Senior captain breaks the 1,000-yard milestone

“If you’re going to play your last football game, you might as well rush for 200 yards and play lights out on defense, and that was Seth Sacco,” said head coach Jon Cadigan in reflecting on his senior captain’s Thanksgiving masterpiece.

Indeed, Sacco enters the record books as a 1,000-yard rusher (actually 1,083 yards). He was the team’s leading scorer with 16 touchdown and had 171 receiving yards in combination with quarterback Charlie Ferrara.

Sacco crashing through the grand plateau on a 93-yard touchdown run was the key play of the game.

 Revere head coach Lou Cicatelli felt that play was “the turning point” in the Patriots’ 29-12 loss in the annual Thanksgiving game Nov. 27 at Harry Della Russo Stadium.

“They’re up 15-6 and we pin them inside the 7-yard line and I call a timeout. We go over the play and I told them exactly what was coming, it’s the criss-cross .We flop our best players on that side, and the play came, and we had no answer for it,” said Cicatelli. “That was a big, big play after we turned the field on them.”

Cicatelli said his team’s No. 1 goal on defense was to contain Sacco.

“He’s the real deal, he’s very, very good and has really quick feet, and I think he’s one of the best backs that Winthrop has had in a long time,” added Cicatelli.

Sacco lived up to the high expectations that the coaches had for him in his senior season.

“Seth was as advertised. What doesn’t get seen is the amount of work that the players put in during the off-season, and Seth was an unbelievable kid in the weight room,” lauded Cadigan. “He would come off the lacrosse field after a full practice, and he would do a football workout. The great thing about that is he brought everybody else with him.”

Sacco was one of the Boston Globe’s “Players of the Week” for his performance versus Revere.

And In addition to being an All-Conference, Sacco will likely have other major awards coming his way.

“In my opinion, he’s an All-Scholastic player, a Shriners Classic All-Star, and a Harry Agganis Classic All-Star,” said Cadigan. “He’s that guy. He deserves that recognition.”

Ultimately it would be fitting if Sacco and his two brilliant running mates, Sean Dolen and Nick Romano, enter the Winthrop Hall of Fame at the same induction dinner in the years ahead. As the humble Sacco would be the first to tell you, it was a team effort that ignited the Vikings’ running game this season, including, of course, the contributions of the entire offensive line.

Sacco has earned a spot among the all-time productive backs in school history – Chucky Sullivan, Steve Staffier, and Anthony Palmer, to name but a few.

REVERE GAME

The two stars of the game defensively were Seth Sacco (Black Shirt Award winner) and Nick Romano.  Seth had 13 tackles (5 solo, 3 TFL) & 2 INT.  Nick Romano had 14 tackles (9 solo, 1 TFL) and a PBU.  Mike Ferrara had 4 tackles including a TFL, with a QB hurry/hit that caused an interception and Michael D’Ambrosio had 6 tackles (5 solo) and a pass breakup.