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Dispatch

DUBLIN COFFMAN 17 WESTERVILLE SOUTH 10
Resilient Shamrocks refuse to crack
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Mark Znidar
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Westerville South?s Ryan Clark gives a forearm to tackler Robbie Brown of Dublin Coffman in the first quarter.
As players from Dublin Coffman and Westerville South lined up to shake hands at midfield after the game last night, it resembled the finish line of a marathon.
Both teams had gone the distance and both had nothing left to give.
In a game loaded with turnovers, penalties, big plays and huge swings in momentum, the Shamrocks hung on to edge the Wildcats 17-10 in the first round of the Division I playoffs at South.
"I feel fortunate to get out of here with a win," Coffman coach Mark Crabtree said. "They certainly had their chances to win the game. In the end, we did what we had to do."
South (8-3) had a chance to force overtime when it got the ball for the final time with 3:23 remaining.
Sacks by linemen Austin Hedderly and Tyler Carr and linebacker Mark Hogan put the Wildcats in a fourthand-22 situation, and an acrobatic catch by B.J. Cunningham at the Coffman 48 was 2 yards short of a first down with 21 seconds left.
It was that frenetic as South came on strong after falling behind 17-0 on touchdown catches of 14 and 25 yards by John Ratliff and Jake Stoneburner from quarterback Zak Kristan and a 23-yard field goal by Justin Baltzer.
"I felt like even though they were leading, they didn?t stop us," Wildcats coach Rocky Pentello said. "We stopped ourselves. I told the defense if they picked it up, we?d scored. They picked it up. But you can?t have that many turnovers in a playoff game."
South wasted scoring opportunities in the first half with a fumble that was recovered at the Coffman 8 by Jordan Bowdy and an interception in the end zone by Scott Stucky.
Behind sophomore quarterback Cortez Fleming, the Wildcats came back on a 32-yard field goal by Eric Gerhart with 3:37 left in the third quarter and a 5-yard run by Ryan Clark with 11:55 left in the fourth quarter.
Cunningham was a factor in both scores. The drive for the field goal started with his interception in the end zone. He set up the touchdown with a diving, one-handed 25-yard catch of a pass from Gerhart on a flea-flicker.
"We didn?t put our heads down when we got down," Cunningham said. "We stayed into the game. When we got that field goal, we knew we could score two touchdowns. We gave it everything we had."
Coffman (8-3) had three turnovers and was penalized seven times, but it didn?t fold. Tailback Steve Gardiner ran for 127 yards, Kristan threw for 168 yards and the defense never broke.
"In the first half, we came out throwing, running and gunning," Stoneburner said. "Then in the second half we got pinned back inside the 20 a lot and we never got momentum. I wouldn?t say we dodged a bullet, though."
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