Football: Crespi goes for two-point conversion and wins
Every game in the Mission League this season needs to be played like it’s a playoff game, because only three guaranteed spots are available for the Pac-5 Division playoffs from the seven-team league. Every win is precious.
So it comes as no surprise that Crespi Coach Troy Thomas decided to go for the win in overtime on Friday night, and running back Jalen Starks came through with a two-point conversion run (see above), giving the Celts a 32-31 win over Bishop Amat. Torrance Brumfield had scored on a 25-yard TD in overtime.
The win gives Crespi a 4-0 record and 1-0 mark in the Mission League going into another tough matchup on Friday against Loyola at Valley College.
There were real questions just how good the Celts were coming in, because they had the weakest nonleague schedule of any Mission team.
But Thomas, a former Servite coach, was confident his team would respond, and they did.
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