By Ryan Mink
rmink@digitalsports.com
After 11 weeks of WCAC regular season and playoff semifinal football battles, the ending will once again be the same.
DeMatha and Good Counsel will meet in the WCAC championship game for the fifth consecutive year.
DeMatha advanced to its 17th championship game in the past 18 years with a 20-0 win over St. John’s in the WCAC semifinals Friday night at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex. Good Counsel moved on with a 45-6 win over McNamara at Good Counsel.
“We’re getting better and I just think it’s going to be a tough, hard-fought football game,” DeMatha Coach Bill McGregor said of the championship match-up scheduled for next weekend at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis.
DeMatha, who has won the past four championships over Good Counsel, was led by the feet of quarterback Tommy Chroniger and running back Marcus Coker. Chroniger ran for two touchdowns, one of six yards and the next of 28 yards, and Coker rushed for 153 yards on 20 carries and a touchdown of 23 yards.
“Tommy’s second touchdown was just phenomenal,” McGregor said. “That’s one of the best runs I’ve ever seen. It was sick.”
DeMatha is now 30-4 in the playoffs since they were created in 1991. The Stags have also rattled off six straight wins this season. McGregor attributed much of the team’s success to its ability to get healthy down the stretch of the season.
Undefeated Good Counsel, who defeated the Stags 42-21 on Oct. 2, got production from all over the field and from each sector (offense, defense and special teams) once again in dominating the fourth-seeded Mustangs.
Mike Wallace opened the scoring with a 34-yard interception return for a touchdown, Jelani Jenkins score the second touchdown on a 2-yard run, Mark Hamilton his a 25-yard field goal and Caleb Porzel capped the Falcons’ first-half scoring with a 76-yard punt return for a touchdown.
Jenkins ran back an interception 32 yards in the third quarter, Porzel broke off a 62-yard touchdown run and Chris Pittsenberger recovered a fumble in the end zone to cap the Falcons’ scoring.
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