Scoreboard tells the story in Spartan win

SOMERVILLE – Sometimes, the final score is the only statistic you need.That would be the case after Saturday’s 33-0 drubbing St. Mary’s put on Matignon at Dilboy Stadium.A cursory look at the game stats would reveal little if you didn’t know about other things. For example, St. Mary’s had 169 yards rushing ? which doesn’t seem all that out of the ordinary until you consider that all came basically in the first half, when the Spartans (2-0) scored all their points.Also, Matignon had over 100 yards in total offense, which wouldn’t indicate total domination, but a lot of that came in the SECOND half, when the game was academic.Finally, the Warriors ran almost twice as many plays as the Spartans (58-31), and had the ball for virtually the entire second half. But they didn’t score any points.”I thought we played very well,” said St. Mary’s coach Matt Durgin, who sat his starters for the final 20 minutes after they ran roughshod on the Warriors on both sides of the ball. “We did some good things out there.”All our backs ran the ball well,” he said. “If there’s anything, I think we need to get a little better up front.”The Spartans were good enough, though. They handled Division 1 prospect Jay Kenney, the behemoth lineman/defensive tackle, for example, and in the first 20 minutes of action were able to wherever they wanted ? and whenever they wanted.”We definitely had a lot more speed than they did,” Durgin said.Taking the ball first, Ryan Barrows ran the opening kick back 28 yards, to midfield, and from there, it took six plays for Nick Day to run it in from the 2-yard line for the first score (Josh Sueve kicked the PAT).Matignon started to put together a drive, but it was cut short by a fumble – a favor St. Mary’s immediately returned on the very next play. But the Spartan defense stiffened, forcing a punt, and, once again, Barrows made a good return (30 yards) to give St. Mary’s great field position on the Matignon 35. This time, it only took three plays, with Cam Mulvey throwing his only pass of the day – a 25-yard score to Day (the kick failed).Another Matignon drive ended in a turnover (a pass interception by Phil Larkin) and, once again, the Spartans made the Warriors pay when Mulvey wasted no time, taking the ball 22 yards up the middle on the first play after the pick for the score (the PAT made it 20-0).That was it for the first quarter, but the second period saw no letup. Another Matignon fumble set up another quick Spartan strike – with Todd Collier doing the honors this time from six yards out. The kick failed, and it was 26-0 with 9:09 to go in the half.Matignon responded with a new set of backs, and the Warriors got some movement. But the drive stalled on a fourth-down incompletion at the Spartan 35 – and St. Mary’s reversed course almost immediately, with Barrows completing the 5-play drive with a 35-yard TD run (the kick made it 33-0).