CRESPI TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARD LEAGUE TITLE CRESPI 29, SERRA 21.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 GARDENA - At the end of Friday night's game, the formerly white jersey of Randle Harris mostly matched the hue of his Crespi High-issued brown pants, an indication of just how much Harris had accomplished for the Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
Harris, a 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 , had just eight carries in the first half but finished with 158 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Celts of Encino to a 29-21 victory over Serra of Gardena in a crucial Del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
With a chance to tie it in the final two minutes, Serra drove to the Crespi 29, but lineman Sione Fua sacked quarterback Brandon Charles for a 13-yard loss, then Charles threw incomplete on fourth down. The Celts (5-3, 3-0) set up a potential showdown for the league championship next week against Bosco Tech and also all but ended the title dreams of the perennially strong Cavaliers (3-5, 1-2). ``We knew this was a big game for us to defend our league championship, and we had to get it done,'' said Harris, who also had a fourth-quarter interception of Charles on a potential game-tying drive for Serra. It wasn't easy, as Crespi trailed for much of the game, but never by more than a touchdown. The Celts tightened up what had been a porous porous /por·ous/ (por´us) penetrated by pores and open spaces. po·rous adj. 1. Full of or having pores. 2. Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores. run defense in the first half, and handed the ball to Harris. Harris had only 36 yards at halftime, but he got the ball 19 times in the second half and gained 122 of his 158 total. Harris' 17-yard touchdown run, his second of the game, gave Crespi a 22-21 lead with 3:36 remaining in the third quarter, and he was far from finished. Serra gained only one first down on its next possession, but an excellent punt pinned the Celts back at their own 5. Harris then took the 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. on seven consecutive plays and marched the Celts to the Serra 27. After two Harris runs of 19 yards each, the Serra defense was sufficiently softened soft·en v. soft·ened, soft·en·ing, soft·ens v.tr. 1. To make soft or softer. 2. To undermine or reduce the strength, morale, or resistance of. 3. up. That allowed quarterback Matt Wabby to fake a handoff to Harris and throw over the middle to a wide-open D.J. Holt holt n. Archaic A wood or grove; a copse. [Middle English, from Old English.] holt Noun the lair of an otter [from , who came up 1 yard short of the end zone. Harris ran it in for a 29-21 lead one minute into the fourth quarter. ``I still felt strong at the end,'' Harris said. ``The offensive line opened up some good holes for me, and I took advantage of them. My line had a really good night.'' Serra's next two drives ended in interceptions, by Harris and Martin Ciccolini, and Fua's sack effectively ended the game. Crespi took its only other lead, at 15-14, with 15 seconds left in the first half when Wabby and Ciccolini connected on an 11-yard touchdown. Serra then scored on the fourth play of the second half, after the Cavaliers took advantage of a Crespi fumble at its own 6. Wabby completed 11 of 22 attempts for 188 yards. Rich Hammond, (818) 713-3611 rich.hammond(at)dailynews.com |
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