Kennedy Claims A Championship in Epic OT Game with Rival Cardinal Spellman
By Matt Diano: It may have come a season later than expected (lost 19-12 in the 2018 championship game after posting a perfect regular season league record), but the seven-year wait is over in Somers as the 2019 NYCHSFL Single-A crown is en route to top-seeded Kennedy Catholic following an absolutely crazy 39-33 overtime victory against two-time defending titlists, #2 Cardinal Spellman. An epic contest with a finale that even the greatest storyteller could not have invented, in the last 3:10 of regulation, the outcome shifted from all signs suggesting at an inevitable Gael victory to all signs pointing at a KC demise, to all square at the end of 48 wild minutes. Trailing for much of the game and plagued by two costly mishaps that saw them come away with no points despite being inside the opposing 2-yard-line , Kennedy Catholic did not take their first lead until there