BEVERLY – Saugus coach Mike Broderick has been this way before. He didn’t like it then ? and it’s no easier to take now.The Sachems traveled to Beverly Saturday and came home both defeated and injured. The Panthers laid a 51-0 hurting on them. Worse, a team already depleted with injuries got even less healthy as at least three players had to be helped off the field.”We came into the game playing six freshmen,” said Broderick, “and now we’ll have to be playing even more.”Two of those freshmen were quarterbacks Justin Barrasso and Ryan Hennahan, taking over for starter John Moore, who was injured last week. With Barrasso and Hennahan at the helm, Broderick – never one to pass to begin with – directed an offense that didn’t throw one aerial all day. Saugus ran 46 plays, all on the ground, and ended up with 172 yards of total offense – the overwhelming majority of them in the second half when the game was beyond doubt.”We didn’t come to play,” Broderick said, “and we got crushed. We did a little better in the second half ? put a few nice drives together ? but all we can do is keep playing.”I’ve been here before,” said Broderick, noting that the team didn’t win much his first two years at Saugus, “but I didn’t think I’d be going all the way back to the beginning.”After a season-opening win over Bishop Fenwick, the Sachems have lost their last six games.Beverly, on the other hand, couldn’t do much wrong. Running back Dylan Terry ran only 11 times, but that was good for 154 yards. Quarterback Mark Hannable looks to be in fine form after spending much of the early season on the shelf. He was 8-for-12 passing, including three for touchdowns. No matter who coach Dan Bauer put on the field, he produced.Afterward, Bauer was philosophical about the game.”You can’t assume anything,” said Bauer, answering a question about the score. “All you can do is keep playing. It’s a game of momentum. I’ve been in a position where we’ve been up 27-0 at halftime and wound up losing, so you have to just keep playing.”Bauer did rest his starters midway through the second half, but the second unit also produced a touchdown.Broderick had no problems at all with the outcome.”No,” he said. “It’s football. You play. I don’t have an issue at all.”The game itself was over in the first quarter, when Beverly took a 30-0 lead. Terry began the parade with a five-yard run, and Hannable kept it going with two scoring strikes to Justin Mars (40 and 17 yards) sandwiched around a safety on a bad snap on a punt attempt.With the score 23-0, Terry scored on an eight-yard run (with Ryan Flannery – perfect on kicks – hitting the PAT) and it was 30-0 after one.Beverly scored on the first series of the second quarter (a seven-yard pass from Hennahan to Steve Dubois) to make it 37-0 before Saugus finally mounted a drive, helped along by a 37-run by A.J. Guthro (a busy 22-104), and a face-mask penalty to boot.But the drive stalled on the one-foot line, and Beverly killed the clock and ended the half.Saugus began the third quarter with lengthy march downfield, but it bore no fruit, stalling on the Beverly nine. The Panthers came back with a long drive of their own, resulting in a three-yard TD run by Mark Therreault. His brother, Nick, scored the final TD.
