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2001 DISTRICT 9 FOOTBALL GAME OF THE YEAR: C-L 28, KEYSTONE 21, 2 OVERTIMES SEPT. 21, 2001 |
| CLARION TWP. -- The 2001 season included many very exciting
games including a handful of exciting overtime contests. It is one of
these overtime games that has been chosen as the D9Sports.Com District 9
Football Game of the Year.
The game was a Week Four game played Sept. 21 between Clarion-Limestone and Keystone at C-L with C-L coming out a 28-21 winner in double overtime. The game was a tightly contested affair from the start with Keystone leading 14-7 heading to the fourth quarter before C-L tied the game with 6:52 left to play on a 13-yard touchdown pass from J.J. Ferguson to Ryan Smith. Both teams then had chances to win the game in regulation, but C-L's Rocky Davis missed a late field goal and an apparent winning touchdown pass by Keystone with 11 seconds left in the game was called back on a holding penalty. In overtime, Keystone wasted little time going back on top 21-14 scoring on its first play of the overtime session on a 10-yard pass from Adam Black to Bobby Telesz. C-L, though, need all four of its overtime plays to retie the game with Dan Alderton scoring on a 1-yard touchdown run on a fourth-and-goal from the one-inch line. Davis then added the game tying extra point to force a double overtime. In the second overtime, Alderton caught a 10-yard scoring pass from Ferguson to put C-L up 28-21, and then Smith and Brad Beggs tackled Telesz at the 1-yard line on a fourth-and-goal pass from Black to preserve the win. The game ended up having big playoff implications, as a C-L loss in the game would have forced a three-way tie for the KSAC's lone automatic playoff spot at the end of the season with Clarion, Keystone and C-L. |