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It was a cold windy night as the Hornets played their last home game of the year at the James L. McVeigh Athletic Complex and took on the Foran Lions. The Lions won the toss and elected to receive. After receiving the kick, Foran moved to mid field and turned the ball over on downs. On the first play from scrimmage, Curtis Sutherland took a handoff and broke through the middle, then slashed to the sideline and was gone for a 50 yard touchdown. The PAT kick was no good, so the score was 6-0.

Foran took the next kick and moved a little deeper into Branford territory, but fumbled it away around the 30. The Hornets moved to midfield before Sutherland took one around the left side and down the far sideline for a 48 yard touchdown and a 12-0 lead. After another stalled Lion drive in Hornet territory, Branford used a steady ground game to drive into the Lions' side of the field. With less than a minute to play, DJ Ryan dropped a pass over the line to Andrew Cohen and Cohen made it inside the 20 before a Foran player punched the ball out from behind. The ball rolled forward into the endzone and a pile of players ended up on top of it. After peeling the players off one at a time, Matt O'Neill came out from underneath with the ball and another 6 points for the Hornets. O'Neill also kicked the extra point to give Branford a 19-0 lead at halftime.

The Hornets took the second half kickoff and moved right down and scored. After noticing a flaw in the Lion defense, Branford repeatedly had DJ Ryan Ryan take direct snaps into the line for several short gains before he broke one loose through the left side for a 40+ yard run down to the goal line.  On the next play, Ryan lofted a short pass to Cohen in the right side of the end zone for the touchdown. O'Neill made the PAT kick to increase the lead to 26-0. 

The Lions took the next kickoff, and continued to flounder and could not make a first down so they had to punt. After a penalty backed the Hornets up to midfield, Ryan dumped a short screen pass to Justin Blood and Blood cut and slashed his way to a 50-yard touchdown run to put Branford up by a 32-0 score.

In addition to many 4th down stops made by Branford's defense, Billy Glynn and Andrew Cohen had interceptions and Chris Rice and Matt O'Neill had fumble recoveries to thwart attempts by the Lion's offense to score. But late in the fourth quarter when the Hornets turned the ball over in their own end on downs, Foran capitalized with a 30-yard pass into the left corner for a touchdown. A pass to the right side was successful for a 2 point conversion, to make the final score 32-8.

With the win, the Hornets improved their record to 8-1 with one game remaining next week in East Haven versus the arch rival Yellow Jackets.