CAL LUTHERAN'S BEST COMES TOO LATE IN LOSS : PACIFIC LUTHERAN 28, CAL LUTHERAN 26.Byline: Heather Gripp Gripp talking raven, beloved pet of half-wit Barnaby Rudge. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Barnaby Rudge] See : Birds Staff Writer A look at the back of the helmets served as a reminder of the mission. Staying united, being stronger and playing with more intensity than the opposition in the final quarter - no matter what the score - is what the Cal Lutheran football team is aiming to do this year. The Kingsmen wear No. 4 on their helmets to make sure they don't forget. ``Our goal is to win every fourth quarter,'' wide receiver Eugene Sullivan said. CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. achieved that goal as it dominated the fourth quarter of Saturday's season opener against Pacific Lutheran. Now, the Kingsmen just need to learn to do the same thing for the rest of the game. PLU's 28-6 lead at the beginning of the fourth was enough to overcome three CLU touchdowns in the final 11 minutes and give the Lutes a 28-26 nonconference win in front of 911 at Cal Lutheran's Mt. Clef Field. Sullivan caught a 15-yard pass in the end zone from Chris Czernek to bring the Kingsmen within two. When he dropped to his knee and pointed to his friends on the sideline sideline See on the sidelines. , CLU was given a 15-yard penalty for celebrating, putting the ball on the 18 for the point-after attempt. Czernek's pass on the two-point conversion In American football and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion (score two points) instead of an extra point (one point) immediately after it scores a touchdown. was incomplete. George Keiaho started the Kingsmen's comeback Comeback Australian breed of wool sheep, bred by crossing Merino with Corriedale, Polwarth or Zenith sheep; wool is 21 to 25 microns. It is a registered breed, but the term is more commonly used in the sense of a type of sheep produced by crossbreeding a crossbred Merino back to Merino. with a 4-yard run less than two minutes into the fourth quarter to make it 28-12 when the point-after failed. The senior, who finished with 83 yards on 15 carries, also scored on a 3-yard run with 5:44 remaining. Two field goals by Ryan Geisler provided CLU's only points of the first three quarters. His 53-yard kick in the closing seconds of the first half ties for second-longest on the Kingsmen's all-time list. Geisler, who missed all six attempts against the Lutes last year, set the CLU record of 57 yards in 1997 against PLU PLU Pacific Lutheran University PLU People Like Us (LGBT community) PLU Price Look-Up PLU Primary Logical Unit PLU Product Look-Up PLU Phi Lambda Upsilon (National Chemistry Honor Society) . The Kingsmen aided PLU's fast start by making costly errors. A CLU fumble on the opening play resulted in a Lutes touchdown, as did an interception on the first play of the Kingsmen's second possession. ``In the first half, we just killed ourselves,'' said Czernek, who completed 21 of 31 passes for 188 yards after replacing Nick Odenath late in the first quarter. ``We were just on idle the whole first half. We were too hesitant hes·i·tant adj. Inclined or tending to hesitate. hes  i·tant·ly adv. the first half.'' CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Cal Lutheran's Israel Bolechala grabs PLU quarterback Chad Johnson
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