Rams, Spartans look to rebound on gridiron

Two Lynn teams will try Friday night to rebound from a weekend that saw all four of the city’s football squads suffer defeats.Classical is at home against Malden (7), while St. Mary’s travels to the shadows of Logan Airport to take on East Boston (6).Both suffered tough losses last weekend – but in different ways. Classical got blown out at Hurd Stadium in Beverly while St. Mary’s lost an excruciatingly close 21-20 game to Marblehead at home when the Spartans decided to go for the win rather than play for the tie and possible overtime ? and it backfired.Classical’s trip to Macdonald Stadium last year was one of coach Tim Phelps’ most frustrating days last season. The Rams turned the ball over seven times in that game and lost, 20-0. This year, after an impressive opening win over Methuen, Classical got mowed down by the chainsaw that was Beverly, 42-7.The Golden Tornados, who were 6-4 a year ago, are the same 1-1 as Classical ? and they’ve both defeated the same team: Methuen. Malden won that game last Friday, 25-22. And it looks as if Classical will, once again, have to contend with the Tornados’ Raymond Sainristil, who was among the Malden players who ran Classical ragged last season. Friday, against Methuen, Sainristil ran for 127 yards and two touchdowns.As for Classical, if there was a silver lining in last week’s defeat, it was back Devin Crayton, who ran hard all afternoon; and quarterback Justin Brown, who tossed a touchdown pass to Joe Rose.The Spartans matched Marblehead touchdown-for-touchdown last week, with Jake Cassidy running for one and passing for another; and Jordan Collier – who picked up an Item/Agganis Foundation Player of the Week Award for his game two weeks ago against Cambridge – ran for another.But it was coach Matt Durgin’s decision to try to win it then and there after Cassidy’s fourth-quarter TD run that spelled the difference. The rush attempt failed, and since Marblehead had kicked three PATs, it was enough to give the Magicians the win.The Jets are 1-1 so far this season. The defending Boston North champs have beaten Blue Hills and O’Bryant. Juan Donilla ran for a touchdown and a pair of two-point conversions in Eastie’s win over O’Bryant.Steve Krause can be reached at [email protected].