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VARSITY: Colchester 28, Mount Mansfield 27
Published: Saturday, September 23, 2006
By Mike Donoghue
Free Press Staff Writer

COLCHESTER -- Travis Fisk and Dan Soons each scored two touchdowns as Colchester posted a 28-27, come-from-behind win over Mount Mansfield in a non-division high school football game Friday night.

Fisk's game-winning touchdown from the 2 came with 5:53 left in the game. Bryan Johnson added the extra point to give the Lakers the winning margin.

"They told the linemen to block and told me to run," said Fisk, who ground out half of the 80 yards on the final drive. "It's a good line. The linemen all blocked."

"We were told not to think that they (the Cougars) are a D-IV team. You can't underestimate them. We did. They came out with big plays and scored early. But we didn't give up," Fisk said.

The Cougars (2-2), who broke out to a 13-0 first-quarter lead, were hurt by their own special teams play. The Lakers (4-0) scored their first two touchdowns following a blocked punt and a bad snap on a punt.

MMU's Jack Dubuque scored on a 7-yard run on the third play of the game and Ted Kusiak added the kick for a 7-0 lead. Dubuque set up the touchdown with a 69-yard pass reception and he might have scored, but he stumbled long enough to allow a Laker defender to catch up to him.

The Lakers were driving when MMU's Brian Wilcox intercepted a deflected pass. Three plays later Greg Pinette scampered 59 yards to make it 13-0 with 5:49 left in the first frame.

After a blocked MMU punt, Johnson hit Soons on a 20- yard scoring strike to cut the lead to 14-6 with 10:51 left in the second quarter. Four plays after a bad punt snap, Fisk went 2 yards for a TD and Johnson hit Jamie Mumley for the 2-point conversion for a 14-13 Colchester lead with 4:47 left in the first half.

"We just killed ourselves with mistakes on our own part," Pinette said. "They played a really great game. Bad mistakes that shouldn't happen."

Pinette added his second touchdown early in the third quarter and ran in a two-point conversion following a controversial call. After a bad snap on a Lakers punt, a Colchester player kicked the ball through the end zone for what was called a safety by the referees. MMU coach Marty Richards protested the call, arguing the ball should be MMU's at the spot of the kick. The referees huddled and agreed. Pinette ran it in from the 3 on the next play for a 21-14 MMU lead.

Johnson and Soons hooked up for another 8-yard TD strike and the kick tied the game at 21 with 5:03 left in the third. MMU responded when Nathan Dolan hit Dubuque for a 32-yard TD pass as the third quarter ended, but the 2-point attempt was stopped by Colchester's Eric Place.

The Lakers marched the ball 80 yards in 14 plays on the winning drive, with Fisk running seven times for 40 yards, while Johnson and Soons connected on two passes for 25 yards.

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