Stepinac 36, Cardinal Hayes 22: In a CHSFL AAA quarterfinal at No. 1 Stepinac, Malcolm Major helped break a deadlock late in the third quarter, returning a squib kick 67 yards to set up Tyquan Ennis' 9-yard touchdown run. The return came after No. 8 Cardinal Hayes tied the score 22-22 on a fumble recovery, unsettling the unbeaten Crusaders (10-0), who have won every game this season by double digits.<\/a><\/p>\n"You have no choice but to get serious when a team ties it up," said Major, a senior running back. "We haven't had many close games. When they scored, we got focused and just turned it up from there."<\/p>\n
Major added a rushing touchdown midway through the fourth quarter. Stepinac overcame four turnovers to remain undefeated, and will now host St. Peter's (9-0) at 1 on Saturday in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
"This game was definitely an eye-opener," said Major, who had 70 yards on the ground. "We have to start going into practice with a different mentality. We have to come out faster in these games and start putting teams away early."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beating 8th seeded Cardinal Hayes (Stepinac #1 seed) 36-22. In the process they (1) gave up a 72 yard TD run (2) gave up a 95 yard kickoff return (3) lost a fumble which Hayes ran in for a touchdown. (4) Had four turnovers (5) had three touchdowns called back for holding penalties. At one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}