Football: New play right call for Stratton, Ridley pays off against Interboro

RIDLEY TWP. >> The Ridley offense had run more than five minutes off the clock during the second quarter of the Green Raiders’ Thanksgiving Day football matchup with Interboro at Phil Marion Memorial Field Thursday morning. With less than one minute until halftime, Ridley was five yards from the end zone and called a timeout to decide which play could give the host Green Raiders the game’s first touchdown. Head coach Dennis Decker said credit should go to junior quarterback Cade Stratton for calling the pass play to senior tight end Connor Beaumont that resulted in the only touchdown of the Green Raiders’ 12-0 victory.

“My first year (as head coach), North Penn ran that play on us in a playoff game at Coatesville,” Decker said. “Coach (Joe) Stratton put the play in at practice this week. I was down at the other end of the field, and I saw them working on the play.

“It was fourth down, so we knew we could wind up being heroes or zeroes.”

Stratton took the snap, made it look like he might be running, then jumped up as he released the ball. Beaumont pulled it in across the goal line 50 seconds before the break, and Jamie Fisher, who had opened the scoring with a 43-yard field goal almost eight minutes earlier, added the conversion that allowed Ridley (7-5) to walk off the field with a 10-0 halftime lead.

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Ridley quarterback Cade Stratton hunts for yardage in with blocking help from Tom Reilly in Ridley’s 12-0 win over Interboro Thursday. (Times Staff/Robert J. Gurecki)