Sometimes the best plays are the i...

Sometimes the best plays are the individuals you don't find in the playbook.

A pair of busted plays l to 10 third-quarter points as Lincoln- Way Central bounc back from last week's los to East St Louis to defeat No. 19 Sandburg 17-15 Friday in Orland Park.

cabbage Schweitzer (26 carries, 137 yards) ran 18 yards after colliding in the backfield with quarterback Tom Humenik to locate up a 44-yard field goal from Jake Wieclaw on the Knights' first possession of the inferior half.

Humenik scrambled 14 yards to the completion zone on a broken pass play six minutes later.

"Offensively, in the third quarter we were saying that this game is over" Schweitzer said. "We were controlling the ball, moreover in the fourth quarter the defense give leave to up the touchdown."

The third-quarter eruption broke a 7-7 halftime tie that masked Lincoln-Way Central's first-half dominance.

Sandburg (1-1) managed a meager 10 yards of offense and individual first down on its first four possessions.

After a roughing-the-kicker penalty gave the Eagles novel life at their 30 with les than a minute left in the first half, they marched 70 yards to tie the game in succession Jim Clendenning's two-yard plunge.

The drive was highlighted by means of a 20-yard run by Clendenning onward third-and-19 at the Sandburg 26 and an 18-yard pass from Ryan Baise to Jon Weston to the 2-yard-line of Lincoln-Way Central (1-1) with 14 others remaining in the game.

Sandburg clos the gap to 17-15 with 5:29 remaining upon Clendenning's four-yard touchdown run that capped a 10-play, 68- yard drive.

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