BUCKLAND — All season long the Frontier Regional School football team’s offense was led by its three-headed attack in the backfield. On Wednesday night, all three left their mark on the annual Thanksgiving Eve rivalry game with Mohawk Trail Regional High School.
Seth Gewanter, Aaron Landry and Steven Worthley combined to score six touchdowns and the Red Hawks rolled to a 41-16 win over the Warriors at Pollard Field.
Each of the backs scored twice on the night for the Red Hawks (6-4), who jumped all over Mohawk in the first quarter and never trailed. Frontier’s first possession of the night ended with a 22-yard touchdown run by Worthley that had the Hawks up 6-0 less than two minutes into the game. Frontier then recovered the kickoff following the touchdown and on the first play of that drive, Frontier quarterback Myles Freeman lofted a pass into the end zone that Landry came down with to put the Hawks up 12-0 just 2 minutes, 2 seconds into the game.
The Red Hawks added another touchdown late in the first quarter on a 68-yard run by Worthley, and Frontier back-up quarterback Matt Hildreth hit Gewanter with the extra point for a 20-0 lead.
The onslaught did not stop there. Frontier put together its longest drive of the night to start the second quarter, a 15-play drive that ate up over 7 minutes of the clock and was finished by Gewanter’s 2-yard touchdown burst up the middle for a 26-0 lead. The two-point conversion pass was intercepted by Mohawk defensive back Jonny Herbert and returned 103 yards for two points, and Frontier took a 26-2 lead into the break.
Frontier tacked on another touchdown late in the third quarter as Landry got his second score of the night, this one from 46 yards out, and Gewanter’s successful conversion run staked the Hawks to a 34-2 lead.
Mohawk (3-8) got a little life early in the fourth quarter, scoring back-to-back touchdowns, as fullback Mason Biagini scampered 15 yards into the end zone following a Frontier fumble for Mohawk’s first touchdown of the night. On the next Mohawk possession, quarterback Kamron Hoff threw a pass to Herbert that was tipped into the air by a Frontier defensive back, but Herbert stayed with the play and tipped the ball to himself and took off from there, completing a 51-yard touchdown that pulled Mohawk to 34-16.
Frontier sealed the win late on Gewanter’s 1-yard touchdown run, and Hildreth kicked the extra point for the 41-16 final.
Landry finished the night with 17 carries for 172 yards to lead the Hawks, while Worthley added eight carries for 100 yards. Gewanter, who was named Frontier’s MVP for the game after a huge defensive performance, chipped in nine carries for 16 yards, and senior lineman Kade Gewanter even got a carry for three yards. The Frontier quarterbacks also had a big night, as neither had an incomplete pass. Freeman finished 2-for-2 for 42 yards and a touchdown, and Hildreth was 4-for-4 for 72 yards.
Herbert, the Mohawk MVP for the game, finished his career with 12 carries for 34 yards and added two catched for 59 yards, while sophomore Jordan Grenier added 11 carries for 91 yards. Hoff finished 8-of-15 passing for 114 yards and a touchdown. Biagini caught two passes for 27 yards and added six carries for 41 yards.