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Milford gets run over by Monadock

MILFORD – According to Milford High School football coach Keith Jones, it had been quite some time since a team performed on the Spartans’ field the way Monadnock Regional did Friday night.

The Huskies ran amok against the Spartans, romping to a 56-14 win in a Division II game that was won in the trenches.

Monadnock (6-0) pounced on the Milford defense early and often, scoring on its first two possessions. Drew Bolewski (33 carries, 332 yards, three touchdowns) and Dylan Lane (10 carries, 108 yards, one TD) teamed up to mount a shocking 99-yard scoring drive that ended with Bolewski rumbling into the end zone from 15 yards out.

The second came 51?2 minutes later when Isaiah Prince dashed into the end zone on a 15-yard run to make it 14-0.

The Spartans (4-3) managed to cut that deficit in half with a Nick Skinner touchdown reception from Max Urda 4:24 into the second quarter, but Lane swept the momentum away with an 85-yard touchdown scamper on the ensuing kickoff.

Prince added his second rushing score with a 1-yard bootleg on a drive that stemmed from a Spartans failed fourth down on the Monadnock 47.

The Spartans made one final stab at a comeback when Evan Perron was on the receiving end of a 63-yard Urda pass, setting up the Milford offense on the Huskies’ 11. Once again, the momentum vanished when a fumbled snap found the arms of Monadnock’s Mischa Hoffman at the 25-yard line.

From there, the Huskies got as far as the Milford 20 to set up Hoffman for a 37-yard field goal, but it was blocked by Travis Hughes.

“They just took it to us,” Jones said. “They played on our side of the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball all night. The game is won and lost in the trenches, and we all know that. There’s nothing else I can say.”

The same applied to the second half, when Bolewski tacked on two more scores, from the 23 and the 1.

Milford showed a flash of brilliance at the end of the third quarter when Willie Miles dashed for a 30-yard score, but only to make it 41-14.

The final two tallies were accounted for on a Lane 2-yard run and a Mason LaClair 63-yard scoop-and-score off Mitchell Banuskevich (10 carries, 37 yards).

Urda, a sophomore, stepped in for his injured brother, Harrison Urda, at quarterback. Max Urda was 3 for 11 for 96 yards and a touchdown.

“I thought he did a great job,” Jones said. “He threw the ball well, he did what we asked him to.’’