O'Hara 45 Saint James 31

The Archbishop O'Hara High School football team scored five second half touchdowns to overwhelm Saint James Academy 45-31 on September 25th. _______ The wild game didn't really develop until the second half after the mild halftime score of 13-6. _____ At the start of the game, the Saint James Thunder scored on a 10 yard run by Danny Manning but the extra point kick was wide. In the scoring drive, the Thunder had to gamble twice on fourth down plays. It was the first time this season O'Hara gave up first quarter points. _____ With just five plays, the O'Hara Celtics had a touchdown with Brett Coatney scoring on a 14 yard run. Julian Gidley's extra point kick put the Celtics ahead and the team never trailed after that. _____ Joe Melchior stopped the Thunder's drive at the start of the second quarter with an interception, running the ball in for an apparent TD, but a blocking penalty prevented the score. After Aaron Stubblefield gathered in a 35 yard pass, the Celtics had first down on the 3 yard line. A fumble into the end zone on the next play gave the Thunder a touchback and possession on the 20 yard line. Joe Melchior intercepted again, and this time O'Hara put together a scoring drive, capped by a 26 yard touchdown pass by Louis Golden from T. J. White. The extra point kick was wide but the Celtics owned a 13-6 halftime score. _____ The Thunder went three and out to start the third quarter. In two plays, O'Hara upped the score to 19-6 with Raphael Spencer breaking away for a 36 yard TD. _____ Saint James strove to narrow the score with Jim Getto passing to Chase Jackson for 47 yards and bringing the ball within the 8 yard line. But on four consecutive attempts, the Thunder was unable to cope with the O'Hara defense and gave up the ball on the one foot line! _____ O'Hara was able to cover the 99 plus yards in seven plays finished off with a 60 yard touchdown run by Raphael Spencer! Chuck Preston ran in the two-point conversion for a 27-6 O'Hara lead. _____ Saint James answered with a touchdown; the two key plays were a fourth down 16 yard pass play from Jim Getto to Matt Eckelman and a 35 yard TD pass from Getto to Danny Manning. That made the score 27-12. _____ O'Hara put six more points on the board on a long 51 yard run by quarterback T. J. White. The extra point attempt was blocked, but the score became 33-12. _____ The Thunder responded with a long 53 yard touchdown pass caught by Matt Eckelman and a 33-18 game. The quarterback appeared to be well beyond the line of srimmage on the toss but the play was not called back. _____ Then Saint James got a successful on-side kick to set up another touchdown. In six plays, they brought the score to 33-25 with Bryan Eisman catching a 12 yard pass and Logan Fortney kicking the extra point. _____ With the margin shaved to only 8 points, the Celtics pushed across two consecutive fourth quarter touchdowns. The first was a10 yard yard keeper by T. J. White and the second was a 9 yard end run by Terrell Johnson. _____ With the score at 45-25 and twelve seconds on the clock, Jake Heller scored on an 18 yard run for Saint James.