This Week in Sachem Football: Suffolk County Finals, 2011

Every week I'll breakdown each game and what it means from a historical perspective in the football programs at Sachem North and East. As the season progresses, the numbers and statistics become more and more interesting, but here's the information from this week:

• The Flaming Arrows have won 30 of their last 34 games dating back to 2008. Sachem is 29-4 the last three seasons.
• Only three other teams in Sachem history - 1983, 1986, 1996 - have won nine games in a season. The 2010 and 2009 teams won 10 each.
• Sachem scored 404 points this season, the second most in school history. The record is 422 set in 2010.
• The 225 points allowed are the second most in program history as well. The record is 265 set in 1966.
• Sachem is now 29-23 all-time in the playoffs.
• Sachem made its county-record 16th appearance in the Suffolk County championship and is 6-10 all-time. Their last county championship victory was in 1995. This was the fourth time that Sachem has appeared in three straight county finals: 1977-1979, 1983-1986 and 1994-1996.
• The 20 points Sachem scored in the county final are the fifth most the Flaming Arrows have scored in their 16 county final appearances.
• Sachem is 12-17 all-time against William Floyd and have been outscored by the Colonials, 592-627.
• The Bryan Morris File: *With 88 career PATs (42 last season, 46 this year) that puts him third all-time in county history and fifth all-time in Long Island. The record is 105 by Jon Korn from William Floyd. *With 46 in a single-season, that puts Morris fourth all-time in county history and tied for sixth all-time in Long Island history. *With 88 career kicking points, he's tied for 14th all-time in Long Island history. Morris owns the Sachem records for career and single-season PATs, as well as kicking points scored in a single-season and career.

The Dalton Crossan File

• Crossan set the career touchdown record with 50, passing James O'Neal's mark of 46.
• He tied the single-game rushing touchdown record with five for the second time this season. Besides Crossan, only O'Neal ran for five touchdowns in a game twice. Davon Lawrence did it once.
• He set the single-season rushing touchdown record with 35.
• He tied the single-game points scoring record, which is 32 set by O'Neal in 1995.
• Crossan finished his career ranked No. 1 at Sachem all-time in single-season rushing yardage with 2,186 yards.
• He has the overall Sachem touchdown record too with 58.
• His 208 rushing attempts this year are the third most in a single-season in Sachem history. The record is 359 by James O'Neal in 1995.
• His 10.43 yards per carry single-season average is fifth all-time in school history. He holds the record, 12.14, set in 2010. He also holds the career yards per carry record with a mark of 10.91.
• Crossan had six 200-yard rushing games in 2011: (William Floyd 2X, Lindenhurst, Northport, Connetquot, Sachem East).
• With his 218 yards in the county final, Crossan (35 TDs and 2,186 rushing yards in 2011 - tops on Long Island) has 3,170 career yards, good enough for No. 2 all-time in Sachem history. If you add in his numbers from two varsity seasons at Shoreham, he has 4,214 career yards as a high school football player. 
• Crossan ranks No. 10 all-time in Suffolk County history in rushing yards and No. 11 in Long Island history. He ranks ninth all-time in county history for single-season yardage and eighth in county history. He ranks fifth all-time in points scored in Long Island history with 434. He ranks fifth all-time in Long Island history for points scored in a season with 230. He ranks fifth all-time on Long Island with 72 career touchdowns. He ranks fourth all-time in Long Island history with 38 touchdowns in a single season.

*Career highs in italics

Interesting stats/highlights from 2011 and beyond

• Sachem has scored 50-plus points this year three times, a program first.
• The 57 point scored against Sachem East in the Suffolk semifinals was a program-record for points in a single-game.
• After 50 seasons, Sachem is 274-165-18. The Flaming Arrows have outscored their opponents, 8,801-6,469.
• Sachem has scored more points against Brentwood (943) than any other program in school history.
• Sachem finished the season ranked No. 20 in New York by the NYSSWA. It's the 13th time since 1977 that Sachem has grabbed a ranking of 20 or higher. It finished 2010 ranked 20 as well. Sachem was ranked as high as No. 4 this season.
• The 404 points Sachem scored this season are the 20th most in Long Island history and 15th most in Suffolk history.