{"id":3021,"date":"2011-11-20T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:13:08","slug":"stepinac-falls-short-in-the-chsfl-aaa-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac falls short in the CHSFL AAA finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stepinac lost to St. Anthony&#39;s, the #1 high school in New York State, 14-0 Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The NY Post had a very good article on the game &#8211; including nice comments by Mike O&#39;Donnell, the Stepinac head coach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stepinacfootball.stackvarsity.com\/news\/article.asp?id=308152\" target=\"_self\">play reverses Stepinac&#39;s momentum in &#39;AAA&#39; title game loss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brigid, Tim and I traveled to the game, at Mitchel Field, across from the Nassau Coliseum. Tim&#39;s friend and fellow freshamn football player Chase Fendrich, along with our friend (and also a Stepinac alum) Ed Riely, went with us.<\/p>\n<p>The Stepinac defense was excellent (Stepinac had lost to St. Anthony&#39;s a few weeks ago, 55-29, and the defense could not stop them!). The only score the St. Anthony offense had was in the second quarter, after they ended Stepinac&#39;s opening drive with an end zone interception.<\/p>\n<p>But Stepinac&#39;s offense sputtered much of the night. They couldn&#39;t get their passing attack going. At the end of the game, they did have a drive that started from inside their own one yard line, but ended with under a minute left on the St. Anthony six yard line &#8211; turned over on downs.<\/p>\n<p>The decisive point in the game came midway through the third quarter, as Stepinac was moving the ball, but then St. Anthony&#39;s defensive player picking up a fumble and ran 61 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>This Thanksgiving Day morning is the last game ofthe season &#8211; the annual &quot;Turkey Bowl&quot; against White Plains. I&#39;m sure Tim and I will be going.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-size: 9pt; padding-left: 30px;\"><tt><\/tt><br \/><tt><\/tt><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepinac lost to St. Anthony&#39;s, the #1 high school in New York State, 14-0 Friday evening. The NY Post had a very good article on the game &#8211; including nice comments by Mike O&#39;Donnell, the Stepinac head coach. play reverses Stepinac&#39;s momentum in &#39;AAA&#39; title game loss Brigid, Tim and I traveled to the game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","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=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}