Seaford football's Brian Falk, Michael Spinella and Mark Villeck key win over Cold Spring Harbor
Seaford's Brian Falk rushes into the Cold Spring Harbor secondary during a Nassau Conference IV football game on Friday in Seaford. Credit: David Meisenholder
Seaford is ground and pound and air bound now, too.
It has been the philosophy since coach Mike McHugh took over this football program last year.
Sensational senior running back Brian Falk carried 35 times for a career-high 275 yards and two touchdowns in a 34-6, Nassau Conference IV victory over Cold Spring Harbor Friday night on the Vikings’ home turf.
“Seaford has always been that rushing, pounding team,” McHugh said. “We’re showing everybody right now we can still rush for close to 300 yards, but then you can air it out when you decide you want to put everything you got against Brian. You can’t do that anymore, and that showed tonight.”
Senior quarterback Michael Spinella went 11-for-16 for 140 yards and three TDs — all to senior receiver Mark Villeck.
“We really showed off that we have a dual-threat offense,” Falk said.
The Vikings (2-0) have a lot of motivational material after falling to Plainedge on a Hail Mary in the Nassau IV semis.
“This whole season is about last year,” McHugh said, “about things that needed to be corrected and fixed.”
And so the goal?
“Just winning the whole thing, LIC, obviously, the Super Bowl of Conference IV,” Falk said.
The game’s first drive began with a steady diet of Falk runs. He carried on the first five plays, one of them going for 33 yards to the Seahawks’ 35.
On fourth-and-5 from the 20, Spinella found Villeck in the right side of the end zone for a 20-yard score.
Then on the second play of the second quarter, Spinella threw to Villeck in the middle of the end zone for a 25-yard TD.
Spinella then flung a short pass near the right sideline to Villeck, who broke a tackle and took it for a 49-yard TD. Falk ran for the two-point conversion, and it was 21-0 at halftime.
Falk raced 14 yards for a score to cap their first drive of the third quarter. Rex O’Connor, who threw for 181 yards, hit Jack Whelehan for a 64-yard touchdown on the ensuing drive for the Seahawks (1-1), who also fell in the 2024 semis. In the fourth, Falk ran 3 yards for the final TD.
“We lost 14 guys from last year, but we’ve got a lot of experience coming back,” Seahawks coach Jon Mendreski said. “We didn’t do a lot of the fundamental things that would help us stay in the game.”
