We reached Vernon and I act like it's just another game and tell my self to stay focused. We get off the bus and head into the locker room to get dressed. We're dressed and ready. Now it's game time. We get through doing drills and warming up now it's time for opening kick off.
We battle back and forth, now I know this will not be an easy game. We fight and are down by 14 to 6 at half time. Knowing we weren't playing very good and would have to change something to win this game we listen closely to coach for answers and advice.
He tells us what to do in order to win and make a change. We break out and halftime is over. The second half of the game is about to start. The kickoff comes and we take it down field a ways and start our offensive possession. With the help of everyone on the team we march down and score but miss our two-point conversion, making the score 14-12. This gave us a good adrenaline rush and got us pumped up. So the next few possessions we battle it out, but our opponent scores again, and they miss their two-point conversion also. This made the score 20-12. Knowing we had to put a lot of effort in to score we come up with a couple of good plays, and we scored. This gave us a huge rush knowing we could pull this out and win. The score was now 20-18, and we battle it out with out any one scoring until the fourth quarter. Then we have the ball with about a minute and a half left. We also have to drive about 85 yards down field to score. We don't panic at all because we get some plays from coach and we are used to this situation. So we hurry onto the field and our first three plays didn't work. Now it's about fourth and twelve. Then our quarter back, Kelton, gets the call from Coach Roberts. The play was Blue Arrow. It was a deep pass that's supposed to go to me. With about 45 more seconds left on the clock the line gets down. I set up and face the corner that was guarding me. I knew I was going to have to be fast to beat this guy. Then I hear it, Kelton's voice saying "Go!". I bust out as fast I possibly can and the guy is only about a yard or two behind me. Then I see the ball in mid-air, a perfect 40 yard pass from Kelton right into my hands. Immediately I feel the corner jump on my back, but I knew that time was running out and we needed to score. So I kept going, digging my feet in the ground as hard as I could and dragging the guy behind me for about another 30 yards. I finally fall out of the sideline, and stop the time. We're on about the 15 yard line when we set up again. The call is R-hot even though we have ran this play quite a few time in this game we run it once again for hope that #80, Tristan Patterson, will be able to sneak through the defense and score to win. Then something bad happens. As soon as we line up on the field and set our play up, the defense starts shouting "Watch number eighty!" and we all knew that they were going to make sure Tristan wasn't going to get the ball. We run the play anyway cause we have no choice, the refs had started the time, and it was running out. Kelton says go and everyone sees it, they cover Tristan very well, but there is a tiny whole and Kelton throws it perfect and Tristan snags it. Everyone holds their breath hoping Tristan can make it across the goal line. He fights as hard as he can and is within a few yards, but the whole opponents team swarms him, nad he falls short. At the time the buzzer rang, and we lost. It was a tough battle, but both teams worked hard and played hard. Little did we know that our opponent, Munday, would also play our varsity team in the state-semi finals game later on in the season,
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