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Pearland rallies for 22-21 win
Published September 5, 2009
SUGAR LAND — Down 21-10 with 8:14 remaining in the ball game, the Pearland Oilers came back on Fort Bend Kempner by scoring 12 straight points.
The final six came with 49 ticks on the clock for the Oilers to pull out a 22-21 win at Mercer Stadium on Friday night.
“I tell you what, we are a very young team, making a lot of mistakes, but if you believe and fight for 48 minutes you can fight through your mistakes,” Pearland Oiler coach Tony Heath said after the big win. “Just because you make mistakes don’t mean you can’t win, and that is what our kids believe.”
Pearland (1-1) made its share of miscues during the contest but pulled it out with a gutsy second-half performance from Myles Kanipes.
The 5-foot-8, 162- pound starting wide receiver and defensive back was inserted at Oilers quarterback on the final drive and a half, and he made things happen. As it turned out he was part of the Oilers’ final two comeback scores.
“He is a gamer. The screen play that we hit for that touchdown, he called that play,” Heath said. “He looked at me and said screen middle, and I said run it.”
Trailing by 12, Kanipes came right back and scored from the 6-yard line with 7:17 left.
He then guided the Oilers on a 75-yard drive in 12 plays with no timeouts remaining.
Kanipes has the speed to run with the ball, but his passing needs work as he was 3-for-12 on his first 15 attempts. But it was the final one that counted as he took the snap on first down from the Kempner 24-yard line. On that particular play, Charles Ortiz got behind Kempner defender Markus Carr in the end zone as Kanipes let her rip with the ball landing in Ortiz’s stomach.
“They were bringing blitzes on the outside with the linebackers,” Kanipes said of that play. “The middle was wide open, and when I was scrambling they were coming up on me. And when I saw the corner come up on me, our inside receiver was wide open in the end zone and I took a chance. So I just lofted it up there, and thank God it went into his hands.”
Kanipes finished 4-for-13 passing on that last drive for 68 yards.
The Oilers, in a year of rebuilding, fumbled the ball five times in the game, losing three of them along with an interception. They gained only 63 yards in the first half with four first downs.
But the Cougars also had problems in the game, dropping the ball seven times and losing three of them.
After taking that 21-10 lead off a score from Kenneth Bibbins on a 36-yard strike from quarterback Jon Shalala, Kempner (0-1) didn’t finish out the ball game.
The Oilers next host Spring Branch Memorial at The Rig on Friday.
Individual statistics
Passing: (PE) Trey Anderson 6-21, 75 yards, Myles Kanipes 4-13, 68 yards; (KP) Jon Shalala 7-19, 101 yards
Rushers: (PE) Dustin Garrison 22-40 yards; (KP) Mmadu Biosah 15-98 yards
Receiving: (PE) Charles Ortiz 3-52 yards; (KP) Kenneth Bibbins 5-72 yards
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