CITY SECTION ROUNDUP: WHITAKER HELPS CLEVELAND TOP BIRMINGHAM.Byline: Daily News Cleveland High won a football game Friday night because quarterback Eddie Whitaker refused to lose. Although his numbers weren't spectacular, Whitaker led the Cavaliers to a 26-23 Northwest Valley Conference victory over Birmingham. Whitaker was sacked three times and finished with minus-2 yards rushing. He also completed just 7 of 16 passes for 95 yards and a touchdown. And yet one rush and one pass made the difference. Trailing, 20-17, with about a minute to play, Whitaker faded back to pass but found no one open. So he scrambled scram·ble v. scram·bled, scram·bling, scram·bles v.intr. 1. To move or climb hurriedly, especially on the hands and knees. 2. 13 yards - breaking five tackles along the way - and got out of bounds for a first down. It was then, he said, he knew the Cavaliers (2-6, 1-4) would climb out of the conference cellar cellar Portion of a building beneath ground level, used for utilitarian and storage purposes. It is often called a basement, especially when constructed as part of a foundation. A cellar used for food storage (e.g. ahead of Birmingham (1-7, 0-5). Two plays and a controversial pass-interference call later, Whitaker hit George Covington from 8-yards out for the winning score with 7 seconds remaining. ``Man I've seen him do that since we were little kids, going back to Pop Warner Pop Warner refers to
``He's a good thinker,'' said Covington, who caught his first touchdown pass - going back to those same Pop Warner days. ``He doesn't make too many stupid mistakes. He put it right in my chest.'' Before Whitaker's heroics, Bethea was the Cleveland hero, scoring three times to help his team take a 20-10 third quarter lead. He ran in from 27 and 19 yards and scored on a 55-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 . Birmingham was paced by Howard Jones' 138 yards on 32 carries, all with a bruised bruise v. bruised, bruis·ing, bruis·es v.tr. 1. a. To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow. b. back. He scored on a 3-yard run and a 9-yard pass from Max Parra on a fake field goal attempt. Patriots kicker Kicker A right, warrant, or some other feature added to a debt instrument to make it more desirable to potential investors. Notes: The ability to trade a bond or other debt instrument in for stock may entice investors, if they feel the stock will appreciate. John Wall connected from 30, 42 and 22 yards. The teams combined for 268 penalty yards. - Lee Barnathan Kennedy 28, San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. 24: Senior tailback tail·back n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage. tailback Noun Brit a queue of traffic stretching back from an obstruction Jason Jones Jason Jones is the name of:
Kennedy (5-3, 3-2) converted two turnovers into early touchdowns and led 21-0 entering the second quarter. San Fernando (4-4, 1-4) responded with three fourth quarter touchdowns to close to within 28-24. However, Kennedy stopped San Fernando at midfield mid·field n. Sports 1. The section of a playing field midway between goals. 2. Players whose usual positions are in the midfield. mid with 2 minutes remaining and ran out the clock. Cougars defensive back David Burney had two interceptions to run his season total to seven. Jones carried 23 times for 162 yards and two touchdowns. Quarterback Ruben Zaragoza was 10 of 13 for 73 yards and one touchdown. Quarterback Larry Brown Larry Brown may refer to:
- Sean Clingan Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. 37, Monroe 31: Vikings quarterback Diego Barba's third-and-goal pass from the 6-yard line fell incomplete as time expired to allow visiting Poly to escape with a Valley Pac-8 conference victory. Monroe's offense drove 63 yards to the Poly 4 and had three tries at the end zone in the final seconds, including a 4-yard touchdown pass to Andrew Newchurch that was nullified nul·li·fy tr.v. nul·li·fied, nul·li·fy·ing, nul·li·fies 1. To make null; invalidate. 2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of. because of an illegal motion penalty. Poly (3-4-1, 3-1-1) rallied from a 31-21 third-quarter deficit behind an 8-yard touchdown run by David Valencia and a 10-yard touchdown run by Raul Molina to give the Parrotts a six-point lead with 10:21 remaining. Barba connected with DeAndre Phillips for touchdowns of 52, 38 and 18 yards to lead Monroe (2-6, 0-5). - Dwayne Finley Van Nuys 36, Grant 3: Jermaine Lucious returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown and also had an 84-yard TD reception as the visiting Wolves wolves n. Plural of wolf. wolves Noun the plural of wolf Wolves See also animals. lycanthrope 1. a person suffering from lycanthropy. won a Valley Pac-8 Conference game. The Wolves (6-2, 4-1) did an excellent job of shutting done the Lancers' rushing attack. Teveta Manu was held to 20 yards on 11 carries and Duriel Carter had 14 yards on nine carries. Van Nuys quarterback Bobby Hernandez completed 10 of 24 passes for 185 yards. Lucious caught four passes for 119 yards and three touchdowns. Alex Aguilar ran for 74 yards on 11 carries with a touchdown. - Darren Jacks Sylmar 21, Canoga Park 7: Running back Corey Neal rushed for 101 yards and three touchdowns to give the Spartans a Valley Pac-8 win over the visiting Hunters. Canoga Park (2-6, 0-5) stayed in the game behind the passing of Mike Spangle span·gle n. 1. A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration. 2. A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight. , who completed 11 of 25 passes for 229 yards and one touchdown. The score came early in the fourth quarter on a 32-yard pass to wide receiver Victor Torres, and cut the Sylmar lead to 21-7. Torres caught nine passes for 206 yards. Neal scored the first points of the game early in the second quarter on a 2-yard run, then scored on runs of 17 and 14 yards in the third before suffering a possible dislocated shoulder A dislocated shoulder occurs when the humerus separates from the scapula at the glenohumeral joint. As the most maneuverable joint in the human body, the shoulder is the joint most vulnerable to dislocation. . Sylmar (5-2-1, 5-0) was led defensively by P.K. Reed, who intercepted two Spangle passes, and linebacker Carlos Plascencia, who had five solo and seven total tackles. - Mark Bosteder Reseda 24, North Hollywood 13: Tight end Eric Ceja had only two receptions, but they led the visiting Regents to their third victory in as many weeks in the Valley Pac-8 Conference. Ceja, a senior, gave Reseda (5-3, 4-1) breathing room by catching a 24-yard touchdown pass from Skyler McKnight late in the third quarter. North Hollywood (2-6, 2-3), rallying from a 10-0 halftime deficit, made it 17-13 on a 10-yard scoring pass from Billydee Payne to Mark Duson early in the fourth quarter. But Reseda, facing third-and-16, picked up 34 yards on another McKnight-to-Ceja pass to set up McKnight's game-clinching 2-yard touchdown run with 1:19 left. McKnight completed 3 of 4 passes for 74 yards and rushed for 41. Joseph Looney rushed for 112 yards on 17 carries for Reseda, while North Hollywood's Matthew Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. had 137 yards on 26 carries. Reseda got a 24-yard field goal from Kevin Bush on the game's opening possession and a 14-yard TD run by McKnight on its second possession to take the 10-0 lead. - Dana Haddad Wilson 35, Verdugo Hills 6: Senior running back Dustin Quan scored three times in the first quarter to lead the Mules to a Northern Conference victory over the Dons at Verdugo Hills High. Quan had 132 yards on just four receptions and rushed 14 times for 81 yards. He went 75 yards on a pass from quarterback Steve Yanez for his third touchdown to put the Mules (5-3, 3-2) up 21-0 after one quarter. The Dons' lone touchdown came in the second quarter, as Percy Harris scored on an 8-yard pass from quarterback Jason Dupras. Dupras completed just 8 of 21 passes for 25 yards. Yanez had a big game for the Mules, completing 11 of 16 passes for 281 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran for a touchdown in the fourth quarter to cap the scoring. Verdugo Hills (3-5, 3-2) was held to 60 yards total offense while allowing 478. - Brian Rappe |
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