CITY SECTION ROUNDUP : TAFT TROUNCES FAIRFAX.Byline: Daily News Quarterback Nick DiPadova was streaky streak·y adj. streak·i·er, streak·i·est 1. Marked with, characterized by, or occurring in streaks. 2. Variable or uneven in character or quality. Friday night for Taft High School. He started the game completing his first five passes and then was good on just one of his next seven efforts. It didn't make one bit of difference as DiPadova's completions were far more devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. than his misses as the No. 4-ranked Toreadors routed Fairfax 51-0 in a nonleague game at Taft. DiPadova finished the night with 201 yards, completing 12 of 25 attempts with three touchdowns as Taft improved to 2-0. Fairfax, which managed just 47 yards in total offense, fell to 0-2. DiPadova completed a 27-yard pass to Damon Coleman on the game's first play and Sedric Hurns followed with a 19-yard touchdown run as the Toreadors moved the ball up and down the field at will. Coleman finished with 98 yards on six receptions, including touchdown catches of 10, 41 and 31 yards. Hurns was equally impressive, running for 134 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries. Taft finished with 411 yards in offense. Fairfax stumbled routinely on offense. The Lions turned the ball over three times and had one run stopped in the end zone for a safety. Taft linebacker Donte Morgan had three sacks. SOURCE: Danny Schumacher Birmingham 21, University 14: The Braves (1-1) escaped with a victory when Warriors quarterback Nick Theodosiadis' pass to Stevenne Smith fell short on fourth-and-goal from the 4-yard line with 48 seconds to play. Birmingham running back Emmanuel Evans had 27 carries for 148 yards and scored on two 1-yard plunges. Evans also threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Demetrus Patterson on a fake punt in the first quarter to put the Braves up 13-0. The Warriors (1-1) got their first touchdown on a 60-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 Mitchell Fitzhugh to close the gap to 13-6 at the half. Fitzhugh also had an 80-yard touchdown run that would have tied the score called back at 4:37 of the third quarter. After Evans ran for his second 1-yard score, University's Harold Stephens ran in a 5-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 21-14 after 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. . He finished with 64 yards on 12 carries. Birmingham quarterback Scott Doherty was 2 of 13 for 17 yards and threw an interception. He was 0 for 6 in the second half. Evans, in addition to having a hand in all three touchdowns, punted six times for 216 yards. SOURCE: Jack Pollon Marshall 11, Grant 0: The host Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. were frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: with 6:46 to play when an 80-yard touchdown pass from Lawrence Monroy to Miguel Chavez was called back because of a holding penalty. On the next play, Monroy was intercepted by Carlos Orozco, setting up a 29-yard Walter Hernandez field goal that secured the nonleague win for the Barristers (1-1) at Monroe High School For other uses, see James Monroe High School. Monroe High School may refer to:
The Lancers (0-2) had minus-24 yards rushing. Marshall's Vince Vegara had a 30-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. After Jesse Prichard hit Hernandez for the two-point conversion, the Barristers had an 8-0 halftime lead. Oscar Rivera Oscar Lopez Rivera was a leader in the Armed Forces of National Liberation, and was sentenced to 55 years for seditious conspiracy, which included the bombing of 28 targets in the Chicago area. Oscar López-Rivera was born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico on January 6, 1943. led Marshall's ball-control offense with 124 yards rushing on 22 carries. The only bright spot for the Lancers was Monroy, who completed 16 of 22 for 151 yards. Chavez caught seven passes for 93 yards. SOURCE: Jack Pollon Monroe 30, Wilson 25: For the second straight week the visiting Vikings' (2-0) running attack produced two 100-yard rushers. Vinny Walker carried a majority of the load, rushing for 176 yards on 31 carries, with George Garcia adding 111 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries. The lead changed hands several times. The Mules scored quickly with a 58-yard reverse by Brandon Clay on the first play from scrimmage A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away. . Monroe scored later in the first quarter on a 31-yard run by George Garcia. Dewayne Rose may have supplied the boost which put Monroe over the top, contributing with key plays on defense and special teams. He had a 37-yard interception return for a touchdown and recovered a muffed punt In American Football, a Muffed Punt is, "Touching of the ball prior to possessing the ball." [ChicagoSports.com [1]] A muffed punt occurs when there is an "uncontrolled touch" of the football after it is punted. on the 2-yard line, running it back for 47 yards. Wilson's offense was led by quarterback Julio Briones, who was 8 of 28 for 163 yards. He also rushed for 28 yards on eight carries. Wilson completed two big passes for touchdowns in the second half: a 42-yard strike to Eric Wagner Eric Wagner is an American heavy metal singer who is best known for his work with doom metal band Trouble. He briefly left Trouble in the mid-nineties and went on to form Lid with guitarist Danny Cavanagh, resulting in 1997's In The Mushroom. and a 53-yard pass to Carlos Diaz Carlos Diaz can refer to:
The lead changed hands for the last time when Monroe quarterback Willie Alaimo (5 of 11 for 46 yards) scored the winning touchdown on an 18-yard run with 5:46 remaining in the game. The Mules were able to drive to the 23-yard line, but lost the ball on downs after Briones failed to connect on four straight passes. SOURCE: Robert Rundquist 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.] 34, 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. 14: The Cougars dominated with a three-back attack, and Damon Rogers led the way with 152 yards on 19 carries and two touchdowns in a nonleague game at Poly. Sophomore running back Mike Culpepper had eight carries for 67 yards and sophomore running back Justin Crenshaw had seven carries for 42 yards. Poly (0-2) stayed close in the first half, but a goal-line stand by Crenshaw (2-0) with a 1:00 remaining in the first half set the table for the second half, in which Cougars dominated. Crenshaw rushed for 265 yards. SOURCE: Larton Broome CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Grant quarterback Lawrence Monroy is sacked in the fourth quarter by a gaggle of Marshall defenders. Terri Thuente / Daily News |
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