{"id":2639,"date":"2013-11-12T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:57:16","slug":"stepinac-football-10-7-win-over-iona-moving-to-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2639","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac football: 10-7 win over Iona &#038; moving to semi-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very big deal. Stepinac had been blown out just a few weeks ago by Iona Prep.<\/p>\n<p>The article also contains two embedded videos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsityinsider.lohudblogs.com\/2013\/11\/10\/chsfl-quarterfinal-safety-spurs-stepinac-over-iona-prep-in-rare-playoff-meeting\/#comments\" target=\"_self\">Safety spurs Stepinac over Iona Prep in rare playoff meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Down a touchdown in the third quarter, Stepinac had four chances to score from inside the 4 and was stuffed. The moment struck <strong>Mike O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> as all too familiar. Here were his Crusaders, stuck playing the role of the Washington Generals again.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe went down there and didn\u2019t get in\u2014again,\u201d the Stepinac coach said with emphasis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For once, when the game hinged, it did so in favor of the Crusaders. The very next play <strong>Chris Jordan<\/strong> and <strong>Damarcus Miller<\/strong> combined on a safety with help from <strong>Osaze Perry-Porter<\/strong>. Stepinac scored on the ensuing drive and beat its primary torturers, Iona Prep, 10-7 in Saturday\u2019s CHSFL AAA quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>And there are better highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudl.com\/team\/30668\/highlights\/9164825\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> although they aren&#39;t in order after the first few bits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very big deal. Stepinac had been blown out just a few weeks ago by Iona Prep. The article also contains two embedded videos. Safety spurs Stepinac over Iona Prep in rare playoff meeting Down a touchdown in the third quarter, Stepinac had four chances to score from inside the 4 and was stuffed. The [&hellip;]<\/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-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","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=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}