BRINKLEY - Brinkley’s Christian Williams intercepted a pass in the end zone with about 14 seconds left as the Tigers survived a series of late-game blunders at Tiger Stadium to edge the Woodlawn Bears, 18-12, in a clash last Friday night to determine the no. 2 seed from the South Conference.Brinkley improved to 6-2 overall and 4-1 in South Conference play with the win, and finished second in the league.Woodlawn finished third with a 6-3 overall mark and 3-2 conference record, and will travel to Newark this Friday night to face the 8-1 Cedar Ridge Timberwolves.From all appearances, it looked as though the Tigers were ready to put the game away after intercepting a Woodlawn pass at the Bears’ 23 yard line with 4:23 left in the game. Four plays later Williams was sprinting into the end zone from 11 yards for what appeared to be the game-clinching touchdown with Brinkley already up 18-12.But the score was erased by a holding call on the Tigers, and that set up a series of plays that unexpectedly flipped the script and soon the Tiger were holding on for dear life.After the holding call gave the Tigers a first-and-20 at the Woodlawn 21, a bad snap had Williams scrambling to recover the loose football for an 18-yard loss, setting up second-and-38.The Bears snuffed out a run play for a four-yard loss on the next snap to make it third-and-42, and another fumble on the next play resulted in another mad scramble for the ball that was eventually recovered by Wiliams at the Brinkley 26 for a 31-yard loss. That left the Tigers facing a fourth-and-73 situation.And as fate would have it, Williams lost the handle on the next snap as well, and after another melee trying to recover the ball, Woodlawn finally gathered it in at the Brinkley 5 to give the Bears a first-and-goal with 23 seconds left and no timeouts. The Bears were flagged for illegal motion on the first play, setting them back five yards to th...
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