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THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS FRIDAY. SEPETEMBER 29,2006
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Goodrich's reverse gives Jones 6-0 victory over Lovett
Undefeated Martel and 1-1 Wiess to meet in this week's featured matchup
by Stephen Whitfield
THRKSHKR KDITOKIAI. STAFF
A trick play proved to be the
difference as Jones beat I^ovett 6-0
Sunday in the Powderpuff Game of
the Week.
The game began on a sour
note for Lovett (0-2) when, on
Jones's first snap on offense, junior
defensive end Annie Conderacci
injured her knee and had to be
taken to the hospital. Three plays
later, Jones (2-0) had the ball
inside Lovett's 40-yard-line and
appeared on its way to a quick
score, but senior quarterback
Katie Chang lost six yards on a
misplayed option toss to force a
long third down attempt. On the
next play, sophomore linebacker
Amanda Lewis intercepted Chang's
overthrown pass and returned it to
the Lovett 29.
Lovett head coach Anish Patel,
a senior, said his defense
struggled to recover quickly from
Conderacci's injury.
'To see one of their good friends
go down and have to go to the hospital
early in the game just takes the wind
and intensity out of you," Patel said.
'They came back out, they came with
passion, they came with fire, and it's
really hard to do that when you see
a severe injury like that."
Both Jones and Lovett employed
highly pass-oriented schemes in
the first half, and neither were
very effective: Both quarterbacks
overthrew receivers multiple times,
even though the wind did not pick
up until late in the half. These
overthrows proved costly during a
bizarre sequence that began late
in the first quarter. With just under
two minutes remaining and Jones
driving near midfield, Chang threw
her second interception of the game,
this one to sophomore cornerback
Jennie Holm. Two plays later, Jones
sophomore cornerback Nicole
Justice picked off a pass from Lovett
senior quarterbackTess Elmore. On
the next play, Lewis intercepted her
second pass of the game, returning
the ball to the Ix>vett 48. Two plays
after lewis's interception, Jones
senior linebacker Ber n Turegano got
another interception and advanced
to the Jones 45.
Lovett defensive coordinator
Nathan Bledsoe, a sophomore and
Thresher calendar editor, credited
his unit's pass defense for picking up
three first-half interceptions.
"Our defense is trained to believe
that when that ball's in the air it's
their ball, and they're going to go
get it," Bledsoe said. "Our defensive
backs and linebackers were all great
in pass coverage. They read things
exceptionally well."
THIS WEEKEND
Game of the Week
Martel (2-0) vs. Wiess (1-1)
When: Sunday at 3 p.m.
Where: Intramural Field 7
Last Year: Martel shut out
Wiess 20-0 in the second-
to-last week of the season
to ensure a playoff matchup
with Jones
On top of her three picks, Chang
completed only one pass in the first
half. After the third pick, Jones coach
Kendall Spence went with a more
conservative gameplan, running up
the middle with freshman running
back Katie Schnelle or to the outside
with junior running back Caitlin
Goodrich. Jones's offensive play
stabilized after that decision, but
the game was still a scoreless tie at
halftime. Spence said lie thought
his team did not play with enough
intensity in the first half.
'They were way too laid back at
POWDERPUFF STANDINGS: WEEK 3
Rank
Team
Record
Point Diff.
1
Martel
2-0
45
1
Sid Rich
2-0
31
1
Jones
2-0
26
1
Hanszen
2-1
-12
2
Wiess
1-1
6
2
Brown
1-1
-14
3
Lovett
0-2
-18
3
Baker
0-2
-21
3
Will Rice
0-3
-43
halftime," Spence said. "Everybody
was too happy. We just though we had
(the game] laid up in our hands but
the score was still 0-0. One mistake
on defense, and they're up, and,
obviously, we had a bit of trouble
scoring points on offense."
Jones started the second half
alternating between plays for positive
yardage and plays for negative
yardage. After losing a yard on a
botched snap, Schnelle gained 13
yards on a run up the middle. The
next play, she lost a yard trying
the same thing, and then Spence
decided to employ some trickery,
running a reverse to Goodrich that
caught Lovett's defense completely
off guard. Taking advantage of
Lovett's over-pursuit on the opposite
side of the field, Goodrich ran nearly
untouched for a 51-yard touchdown
to give Jones a 6-0 lead early
in the third.
"We noticed they were pulling
hard to whatever side we were
running on," Spence said. "They
had a lot of man coverage, so we
thought to do a reverse. We hadn't
done it all year."
Playing with a lead, Jones's
defense completely shut down
Lovett's offense thanks primarily
to Goodrich's play at defensive end.
Normally a safety, Jones defensive
coach Johnny Hanson decided
to insert the speedy Goodrich at
defensive end during the game
in order to disrupt the timing of
Lovett's offense. The move worked,
as Goodrich easily got past Lovett's
offensive line and forced Elmore
to rush her throws slightly. She
also decided the game at safety,
getting an interception inside Jones's
20 with 30 seconds left in the
fourth as Lovett tried to mount a
last-minute comeback.
Hanson said having Goodrich
play on the defensive line was a
gamble, given her small stature.
"It was actually more of a joke
in practice to put [Goodrich in] at
lineman if we don't have enough
linemen in practice," Hanson said.
"She's very disruptive because she's
very fast. If you do get a block on
her, it's easy to hold because she's
so much smaller, but she can make
you miss and if she does that then she
can create a lot of problems."
This week, Jones will face a
Baker (0-2) team that narrowly lost
to Hanszen (2-1) by a 12-0 score last
Saturday. lovett will face Will Rice
(0-3). which fell 28-6 to Sid (2-0) last
week, tomorrow, and its game Sunday
against Hanszen has been postponed
because of 1 )ale Lloyd's funeral.
On the surface, it may appear
as if Lovett has fallen far from the
team that routinely competed for
POWDERPUFF PREDICTIONS: WEEK 3
Stephen
Whitfield
Sports Editor
Nathan
Bledsoe
Calendar Editor
David Brown
E.I.C.
Evan Mintz
Opinion Guy
"Bob"
RMC Info Desk
Lovett
vs.
Will Rice
Lovett
Lovett
Lovett
Will Rice
"/ hate Julia"
Will Rice
Sid Rich
vs.
Brown
Sid Rich
Sid Rich
Brown
"Sow down to
Brown"
Brown
"Mhair7"
Brown
Martel
vs.
Wiess*
(declined to
pick in favor
of journalistic
objectivity)
Wiess
Wiess
"Is Natalie ok?"
Hanszen
"/ live there"
Jones
Jones
vs.
Baker
Jones
Jones
Terrell Owens
Nobody
"Inclement
Weather"
Baker
*denotes Thresher Game of the Week
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THRESHER FILE PHOTO
Wiess junior Natalie Gwilliam escapes a defender in last year's
Wiess-Martel contest. The two teams meet again this Sunday at 3
p.m. in this weekend's Powderpuff Game of the Week.
championships up until last season,
but junior offensive coordinator
Chris Pasich said the record is not
indicative of how the team has played
so far this year.
"We did play two playoff teams
from last year [Wiess and Jones]
in the first two weeks of the
season," Pasich said. "When you
do that and play them as close as
we played them with a bunch of
these girls playing their first year
of powderpuff, it's a testament to
how hard they work."
In other games, Martel (2-0)
beat Hanszen 25-0 in a very physical
contest, and Brown (1-1) upset Wiess
(1-1) by a 6-0 score. That game, in
which Wiess played without junior
running back Natalie Gwilliam due
to illness, ended in some controversy.
With 25 seconds remaining, Wiess
forced Brown into a fourth-down
situation and Brown was setting up
to punt when the referees signaled
the end of the game even though 25
seconds seemingly had not elapsed
since the end of the last play.
Next week's Powderpuff Game
of the Week will feature two
semifinalistsfrom last year, as Martel
takes on Wiess.
Freshman Flag Football
The freshman flag season began
Sept. 21 with Jones (1-0) winning 20-
7 over Martel (0-1) and Wiess (1-0)
shutting out Baker (0-1) by a 30-0
margin in Thursday league action.
The Saturday league got underway
last Saturday with some much closer
games: Invert (0-1) fell 13-6 to Will
Rice (1-0) and Brown (1-0) won 8-0
over Hanszen (0-1)
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