JV football tops Athens
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | October 8, 2013
The Wellsboro J.V. football team picked up a road win Monday night at Athens, beating the Wildcats 40-24.
Athens opened up the scoring with a long touchdown run but Wellsboro answered right back with a 70 yard pass from Sophomore Anthony Cooper to Junior Dylan Widows. The two-point conversion was no good to tie the game at 6-6. Athens would go back up 12-6 on another long run but Wellsboro answered again as Widows caught another touchdown from Cooper and a run by Sophomore Nick Tremper to go up 24-12.
The Hornets would maintain the lead from there with touchdowns from Cooper to Frshman Brandon Lamphier, a rushing touchdwon from Cooper, and another rushing touchdown from Tremper.
With the win, the team improves to 3-2 on the year with their next game on Monday, October 21 against Sayre.
Ed Weaver is the owner of Circle W Sports in Wellsboro, PA, is the Sports Director for The Home Page Network and the creator of WellsboroAthletics.com and WellsboroFootball.com. You can follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.
