St. James 60 Washington-Marion 20
St. James Wins Big over Washington-Marion 60-20
By Kenny HymelOctober
13, 2006
LAKE CHARLES, La – The St. James Wildcats took a road trip to Lake Charles, Louisiana to take on the Charging Indians of Washington-Marion. The Wildcats scored 9 touchdowns in route to defeating the Charging Indians 60-20.
The Wildcats scored quickly after Marcus Dumas blocked a Washington-Marion punt, giving the Wildcats the ball on the 1-yard line. Kenny Zenon punched it in from there. Extra point by Juarelle Narcisse was good and St. James took a quick 7-0 lead.
3 costly penalties and a fumble on a punt return resulted in a little “bend” in the Wildcat defense. The Indians scored on a 5-yard pass across the middle. The extra point was blocked, thus St. James held on to a 7-6 lead.
From this point on till the younger players came in during the fourth quarter, it was St. James.
Quarterback Antonio Phillips hit Terry Isom on a 14-yard pass play for a score with just six seconds left in the first quarter.
The Wildcat defense started to look like that “2006 Legion of Doom” and came up with a score of there own and Casey Narcisse defelected a pass right into Jared Favorite’s hands for the interception and Favorite took it the house.
St. James scored once more in the first half when Kenny Zenon scored on a 3-yard run. St. James led 25-6 at halftime.
The Wildcat’s put together a strong third-quarter performance which began on the opening kickoff of the second half. Terry Isom took the ball at his 5-yard line and sprinted the distance untouched for a 95-yard kickoff return.
Luther Ambrose provided the next Wildcat score when he scored on an 8-yard sweep play. A bad snap on the extra point led to Narcisse picking up the ball and sprinting for the 2-point conversion to put the Wildcats up 39-6 with 8:07 left in the third quarter.
The Wildcats scored their third touchdown of the third quarter when Antonio Phillips called his own number and scored on a quarterback sneak. Romell Stieb kicked the extra point to give the ‘Cats a 46-6 lead.
Back-up quarterback Marcus Dumas would hit Craig Duronslet on a short pass and Duronslet slipped through a few tacklers and sprinted to complete a 25-yard score.
Everyone wearing a uniform on the sideline for St. James would play at least one play in this game.
St. James was not finish quite yet. Eddie Hill would score on an 11-yard run with 6:36 left in the fourth quarter and with the successful extra point, the Wildcats led 60-6.
Give credit to Washington-Marion for staying in there as they would score two late touchdowns, setting them up with some nice passing. Final score: St. James wins 60-20.
The Wildcats will return “close” to home next Friday night when they will travel a few miles up-river to resume district play by taking on the Donaldsonville Tigers.
NOTABLES
Superstitious fans who were looking for something “bazaar” to happen on this “Friday-the-thirteenth” may have got a few things they were looking for. Late in the forth quarter, there was a strange power outage where all but one of the stadium lights went out causing a 20-minute delay.
The strange power outage
didn’t top what happened in the second quarter. Football players weren’t the only “species” to cross the goal
line. A good sized fox ran from the
adjacent wooded area onto live play on the field and drew a nice laugh from
the fans and players. The fox
sprinted across the entire field, so I guess we can credit it with a
“touchdown” of his own.
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