The Adelphi Panthers football team stays very strong defensively with another big win yesterday against the New Haven Chargers in a dominant team performance, ending with a score of 24-9 in New Haven Memorial Stadium to bump the Panthers up to 2-0 this season.
The Panthers defense has started off on a roll this season only allowing a mere 16 points in their first two wins.
On the other hand, the Adelphi Panthers have looked sloppy in other aspects of their play besides their point differentials. The Panthers were penalized 11 times for 119 yards and also had an absurd 5 fumbles, and losing 3 of them.
Despite these unfortunate errors, the Panthers were able to put up a grand total of 513 yards of total offense, due to the efforts of their two freshman running backs, Paul Jones and Jimmy Roberts, each rushing for over 100 yards, and their junior, first year starting-quarterback, Cameron Brown throwing for 220 yards and rushing for 43 to top it off.
Running back, Jones has been questionable this season in terms of his play even though he is rushing for a great average yards per carry, including 121 yards on 10 carries in last week’s win over Pace and had 103 yards on 14 carries yesterday, he also had 3 fumbles also in yesterday’s game.
The Panthers head coach, Joe Smith, was asked about whether or not Jones would continue to be the starter at running back, Smith said, “Jones is my guy. I’m sticking with him no matter what. No questions asked.”
When quarterback Brown was asked about the game, he had said, “I was a little nervous after we gave the ball away down 3-0, but the defense came through and then our offensive line destroyed them.”
The Panthers started off a little bit slow with a 3-0 deficit, when New Haven’s kicker Jamie Gornell booted a 40-yard field goal 2 minutes, 54 seconds into the first quarter. However, the Panthers then went on to score 17 unanswered points leading into halftime.
The Panthers were able to hold on to their lead securing the win, scoring another touchdown, while allowing only 6 points in the second half.
The Adelphi Panthers will travel to Southern New Hampshire next week to take on the No. 3 ranked team in the nation at 4 p.m. Southern New Hampshire has beaten Adelphi four straight times, including a 35-3 loss at Bonomo Field last October.
When quarterback Brown was asked on next week’s game against Southern New Hampshire, he said, “New Hampshire is a good team. We’ll definitely be the underdogs going in. I’m excited about the challenge.”
If the Panthers continue their defensive prowess and are able to hold on to the football and limit unnecessary penalties, they should be in a great position to win and stay undefeated.
Michael's Sports Blog 
GRADE: 20/25
COMMENTS
-Overall, you have all the elements needed to make a good story, but it’s a bit wordy in some place.
-The lead has the elements, but is very wordy. How I’d write it:
Led by its defense, the Adelphi Panthers football team took down the New Haven Chargers, 24-9, in a dominant team performance at New Haven Memorial Stadium yesterday.
-This sentence is 24 words, but I bet you could rewrite it with just 10-to-15 words: The Panthers defense has started off on a roll this season only allowing a mere 16 points in their first two wins.
STYLE POINTERS
-numbers under 10 should be written out: three, five, etc.
-This should be written like this: Panthers head coach Joe Smith, and every reference after can just be “Smith” or “Smith said.”
– Totally superfluous sentence: If the Panthers continue their defensive prowess and are able to hold on to the football and limit unnecessary penalties, they should be in a great position to win and stay undefeated.
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