BY JOHN DECOSTE
Kings County Register
After a slow start, the Northeast Kings Titans are starting to make some noise in the NSSAF Football League.
The Titans improved to 3-2-1 on the season with a 57-7 victory over the Central Kings Gators October 10 at Acadia’s Raymond Field.
Mike Livingston ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown and NKEC was never headed, scoring an easy win.
“Everybody executed well, on both sides of the ball,” Titans’ co-head coach Wally Archer said after the game. “We got to play our entire team, and everybody did what they were supposed to do.”
Tailback Dustin Parsons was the offensive star of the game, running for 164 yards on 21 carries and scoring four touchdowns. Logan VanBlarcom had 106 yards passing and one touchdown (to Roland Provencal), and also ran for a touchdown.
Tyler Carnell also had a strong game, with 82 yards rushing and one touchdown. Provencal had 87 receiving yards along with his touchdown.
Defensively, NKEC’s “big three” - Jeff Longaphy, Isaac Ueffing and Livingston - all had strong games, with Longaphy making 10 tackles and forcing one fumble, Ueffing finishing with eight tackles and one forced fumble and Livingston seven tackles.
Jeff Zwicker replaced VanBlarcom at quarterback in the fourth quarter “and threw the ball very well” along with showing some good scrambling ability.
As for the Gators, who fell to 3-3 with the loss, they had trouble mounting much offense and stopping the run, and, according to head coach Jonathan Ingles, were “equally brutal on both sides of the ball.”
Quarterback Scott Benjamin had C.K.’s only touchdown on a quarterback option play.
“Defensively, we need to tackle. Offensively, we need to play with more intensity,” Ingles said following the game. “We started to execute and put some things together in the second half, but it was pretty much a ‘team loss’.”
This week
• Horton vs C.P. AllenWolfville, Oct. 17 at 8 p.m.
• NKEC vs Sir John A. Macdonald, Canning, Oct. 18 at 3 p.m.
• C.K. vs Avon View, Windsor, Oct. 18
• NKEC vs Halifax West, Canning, Oct. 25 at 3 p.m.
• C.K. vs Horton, Raymond Field, Wolfville, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.
