CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET: SYLMAR SUCCUMBS TO SPEED OF CRENSHAW BURNEY'S OFFENSE, SPARTANS DEFENSE NOT ENOUGH CRENSHAW 39, SYLMAR 17.Byline: Matthew Kredell Staff Writer Both football teams seemed only to be able to move the ball in large chunks. Sylmar, a team that relies on tough defense and the running of Danny Burney, didn't want a track meet. But that's what the Spartans got when they let Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] score three touchdowns of more than 60 yards to win 39-17 Wednesday night at South Gate High in a City quarterfinal quar·ter·fi·nal adj. Of or relating to one of four competitions in a tournament, whose winners go on to play in semifinal competitions. n. 1. quarterfinals A quarterfinal round. 2. A quarterfinal match. . ``Everything just broke down,'' Burney said. ``They capitalized on our mistakes. We beat ourselves.'' No. 7 Sylmar (8-3) is eliminated in the quarterfinals for the second consecutive year. Second-seeded Crenshaw (10-0) will host Taft in a semifinal Nov. 30 at an alternate site. Sylmar came back from a 12-0 deficit to lead 17-12 at the half. The Spartans struck quickly, scoring twice in 18 seconds. After Jose Diaz José Díaz, Jose Díaz, José Diaz, or Jose Diaz
n. Football A kickoff in which the ball carries just far enough, at least ten yards, to be recovered legally by the kicking team. . Burney caught a short pass from Lance DiBene on the next play and ran down the right sideline sideline See on the sidelines. , shook a defender and raced back to the middle, then scored down the left sideline. The touchdown went for 54 yards. Burney also scored, on an 11-yard run, with 1:52 remaining in the half. A 76-yard touchdown run by Corey Hudson midway through the third quarter gave Crenshaw an 18-17 lead and seemed to deflate (file format, compression) deflate - A compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others. Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms. the Spartans. Minutes later, Patrick Owens broke two tackles on a 62-yard pass from Bryant Thompson. From then on, Crenshaw had the game well in hand. Hudson previously scored on a 77-yard run and finished with 181 yards on 10 carries. ``We didn't come out fired up in the second half like they did,'' Burney said. ``I guess they wanted it more.'' Burney, the area's leading rusher, rushed 18 times for 68 yards and caught three passes for 91 yards. Sylmar passed more in this game than it had all season. DiBene completed 8 of 19 passes for 137 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Crenshaw passed on its last drive and scored with 1:22 remaining. Cougars fullback Dary Adway rushed 13 times for 91 yards and two touchdowns. Thompson completed his last six passes to finish 7 of 10 for 139 yards. Receiver Michael Nicholson Michael Nicholson OBE (born 9 January, 1937) is an English journalist and former ITN Senior Foreign Correspondent. Biography Born in Romford, Essex, Nicholson attended the University of Leicester. caught five balls for 76 yards and a touchdown. Sylmar expects to return many of its top players next season, Burney included. |
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