FREE PRESS Page 6 Colby Free Press Tuesday, October 15, 2002 SSSPORTSPORTS Brewster tops Healy Eagles, 44-36 Consider yourself tackled! By JAY KELLEY and punted, giving Brewster one more ran twice. Falcon took a knee on the Colby Free Press chance at their own 15. next two plays to seal the win. Homecoming games are supposed Ten plays later, Falcon ran into the Brewster had 311 yard rushing, of to be exciting and the Brewster High end zone on a fourth and goal at the which 184 were credited to Swanson School Bulldog football team got all two. He found Ryan in the end zone for on 28 carries with three touchdowns. they could ask for in a 44-36 win over two more points and Brewster led 24- Falcon had 98 yards on 24 carries and Healy Friday night in Brewster. 22. a touchdown. The Bulldogs scored on their first Healy decided to take a knee and fin- Joel Selby had 18 yards on seven drive when Jacob Falcon found Jake ish the half behind by only two points. carries and Carpenter had two carries Long in the end zone to take an 8-0 They opened the third quarter with a for 11 yards. lead, but neither team was able to pen- lackluster drive that ended when Ryan Falcon went 6-for-11 for 170 yards, etrate the red zone until, with two min- stripped the ball away from Clint including two touchdown passes to utes left in the first quarter, Healy an- Johnson on fourth and 11. Long for 65 yards apiece. Carpenter swered to tied the score. Brewster had great field position at had one 22 yard reception, Swanson Healy stripped the ball from Falcon the Healy 23, but were unable to capi- had a four yard reception, Ryan had on the next drive and ended the quar- talize, going out after four plays. seven yards on one catch and Selby ter on third and one at the Brewster 24. Healy’s next possession started on caught one for four yards. They converted after the quarter their own 19 with 9:07 left in the quar- Falcon and Swanson had 11 tackles break and, on first and 10 at the ter and ended five plays later with a 35 each. Carpenter, Long and Lucas Brewster 20, Kurt Fenster found Mark yard touchdown pass to Johnson and a Moore each had nine. Jesse Crumrine Johnson open for a touchdown. The two point conversion, giving the and Ryan have five apiece, Aaron two-point play was good and Healy led Eagles a 30-22 lead. Smith and Tyler Johnson had two each 16-8. The lead was short-lived, however, and Selby and Cory Grantz had one Brewster answered with another as Brewster came back with a bruising each. Falcon-Long passing combination on 11 play, 53 yard scoring drive. Sean Carpenter had a sack and Falcon, the opening play of their drive from Swanson carried the ball six times, in- Swanson, Long and Ryan each had an DARREL PATTILLO/Colby Free Press their 15 yard line. The two-point was cluding a one yard into the end zone interception. Smith added a fumble Two Colby Middle School Eagles wrapped up a Norton player Monday afternoon at Dennen Field. The good and the score was tied. on third and goal. Falcon found Car- recovery. 7th-grade team lost to Norton 18-0, to even its record at 3-3. Full details of Monday’s game as well as Healy came right back, putting to- penter in the end zone for another two The ‘Dawgs will be in Grinnell Fri- details of last week’s action against Burlington and a ‘B’ team update will be published this week. gether a 54 yard drive on six plays, all points and Brewster led 32-30. day night. Game time is 7:30 p.m. passes, culminating in Fenster finding Healy went out after four plays and Johnson again, this time on third and Brewster took over with another big 10 at the Brewster 14. The two-point drive that ended with a 24 yard touch- was moved back to the seven yard line down run by Swanson. The two-point after motion on the Healy line and a failed and Brewster led 38-30 with 20 reverse failed to score. seconds in the quarter. • HOSPICE AUCTION • Healy led again, 22-16 with 9:11 left Healy ended the third quarter in pos- in the half. session, but were unable to move the Brewster’s first play of their drive ball. On third and 15 at their 21, Fenster Money raised to support hospice services in Thomas, Logan, Sheridan and Rawlins counties. found Falcon rushing from the 16 yard tried to find Johnson again, but line to mid-field, but four plays later a Swanson intercepted and ran into the fake punt failed and Healy took over on end zone. The conversion failed, but their 36. Brewster led 44-30 with 11:07 left in SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26th Healy had been passing into cover- the game. age all night, a dangerous game against Healy’s last score came on the next Long and Josh Ryan. The plan back- drive a 53 yard pass to Johnson. The fired on a first and 10 at the Brewster conversion failed, leaving the score 44- COMFORT INN CONVENTION CENTER 20 when Ryan picked off a pass in- 36 with 10:20 left. tended for Michael Fulmer. Brewster used a clock-eating run- Brewster took over on their 37 with ning game, relying on the big fullback Colby, Kansas 6:51 left until half-time. Three plays Swanson. Healy’s last chance came later, they tried to convert on a fourth with 3:07 left. 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