
FOXBORO – Even after the commencement of the state’s all-time landing report holder in Justin Marques, Fairhaven’s offense didn’t take a step again.
As an alternative, seniors Ian Alexion and Grant Darmofal spearheaded the Blue Devils’ vaunted triple-option assault and saved Fairhaven rolling all the way in which to a Division 6 state title Thursday evening at Gillette Stadium.
Alexion and Darmofal have been on the middle of Fairhaven’s Tremendous Bowl matchup in opposition to Norwell because the duo each rushed for over 150 yards and every scored two touchdowns to guide the Blue Devils to their second Tremendous Bowl victory in three years with a 28-14 overcome the Clippers.
Fairhaven (12-1) erased the momentum Norwell (8-4) gained proper earlier than halftime when Clippers star quarterback Jack Luccarelli threw a 21-yard landing strike to Teddy Glynn to stage the rating at 14-all with 31 seconds left within the second quarter. The landing go from Luccarelli got here simply 27 seconds after Alexion’s first dashing landing on the evening put Fairhaven forward.

The Blue Devils went proper down the sector to open the third quarter, and Alexion ran in one other rating, this time from six yards out, to provide Fairhaven a 20-14 lead simply 2:40 into the body.
Fairhaven then overcame two fumbles in Norwell territory within the second half, with the Blue Devils not permitting Luccarelli to get going as he did within the first half. Aaron Lague intercepted Luccarelli lower than two minutes into the fourth quarter, and that arrange Fairhaven’s remaining rating because the Blue Devils marched 76 yards with Darmofal ending issues off with a 6-yard landing run.
Fairhaven, which gained all of its offensive yards on the bottom, used a methodical 15-play, 92-yard drive to open the scoring as a 3-yard landing run from Darmofal capped the spectacular possession with 9:32 left within the second quarter.

However Norwell wasted no time answering again. On the primary play of the following drive, Luccarelli broke two tackles on his approach to a 65-yard landing run and Connor Woodland’s additional level gave the Clippers a 7-6 lead.
Fairhaven’s floor assault finally proved to be an excessive amount of for Norwell, although, and helped the Blue Devils full unfinished enterprise after falling within the state title sport a season in the past.

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