D14 MARYLAND4ASOUTHFOOTBALL
Once again, ER takes down Suitland Recovered from
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a broken collarbone, Petty leads the way
BY JOSH BARR The surgically-implanted plate
and screws are still in his right shoulder,areminderof thebroken collarbonehe sustainedfiveweeks ago. But Shawn Petty returned to the lineuplastweek, andonSatur- day the Eleanor Roosevelt junior quarterback showed why he is considered a difference-maker on the football field. Petty threw two touchdown
passes and led the visiting Raid- ers with 69 yards rushing as they beat 19th-ranked Suitland, 20-14, in a Maryland 4A South Region semifinal before 1,500. “He’s a calming influence in the
huddle,” Roosevelt Coach Tom Green said. “He just did what he had to do.” Having won at Suitland for the
IACFOOTBALL
With a late flurry, Bulldogs clinchwin 13
Team takes consecutive conference titles
for first time in 67 years
BY PRESTONWILLIAMS With a shanked punt angling
toward the St. Albans sideline, Bulldogs coaches and players shouted their “Peter! Peter!” warning to the guys on the field, alerting them to a short kick that might hit them and provide an easy recovery for Landon. Those cries turned to “Andrew!
Andrew!” when senior Andrew Jones instinctively corralled the errant punt on the bounce and raced 35 yards for a touchdown to breaka scoreless tiewithless than two minutes left in the Bulldogs’ 13-7 win at Landon in what amounted to an Interstate Athlet- ic Conference championship.
ST. ALBANS LANDON 7 Jones’s gem was only one high-
light from the eventful final two minutes. After Landon went four and out with 1:21 to play, Bulldogs senior Fritz Parker scored a 28- yard touchdown to put his team ahead 13-0. Landon senior Antoine Hud-
son, on a well-timed pitch from senior John Lynn, returned the ensuing kickoff 72yardsdownthe home sideline for a score. But St. Albans recovered the subsequent onside kick to secure its first back-to-back IAC titles since 1942-44 and its third title in four years, all over Landon. “These kids deserve every bit of
it,” Bulldogs Coach Gary Schnell said. “Twenty-six seniors. They earned everything they got today.
We played our best defensive game of the year the last game of the year.” St. Albans picked up 11 first
downs, four on its opening drive, and missed three field goals (a 33-yarder and two 44-yarders) but drove within the Landon 20- yard line only once, not counting that next-to-last possession. Landon (7-3, 3-1), which
knocked off former IAC power- house Georgetown Prep last week, managed only one first down in each half. Repeating as league champs
for the first time in 67 years is the kind of history lesson the Bull- dogs (9-1, 4-0) were eager to learn on a perfect fall afternoon. The win also gave them a 40-
39-2 series lead. “It’s sort of been in the back of
our minds all season,” Parker said. “We’ve got a heck of a senior class. I love these guys. ”
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second consecutive week, the Raiders (9-2) advanced to the re- gional final at 13th-ranked Wise. The Pumas (10-1) beat C.H. Flow- ers,40-12,onSaturdaybehind103 yards fromUriah Bethea and two interception returns for touch- downs from Rayshaud Shields. Petty had been a bit limited last
week, not wanting to take any unnecessary risks. He rarely ran the ball and avoided contact if he could. “I didn’t want to mess anything
up,” he said. “It wasn’t the play- offs. But I was going to go all out today.” Petty did not have much of a
choice. Backup Jairus Cook was injured and played just one snap. Donte Williams had an early
12-yard touchdown run and Pet- ty’s 29-yard touchdown pass to Rahn Fisher gave the Raiders a 14-6 halftime lead.
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DCIAAFOOTBALLSEMIFINALS Early in the fourth quarter,
Petty’s eight-yard touchdown pass to Howard Wilder made it 20-6. Petty finished 7 of 15 for 125 yards.
Suitland backup quarterback
Greg Evans, playing for injured starter Nyema Washington (con- cussion) threw a 29-yard touch- down pass to LeVern Jacobs with 4 ½ minutes left, pulling the Rams within 20-14. Suitland (9-2) then forced a
punt, getting the ball on its own 1-yard line with 1 minute 42 sec- onds left. Evans hitRyan Allen on 4th-and-10 to keep the drive alive. Two more completions helped move the ball to the Roosevelt 32-yard line. On the game’s final play, a
high-arcing pass nearly was caught by Jacobs in the end zone beforeRoosevelt’sNigelChristian came down with an interception. “My heart dropped, I thought
he was going to catch the ball,” Petty said. “But our defense made plays when it had to.”
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Thinking back, Edwards leads theKnights forward
Ballou to play
H.D. Woodson in title game rematch
BY ALAN GOLDENBACH DelonteEdwardswent back in
time Saturday. The Ballou senior quarterback turned back the cal- endar to to when he was an eighth-grader leadingHart inthe D.C. Interscholastic Athletic As- sociationMiddle School final. In that game, Edwards led
Hart down the field with a no- huddle, hurry-up offense before throwing the title-winning touchdownpass.Four years later, Edwards said he was thinking about that game as he led Ballou on an eight-play, 72-yard drive before throwing a 35-yard touch- down pass to Dontray Crawford withaminute left to giveBalloua thrilling 35-31 victory over Dun- bar in the DCIAA semifinals at Cardozo. Edwards’s thirdscoringpassof
the game, to accompany two touchdown runs, gave the Knights a chance to avenge its loss toH.D.Woodsoninlastyear’s final.TheWarriorsbeatCoolidge, 14-2, in the second semifinal. Trailing 21-15 athalftime,Dun-
bar (8-3) got its offense going behind running backs Curlee Walker (35 carries for 160 yards) and Olu Izegwire (16 for 91). Walker scored on a five-yard run withjustovernineminutes left to putDunbar ahead 31-28. Ballou (9-1) took over at its 28
with 3 minutes 49 seconds left. Edwards (18 of 28, 282 yards) completed 4 of 5 passes on the drive and also ran for 24 yards. While the Ballou sideline im- plored its offense to hurry up, Edwards unflappably called out each play at the line of scrim- mage, never losing control. “It was exactly like that last
game atHart,” Ballou CoachMoe Ware said. “The game just slows down for him. I want the ball in his hands.”
Edwards said: “All Iwas think-
ing about was winning this game.” Facing second and 11 at the
Dunbar 35, Edwards hit Dontray Crawford on a post pattern just inside the 10-yard line. Crawford looked to his left, and saw an open spot, so he headed for the pylon at the left corner of the end zone and snuck in for the touch- downwith 1:08 left. “Coaches have been expecting
me tomake big plays,” saidCraw- ford, a 6-foot-4 junior who is in his firstvarsityseason. “I sawthat Iwas short [of theendzone],but I had to get there.” In the other semifinal, it took
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Dontray Crawford holds up the trophy after catching the winning TDfrom Delonte Edwards and sending Ballou into the title game.
H.D.Woodson’soffense awhile to make some plays, but the de- fense, as it has all season, did all the work. Woodson (8-3) held Coolidge (4-7) to just 66 yards of offense. Tyrell Arrington’s six-yard
touchdown run shortly before halftime putWoodson up 8-2. “Coach [Greg] Fuller told us
before the season, ‘It’s your year to take us to the Turkey Bowl,’ ” senior linebacker Nate Robinson said. “Now, herewe are.”
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