North Haven stonewalled North Branford's first series and forced them to punt. The Indians wasted no time getting on the board. On their first play from scrimmage, Billy McDonald fired a 67 yard touchdown pass to Greg Volpe down the far right sideline and took a quick 6-0 lead.

After a short kickoff, the Thunderbirds drove down into North Haven's red zone, but turned the ball over on downs inside the 10 yard line. The Indians then ground out a 10 play, 90+ yard drive to eat up the rest of the first quarter, and culminated it with a 5 yard Joseph Burr touchdown around the left end. Mark Zurlis drilled the 2 point conversion and the Indians took a 14-0 lead.

North Branford put together another long drive in the second quarter and then turned it over, so the score remained 14-0 North Haven at the half. Early in the 3rd quarter, North Branford recovered a fumble in Indian territory, but could not convert. The Indians took over on downs at their own 37 yard line. Mark Zurlis capped a 63 yard drive with a 2 yard TD and then converted the kick to put North Haven up 22-0 after 3 periods.

At the start of the 4th quarter, NB put together a 7 play, 65 yard drive to finally get on the board. Corey Onofrio completed 4 big passes to Ryan Murphy and Tim Boyle for most of the yardage and Murphy culminated the drive with a 5 yard TD run. Murphy's 2 point kick cut the score to 22-8. After an Indians' punt, the TBirds worked another long drive into the North Haven red zone.

The drive ended when Corey Onofrio had a pass intercepted. North Haven took the ball and scored a 4th TD to expand their lead to 28-8. Along the way, Greg Volpe had a 41 yard run and shortly after, Joe Schwab took a pitch and tore around the left side and ran the final 11 yards for the TD. The drive ate up all but 54 seconds of the final period. Determined to make a game of it, the TBirds scored with 29 seconds left on a 54 yard pass from Onofrio to Murphy to close the score at 28-14.

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