CITY SECTION CHAMPIONSHIP: BLOCKED PUNT STUNS TAFT DORSEY 19, TAFT 14.Byline: Rich Hammond Rich Hammond Los Angeles Daily News sports writer. Instrumental in bringing the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization closer to the fans. He is the atypical "what a guy" to Kings fans everywhere. Rich Hammond on himself. Staff Writer Dorsey's Jesus Jimenez blocked a punt with seven seconds remaining and Henry Madge fell on the ball in the end zone to give Dorsey a stunning 19-14 victory over Taft of Woodland Hills in the City Section football championship game Friday night at the Coliseum Coliseum: see Colosseum. . The Toreadors needed only to run out the clock after a Dorsey missed field goal but the Dons forced a punt and sent every player to block the attempt of Isaac Garden. The Toreadors looked as though they would pull off a remarkable comeback when Justin Tryon scored from one yard out with 6:30 remaining, but the Dons came right back with a 49-yard pass from Theron Shakir to Jerome Johnson Jerome Johnson was a fictional character in the British Soap opera Brookside, played by Leon Lopez from 1998 until 2002. Family
The Dons were undone by a sack and a penalty, and Dorsey's Jesus Jimenez missed a 31-yard field goal wide left with 2:44 remaining. Dorsey succeeded early with the strong running of Jermaine Moore and Melvin Petties, but that duo was held in control in the second half by a much-improved Taft defensive front. The Dons had zero net yards of offense in the second half until their final drive and the big pass play by Shakir. The Toreadors, meanwhile, did not get going until they involved their receivers, Steve Smith and Noah Smith, in a short passing game that spread the Dorsey defense. Taft tried to get Steve Smith going early by stacking one side of the field with four receivers and throwing screen passes to him on the first two plays, but those plays netted just eight yards. The Toreadors ran just nine offensive plays in the first quarter, but Dorsey got rolling early. The Dons spread the ball around in the first quarter, as five different Dorsey running backs carried the ball on the first two possessions. Dorsey went 46 yards on 13 plays, but turned the ball over on downs at the Taft 10. Taft then punted after three plays, and Dorsey continued with its strong ball control. The Dons went 61 yards on 11 plays and passed just once, with Moore and Petties taking turns leading Dorsey downfield down·field adv. & adj. Sports To, into, or in the defensive team's end of the field. Adj. 1. downfield - toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field; "he threw to a downfield receiver" . On first-and-goal from the Taft 2, Moore took a handoff Switching a cellular phone transmission from one cell to another as a mobile user moves into a new cellular area. The switch takes place in about a quarter of a second so that the caller is generally unaware of it. and broke a tackle at the line of scrimmage line of scrimmage n. pl. lines of scrimmage Football Either of two imaginary lines extending across the field parallel to the goal line at the ends of the ball as it rests prior to being snapped and at which each team lines up for by Tryon on his way to the end zone and a 7-0 Dorsey lead three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. into the second quarter. Dorsey forced the Toreadors to punt on their next two possessions, and a 26-yard punt return In American and Canadian football a punt return is one of the punt receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player (usually a second or third string wide receiver or running back) positioned many yards from the line of scrimmage will attempt to catch or pick up the ball by LeMark Henderson gave the Dons the ball at the Taft 34 with two minutes left. A 15-yard run and a holding penalty brought the ball back to the Taft 33, and on second-and-24, Shakir threw a 33-yard touchdown to Marques Marques may refer to:
Taft averted disaster in the final seconds of the half. Tryon's pass with 15 seconds left was intercepted by Henry Made, who returned the ball to the Taft 10, but Shakir's pass to the end zone fell incomplete as time expired. Taft came out in the second half strong. The Toreadors stopped Dorsey on three plays and forced a punt, then marched to the Dorsey 11 with a nice mixture of short passes and runs by Tryon. But the Toreadors missed a 28-yard field goal and remained scoreless. The Toreadors defense did not give up however, and forced another punt with five minutes remaining in the third quarter. The Toreadors got the ball back at the Dorsey 45 and this time came through with a touchdown. |
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