BURROUGHS QB DELIVERS UNDER FIRE : BURROUGHS 32, MOORPARK 0.Byline: Jorge Martin Special to the Daily News If ever there were questions about whether Burroughs High School's J.K. Scott could take a hit and come back firing, they were answered Friday against Moorpark. The senior quarterback, facing a constant blitzing Musketeers pass rush, connected on 16 of 26 passes for 271 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Indians to a 32-0 victory in a non-league game at Burroughs. Three of those scoring tosses went to junior wide receiver Glenn Adriatico, all in the second half. That broke open what been a 6-0 game after two quarters. The game's beginning was anything but auspicious aus·pi·cious adj. 1. Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious: an auspicious time to ask for a raise in salary. See Synonyms at favorable. 2. Marked by success; prosperous. for Burroughs (1-0), and especially for its signal-caller. Scott was sacked sack 1 n. 1. a. A large bag of strong coarse material for holding objects in bulk. b. A similar container of paper or plastic. c. The amount that such a container can hold. 2. on his first two snaps, with the third turning into a deep incompletion. ``That got me a little weary, and I was seeing everything (in tunnel vision tunnel vision n. Vision in which the visual field is severely constricted. tunnel vision, n a defect in sight in which a great reduction occurs in the peripheral field of vision, as if one is looking through ) for awhile a·while adv. For a short time. Usage Note: Awhile, an adverb, is never preceded by a preposition such as for, but the two-word form a while may be preceded by a preposition. there,'' Scott said. ``I just had to have faith that the linemen would beat them up. And they really did.'' And what Scott did with that time. Burroughs put together a nine-play, 66-yard drive, with Scott hitting Adriatico at the 8, and the 5-foot-9 receiver cut across the field for the score with 8:01 left in the third quarter to make it 12-0. After another Scott-to-Adriatico scoring pass early in the fourth quarter made it 19-0, the duo finished off the evening with a 56-yard touchdown pass on a timing pattern down the left sideline sideline See on the sidelines. with 7:03 remaining as the Indians took a 25-0 lead. Adriatico caught seven passes for 157 yards to go with the scores. Michael Williams Michael Williams may refer to:
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