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FOXBORO — Tor Maas admitted he didn’t have any expectations at the outset of his junior season.
But here he stood at the end of it, on the turf at Gillette Stadium.
Surely he was disappointed in the Marshfield High football team’s 42-14 loss to unbeaten King Philip — last year’s runner-up — in the Division 2 Super Bowl Thursday night, but the Rams’ first-year starting quarterback glanced at junior running back Davin True — a fellow breakout star who “gave all (he) could give” and “wasn’t himself,” said head coach Chris Arouca, due to a knee injury suffered two weeks ago — and reassured this was just a building block.
“We have a lot to build on next year, obviously,” said Maas, who orchestrated the Rams to posting 40-plus points in each of the seven games prior to their 23-21 loss to Duxbury on Thanksgiving. “We have a lot of guys coming back. Unfinished business. We have to come back stronger next year and finish.”
In Thursday’s Super Bowl, Mass completed 11 of his 23 passes for 105 yards and 1 TD and True, who was limited in practice all week, was capped to just nine carries for 19 yards as the Marshfield offense totaled an uncharacteristic figure of 203 total yards of offense and was shut out in the second half.
The King Philip defense, which relinquished 72 total points in its 11 games prior, was quite the roadblock.
“They’re really, really good on offense, defense and special teams. When they had chances to make plays, they made them and we didn’t. That’s what it came down to,” Arouca said of King Philip, which compiled 447 yards of total offense (281 rushing, 166 passing) and 23 first downs to Marshfield’s four. “Can’t leave plays on the field in a state-final game.”
Maas broke four tackles on back-to-back runs to set up a scoring chance on the doorstep of the end zone, and junior receiver…
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Author : Patriot Ledger
Publish date : 2023-12-01 03:21:50
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