The Somerville Pop Warner B-team competed valliantly, taking their game to the Eastern Mass Championships, proving that they are a hard working and talented group of kids who play to win.

The Somerville B-team is the first team in 15 years to make it to the last round of the playoffs and play in the Eastern Mass Championships. The B-team finished their season at 8-3. They were coached by Roger, Tom, Donald, Eric and Shane Desrochers, Angel Gonzalez, Hollywood Stephonson, Jude Felix, Leo Eyong, Emmanuel Molin and Team MPR person Laurie Clark.

In the first round of the playoffs Somerville played Watertown to take the win 31-12, the second round brought us back to Cambridge where we won 26-6. This proudly took our kids into the Eastern Mass game against West Lynn. Somerville came up short and West Lynn took the win but we are very proud of our kids and they played their hearts out representing Somerville.

The team was led by team captains Andre James, Richard Jean-Pierre, Roberto Michael and Joseph Gonzalez. The Offense was led by Quarterback Michael Gonzalez and leading scorer Andre James. The Jr. Highlanders had a high scoring offense behind running backs Andre, Roberto Michel, Jordan Dauphin and Richard jean-Pierre. On First Offense our quarterback was protected by our hard driving line which was led by Center Cameron Clark, Evelyn Ayala, Cidjud Felix, Joshua Carrilo and Demar Chapman. Receivers Joseph Gonzalez and Kalin Toussaint kept Defenses spread out. Our Second Offense which usually started the games and would strike first consisted of Henry Augustin, Heimrick Benoit, Peter Derosena, Ariel Sanchez and Christopher David. The Jr Highlander Defense was led by linebackers Antone Hernandez and Edward Dahlstedt.

This Defense was a hard-hitting squad which didn’t give up many first downs or points. Leading tackler Roberto Michel, Antone, Edward and Andre would keep teams pinned down and refused to give up any yardage.

This team has made many ‘Villens proud. For the first time in 15 years Somerville Pop Warner is back on the field. This year was a very successful one for SPW since they sent four teams to the playoffs. Somerville Pop Warner is one of the stronger organizations in the GBL and is respectfully leading the way for our athletes to take their efforts further into the High School Level.