The Sun: Chelmsford football team starts on fire, rolls by Algonquin, 49-14
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By JAMES ALBERT | Correspondent | Lowell Sun
All week in practice, Chelmsford High football coach George Peterson hammered home a message to his players: Let’s get a lead early.
Boy, that message was heard loud and clear.
The No. 4 seed Lions erupted for 42 first-half points before cruising in the second half to defeat No. 13 seed Algonquin Regional, 49-14, in a Division 2 first-round playoff game at Simonian Alumni Stadium.
The win puts the Lions (7-2) into the quarterfinal round next week against No. 12 Winchester, which upset No. 5 North Quincy.
“We haven’t started like that and haven’t scored on an opening drive the entire season,” said Peterson. “We did some different things to the offense, used some different personnel and we knew that we were scoring a lot of points, but we weren’t getting up on teams early. We were letting other teams feel like they could play with us and feel comfortable and that’s not what we want. We want them to feel uncomfortable. We were able to get the hot start tonight and worked it from there.”
