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Swampscott football squad storms back to beat Lynn English

Steve Krause

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SWAMPSCOTT — The Swampscott High football team overcame a double-digit halftime deficit at Blocksidge Field Friday to defeat Lynn English, 20-18, for its first victory of the season.

English, 0-2, jumped out to a 12-0 lead after two quarters on the strength of touchdown runs by Xavier Beauchamp of eight and three yards.

But in the second half, it was all Swampscott. In the third quarter, John von Barta hit Chase Groothius with a 9-yard pass, with Will Rose hitting the PAT (one of two) to make it 12-7. Noah Bascon ran one in from 35 yards out to put the Big Blue, 1-1, ahead 14-12.

Bascon scored again, this time on a pick-six from 33 yards out to give Swampscott a 20-12 lead before English quarterback Shane Knowlton-Simard scored on a 21-yard run with time running out.

English’s Nate Conde was injured with 6:25 left in the game and taken from the field by ambulance.

  • Steve Krause

    Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

    Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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