Westchester Rallies and Topples Reseda, 13-6

As Reseda football Coach Joel Schaeffer walked out of Westchester High on Wednesday night, a Reseda booster handed Schaeffer a videotape of the just-concluded Reseda-Westchester game.

“Ya know what,” Schaeffer said, grabbing the tape. “I’m gonna watch the first half of this and then turn off the machine.”

Understandable considering Westchester rallied from a 6-point first-half deficit to beat the Regents, 13-6, in a City Section 3-A Division quarterfinal game.

The defeat was Reseda’s second-consecutive loss to Westchester, which will play Franklin in the semifinals Dec. 2. The Comets beat Reseda, 21-13, in last season’s 2-A championship.

And, similar to last year’s loss, when the Regents fell behind, their high-powered offense failed to score.

Westchester (9-3 overall) took a 7-6 lead on a 28-yard run by tailback Tim Holliday, who finished with a game-high 113 yards in 17 carries.

Reseda (9-2) ran three plays and punted on its next possession. Quarterback Coley Kyman threw the first of his two interceptions to end the Regents’ next possession on their own 35.

Westchester scored three plays later, but when Holliday was stopped short on a 2-point conversion run, Reseda still had a chance to win the game.

Kyman, who completed only 4 of 14 passes for 37 yards after throwing for 1,031 yards in his first 10 games, threw completions of 12, 6 and 6-yards before linebacker James McIver grabbed a Kyman pass on the Comets’ 29-yard line.