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Artis Chambers
Safety
Ft. Wayne Snider (Indiana)
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 200 pounds
40-yard dash: 4.5 seconds
GPA: 3.0
Chambers recorded 65 tackles and 8 Interceptions as a Sophmore. Purdue, Michigan State, Ohio State, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Indiana are schools that are contacting him.
Dick Tressel is recruiting him for Ohio State.
9/22/05 rivals.com update
Artis Chambers
Safety
Ft. Wayne Snider (Indiana)
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 200 pounds
40-yard dash: 4.5 seconds
GPA: 3.0
Chambers recorded 65 tackles and 8 Interceptions as a Sophmore. Purdue, Michigan State, Ohio State, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Indiana are schools that are contacting him.
Dick Tressel is recruiting him for Ohio State.
9/22/05 rivals.com update
Snider 28 Bishop Luers 7
Snider’s defense saves day in win over Bishop Luers
[SIZE=-1]By Ben Smith[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Journal Gazette[/SIZE]
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Brent Bostic’s education was immediate and jarring, a bit like a jackhammer starting in on the sidewalk outside your bedroom at 5 a.m.
First play from scrimmage in Snider’s 28-7 victory Friday night over Bishop Luers, and here came Bostic, a 5-foot-5, 145-pound slip of a thing trying to fill the shoes of the injured MiQuale Lewis. The football was tucked snug in the crook of his arm.
He took one step, two steps … and then he went down in a snarling cave-in 3 yards from where he started.
Welcome to Luers-Snider, Mr. Bostic.
You’ll get out of the night with 35 yards on 10 carries, but 24 of those yards will come in the last 2:17 of the game.
Lewis, healing miraculously from a painful whack on the ankle in practice, will get out of it with 109 yards, lugging the football 14 times including six straight on one fourth-quarter drive.
The Panthers will begin slow offensively, struggle off and on all night, and, as usually happens in this sort of physical bruise-fest, need their defense to carry them to 5-0 on the season.
Typical of this series, Snider coach Russ Isaacs said. Typical of the season so far for his Panthers.
“How would I describe it?” he said when it was over. “Hard-fought. Luers, they kicked our tails when we were on offense in the first quarter. But our defense played well and kept us in the game.”
The Snider “D” harassed Luers quarterback Eric Kumming, who threw for two touchdowns and 165 yards in 37-7 rout of Harding last week, into a nightmarish 5-of-21 night. It held the Knights to just four first downs, 49 rushing yards and 127 total yards. After an initial 11-play drive that ate six minutes but came up dry, the Knights were rendered all but silent, gaining more than 10 yards on a play just two times the rest of the game.
“We played great defense,” Isaacs said. “We’ve played pretty well defensively all year long, in fact. We’ve played far better on defense than we have on offense.”
The Panthers opened with Bostic at tailback for the hobbled Lewis and made immediate tracks to nowhere. They went three-and-out on their initial two possessions. They didn’t make a first down until the second quarter. After one quarter, they’d had the football 10 plays and gained all of 9 yards.
It looked like more of the same after Snider’s first possession of the second ended in an interception by Luers’ Adrien Spencer, and Luers’ ended in another three-and-out. But then Artis Chambers gave Snider its voice back.
His 14-yard keeper first dug the Panthers out of the grave, and Snider suddenly was off on an 11-play, 60-yard scoring drive that chewed up four minutes on the clock and culminated in a 22-yard scoring jaunt.
Lewis got Snider’s next six on two bites, after a short punt by Luers handed the ball back to the Panthers on the Knights’ 21-yard line. Lewis promptly swallowed 15 of those yards on one carry, then got the last six by outracing the Luers’ pursuit to the pylon on the ensuing play.
The Knights weren’t finished quite yet, however. On their second possession of the second half, Kumming’s perfectly executed screen to Julian Gasnarez (“Excellent execution,” Isaacs observed) landed them on the Snider 14-yard line, and a Kumming strike to Cory Howard took it to the 3. Freshman Tyquan Hammock bulled in from the 2 to finish off an 8-play, 70-yard drive, and halve the 14-0 deficit to 14-7.
It took Snider three plays to answer.
Chambers got 18 of them on a throw to Kyle Sholl, a roughing-the-passer penalty tacked on 15 yards, and on the next play Lewis took it home over the left side from 33 yards away. Fifty-eight seconds after it was 14-7, it was 21-7 with just under five minutes to play in the third.
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