It’s a Winn-win situation for Saugus football

SAUGUS – The Saugus High football team is doing a lot of things right these days and putting points on the board tops the list.The Sachems defeated Triton, 36-22, Friday at Stackpole Field. They have now scored 113 points in their first three games.Although Vikings did a commendable job slowing down Dan Cacciola who ran for 571 yards in his first two games of the season, quarterback Justin Winn was waiting in the wings, ready to pick up the slack.Winn scored three touchdowns and ran for 122 yards. As if that wasn’t enough for the Vikings to contend with, Seth Roy was on a mission as well. Roy racked up 97 yards on the ground with 40 coming on a touchdown run in the first half. Cacciola finished with 31 yards rushing.”This was a tremendous win,” Saugus coach Mike Broderick said. “That’s a good football team. They’re well coached and they have tons of athletes. We knew we had to bring our A game to beat them.”Saugus launched its first drive of the game from the Triton 45 and the good field position paid off. Winn’s pitch to Roy, who ran 20 yards to put the Sachems on the 10 yard-line was the key play of the drive, which culminated in Winn running the ball in for a 6-0 lead (the kick failed).Triton got that one back early in the second quarter when quarterback Justin Cashman capped a seven-play drive by hitting Jack Germinara with a 29-yard pass and then running it in himself from the five. Triton kicked the extra point for a 7-6 lead. It would be the Vikings first and last of the game.Saugus came right back on its next drive and after Winn bullied his way to the one on fourth-and-one, he took it the final yard (and ran for the conversion) for a 14-7 Saugus lead.The Sachems padded the lead a bit before the half. This time it was Seth Roy taking a pitch from Winn and going 40 yards down the right sideline for the touchdown and a 20-7 Saugus lead (the kick was blocked). Triton fumbled just before the half and Saugus’ Brendan Grocki was there to make it hurt.The Sachems would score twice more before the final whistle – the first touchdown coming on a 36-yard run by Winn (he also ran in the conversion) and the final one coming on a two-yard touchdown run by Winn that made 36-14. Triton had scored on a 10-yard pass from Cashman to Geriminara on the previous drive.The Tritons gave their fans something to cheer about with an exciting final drive that ended with a seven-yard touchdown run by Cashman, but it was too little, too late. Cashman did a nice job throwing the ball down the stretch. He connected on 15 of 27 attempts for 161 yards.Saugus finished with 275 yards rushing on 49 carries. Winn was 2-for-3 for 24 yards passing. Cacciola had the longest reception of the day (29 yards) for Saugus. Triton’s Germinara had four catches for 46 yards. Triton finished with 113 yards rushing and 161 in the air. Both teams are 2-1.