BIRMINGHAM RALLIES IN SECOND HALF PATRIOTS SCORE 21 UNANSWERED POINTS BIRMINGHAM 28, CHATSWORTH 23.Byline: Matthew Kredell Staff Writer All summer Birmingham had to deal with the pain of a lost perfect season. The Patriots didn't want to go through that ordeal ordeal, ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to again. Certainly not against Chatsworth, the team that beat the Patriots in the final regular- season game last year. So when Birmingham found itself down 23-7 at halftime in front of its homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. crowd, the players didn't panic. The players didn't yell at each other. They huddled hud·dle n. 1. A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals. 2. Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play. 3. together and discussed what they had to do differently to turn the game around. Then they came out with a heightened intensity and scored 21 unanswered points in the third quarter to beat the Chancellors 28-23 Friday and clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. the West Valley League title. ``I guess they just wanted it more than us,'' Chatsworth running back Joe Shumpert said. ``They capitalized Capitalized Recorded in asset accounts and then depreciated or amortized, as is appropriate for expenditures for items with useful lives longer than one year. on our mistakes.'' Birmingham scored on its first three possessions of the third quarter and shut down Shumpert in the second half. He had 26 carries for 161 yards but just 22 yards on 13 carries after the break. ``You're going to need to get us down by more than that to beat us,'' said Birmingham receiver Ramal ramal /ra·mal/ (ra´m'l) pertaining to a ramus. ra·mal adj. Of or relating to a ramus. ramal pertaining to a ramus. Porter, who had seven catches for 189 yards and a touchdown. ``We have the spirit where being down doesn't even affect us.'' Porter scored the go-ahead touchdown, a short pass over the middle that he turned into a 74-yard score by breaking to the outside and outsprinting everyone down the left sideline sideline See on the sidelines. . But it was Sean Nanakonpanon who brought the Patriots (8-0, 4-0) back within striking distance. Held without a catch in the first half, Nanakonpanon caught touchdowns of 15 and 41 yards on Birmingham's first two possessions of the third quarter. Quarterback Scott Jensen threw four touchdowns, completing 15 of 24 passes for 305 yards. Chatsworth (6-2, 2-2) dominated the first half to give Birmingham its biggest deficit of the season. Jason Moss Jason Moss was an American writer on serial killers. At college, for his honors thesis, he established relationships with such killers as Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Henry Lee Lucas. He obtained samples of correspondence from and interviews with these men. completed his first eight passes - six to different receivers - for 150 yards and Shumpert broke two long scoring runs. The Chancellors totaled 282 yards in the first half but were held to 98 in the second. Birmingham coach Ed Croson planned on using Dennis Keyes exclusively on defense for the first time this season. But with running back Kevin McCleary struggling with leg and shoulder injuries, Keyes had all 92 yards on 13 carries in the second half. ``We knew at the half that we had a chance,'' Croson said. ``Our kids hung in there. We never gave up.'' |
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