Creative Writing: The Jefferson County Patriots

With the Christmas tournament aside, we entered the post-season without a loss. We had a plan for each playoff game from districts to regional. We never deviated from the plan, keeping our eye on the target –

Tied at two after an inning in game one, the Ladies scored two in the second and two in the third to open up a 6-2 lead. With two outs and no one on in the second, infield singles by junior Payton LeBlanc and sophomore Haley Campbell put two on for senior Anna Dunn. Dunn doubled to left center to clear the bases and put Centenary up for good.

Centenary got back one, but the Crusaders put the game away with five in the sixth. The Ladies committed three errors which led to three unearned runs for Dallas.

Newark Catholic won the toss and as they seem to do all the time, elected to take the ball. On the drive the Green Wave needed just six plays to go fifty-two-yards, to make this a,7-0 game. The drive ended when speedster Cameron Lewis going the final ten-yards. The point after kick by on again off again by senior kicker,Nathan Liesen

Last night in Zanesville at Sulsberger John D Stadium, Newark Catholic and Fort Frye battled in a third round playoff game. Fort Frye came in 12-0, while the Green Wave came in with a,8-4record. During the regular season the teams Fort Frye anihlated had a combined record of, 39-63 and the biggest schoo they faced was, division five Northridge, a team Newark Catholic hammered by,28. Fort Frye got them by 17.

The Patriots (26-15) tied the game in the sixth at 4, then a three-run blast by Bishop over the right-field wall put UT Tyler ahead 7-4. Bishop and the top five in the UT Tyler order accounted for nine of the 12 hits to support six-different pitchers in the win.

Around single tallies for Trinity in the fifth, sixth, and seventh, a wild pitch with a runner on third in the fifth and an RBI single by Lavergne in the sixth lifted Centenary to the run-rule win and the championship.

This game started off as tough as they come both teams getting good looks, and making their shots. We were all waiting to see who was going to go cold first. Highland Springs only had a one point lead at the end of the first quarter with a score of 21-20. Springers were killing Princess Anne from the three-point line shooting 50%. Lady Cavaliers were hot as well, they were

The YellowJackets (2-2) rallied from a two-run deficit with a three-run sixth inning to take the opener. LeTourneau had 12 hits including four from freshman Kennedi Dillow in the win. Junior Kayla Cosby came off the bench to pitch 3.1 innings of one-hit relief of starter junior Courtney Matulis to secure her first win at LETU.

The next game was a little closer at a score of 12-6 win over the York B team

Paulding County captured the lead in the second inning. A Patriot hitter grounded out, scoring one run. The Dragons evened things up at two in the bottom of the seventh inning. Dalton Presley drove in one when he singled in the seventh inning.

An exciting fourth quarter provided both teams an opportunity to score. As the Dolphins finished off the game with an additional touchdown, Sunny Hills added another 8 points to their end of the scoreboard finishing the game 17-34.

With the Dallas Cowboys trailing 23-17 with little time left in the 4th quarter, Longley found an open Pearson for a 50 yard touchdown pass; therefore Dallas won 24-23. This dramatic win with the odds stacked against the Cowboys has yet been beaten as the greatest moment in the Thanksgiving day series.

This is it. The championship game is in the last quarter, down to a minute and a half. The line of scrimmage is at the 10-yard line. Jeffery, the quarterback, fields the snap, and he looks for an open receiver. Tommy, his best friend and the tight end, is unmanned in the end zone. The throw is perfect. The crowd roars in excitement that Thomas Jefferson High School won the State Championship.

The team was ready, we had been working extremely hard for the past seven months for this. We were all in great shape and very rested. A few of the returning players were meeting me at my house to carpool to the final game of the state championship tournament. Everyone knew that the hard work had paid off when we won the semi-final game the preceding day.