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T l r rfr -A parians Take ' To The semis againsT 'racy by Jamie Noff The 83 SparTan varsiTy fooTball Team was going afTer a fourTh sTraighT CenTral Cali- fornia Conference TiTle, buf came up Two wins shy of The crown. When asked how he feIT abouT The season, head coach Don Lanphear said iT was 'Ta very good learning experience for boTh sTaff and players. In non-league play SparTans posfed a 41- 4 record wiTh wins againsf PiTTsburgh, Cen- Tral, ModesTo, and Oakdale: The only loss came againsf Lincoln in The season opener aT Downey. The firsT league game wiTh ATwaTer was supposed To weigh heavily in The deciding of a new champion. BoTh offense and de- fense showed flashes of excellence, buT soon died ouT Tp posT a 26-0 loss and whaT seemed To be The end of The Sparfans. Things looked dim, coming off a big loss. The auesfion was could Davis regroup and make a comeback To salvage whaT ap- peared To be a disasTrous season. The an- swer was yes. Regrouped The Team Took on Beyer and ripped Them 28-0. Coach Lanphear was pleased wiTh The way his Team performed and said, IT would have been easy To fold up, buT we came ouT here and had an ouTsTanding perfor- mance. IT appeared The Sparfans were sTarTing To geT going once again and ThaT They jusT mighT have a chance for The TiTle, buT The nexf week proved Them wrong. Merced came in wiTh a deceiving 3-3 record To play Davis. Bofh Teams unleashed Their of- fensive fireworks To combine close To 600 yards and 52 poinTs. WiTh less Than Two minufes lefT, The Sparfan offensive uniT rambled for 80 yards Trying desperafely To puT iT in for six and Take The vicTory home. The Sparfans were held back wiTh an en- croachmenf penalTy and had To seTTle for a score of 28-241 in favor of Merced. Affer a hard foughf win agoinsf Turlock, The game many players had waiTed for was To come. The opposiTion, Downey, had beafen The SparTans The previous sea- son knocking Them ouT of The playoffs. For The Sparfans This meanf gaining Downey's respecf and geTTing revenge. Downey, headed by ex-Davis assisTanT coach Nick Chip Cipponerri, came inTo The game sporTing a 'l-8 record, buf once again Their record was very deceiving. The Knighfs jumped To a 6-0 lead on a screen pass ThaT wenT for 415 yards. Davis answered righT back wiTh a 77 yard drive ThaT led To a Two yard plunge for six. The PAT was successful and ThaT puT The SparTans up 7-6. Downey Took The ball To The Davis five yard line only To be Turned back wiTh a defermined goal lined sfand, and had To go for Three buT The aTTempT was blocked. Quarferback Dan STarck's Two Touchdown passes To Jeff Luna and George C-reen made iT 24-6. Lafe in The half, kicker Todd Tuggle puT one Through The uprighTs for Three and ThaT made iT 211-6, Davis. The Davis Sparfans received a berTh in The playoffs afTer a coin flip ThaT decided a Three way Tie for second. The Sparfan flip resulTed in a game wiTh Tracy, played aT Tracy's own Pefer B. Kyne field. The game ThaT so many people had waiTed for had finally come. lT was The very firsT meefing befween The Two Teams and. hopefully. noT The lasT. Tracy scored in The firsT auarfe by capping off a 59 yard drive for 6 an The conversion was good which made iT 7 0 Tracy. Midway Through The second auar Ter a blocked punT was Turned inTo Touchdown ThaT made iT 'lA-0. An inTer cepfed screen pass ThaT was run back 6 yards for a Touchdown in The Third auarfe puT The game ouT of reach for The Spar Tons. Despife a 24-0 loss The SparTan played one of Their besT games offensivel and defensively. Defensively The Sparfan held Tracy To more Than 'l00 yards unde Their usual performance, and offensivel had many plays called back ThaT woul have made The game closer or mighT hav even changed The oufcome. Compared To oTher offenses, The Spar Tans as a whole came ouT average, sTaTis QConTinued on page 41
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