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Show I Braves Lasso Cats From j Behind ! Bountiful crammed all its scoring into the last minutes to earn state berth. By DAVE WIGHAM Clipper Sports , BOUNTIFUL Last Friday the Bountiful I football team almost pulled out a great come ' Yi frm behind victory over Viewmont but their efforts fell just short. Yesterday though the Braves went to their same come from behind (script and came up with a thrilling 20-14 overtime over-time victory over Woods Cross. THE WIN sends the Braves into the state : playoffs against Alta while the Cats saw their ;: frustrating season come to a close. Woods Cross seemed to have things well in hand with a 14-0 lead and just under three i minutes left in regulation play but back came this band of never say die Braves. After a cou-:- pie of pass plays to Matt Shelley and Steve Wilson the Braves found themselves on the ; Cats 45 yard line. Seeing plenty of pressure on ; his passer the Braves brainstrust called for a ritt: draw play that saw John Nichols go all the way for the score. The Braves tried for the two I point conversion but the pass fell incomplete j ; and the Cats still led 14-6 with just over one i minute left to play. EVERYONE KNEW what was coming but """J the Braves still managed to recover a great j onsides kick by sophomore Matt Bombard with senior Bruce Riddle falling on the pigskin. ) With 43 seconds left in the contest Rob Faddis ,' hit Shelley for a first down at the Cats 26 yard line. After an incomplete pass the Braves ran the same draw play to Nichols who was tackled 1i on the nine yard line. With fifteen seconds left in the game Faddis . hit Shelley on the three, then the Cats were ji whistled for pass interference giving the Braves the ball just over a yard away with only six seconds left. )' THE BRAVES elected to go for a running Play and they came up big with Chris West bulling over to make it 14-12. Then came the wierd two point conversion attempt, k At first the Braves tried to pass to West in j the endzone but one official ruled he trapped the ball while another ruled he caught it. After Jj a conference the officials threw a flag and cal-led cal-led the Braves for illegal procedure and ordered the play to be run over. rA BOUNTIFUL TOOK full use of it's second ;fl chance as Todd Steinicke found the ball in his J" arms after it had been knocked around by a S defender. Now it was overtime in the big city and ths Braves elected to play defense first. For three P'ays the Cats saw their passes into the en-I en-I ,j dzone fall off their mark. Then on fourth down " the Cats missed a field goal attempt leaving the score at 14-14. ! IN STEPPED the Braves offense, and along JjWh them that little thing called momentum. , 'he Cats were whistled offsides on the first .Pjay so now the Braves had a first and goal J m the five. Nichols tried to run into paydirt -J on two plays but came up short but then on A h down Faddis rolled t0 his right a Iittle and y hen hit Steinicke in the endzone for the win. " Was a heartbreaking loss for the Wildcats . wio had built up a 14-0 lead on a Mike Farner j quarterback sneak and a Farner to Junior Avie Pass from 25 yards out. The Cats got their two rxra points on a Farner to Travis McBeth ;?Pass. |
