shaughnessy on fourth down so rogers turn it over on downs and i guess that might very well be the last often civ play of the two thousand and fourteen belmont high school football season as watertown takes over with forty three seconds to go nick roche and bob corporately and we want to thank you for checking out our v h s sports t v watertown cable joint sports production of the ninety third installment of the belmont watertown thanksgiving day football game and for a senior captain you know right now it's a wonderful moment to cap off a great high school career as he will no doubt take a knee in the victory formation and the watertown raiders  back to victory field and watertown high school that's called a claymore eous this year already with the third year in a row that they have won this thanksgiving day matchup with belmont and the forty fifth win for  watertown over belmont overall in a series again it was all way back to one thousand twenty one and even with that there are many high school rivalries in this state that are considerably older and we may have one more snap coming here f proving on next year yet no question this november has been one for young human in the belmont to remember and they will use it as you said build some momentum looking ahead to two thousand and fifteen again a big thanks to our entire crew everyone f a sports t v and watertown cable for making this broadcast possible and to everyone out there watching we hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving or had a wonderful thanksgiving either way joy that turkey and thank you for joining our broadcast