HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME

O’HARA EDGES SAINT JAMES 14-13 It came down to a missed extra point attempt and the O’Hara Celtics football team was able to score a Homecoming victory 14-13 Friday night. Each team scored twice and in both cases Saint James scored first and was immediately was answered with an O’Hara TD. In the first quarter, O’Hara fumbled giving Saint James good field position. .Jim Getto plunged for the six points and Christian Mata converted the extra point. The Celtics responded with five lightning plays covering a total of 80 yards. The big yardage came from a TJ White pass to Joe Pepple who fought his way for 42 yards. Don Criswell added a nifty 30 yard run and the actual touchdown was via a 13 yard run by Criswell. Bryce Scovill kicked the first of his two extra points of the evening. O’Hara had difficulties with penalties and bad snaps, some of which resulted in long lost yards through quarterback sacks. There was no scoring in the second period although Joe Pepple had a wide-open pass in the end zone and Aaron Stubblefield had a spectacular deep catch on the five yard line; both plays were negated by 5 yard penalties at the line of scrimmage. At halftime, Andy Park and Patrice Jackson were crowned homecoming king and queen. Also at halftime the jersey #21 was retired. It had been the number of Mike ‘81, JR ‘83, Mark ‘87, and Jeff ‘93 Brown who were outstanding O’Hara players of the past all from the same family. Ben Reynoldson intercepted a TJ White pass in the third quarter at midfield and set up Saint James’ second TD by returning the ball to the 17 yard line. A bit later, he scored on a run from 9 yards away but the extra point kick failed. After receiving the ensuing kickoff, on the Celtics’ second play, TJ White scored on a 59 yard run untouched around right end. Scovill then put O’Hara on top for the first time in the game, and the defense held up the rest of the way. O’Hara was able to keep possession for the final five and a half minutes of the fourth quarter.