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Eagles Lose a Heartbreaker |
Maybe
it’s the schedule. Maybe
there aren’t enough home games for our Frosh/Soph team.
Whatever the cause is, the Eagles are 0-3 now.
Sophomore Austin Pruden, still feeling the affects from an
injury, played a big role in South Torrance.
With 2:30 left in the first quarter, Pruden picked up an
interception. The Eagles had
to punt facing a fourth and ten. It
was 21-0 at the end of the first half with the South Torrance Spartans
leading. All hope seemed lost, but not with the Eagles.
As soon as the Spartans were beginning to relax, the team never
gave up. After halftime,
right off the bat Jesse Wood recovered a fumble on the bottom of a
dog pile. Later that drive,
quarterback Tyson Hawley threw a touchdown pass to Pruden in
the third quarter facing a third and five.
Pruden would also catch a pass for the two point conversion,
making it 21-8 with ten minutes left in the third.
Not much happened in the rest of the third.
At
the beginning of the fourth, sophomore Ruben Figueroa recovered a
fumble to make it first and ten Eagles.
On the same drive, Pruden would again score a touchdown.
This time, Wood completed the pass.
The two point conversion was incomplete, making the score 21-14.
On the kick-off, Wood would again recover the football on an
onside kick by Hawley. Bryan
Yatabe attempted a rush in Spartan territory; the ball was stripped
from his hands with the Spartans recovering.
But Robert Morrison recovered another fumble for the Eagles.
Brad Howell received a pass from Hawley to put the
Eagles on the one-yard line. Hawley
successfully perform the old quarterback sneak for another six points.
Brad Howell received another pass for two points making it
22-21, Eagles.
When
the Eagles got the ball with one minute left in the game, the Spartans
used all three timeouts to keep time on the clock.
The Eagles defense did not allow one yard until a 43-yard pass was
completed to end the game at 28-22. Although
the Eagles lost, they made an impossible comeback.
The defensive M.V.P was none other than Wood who recovered
two fumbles in this game. Wood
also threw a touchdown pass in the fourth.
The big story and the offensive M.V.P was Pruden who caught
two touchdown passes. On
defense, Pruden also got an interception plus recovered a
fumble.
In
game one, Pruden suffered a separated shoulder late in the game. In game two, his shoulder once again popped out of place, but
it wasn’t as crucial as the previous because he would later pop his
shoulder back in. This game, Pruden
stayed injury free to keep the Eagles in the game all the way.
If Pruden can remain healthy the whole game for another
seven games, the Eagles could breeze past their opponents.
Hawley
has been
a second half performer much like professional quarterback Brett Favre.
Hawley was hurt mildly in the third quarter, but he shook it
off and remained in the game till the end.
Hawley threw for 20 completions out of 40 attempts, all for
219 yards. This equaled two
touchdown passes, twice a two point conversion was successful, and an
interception. Hawley could
well be M.V.P for the Eagles in the 2001 season.