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Article: Hackett leads Rams into final Speed and power fuel senior TB
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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BANGOR - Lonnie Hackett arrived in the Bangor High School
football program two years ago as a sophomore capable of sprinting
to the outside and then racing down the sideline in an instant.
The 5-foot-91/2, 170-pound senior tailback still has that
breakaway speed - 12 of his 25 touchdowns this fall have come on
plays of 30 yards or more.
But Hackett arrived in the eyes of his head coach much more
recently, and in a manner more subtle yet more emphatic at the same
time.
That moment came midway through the fourth quarter of the Rams'
25-13 Pine Tree Conference semifinal victory over Messalonskee of
Oakland last Friday night.
Bangor was clinging to a six-point lead with 10 minutes to play
and ...