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SALT LAKE CITY -- Down 19-0 in the third quarter to a team that beat
them by 29 points earlier in the season, the Pine View Panthers faced
one of mankind's most instinctual of choices: Fight or flight?
Pine View chose to fight.
And though the Panthers ended up losing the game 19-14, this might
be a game remembered for a long time as a perfect example of the
tenaciousness and incredible heart possessed by the young men of
southern Utah.
Pine View fought back hard, getting third quarter touchdown runs of 11
and 39 yards from Justin Ence to make it a five-point game.
The Panthers then got a stop defensive and went on an epic fourth
quarter drive. Starting at their own 6-yard line, PV drove 89 yards in 13
plays and faced the biggest play of the year with a fourth-and-two at
the Cottonwood 5-yard line.
After a Pine View time out, Ence took a keeper around the left side and
lunged for a first down at the three. After a controversial ball spot, the
officials measured and the ball ended up about four inches short of the
first down.
Cottonwood took over and managed to get enough for a first down,
enabling them to run out the clock and capture the hard-fought victory.
The Panthers won many of the statistical categories in the game and
showed miles of improvement from that loss earlier in the season.
Pine View ends the season 10-2 with both losses coming at the hands
of the undefeated Colts, who will be playing for the state
championship next week against the Timpview Thunderbirds.
Pine View by the numbers:
2008 Record -- 10-2
2008 Region 9 Record (4A/3A): 2-0/3-0
2007 Record: 13-1
2007 Region 9 Record: 5-0
Overall Record since 2001: 78-19
Region 9 record since '01: 34-6
Playoff record since '01: 14-7
them by 29 points earlier in the season, the Pine View Panthers faced
one of mankind's most instinctual of choices: Fight or flight?
Pine View chose to fight.
And though the Panthers ended up losing the game 19-14, this might
be a game remembered for a long time as a perfect example of the
tenaciousness and incredible heart possessed by the young men of
southern Utah.
Pine View fought back hard, getting third quarter touchdown runs of 11
and 39 yards from Justin Ence to make it a five-point game.
The Panthers then got a stop defensive and went on an epic fourth
quarter drive. Starting at their own 6-yard line, PV drove 89 yards in 13
plays and faced the biggest play of the year with a fourth-and-two at
the Cottonwood 5-yard line.
After a Pine View time out, Ence took a keeper around the left side and
lunged for a first down at the three. After a controversial ball spot, the
officials measured and the ball ended up about four inches short of the
first down.
Cottonwood took over and managed to get enough for a first down,
enabling them to run out the clock and capture the hard-fought victory.
The Panthers won many of the statistical categories in the game and
showed miles of improvement from that loss earlier in the season.
Pine View ends the season 10-2 with both losses coming at the hands
of the undefeated Colts, who will be playing for the state
championship next week against the Timpview Thunderbirds.
Pine View by the numbers:
2008 Record -- 10-2
2008 Region 9 Record (4A/3A): 2-0/3-0
2007 Record: 13-1
2007 Region 9 Record: 5-0
Overall Record since 2001: 78-19
Region 9 record since '01: 34-6
Playoff record since '01: 14-7
* -- @ University of Utah