'UNFOCUSED' GRACE BRETHREN ON TO FINALS GRACE BRETHREN 20, SAN JACINTO 7.Byline: Sean Martin Sean Martin may refer to:
NEWBURY PARK - Grace Brethren High of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. defeated San Jacinto San Jacinto, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in SE Texas as the West Fork and flowing S to Galveston Bay. Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used for the Houston ship channel. 20-7 Saturday at Newbury Park High in the Southern Section Div. XI football semifinals, but it was hardly pleased with the effort. Captain Steve Captain Steve (foaled 1997 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Roger Laubach, owned by Michael E. Pegram, and trained by Bob Baffert. A bay foal by Fly So Free out of Sparkling Delite (by Vice Regent), he started 25 times, and earned the exceptional Gourley called his team's play ``unfocused un·fo·cused also un·fo·cussed adj. 1. Not brought into focus: an unfocused lens. 2. .'' ``We played well enough to win, but we should have beat this team by a lot more,'' he said. Grace Brethren (11-2), the 2004 Southern Section Div. XII champion, advanced to its third Southern Section title game in the past four years. They have the unfortunate task of facing two-time defending Div. XI champion Oaks Christian of Westlake Village on Saturday at Newbury Park High. ``We wanted to play them again all year to show what we can do,'' Grace Brethren coach Terry Gourley said. ``If we play like we did tonight, it's a good thing we're both Christian schools because it'll be an annihilation annihilation In physics, a reaction in which a particle and its antiparticle (see antimatter) collide and disappear. The annihilation releases energy equal to the original mass m multiplied by the square of the speed of light c, or E = m of biblical proportions. If we play well, we can hang within 30 or 40 points of them. They're one of the best teams in the country. We realize that.'' Grace Brethren lost to Oaks Christian 48-7 in its first game this season. This time, Grace Brethren will be without starting quarterback Travis Chupp. He suffered turf toe turf toe Sports medicine A ligamentous sprain of the metatarsophalangeal–MTP joint of the great toe affecting athletes in various sports–baseball, football, soccer played on artificial turf Clinical Commonly presents as an intensely painful, swollen, in the second quarter of Saturday's game and left in the third quarter. Freshman Kevin Ramey replaced Chupp, and will do so against Oaks Christian as well. On Saturday, Grace Brethren's defense, which has allowed less than 10 points per game this season, gave another dominating performance. It held San Jacinto, which entered Saturday on an eight-game winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" , to 161 yards, and only 60 in the second half. San Jacinto (9-4) gained one yard rushing Saturday. Quarterback Chasen Stangel was sacked twice and pressured most of the evening. It was the first time it scored less than 20 points in a game this season. Chupp was 7 for 12 for 121 yards and a touchdown before he left the game. Brad Willhite led the team with 84 yards rushing. All of the game's scoring took place in the second quarter. Willhite scored on a 10-yard touchdown run with 10:36 remaining and a 1-yard run with 4:44 on the clock after Grace Brethren recovered an onsides kick. Willhite's second touchdown came three plays after Chupp threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Steve Gourley. San Jacinto's Robert Byers caught a 3-yard pass from Stangel with 1:21 remaining in the first half. Stangel was 15 for 20 for 160 yards. |
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