Not only did Freedom score touchdowns on offense, defense and special teams during Friday night's 67-34 romp over Nazareth in an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference football game, the Patriots did it in the first three minutes, 30 seconds. <\/p>\n
It was an extremely complete team effort. <\/p>\n
Individually, senior two-way standout Jake Young showed he can score every which way. <\/p>\n
Young accomplished the extremely rare individual offense-defense-special teams trifecta of touchdowns. <\/p>\n
He recovered a fumble in the end zone in the first quarter, caught a 21-yard scoring strike from his younger brother, Joe, in the second quarter and returned the opening kickoff of the second half 87 yards for a TD. <\/p>\n
It was that kind of night for coach Jason Roeder's upstart Patriots, who improved to 2-0 after last year's 2-8 campaign. <\/p>\n
Seven Freedom players scored touchdowns. <\/p>\n
\"We knew we were going to play a lot of kids tonight,\" Roeder said on the unseasonably hot and humid evening. <\/p>\n
\"Offense, defense and special teams, we preached to the kids that they needed to be ready. I was very pleased with our effort. We're playing hard, we're playing fast and we're playing together. And because of that we've been successful.\" <\/p>\n
Freedom, picked for the middle of the pack in the EPC's South Division, scored 27 points in the first quarter and 21 more in the second period in their home opener at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. The Patriots led 48-20 at intermission. <\/p>\n
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