50 DECEMBER 1 - DECEMBER 7, 2017 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP
Curtis derails Lincoln to play for title
Crossword
Across
1. Cakewalk
5. Like some talk
10. Bit
14. Biology lab supply
15. Birchbark
16. Roman numeral V
17. Disparaging
19. Black cat, maybe
20. Harm to oneself
(hyph.)
21. Current
22. Cathedral topper
23. Flower fanciers
24. "Do the Right
Thing" pizzeria owner
27. "Comprende?"
28. Nausea while on
a boat
31. Came down
33. Showy bloom
35. Printer's type sizes
37. "... ___ he drove out
of sight"
38. Because
39. Dominate
42. Samll, stout European
fish
43. Melts down fat by
heat
44. Bunk
46. Jar part
47. Game piece
48. Church singers
50. Corrupt
52. Gunpowder
ingredient
56. Highlands hillside
57. Tactless
58. "Hamlet" has five
59. Swear
60. Be inclined
61. Some deer
62. Cast out
63. "Ah, me!"
Down
1. Physics units
2. Arch type
3. Fine-grained sedimentary
rock used as
fertilizer
4. College teachers
(informal)
5. Skin disease caused
by mites
6. Full development
7. Biscotti flavoring
8. Zero, on a court
9. "Malcolm X" director
10. Referred to
previously
11. Radio announcement
of correct hour
12. Microwave, e.g.
13. Darn, as socks
18. Breaks
21. Eye drops
23. Fourposter, e.g.
24. Flavor
25. Breathing
26. Degree from
European university
28. Silent
29. Spherical bacteria
30. Injured, in a way
32. Unpunctuality
34. "A jealous mistress":
Emerson
36. Refine, as metal
40. "___ we having fun
yet?"
41. Small tuber
45. Conical Native
American tent (var.
spelling)
48. Close-knit group
49. Terminal section of
large intestine (pl.)
50. Alpine transport
(hyph.)
51. "Giovanna d'___"
(Verdi opera)
52. Like a bug in a rug
53. Old Chinese money
54. "Empedocles on
___" (Matthew Arnold
poem)
55. 1990 World Series
champs
57. Crystal meth, in
slang
Answers
BY JIM DOLAN
CURTIS 42 LINCOLN 35 It was a scoring marathon with six
lead changes that only the clock
could stop as second seeded 9-1
Curtis hosted third seeded 9-1 Lincoln
at St. George, Staten Island.
After Lincoln bested Curtis seven
out of nine times since 1992, this
time the Warriors were the last men
standing to win their semifinal playoff
round to go to the PSAL title game at
Yankee Stadium as they scored their
go-ahead touchdown with 50 seconds
left in the game.
After a two-yard score by Lincoln’s
Dean Sowell in the first quarter, the
Warriors responded with a 31-yard
touchdown run by the Stony Brookbound
senior running back Ty Son
Lawton to tie the game in the second
quarter.
Curtis added a 24-yard touchdown
pass to Purdue-bound senior receiver
Amad Anderson, only to have Lincoln
tie the score 14-14 on a 65-yard pass
play to Sowell for his second of three
touchdowns on the day.
With a minute left before halftime
and down to a fourth and eight, Curtis
quarterback Quincy Barnes popped
out of the pocket to hit Daniel Manneh
at the goal line with a 19-yard pass to
put the Warriors ahead 21-14 at the half.
On Lincoln’s opening series in the
second half, Jonathan Cato’s 40-yard
run to the 35 yard line set up Omar
Robinson’s two-yard touchdown run
to tie the game at 21-21.
Gaining a swing in momentum, the
Railsplitters scored again as Tylik
Bethea, the PSAL’s leading passer with
1,840 yards, hit a wide-open Sowell on
a 60-yard pass play to give the “L-Train”
a 28-21 advantage midway in the third
quarter.
The quick Lincoln lead proved to
be short-lived as Curtis quarterback
Quincy Barnes swept the right side on
a 12-yard bootleg to tie the score again
28-28 at the end of the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Curtis’s Anderson
scored his second touchdown
of the game on an eight-yard sweep,
while Lincoln’s Cato scored on a twoyard
run to tie the game once again at
35-35 after Javari Matthews caught a
52-yard pass to set up Cato’s score.
With two minutes left in the game,
seeing that all his receivers were
covered at midfield, Barnes scrambled
down to the Lincoln 36-yard line
for a pivotal first down to set up the
winning score.
Down to one last opportunity on a
critical fourth and five, Quincy then
proceeded to hit a high-leaping Justin
Mitchell in the end zone for what
would be the game-winning pass with
under a minute left for the final score
of 42-35.
The win gives second seeded 10-1
Curtis a ticket back to Yankee Stadium
on December 5 to defend its 2016 PSAL
Championship Title against first seeded,
undefeated 11-0 Erasmus, the same
team that Warriors beat last season for
the title.
Photo by Jim Dolan
After eluding Lincoln defenders Marcus Tinglin Jr. (#56),
Shaquille Banton (#50) and Clarens Legagneur (#4), Curtis
quarterback Quincy Barnes scrambled across midfield to gain
a pivotal first down to set up the winning touchdown pass
to beat the Railsplitters 42-35 to advance the Warriors to the
December 5 PSAL title game at Yankee Stadium.