SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

By Matt Hamilton

Dec. 1, 2001 12 AM PT

La Quinta 21, Barstow 7--Frederick Collins returned a fourth-quarter interception 100 yards with 20 second left in the game to seal the victory for La Quinta in a Division VIII at La Quinta High.

La Quinta (12-0-1) scored first on an eight-yard run by Collins at 5:08 of the second quarter and the Blackhawks took that 7-0 lead into halftime.

Barstow (8-5) tied the score in the fourth quarter when Edward Wheeler scored from five yards out with 6:09 remaining. La Quinta regained the lead on Collins’ three-yard run with 2:19.

Collins finished with 95 yards in 22 carries, and Barstow’s C.J. Niusulu carried five times for 39 yards. This was a rematch of last year’s Division VIII title game won by La Quinta.

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Matt Hamilton

Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. A graduate of Boston College and the University of Southern California, he joined The Times in 2013.

SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

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