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POTTSTOWN >> Pottstown head football coach Levert Hughes is about to enter uncharted territory in his football career.
But at least he’s got a head start on the next step.
With the host Trojans leading 14-7 over visiting Harriton at halftime, the game was delayed and eventually suspended right before the start of the third quarter due to repeated sightings of lightning in the area.
The two teams will resume the Trojans’ home opener at 5 p.m. Monday at Grigg Memorial Field.
“It’s my first time dealing with this exact situation,” admitted Hughes. “I like to keep our team in a rhythm, but this is the situation, so we’ll prepare over the weekend with the goal of coming out and playing a great half of football on Monday.”
Hughes has plenty to build on and plenty to work on, judging by Friday’s first half. The Trojans were the beneficiaries of a couple big plays courtesy of Tyson Robbins, but also saw Harriton connect for a long scoring pass and lost track of receivers in the secondary repeatedly.
Things started well enough for the hosts. who got great field position for their first possession when Robbins pounced on a punt block to set up a first-and-goal from the Harriton 9.
Three plays later, Nahzir Booker powered in from two yards out for the first of his two touchdowns, giving Pottstown a 6-0 advantage.
Promising jaunts for the visitors sputtered repeatedly due to quarterback/center exchange issues.
When he got time to pass, Harriton quarterback Spyros Esposito was on point, the highlight coming with 26 seconds left in the first quarter when he hit Tyler Sholun on a slant for a 7-6 Harriton lead.
Esposito ended the first half 7-of-13 for 107 yards and the scoring strike to Sholun.
But Pottstown responded on the first quarter’s final play, as Robbins took a handoff through the left side, tiptoed the sideline and traveled 66 yards to the Harriton 4.
After the teams switched sides, Booker powered in once more, this time from four yards out, and punctuated the touchdown with an acrobatic two-point conversion run, staying inside the pylon for a 14-7 Pottstown lead.
Despite a modest rushing total (11 yards on six carries), the senior running back/linebacker accounted for all 14 first-half points for the hosts.
Harriton moved the ball on their last two possessions of the opening half, but penalties and an ill-fated fake field goal were their undoing as the Trojans carried the seven-point lead into the break.
The game was delayed approximately 35 minutes before the postponement was declared around 9:20 p.m.
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