Fumble halts strong Montrose drive

BY DONNIE COLLINS
Times-Shamrock Writer

Vic Mallory got Lackawanna Trail off to a fast start.

Then, Steven Scioscia erased all doubt about how it would all end.

Mallory threw two first-quarter touchdown passes, and Scioscia put a halt to a strong Montrose drive by recovering a fumble and returning it 75 yards for a back-breaking touchdown that propelled the No. 4 Lions to a 48-0 win over Montrose at Lions Pride Stadium in a Lackawanna Football conference matchup Friday night.

Mallory found Liam Dougherty for 23 yards and Ross Fauquier for 12 to get the Lions off to a 20-0 start.

Montrose responded with its strongest drive of the night. Three first downs with strong inside running from quarterback Patrick Parks, then a key 7-yard strike from Parks to Austin Cook that put the Meteors at the Lackawanna Trail 23.

But on the next play the ball came loose and sat on the turf until Scioscia picked it up and sprinted untouched into the end zone.

The Meteors managed just 29 yards against a swarming Lions defense after that, and the story became the Trail offense, with the quarterback completing 9 of 13 passes for 112 yards.