Game of the week recap:
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Zissou finally gets one for the win column in Hoover, AL, holding off the Bucs 38-35.
Team Zissou exploded out of the gates, leading 21-0 after 5 min, thanks to a pick 6 by Hoover:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdl6fd7ckqA"]YouTube - John Parker Wilson...sucks summore.[/ame]
and two TD passes by Plimpton, one captured here:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab4Y7FowUyQ"]YouTube - Guys, let's try tackling him...[/ame].
Hoover would answer with two TD passes to Chad Jackson from their emerging young QB. One of which had pro-scouts salivating. Watch as he looks off the safety fools the coverage with a pump fake; then delivers an amazing ball into the back left corner of the endzone:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdRNS7arEQY"]YouTube - Ok...he's now officially the starter.[/ame]
However, Zissou stretched the lead to 10, despite only having :59 with which to operate.
In the second half, the two teams went back and forth, with highlights abound:
Battle would find the endzone again through the air, this time to star WR Charlie Zorn. Yet Zissou continued to answer, passing for a TD only 33 seconds later. They would tack on another TD run 3 min later. 38-21.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdRNS7arEQY"]YouTube - Ok...he's now officially the starter.[/ame]
Battle added his fourth and fifth TD passes in the next two min, cutting the lead to 3 with 6:31 remaining. Zissou drove and threatened to put the game away, however on 4th and goal they would be held short of the goal line!
Hoover would concurrently then throw an INT. Zissou ball with the game ticking away. 3rd down, Hoover's last chance to stop them and get the ball back...Zissou needs to get to the 48 yard line...this is where things got dicey:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NENvzfI-iM"]YouTube - Did he make it to the 48? You tell me...(no)[/ame]
Zissou would hold on for the controversial victory and leave coach Propst humiliated. This loss would send Hoover into a tailspin, which would last into the next week's game.