The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)

Norristown

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The Bears started the scoring in the first, when Mathias rolled right and threw a jump ball for Jamie Moccia, who hauled in the pass and made a few Eagles defenders miss en route to an 85-yard touchdown.

In the second, the Bears were on the move again, this time scoring on a 10play, 35-yard drive which was capped off by a Mathias sneak from the oneyard line.

The Eagles got on the board just before halftime when Izaiah Webb found Boubacar Diawara down the middle for a 65-yard touchdown to close the deficit to 14-7 at the half.

After playing to a scoreless third, the drama started to build in the fourth.

The Bears’ offense was able to get into the red zone off a long run by Mathias down the left sideline. However, after getting the ball to the one-yard line, they were stuffed by the Eagles’ defense on four straight plays.

After trading punts, the Eagles got the ball back with 2:19 left in the game.

From there it was the Webb show, as the senior quarterbac­k was able to use a combinatio­n of his arms and legs for an 11 play, 77-yard drive which ended on a QB sneak.

Instead of taking the PAT attempt to tie the game, the Eagles were able to convert a two-point attempt off a scramble from Webb to give Norristown its first lead of the game at 15-14 with only 40 seconds left.

Boyertown head coach T.J. Miller attempted to call a timeout before the two-point attempt but was not awarded the stoppage.

“I probably should have got that timeout in quicker,” said Miller. “That’s on me.”

The rest was history as Mathias was able to find Kapp (three receptions for 92 yards) on the Hail Mary attempt to give the Bears the win.

Webb finished his night 13-for-22 with 198 yards and a touchdown to go along with 10 rushes for 37 yards.

The game was riddled with penalties as a total of 32 were called for a combined 265 yards.

Norristown head coach, Jason Powel, declined comment after the game.

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