The Cordova football team played host to Christian Brothers Friday night at Lancer Stadium. Even though the Falcons pulled off the lopsided victory, the game was full of action up until the very last second as the Lancers fought for and gained the respect of their opponents.
Michael Lindsey wasted no time in making his presence known by rushing for 51 yards on the very first play of the contest. Soon after, Reggie Langford hooked up with Deshawn Smith in the end zone and after a blocked PAT, the Lancers were on the board with a 6-0 lead.
After a few failed drives, the Falcons were able to put up some points of their own with a 12-yard rushing touchdown from Julian Winters and jumped ahead of Cordova 7-6.
With the Lancers now on offense, Langford was forced to rush a pass from a bad snap in shotgun formation and was picked off by Steven Neri. The Falcons took over on the Cordova 20-yard line but they were not able to capitalize on the interception and punted the ball away as the first quarter ended.
The second quarter got off to a bad start for the Lancers as Langford’s pass was intercepted by Corey Crowder for the Falcons. Christian Brothers quickly scored again with a 10-yard rushing touchdown from Aaron Byrd to put them up by a score of 14-6.
The Lancers had some trouble with their rushing attack at this point in the game as the Falcons consistently keyed in on Lindsey. Ever resilient, Cordova found another way to score by giving the ball to Langford who rushed in to the end zone on a 5-yard quarterback keeper. The Lancers were not able to secure the two-point conversion and still trailed the Falcons 12-14.
Christian Brother distanced themselves further from Cordova on the first play of the next drive with a 66-yard rushing touchdown from Corey Crowder. After an interception by Ade’ Jackson, the Falcons scored another touchdown via quarterback Michael Lahey, but the PAT was blocked by Cordova and Christian Brothers had to settle for a 27-12 lead going into the locker room.
The halftime show in the stadium was quite entertaining as the Cordova High School marching band, also known as “The Big Red Music Machine”, led the festivities honoring the graduating seniors.
With the teams back on the field, the third quarter belonged to the Falcons as they scored four unanswered touchdowns but missed two PAT kicks to put them ahead comfortably 53-12.
The fourth quarter began with the Cordova fans growing restless but this did not trickle down to the football team. In fact, quite the opposite happened as the Lancers refused to go down without a fight which made this easily the most entertaining quarter of the entire game.
Cordova decided to implement their quick offense in order to catch Christian Brothers off guard which resulted in a Lancer touchdown and successful 2-point conversion to inch them closer, 20-59. The Falcons continued to score and increase their lead over Cordova but that did not stop the Lancers from putting up a few more points of their own. In total, Cordova scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter as well as three 2-point conversions.
The player of the night award for this game goes to Adam Braithwaite. Adam led the defense with 12 solo tackles and also showed his versatility by switching to offense and scoring all three 2-point conversions in the fourth quarter.
Even though the Lancers eventually lost Friday night 36-72, the boys walked off the field with their heads held high and had grins from ear to ear because they knew that they put up a good fight. Sure, they could have done many things differently but overall they had fun out there on the field; and when it comes down to it, that’s all that really matters.
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