PARACLETE MAKES GOAL-LINE STAND COUNT : PARACLETE 8 BANNING 6.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer As far as Rob McShea was concerned, this would decide Paraclete High's football season. It didn't matter that a successful Banning 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. would have simply tied Friday's Division XI championship game in Riverside County. ``It was either get it done now and win or go home crying,'' said McShea, the Spirits' senior linebacker. McShea, with an assist from teammate Michael Washington, brought down Broncos running back Ricky Lynn at the goal line with 7:56 left in the game to preserve an 8-6 victory and Paraclete's first CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). championship since 1967. The two-point conversion gang-tackle by McShea and Washington was just a piece of several clutch plays that the Spirits (13-1) inserted into their championship puzzle. The other critical moment came on Paraclete's 80-yard, 9-minute, 40-second touchdown drive to begin the third quarter. With a stiff wind blowing at them, the Spirits ate up the third-quarter clock and Banning's (9-5) advantage with the wind. Paraclete faced a fourth-and-12 at the Broncos 43 but was not about to give up possession so easily. ``It was a four-down zone. We weren't going to punt the ball and have it go just 3 yards,'' Paraclete coach Steve Hagerty said of the blustery blus·ter v. blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters v.intr. 1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm. 2. a. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner. conditions. Instead, with Tommy Breech breech (brech) the buttocks. breech n. The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks. breech, britch the buttocks of an animal; the backs of the thighs. in punt formation, the ball was snapped to the upback, Spirits quarterback Robbie Fockaert, who then made a quick option pitch to Breech. The play completely baffled Banning's punt-return unit, with Breech having ample territory on the right side to gain 13 yards and a first down. The fake punt was buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. deep in Hagerty's playbook all season, just waiting for the right time to pull it out. One of two Paraclete completions on the night, a 13-yard Fockaert pass to J.C. Nessa, got the ball closer and 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 Dominic Washington busted bust·ed adj. 1. Slang a. Smashed or broken: busted glass; a busted rib. b. Out of order; inoperable: a busted vending machine. 2. into the end zone from the 2 and then added a two-point conversion run after a roughing-the-kicker penalty canceled out a missed extra point. Washington, slowed down by an ankle injury over the past three weeks, was a workhorse work·horse n. 1. Something, such as a machine, that performs dependably under heavy or prolonged use: "the 50-year-old DC-3 ... , rushing for 114 yards on 26 carries. ``You can't think about your ankle hurting,'' Washington said. ``This was for a championship.'' The Broncos got back into the game behind a fumble recovery by Larry Armstrong at the Paraclete 37. Six plays later Armstrong ran 6 yards for a touchdown before Lynn was taken down a couple inches away from a tie with 7:56 remaining. ``When we missed the two-point conversion, I could just see the guys hanging their heads,'' Banning coach Brian Hay said. Hay's team had one more opportunity when the ensuing en·sue intr.v. en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues 1. To follow as a consequence or result. See Synonyms at follow. 2. To take place subsequently. floating kickoff was fumbled and recovered by Jon Palacios at the Spirits 39. Banning moved to the 28 but a pitch from quarterback Jerry Bournes got away from Armstrong and Jason Wilbur recovered the Broncos' third lost fumble of the night. |
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