Poly and Crespi get all wet, walking or running

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It’s raining. A lot. And Crespi just walked onto the field very deliberately. Not jogging. Not getting all fired up.

‘Mythbusters,’ on the Discovery Channel, once determined that you get more wet when you walk in the rain than when you run. Or maybe vice verse. I didn’t try to remember because I carry an umbrella with me. Except at the Home Depot Center, where they are outlawed.

There are a lot of people getting wet.

And if it’s raining at midnight when I leave here, I’ll run. Unless Crespi wins. Then I’ll walk.

It’s been no walk in the park for either team thus far. Like last week, Poly seems on the verge of breaking the big play. The Jackrabbits have broken one, Melvin Richardson’ s 69-yarder in the opening seconds. But unlike last week’s 2-0 victory over Orange Lutheran, this game does not have the feel of an Instant Classic.

Anyone for instant coffee?

There are way too many penalties for teams of this caliber in this arena. This is the big leagues of high school football, but Poly has been penalized four times for 40 yards, and Crespi four for 33. Maybe that’s not a lot, so maybe its about the timing. But thus far, this game has no rhythm.

Crespi has run 30 plays for 150 yards, Poly 19 plays for 160. The Jackrabbits, going for their 17th title, have had terrific field position but have squandered it.

Austin Shanks has carried 17 times for 73 yards for Crespi, Richardson seven times for 83 yards for Poly. He very nearly broke another long run. Three minutes into the third quarter, no one has scored.

This game needs St. Bonaventure.

-- Martin Henderson