2005

Warriors From Page Cl end zone for a touchdown. Scott Hillerv kicked the fir~t of his five extra points. "Jbc Warrior~ had a chance to go into halftime down 7-0, despite getting no first downs in the second quarter, but poor clock management enabled the Wildcats to double their lead in the final minute of the second period. ECCC took possession at its 20 with 1:45 to go in the half and PRCC was out of timeouts. A third down incompletion on third-and-2 forced a Warrior punt and the Wildcats took over at the ECCC 48 with 51.3 seconds still remaining. Oliver hit Smith, who put a move on ECCC's George Lowe and raced to the end zone as the Wildcats went up 14-0 with 33.2 seconds left jn the half. "That was a big mistake on my part," Underwood said. "We shouldn't have done that. w~ had a miscommunication on one of the plays. We shouldn't have thrown the ball and we did and it stopped the clock. Had we run it, we might have gotten the first down and we might not have, but it would have obviously run some more clock off. 'TI1at was a big mistake at that point and time. If we go in 7-0,

that's a huge diff~rence than being down 14-0.'. The Warriors closed to within 14-3 on a 50-vard field goal by Ryan Gale with 6:34 left in the third quarter. Marcus Arrington gave ECCC possession at its 36 when he picked off an Oliver pass. The Warriors were quickly forced to punt. but the drive was kept alive when Pearl River was pcnalizrd for having too many players on the field The Wildcats ans'Nered the field goal when :\1cClendon took a delayl"d option pitch from Oliver 56 yards with 5:01 to go in the third period for a 21-3lead. A 7-yard run by Seth Hayden extended the PRCC lead to 28-3 with 8:56 left in the game. Another interception led to ECCC's only touchdown. Starting at the PRCC 11 after an 18-yard return and per– sonal foul penalty on the Wildcats, 1 errance McFadden scored on a 3-yard run with 5:22 to play. Gale's PAT made it zg..IO. McClendon raced 65 yards with 1:02 left to finish the scoring. Pearl River had :363 total yards with 216 coming on 34 rushes and 147 more on Oliver's 13-of-33 showing in the air. Oliver suffered four_.– interceptions.