Personal Narrative: The Green Wave

In game two, Centenary fell behind 3-0 before scoring two in the fourth because of a key error and one more in the fifth. With two down in the fourth, senior Lizzie Moran hit a groundball to first that was misplayed to allow her to beat the throw. Moran stole second and scored on sophomore Wendy Gillet’s RBI hit. While trying to gun down Moran at the plate, Gillet moved to second and scored on freshman Ashley Albright’s hit.

Green Run came out the gate in this game sloppy, and the Braves made them pay. Shawn Sanders was the only consistency for Green Run on this night as a lot of younger players were put into the rotation. The continuity that this team usually plays with was not there tonight. Indian River was making shots and attacking the Stallions at every opportunity. Green Run only have a 13-9 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Facing a third and nine, with 5:53 left, Newark Catholic fed the beast known as,Kyle(4 STAR) Gibson and he easily picked up the first down, with a big gain. His front line blew off the ball on this play, making the pick up look easy. With 4:21 left in the quarter, Gibson picked up another first down, when the Green Wave were facing a fourth and one situation. The fourteen play,seventy-one-yard drive ended on a one-yard plunge from Gibson,. The point after increased the Newark Catholic lead to,14-0, with 3:02 left in the

Gibson would take the ball to the Cadets four-yard-line late in the quarter, to set up next Green Wave score.

Grier complete a 60-yard pass to Ricky Rogers and Pettaway took it to the end zone with a three-yard carry, cutting the defense's lead to 28-14.

In a heartbreaking loss in game one, Centenary rallied from an 8-2 deficit to take a 9-8 lead in the bottom of the eighth. However, Trinity scored two in the ninth for the thrilling 10-9 win. With Centenary down 8-2 in the fifth, the Maroon and White erupted for five runs to cut the deficit to one. Quintanilla walked and Schimpf singled to put runners on the corners. With one out, Crowder singled up the middle for an RBI. Russell singled to load the bases, and a bases-loaded walk with two outs plated the second run. Junior Ian Graham delivered the big blow, doubling down the leftfield line to clear the bases. However, he was thrown out trying to take third

On a two-run blast by Jeremy Montalbano, Tulane cut the deficit to 4-2 in the bottom of the second.

Walking out onto the opponent’s brightly lit turf field setting up for the kickoff of the second half just gave me the feeling that everybody knows, my hair starts to stand up, butterflies began to flutter in my stomach, and everything seems to slow down. Looking into the stands and seeing that our hometown fans had traveled four hours in order to outdo the home crowd gave me a sense of comfort. Looking into East Jefferson’s stands and seeing that our fans, despite having to travel all the way down south, outnumbered their fans by at least 70 people. I found myself thinking that this meant just as much to our town as it did to our school and team. This feeling would be just the motivation we needed in order to finish this game

Woodward had to know this game was all but over at the 5:38 mark of the 2nd quarter, so they decided to go for it on fourth down, needing fourteen-yards for the first down, deep in their own territory. The decision went from bad to worse when Reliford was called for intentional grounding, giving the ball to Belmont at the Bulldogs nine-yard line.

It seemed as though hope had been revived in the fourth quarter when an 80-yard run by Baldiviez put some points up on Dana’s end of the board. With 49 seconds remaining, Junior Corey Cisowski found Senior Ryder Lynch who finished off the game with a 6-yard touchdown.

9:52 remained when New picked up 28-yards on a nice run where he was tackled by Taylor. Phelps ended the 6-play,58-yard drive with a 9-yard touchdown run by New, who used the work of his offensive line to go right up the guy of the Warriors defense. This made the score 25-0. with

While Aldridge retired the side in order in the second, she showed fatigue as she allowed two in the third, and one each in the fourth and fifth. Grace Estes singled to lead off the third for the Bulldogs and scored on J Gallager’s triple. T Yancey singled to put Texas Lutheran up 4-2 after three innings.

Facing a 4th and five with 4:47 left in the third quarter,the Indians elected to go for it. Jack Beeler was sacked for an 12-yard loss by #8 Marcus Jones. The Cougars carried that momentum with them on the ensuing drive. It tool 8-plays to cover the 49-yards for the score, with the score coming in the shape of a 4-yard run from Bailey. The point after kick locked this one up once again, at 14 apiece with 1:22 left in the quarter.

Moreover, as the boys' and girls' team faced the Paterson Kennedy Knights in their first game, much of the crowd was left in utter silence. The final score of 62-56 for the boys and 57-34 for the girls, with the Knights claiming the victory, explained the reaction of the crowd with the Bulldogs showing signs of exhaustion. "Our players were trying their best despite the loss," stated Coach Boorman.

Friday, Northwood faced JM in a crosstown rivalry. The game was a stalemate for most of the first half. After the Charger defense came up with two consecutive goal line stops, Montel Goods muscled his way into the end zone for a 3 yard score with 9:43 left in the second quarter. The chargers would pull away from there. After the defense forced JM to punt on fourth down, with 6:26 left in the second quarter, Quarterback, Jacob Fowler, connected with Jared Worley for a 16 yard touchdown. Then lightning suspended the game with 3:53 left in the second half. The suspension did not slow down the Chargers offense, as Fowler would score on a quarterback sneak from the four yard line just before halftime.