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July 3 Niagara Spears and minor football report

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Niagara Spears Junior Varsity Tier 2 receiver Zorique Olayori catches a pass in Saturday’s game against the Vaughan Rebels. Photo by ED TELENKO.

Jacob Succar scored four touchdowns to lead the Niagara Spears Junior Varsity Tier 1 football team to a 52-14 victory over the Guelph Junior Gryphons in Ontario Provincial Football League action this past weekend.

Niagara Spears Junior Varsity Tier 1 receiver Daniel Beringieri reaches up to catch a pass against Guelph. Photo by William Vanderland.

Also scoring for the Spears were: Matthew Paul, two touchdowns; Owen Tofano, touchdown; Jacob Burke, field goal; Chris Bianco, five converts; and, Devon Cleveland, two-point convert.

In Junior Varsity Tier 2 play, the Niagara Spears were blanked 29-0 by the Vaughan Rebels.

Last weekend’s bantam game was cancelled.

In OPFL playoff games this weekend, the Varsity Spears (4-3) visit the London Junior Mustangs (7-0); the Tier 1 Junior Varsity (3-4) is at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7-1); and the Niagara bantams (5-3) host the London Junior Mustangs (4-4) Friday at 7 p.m. at Kiwanis Field.

MINOR FOOTBALL

Following are Niagara Regional Minor Football results:

West Niagara Falcons’ Ejay Thompson is brought down by a St. Catharines Seahawks defender in bantam minor football action in St. Catharines Sunday. Photo By Ed Telenko.

JUNIOR VARSITY ELITE

Sun Devils 28 Gamblers 22
Sun Devils: Mason Arbic, two TDs  and two converts; William Shultz, two TD; Anthony Gomez, convert; Taffy Reidiger, convert.

Gamblers: Jake Diellonia, TD; Andrew Conte, TD and two two-point covert; Jake Portfolio, interception return for TD.

ATOM DIVISION

Seahawks 25 Steelers 0

St. Catharines Seahawks: Dhabi Williams, two TDs, including kick return major; Ezekiel Langendoen, TD and convert; Josh Savoie, TD.

West Niagara Steelers: No scoring.

Lions 37 Longhorns 36

Niagara Falls Lions 37  Fort Erie Longhorns 36

Niagara Falls Lions: Lucas Panucci, six TDs and convert.

Fort Erie Longhorns: Calem Smith, two TDs; Jorden Payne, three TDs; Chase Wentworth, TD.

PEEWEE DIVISION

Steelers 30 Seahawks 6

West Niagara Steelers: Jorden Gurzi-MacDonald, two TDs; Cole Haan, TD; Elijah Mercer, three two-point converts; Lucas Hazelton, TD.

St. Catharines Seahawks: Levi Moyer, TD.

Tiger-Cats 22 Longhorns 16

Welland Tiger-Cats: Details unavailable.

Fort Erie Longhorns: Details unavailable.

BANTAM DIVISION

Tiger-Cats 32 Longhorns 0

Welland Tiger-Cats: Dayshawn Johnson, three TDs; Owen Broutski, TD; Brian Mauves, TD; Colton Kizlyk, two converts.

Fort Erie Longhorns: No scoring.

Falcons 20 Seahawks 12

West Niagara Falcons: Malachi Tempeny, two TDs; Ejay Thompson, TD; defence, two-point safety.

St.Catharines Seahawks: Dengarden Forde, TD; Quinn Johnson, TD.

Bernie Puchalski, a graduate of Brock University and Niagara College, worked in journalism in Niagara for more than 27 years before taking a voluntary buyout from The Standard at the end of 2016. He started his career as a news reporter for the Niagara Falls Review before switching to sports reporting. He was a sports reporter and sports editor at the Niagara Falls Review before joining the Standard's sports department in 1996. He was named the Standard's sports editor in 2000 and became the regional sports editor, in charge of the Niagara Falls Review, Welland Tribune and Standard, in 2015, a position he held until he left the company. During his time in newspapers, he was a multiple winner and finalist for numerous Ontario and Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for sports reporting, spot news reporting and humour writing. He was a member of the Standard Boys Basketball Tournament committee and co-chair of the Standard Girls Basketball Tournament, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for bursaries presented to participants in the tournament. He also served on countless local sports committees both in Niagara Falls and St. Catharines.

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