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| Posted by: Gregory Broome |
11/5/2007 9:38 PM |
Transmitting live from Ned Love Field as Dunnellon, West Port and Williston scrap for a playoff spot.
WILLISTON WINS - DUNNELLON, WEST PORT OUT
Good evening, and thank you for frequenting a special Monday night edition of Friday Night Football Scoreboard. It seems like it hasn't been more than three days since I last compiled all the Marion County prep football information I could gather and tossed it your way, often with pictures and various colors of text. That's how The Sports Blog rolls.
It's a pleasure to be broadcasting live this evening from Ned Love Field in Dunnellon, or really anywhere away from the climate-controlled air and soft electrical drone that comprises the sports department of the Ocala Star-Banner. This is fresh, cool air, the aroma of foods my diet forbids and a big honkin' field of grass with lines and numbers painted on it. This is football, and I'm happy to be here.
If you don't know what's at stake tonight, you inexplicably failed to read Sunday's edition of the Star-Banner. Luckily, ocala.com archives such information, and friend of The Sports Blog Richard Burton's table-setting story on tonight's series/tiebreaker/game/set/match can be accessed right here on ocala.com.
The gist: Dunnellon, West Port, and Williston each have two district losses, so they have to break the tie. To do so, West Port plays Williston for a quarter, the winner plays Dunnellon for a quarter, and that winner makes the playoffs. So basically, all that's at stake tonight is the combined hopes and dreams of three high school football teams full of precocious young athletes who will remember tonight for the rest of their lives. Nothing more than that.
Settle in for the updates, and I'll see you in the comments section.
2ND QUARTER
Williston 7
@ Dunnellon 0
UPDATE: Dunnellon gets first offensive possession, starting at its 35. A 15-yard penalty, a short Lerentee McCray run, and a deflected pass equal third and long. Andrew Stichter comes through, finding DJ Brown at the Tigers 47 for a first down.
UPDATE: Stichter and McCray fumble away an option run, and Williston takes over possession at their own 49 with 8:59 to play.
UPDATE: Dunnellon defense looks stout. Devils punt, Dunnellon takes over at its own 10.
UPDATE: McCray breaks a 29-yard run down the sideline, and a Stichter keeper moves the Tigers to the 48. A block in the back moves Dunnellon backwards, but a pass interference call on a completed pass to George Simmons gives Dunnellon the first down at midfield. 4:41 to play.
UPDATE: McCray comes up short on 3rd-and-6, and Dunnellon opts to go for it on 4th and 3 at the Williston 39. They hand to McCray up the middle, and he’s stopped cold. Williston ball, no score, 4 minutes left.
UPDATE: Williston’s Devin Timmons finds CJ James down the sideline to put the Devils in the red zone with 2:46 on the clock. Deonte Welch picks up another first down. First and goal at the 4.
TD UPDATE: After a false start, Welch trots in from 9 yards out for the game’s first score. Williston 7, Dunnellon 0, only 1:45 to play.
FINAL: Dunnellon gains just 6 yards on 3 plays, and goes for it on 4th and 4. Stichter drops it, apparently bouncing it off McCray cutting through the line. Williston takes over on downs, takes a knee and takes the runner-up spot. They’ll visit Crystal River to open the playoffs.
Williston 7, Dunnellon 0
Check ocala.com and tomorrow’s Star-Banner for Richard Burton’s full story. Thanks for hanging out. Good night Dunnellon!
1ST QUARTER
West Port 0
vs. Williston 14
QUOTES: West Port coach Tom Tedder on the experience of a playoff game: “That’s what I told the guys just now, for underclassmen, you’ve got to say to yourself, what kind of commitment are you going to make in the offseason? And then stick to it. Just don’t show up every once in a while, you’ve got to be here every day. Every day...Maybe next year we don’t even have to be in a situation like this. We can just control our own destiny and make ourselves a clear runner-up...You just learn from it. That’s about all you can do.”
STATS: Courtesy of friend of The Sports Blog Richard Burton. You might want to put the kids out of the room for these.
Williston total yards: 119; West Port total yards: -10
Travis Evans, Williston: 11 carries, 83 yards, TD
Adam Johnson, WP: 1-10, 12 yards, 2 interceptions, sacked twice, 5 carries for -22.
WP: 0-4 on third down conversions.
TD UPDATE: Williston’s on the board first. After a three-and-out by West Port featuring three passes that weren’t even close, Williston picks up a first down on a pair of runs by Travis Evans, then Evans breaks loose for a 40-yard TD run to put the Red Devils up 7-0 with 10 minutes even to play.
UPDATE: West Port botches the kick reception on a squib by Williston, and the Devils fall on it around midfield.
UPDATE: Williston does nothing with the extra possession. Devils punt from the West Port 38, and it lands on the Wolf Pack 17 with 7:22 to play.
TD UPDATE: This is getting unpleasant quickly. Adam Johnson throws a pass up the middle on 3rd and 12, Deonte Welch picks it off and runs it 27 yards for a TD and the Devils lead 14-0 with 6:57 to play.
UPDATE: Pure disaster for West Port. Brandon Scott picks off a severely underthrown Adam Johnson pass down the sideline, and Williston gets the ball back at its own 35. Just 5:55 remains.
UPDATE: Three and out for the Devils. West Port starts at its own 33. Now would be a good time to score.
UPDATE: That helps out quite a bit. 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty puts West Port at midfield with 3:41 to play. Johnson responds with a nice first-down pass to the 38.
UPDATE: Johnson sacked on third down. False start on Wolf Pack, declined, and it’s 4th-and-long. A pair of Devils defenders sack Johnson clear back at his own 40. Williston up 14-0, with possession and 2:26 to play.
UPDATE: Williston’s running down the clock. It’s under a minute.
FINAL: Williston 14, West Port 0. That was pretty dominating. Williston vs. Dunnellon in 20 minutes.
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Re: Monday Night Football Scoreboard |
By Anonymous on
11/6/2007 10:16 AM |
| Despite all of the criticism our boys have gotten, West Port High School in my mind is about to turn the corner. This team had one of the toughest schedules in the county and have been battle tested all year. Last year they had 1 district win, this year 2. I think next year they'll get 3. They have a good group of young players coming up who play as a team. Look to me last night as a fan there were indiviuduals who didn't come together for 1 quarter. |
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Re: Monday Night Football Scoreboard |
By Richard Burton on
11/6/2007 12:52 PM |
| I was surprised at the lack of attendance at the tiebreaker. Usually, those things are standing room only. The first one in 1997 at Booster had about 10,000 people. Williston is so much better with Timmons in the lineup at QB than it was earlier this year. They have Newberry this week in a rivalry game, which should thrill Crystal River, their first round playoff opponent. I remember when Forest and Vanguard beat each other up in week 10, then lost in the opening round of the playoffs against teams they should have beaten. West Port looked as if it just didn't matchup well with the Red Devils, yet it always gives Dunnellon fits. |
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