CITY SECTION: JUST NOT ENOUGH LEFT FOR TAFT DEPLETED TOREADORS GAME, LOSE TO CARSON CARSON 21, TAFT 6.Byline: George Vranau Staff Writer CARSON - Taft of Woodland Hills was no different than any other City Section playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. team, all of whom had to prepare and play two games in a seven-day period. Taft, however, had to do it with 22 less players because 11 were academically ineligible in·el·i·gi·ble adj. 1. Disqualified by law, rule, or provision: ineligible to run for office; ineligible for health benefits. 2. , seven were lost to injuries, two were sick, one quit the team and another was kicked off. Despite the adversity ad·ver·si·ty n. pl. ad·ver·si·ties 1. A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune. 2. A calamitous event. , Taft trailed by only eight points and had the ball on the Carson 35-yard line with 36 seconds remaining in the game when Carson's Christian Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. stripped the ball from quarterback Joe Wilson and returned it 58 yards for a touchdown. The play sealed a 21-6 victory for Carson in a first-round Championship Bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. game Thursday at Carson. ``The players that played in this game tonight were warriors for us,'' Taft coach Kevin Pearson said. ``They showed tremendous heart and could have easily packed it in and they didn't. I feel for the seniors because this is their last game and I wish it could have been better for them, but I'm looking forward to coaching the returners next year after seeing how much heart they showed tonight.'' Carson (8-3) scored first when Trent Charles caught a 7-yard touchdown pass from Bo Napoleon Napoleon French Napoléon Bonaparte orig. Italian Napoleone Buonaparte (born Aug. 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica—died May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island) French general and emperor (1804–15). with 6:17 left in the first quarter. The touchdown followed a fumble by Taft quarterback Jason Haywood on its first play of the game from its 24-yard line. Taft (5-6) had its best scoring opportunity in the first half when Mazeratti Byers returned a kickoff 78 yards to the Carson 14. However, the offense stalled and Aaron Garden missed a 30-yard field-goal attempt with 3:52 left in the first quarter. The tandem of Charles and Napoleon connected again, this time for a 30- yard touchdown score with 58 second remaining in the third quarter to put Carson ahead 14-0. Wilson engineered a 97-yard scoring drive in 11 plays, culminating with Shelton Banks' 35-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to cut the Carson lead to 14-6. ``Joe did a tremendous job of running the offense in the second half,'' Pearson said of Wilson, who had taken only two snaps in Taft's games this season. Banks finished with 69 yards on 13 carries and his touchdown ended Taft's seven-quarter scoring drought, dating back to last week's shutout loss to Chatsworth. Taft was outgained 270-134 in yardage yard·age 1 n. 1. An amount or length measured in yards. 2. Cloth sold by the yard. Noun 1. and Carson had 16 first downs to Taft's seven. |
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