Hatboro-Horsham can’t find offense to knock off CB East

Though its first two game CB East has looked like and animal toying with its prey. Thoroughly dominating through the first half to three quarters of play before putting a team a way in the fourth quarter.
The Patriots newest victim was Hatboro-Horsham. The Hatters only trailed by a score at halftime but a failure to get its offense going showed the Patriots pulling away for a 24-6 victory on Saturday.
Through its first two games the defense of East is what has really shined. The Patriot defense came through again Saturday limiting the Hatters to just 134 yards of total offense while holding them scoreless until the final minutes of the game when many players from the starting defense was no longer on the field.
“From week one to week two our defense has really stood on its head,” East coach John Donnelly said. “They’ve gotten us points in each of the two weeks. Special teams has come up big, we got two blocked (kicks).”
Although the East defense was stellar Hatboro-Horsham gave away tons of yardage and the ball. The Hatters committed nine penalties for 50 yards and fumbled twice losing one. The lost fumble came deep into East territory, one of the only times Hatboro-Horsham found itself there.
“We made entirely too many mistakes,” Hatboro-Horsham coach Mike Kapusta said. “Putting the ball on the ground, the interception at the end there. Long before that, we would get into manageable down and distance and we get a penalty or a missed assignment here or there then all the sudden we’re in a terrible down and distance situation.”
A bright spot for Hatters was receiver and defensive back Calvin Broaddus. The speedy Broaddus made a handful of special teams plays to flip field position for Hatters and nearly broke two for touchdowns as East kicker Barney Amor corralled him both times.
“I’m looking to score,” Broaddus said of the punt returns. “As soon as I get the ball I’m just like ‘I got to go.’ Yeah, (the kicker) got me twice. I got to work on my moves better.”
Unfortunately for Broaddus and the Hatters they were unable to do much with the momentum changing plays until Broaddus took it upon himself late in the game with a 46-yard touchdown scamper which stood as the only Hatters tally for the game.
The Hatters will have to clean some things up before they hit league play up coming. Hatboro-Horsham should have the talent to match its .500 finish from a year ago but its behind the eight ball and need to get rolling now.
“We took a tough loss but I think starting Monday we’re going to get it together,” Broaddus said. “We lost, we’re putting that in the past and we’re focusing on Souderton right now.”