MacCormack stars in Elite Football games

MALDEN — Whether on offense or defense, in the spring or fall, or in pleasant or inclement weather, BB&N’s Bo MacCormack is just a football player, and one of the best around, at that.

The Syracuse commit proved it again Sunday, at the Elite League “Championship Sunday” at Malden Catholic. He dominated all facets, and led his Dogs to both 8-man and full-11 titles.

In the latter, MacCormack rushed for three touchdowns and a two-point conversion, with 115 yards on 10 carries. Watch this player long enough, and you almost run out of superlatives.

“Just watching him, it’s fun in the spring to be a fan instead of worrying about things,” his high school coach, Mike Willey, said. “It’s fun to just watch those guys play. Bo’s obviously really, really good. He did a great job today, So it was fun. He’s fun to watch.”

In his third year in the league, MacCormack sees value in spring football.

“For me, just personally, especially if you’re a guy playing between the tackles, you don’t have any of the 7-on-7 stuff you can do, this is the only thing in this area you can do to get better going into the season,” MacCormack said. “I think it’s great for me. You think you are at a certain point, but then when you actually play football, you play in the League you know where you really headed into the fall season. I think it’s great for that.”

It was a unique setup. First, the four teams played 8-man football in a semifinal and final format. The Dogs beat the Maulers in that championship, BB&N quarterback Damon Taylor hit MacCormack for a 23-yard touchdown, and Dane Deveaux of Waltham found BB&N’s Colin Hoffman for another score in the 16-6 Dogs win.

Taylor had a good spring, and enters his junior season as the starting quarterback for BB&N after backing up graduated Henry Machnik.

“The spring league really helps us because it allows us to emulate what we want our team to look like for the season,” Taylor said. “Plays, formations, personnel that we want to run, we can find out who our guys are, where we need to be, the types of routes we want to run. It really is the most beneficial thing our team could possibly have.”

In the full team final, the Dogs and Cobras combined against the Maulers and Knights, and the former earned a 21-14 victory The Maulers/Knights took a 7-0 lead when Drew Tisbert of Austin Prep hit Jayden Francois of Quincy for a 27-yard touchdown.

But MacCormack kept it a one-score game when he came in from his safety spot and delivered a huge hit to stop the Maulers/Knights on fourth and goal from the 1.

MacCormack took over from there. His 10-yard touchdown rush helped tie it at 7, before Troy Varoudakis of Austin Prep put his team back ahead with a 1-yard touchdown.

It was 14-13 after MacCormack’s 11-yard score, but he was denied on the two-point conversion. He then put a bow on it with a pretty, 31-yard touchdown run, and added the two-point conversion to complete the scoring.

BB&N’s Ellery Olson made an interception on the next possession to help seal it for the Dogs/Cobras

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