Bishop Ford loses to Mount but still clinches AA playoff spot
Bishop Ford had its five-game winning streak snapped on Sunday when it lost 22-12 to Mount St. Michael at Aviator. However, that loss is but a blip for the Falcons, as they have clinched the CHSFL AA playoffs for the first time in the program’s 15-year history.
“I think it’s great,” Bishop Ford coach Jim Esposito said. “The kids are down a little right now, but I told them that from here on every game is a playoff game. If they compete like that we’ll be fine. We just have to work on a few things and get a few things straightened out. It’s a huge thing to get to the AA playoffs. That’s been our goal for the last few years. We won the A championship, we had to move up and to play a AAA team like this down to the wire its definitely good for us.”
The Falcons have had a relatively easy schedule so far this year, but Sunday’s game was a real test. Mount is a AAA team and even playing at that level was unheard of a few years ago. Not only did Bishop Ford stay right in there with them all game, but at times they looked like the better team.