Opportunistic Waterville Football Beats MDI 26-20 [PHOTOS]

The Waterville Panthers Football Team came to Bar Harbor and beat MDI 26-20 on Friday night, September 16th, taking advantage of MDI's turnovers and blocking a punt. MDI will look at the film of the game and think that they should have won the game if they had done a better job of hanging onto the ball.

Waterville's defense caused 3 MDI fumbles and an interception and their special teams blocked a punt and subsequently scored. Despite the turnovers MDI had a chance to win the game in the 4th Quarter.

Both starting quarterbacks, Spencer Laurendeau for MDI and Wyatt Gradie for Waterville were forced from the game with injuries. Their replacements, Alex Gray (MDI) and Dustan Hunter (Waterville) played well.

Hunter was Waterville's leading rusher, carrying the ball 21 times for 185 yards. Aidan Grant carried the ball 16 times for MDI, rushing for 229 yards.

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Scoring Summary

1st Quarter

• 9:37 72 yard run by Aidan Grant. 2 point conversion was good MDI 8 Waterville 0
• 8:03 26 yard pass Gradie to Hunter 2 point conversion was good MDI 8 Waterville 8

2nd Quarter

• 9:41 34 yard run by Aidan Grant. 2 point conversion no good MDI 14 Waterville 8
• 7:09 28 yard pass Hunter to Gage Hubbard 2 point conversion no good MDI 14 Waterville 14
• 4:00 46 yard run by Dustan Hunter 2 point conversion no good MDI 14 Waterville 20

3rd Quarter

• 9:34 6 yard pass Hunter to Hubbard 2 point conversion no good MDI 14 Waterville 26
• 6:39 4 yard run by Alex Gray 2 point conversion no good MDI 20 Waterville 26

Stats

MDI Rushing

• Aiden Grant - 16 carries 229 yards
• Alex Gray - 8 carries 60 yards
• Spencer Laurendeau - 10 carries 48 yards
• Jacob Shields - 4 carries 16 yards

MDI Passing

• Spencer Laurendeau 2-5 19 yards 1 interception
• Alex Gray - 2-5 44 yards

MDI Receiving

• Aiden Grant 3 catches 29 yards
• Cal Hodgdon 1 catch 15 yards

Waterville Rushing

• Dustin Hunter - 21 carries 185 yards
• Dawson Harrison - 3 carries 7 yeards
• Tyson Smith - 1 carry 2 yards
• Wyatt Gradie - 3 carries minus 1 yard

Waterville Passing

• Wyatt Gradie 3-7 68 yards 1 touchdown
• Dustan Hunter 5-10 54 yards 2 touchdowns

Waterville Receiving

• Dustan Hunter - 3 catches 68 yards
• Spencer Minihan - 3 catches 20 yards
• Gage Hubbard - 2 catches 34 yards

MDI is now 1-1. They will play at Yarmouth on Friday, September 23 at 6 p.m.

Waterville is now 3-0. They play at home against Spruce Mountain on Friday, September 23 at 7 p.m.

Thanks to Walter Churchill for the photos.

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Best of luck to everyone! Have a great season!