Oh My! What A Game!

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Submitted byTom Davis

The McCallum Knights hosted the Travis Rebels in the annual, “Battle of The Bell Game,” before the home crowd at House Park last Friday night, and when the dust had settled McCallum retained their hold on the bell posting a quadruple overtime win 43 to 35.

For the second week in row the Knights took the game into overtime to keep their playoff hopes alive. This week’s game started out slow with both teams offenses failing to put any points on the scoreboard in the first quarter. Then in the second quarter the Rebels began to come to life running the score up with three unanswered touchdowns, which gave Travis a 21 to 0 lead at the half.

The Rebels came back after the halftime break and continued to light up the scoreboard adding another 7 points bringing the point spread to 28 to 0 in their favor. It was then that McCallum seemed to say enough is enough and started to fight back. The Knights scored twice on passes to Xavier Jefferson and Van Franks, to whittle down the point difference to 14 heading into the fourth quarter, 28 to 14. McCallum’s defense held the Travis runners scoreless for the remainder of the third and the all of the fourth quarter, which gave the McCallum offense a chance to make this game more exciting. The Knight offense did just what was asked of them when Jefferson scored on two more touchdown throws by Kevin Lusson. McCallum’s tying score was set up with McCallum recovering an onside kick, which lead to the second score. With the score knotted up at the end of regulation play 28 to 28 the Knights found themselves looking at overtime for the second week in a row.

Travis had the ball first in OT and were able to post the go ahead touchdown making the score 35 to 28. The Knights answered the calling with a touchdown of their own, ending the first OT period tied at 35. In OT 2 the Knights started out on offense but fumbled and Travis recovered. The Rebels were held for 3 downs and attempted a game winning field goal but it was wide and the game headed into OT 3. In third period of overtime both teams’ offenses threw interceptions, which threw the game into OT 4. Finally in the fourth period the Knights scored the go ahead points on a 3-yard run by Lusson, and a successful 2-point conversion to Vincent Ellis. Travis was unable to answer the score and the game ended with a Knight victory 43 to 35.

Next week the Knights travel to Burger Field and do battle with the Crockett Cougars at 7pm on Thursday night.