Now that’s using your leg

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When an onside kick is going to be attempted, you almost always you see players from the receiving team lined up the width of the field, anticipating the ball. If you didn’t know why before, ask Damien Coach Scott Morrison. He learned the hard way.

Last night Ayala, with 27 seconds left and six points down, attempted an onside kick by sending all of its players to the left side. Damien did the same thing. But Ayala’s Brian Bracci kicked with his left leg instead of his right and recovered the ball on the right side.

The Bulldogs (4-3, 2-0 ) went on to win the game, 34-33, erasing a 19-point deficit it faced to begin the fourth quarter.

‘You don’t see that play very often,’ a jubilant Ayala coach Tom Inglima told the SGVT. ‘We were hoping they would over-shift and they did.’

Ayala quarterback Matt Baca passed for 340 yards and five touchdowns, including the two-yard pass to David Quiroga with five seconds left to tie the score. Bracci, fittingly, provided the game-winning PAT.

- Jaime Cardenas

- Editor Bob: OK, I couldn’t find a YouTube video that showed the lineup Ayala used to recover its onside kick, but I did find one in which the kicker recovered his own kick. Enjoy: