An offensive line led by David Bastos, Karrson MacCuaig and Liam Noakes set the tone in the Royal City Hyacks’ 25-0 win over the GSL Lions in peewee football.
A key turnover was created by Callum Rogers, who stripped the ball from a Lions rusher and ran it in for six points.
Putting up a huge road block for the opposition running game were Maxim Butkovski and Greg Palmer, while Gavin Garrett, with his first touchdown of the year, and A.J. Llewellyn counted the other majors.
JUNIOR BANTAM
Down by eight points at the half, the Royal City Hyacks staged an impressive comeback to topple Cloverdale 19-14 in their junior bantam semifinal playoff game.
Royal City held Cloverdale off the scoreboard in the second half, while getting three majors from Andros Dancey. Racking up a number of QB sacks were defenders Gabriel Bastos and Gus Oliver, while Luke Perizzolo recorded a game-saving tackle on the last play.
FLAG
The Royal City Black Hyacks defeated Westisde 14-8, thanks ot TDs from Alexander and Demetri Biniaris. George Paterakis added a two-point convert. The team received strong defensive play from Jai-shon Llewellyn and JJ Pagaduan.
ATOM
Benicio Hageleit scored pair of TDs while Nathan Hillmann added 1 major in Royal City's 40-20 loss to White Rock. Lukas Lalji ran in a pair of conversions, while Jordan Cook and Matteo McDonnell showed improvement in their blocking. Despite the loss, the Atoms have qualified for the playoffs and will travel to Cloverdale next Sunday.
