THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, December 15, 1995 TAG: 9512140141
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Editorial
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Mover over, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen. Take a rest, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen.
This year the Christmas goodies were delivered to Chesapeake by Sam Hardy, James Boyd, Michael Joyner, Kasper Peterson, Chris Jones and the rest of the Indian River Braves.
The team's 13-12 victory over C.D. Hylton Saturday in Manassas put the city's first state championship football trophy under the tree. Santa will have a hard time topping that.
The gutsy pass-and-run that won the game will be a topic of conversation around these parts for a long time. A new word - ``waggle'' - has been added to the local vocabulary.
The Braves' route to the championship wasn't exactly by the book. They did it without winning their league title and came into the playoffs through another, some say less challenging, route.
But the thing we call luck is really just a coming together of ability and opportunity. When the time came to separate best from second-best, the youngsters from Indian River had what it took. by CNB