Montini 55, Aurora Central Catholic 20
John Borsellino is small in stature, but Aurora Central Catholic discovered the Montini senior has the heart of a champion.
In Suburban Catholic Conference action Friday night in Aurora, the Broncos ran only 38 plays from scrimmage.
They were certainly efficient.
Borsellino jump-started the Broncos' first-quarter offense with a 37-yard screen pass, the first of 4 Tom DiCristina touchdown passes, and Montini (4-0, 2-0) went on to cruise to a 55-20 victory.
The senior added a pair of first-half interceptions and gave Montini a commanding 48-7 lead at the intermission when he scampered 14 yards with a lateral for his second score.
"Borsellino is a tremendous player," said Montini coach Chris Andriano. "He may be the best player on our team."
That is quite a statement considering the Broncos have three players committed to play in the Big Ten next fall.
"It was just wide open," Borsellino said of capping the Broncos' four-play, 56-yard drive to start the game. "Our line picked up their blocks, and the wide receivers did a great job blocking down field. Our D-line was putting some pressure on the quarterback (on the 2 interceptions)."
Dex Jones touched the ball only five times on offense, but the Wisconsin-bound running back had double-digit productions on each effort.
Jones countered the lone Aurora Central (1-3, 1-1) first-half touchdown with a 60-yard burst to give Montini a 27-7 lead, and the cushion soon swelled when Dan Stelter returned a fumble 47 yards for another score.
Borsellino had 3 receptions for 46 yards after his second pick, and he added his scoring jaunt in the final minute of the second quarter.
The only question at halftime was at what point a running clock would be ushered in. The answer proved to be a minute and 23 seconds of third-quarter play.
Jones had a 43-yard catch on the Broncos' second play
after the break, and DiCristina found Brian Zirko all alone from 8 yards out to set the continuous clock in motion.
DiCristina connected with Sal Mazzulla and Christian Westerkamp for his other scores, ending the game with 240 yards on 13-of-25 accuracy.
"We really wanted to see if we could throw the ball," said Andriano. "Protection was very good, and we're at the top of our game. We're a pretty explosive team."
Mike Adams was the offensive workhorse of ACC. The junior quarterback completed 19 passes for 202 yards and toted the ball an equal number of times for 28 punishing yards.
Adams found his older brother Mark as well as Kyle Edwards and Chad Roscoe with touchdown receptions.
Roscoe gained Aurora Central 97 yards on his 4 receptions.
"We were trying to establish a running game," said Aurora Central coach Mike Curry. "(The Broncos are) clearly better and have far better athletes. There's no rest for the weary -- that's just our league."
South Elgin 49, Elgin 7: South Elgin is getting used to this winning stuff.
After dropping its first 11 games as a program, South Elgin made it two wins in a row by making short work of shorthanded Elgin 49-7 in an Upstate Eight Conference game at Millennium Field in Streamwood Friday night.
South Elgin quarterback Pete Scaffidi ran for 3 touchdowns and threw for two more in the first half alone to put South Elgin ahead 35-0.
The senior added a third scoring pass in the third quarter before heading to the bench with a running clock and a 42-0 lead.
South Elgin (2-2, 2-0) led 49-0 before Elgin's (2-2, 0-1) Robert Hayes scored in the fourth quarter to avert a shutout.
"We came out strong and our line did a great job today," Scaffidi said of linemen Mike Keller, Nate VanMetre, John Hull, Wayne Smith and Anthony Connors.
Elgin's roster consists of 31 players this season, only 27 of which took the field due to four gameday suspensions stemming from missed classes on Friday afternoon. Included among the disciplined were star running back Kenny Williams and starting quarterback Tom Roth, without whom Elgin's offense stagnated.