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KINGSTON — It was an unhappy Homecoming night for Wyoming Valley West, as the visiting Delaware Valley Warriors found the end zone seven times and held the Spartans scoreless in a 49-0 romp on Friday night.

Six different players scored for the Warriors, who won their eighth game in a row, with shutouts in each of the last three. Delaware Valley has now outscored its last four opponents by a combined score of 192-7.

Quarterback Zach Scillia was surgical in his efforts against the Spartans defense, completing 11 of his 12 first-half passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns. He was pulled after halftime in favor of junior Aiden Oliver, who in turn gave way to CJ Ross as the Warriors emptied the bench in the mercy rule-shortened second half.

Josh Balcarcel got the party started early in the first quarter, scoring from two yards out to cap off a drive that took just over a minute and a half. Balcarcel would score later in the quarter on a 13-yarder after Scillia was able to find Jawon Foushee for an 18-yard score, and the Warriors led 21-0 after one.

The second quarter saw a similar blueprint for success, as Delaware Valley got three more touchdowns from Preston Machado, Jason Henderson and Seth Croll, all the while shutting down Dontae Rhodes and the Valley West offense.

Rhodes was held to 17 yards on nine carries, and the Warriors got interceptions by Croll and Finnegan McCormack.

The Spartans couldn’t connect on back-to-back deep balls in the second half to break the shutout bid, as one was overthrown and the other was dropped.

Nick Barie added the Warriors’ final touchdown early in the third quarter on another short touchdown run, the Warriors’ fourth touchdown run and fifth touchdown total from inside three yards.

Next up for the Spartans (2-7) is their season finale against Williamsport. Delaware Valley will look to keep its winning streak intact to close out the season by hosting Scranton.

Delaware Valley 49, Wyoming Valley West 0

Delaware Valley`21`21`7`0 — 49

Wyo. Valley West`0`0`0`0 — 0

First quarter

DV — Josh Balcarcel 1 run (Oliver kick) 10:22

DV — Jawon Foushee 18 pass from Zach Scillia (Oliver kick) 7:04

DV — Balcarcel 13 run (Oliver kick) 1:14

Second quarter

DV — Preston Machado 2 run (Oliver kick) 8:53

DV — Jason Henderson 2 run (Oliver kick) 4:37

DV — Seth Croll 3 pass from Scillia (Oliver kick) :10

Third quarter

DV — Nick Barie 2 run (Storrs kick) 10:24

Team statistics`DV`WVW

First downs`9`5

Rushes-yards`28-142`25-60

Passing yards`232`30

Total yards`374`90

Passing`12-15-0`5-12-2

Sacked-yards lost`0-0`1-5

Punts-avg.`0-0`5-27

Fumbles-lost`1-1`0-0

Penalties-yards`4-30`9-80

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — DV, Balcarcel 9-45, Foushee 1-17, Henderson 3-24, Scillia 2-26, Machado 2-1, Barie 4-7, Eric Cabrera-Agostini 1-1, Joey Sciascia 3-12, Will Gianesses 1-0, CJ Ross 1-6, Bryan Morley 1-1, Shane Bowe 1-1. WVW, Zack McDaniels 6-12, Dontae Rhodes 9-17, Brendan Woods 3-8, Darius Redguard 6-18, Dylan Nastanski 1-5.

PASSING — DV, Scillia 11-12-0-229, Aiden Oliver 1-3-0-3. WVW, Rhodes 5-12-2-30.

RECEIVING — DV, Hunter Klein 2-48, Foushee 3-51, Balcarcel 1-4, Mark Callanan 1-25, James Staeckeler 2-36, Henderson 2-65, Croll 1-3. WVW, Nastanski 3-15, Jonathan Stochla 2-15.

INTERCEPTIONS — DV, Croll 1-0, Finnegan McCormack 1-15. WVW, None.

MISSED FGs — DV, None. WVW, None.

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By Kevin Carroll

For Times Leader