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Article: Defense forced to come up with play
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2009
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One way or another, Boston College's defense was going to learn
something. The teachable moment came at the end of yesterday's 27-
24 overtime victory against Wake Forest when the Eagles were left
with 4 yards of turf to defend.
In that desperate moment, BC looked very much like a defeated
team. The defense had allowed Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner
to rally the Demon Deacons for a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown
passes of 12 and 16 yards that erased a 24-10 deficit and sent the
game into OT.
Things looked bleak in OT when Skinner answered a 23-yard Steve
Aponavicius field goal by driving the Deacons to the BC 4 in four
plays. It pushed the Eagles to the brink of what would have been ...