Page 12 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE–Friday, September 27, 2019 Clerveaux, Doherty lift Tide to win over Pioneers By Greg Phipps T he offense came to life for the Everett Crimson Tide last Friday at St. John’s of Shrewsbury as running back Jaden Clerveaux and quarterback Duke Doherty combined for over 500 yards in a 32-27 victory over the host Pioneers. Everett is now ranked fifth in Eastern Massachusetts and has won two straight after dropping the season opener at home. St. John’s is also a Top-10 ranked team in Central Mass. despite having opened with two losses. The first of those was to Catholic Memorial, which is ranked first in Eastern Mass. Last Friday’s contest was a close back-and-forth affair as St. John’s took the lead, 27-26, with less than five minutes left in the Tide sophomore RB Jaden Clerveaux gets a hug from sophomore WD Ismael Zamor (3) while celebrating The Tide’s go ahead score last Friday. contest. A 15-yard touchdown run from Clerveaux with 2:22 to go turned out to be the winning points for Everett. The Pioneers The defensive play of the game against St. John’s (Shrewsbury) as Tide sophomore defensive end Jalen Murphy forces intentional grounding. (Advocate Photos by Mike Kearney) had an ensuing fourth downand-one situation in the waning moments. But the Tide defense stepped up and stopped them to come away with the win. In all, the Everett offense piled up a total of 538 yards. Doherty accounted for 400 of those with 22 pass completions for 308 yards and 92 yards rushing on 15 attempts. He also ran for a 48yard score, threw for a score and was intercepted once. Doherty connected with receiver Clarence Jules on a 65-yard scoring play that gave the Tide a 20-14 lead at the half. Clerveaux amassed 101 Sophomore running back Jaden Clerveaux turns on the jets for the winning Tide score. yards on 15 carries. He produced three TDs, including the game-winner. Doherty told the press afterwards that the game was “like a boxing match. You can’t get punched in the mouth and not come back at them. So we fought hard, and we fought back and won.” Everett jumped out to an early 13-0 lead before the Pioneers responded by scoring twice and pulling ahead, 14-13. The Tide was in front, 26-21, before St. John’s retook the lead with a TD in the fourth quarter. Everett tallied twice in the final six minutes to erase two one-point deficits in the second half. Improving to 2-1 with the victory, the Crimson Tide move on to host Brockton on Saturday (scheduled 1 p.m. kickoff) at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Boxers (1-2) have lost two straight after winning their season opener. Tide junior wide receiver Tyrese Baptiste runs for a huge gain to set up the winning touchdown. Tide quarterback Duke Doherty on a keeper play runs for a long yardage as senior linebacker Junior Pamphile (69) and Linebacker Ghustin Boyce clear the way.
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