Lincoln Wins First Football Game
Lincoln’s varsity football team celebrating their victory against Santa Teresa September 11th, 2015. The Lions won 30-13. (Noel Ramirez / Lincoln Lion Tales)
Lion Tales came out and live tweeted Lincoln’s first football game of the season against the Santa Teresa Saints. Here is a recap with tweets from the Lion Tales twitter account of last Friday’s first win of the season.
Lions! Come out & support our football team in their first game @ Santa Teresa High School! JV @ 4 & V @ 7! #BlueandGold #FridayNightLights
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 11, 2015
Lincoln opened the score on a touchdown by #18 Tommy Ballin.
Touchdown tommy ballin#18 Lincoln lions!! 7-0 lions in the lead💙💛
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
Santa Teresa then countered with a score of their own in the 2nd quarter.
Touchdown Santa Teresa 7-7 it's a tied game!
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
Lincoln was then determined to comeback and did with a touchdown passed to Aldin Besirevic from quarterback Robert Zamora.
TOUCHDOWN LINCOLN LIONS!!💙💛 13-7 Lincoln in the lead!
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
Lincoln kept on scoring as Esteban Mosqueda ran into the end zone making the score 23-6 Lincoln.
Touchdown Lincoln! #2 Esteban Mosqueda scores as the Lions lead 23-6 in the 3rd quarter
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
And it didn’t stop there as Aldin Besirevic passed to Robert Najar into the end zone after a botched field goal attempt.
Touchdown Lincoln! Aldin Besirevic passes to Robert Najar for the score. Lincoln leads 30-6.
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
Late in the 4th quarter, Santa Teresa made an effort to comeback into the game and scored making the score 30-13.
Santa Teresa scores. Lincoln still leads 30-13 with 4:19 left to play in the 4th quarter.
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
The comeback came a little too late as Lincoln took the victory 30-13.
Final score: Lincoln 30 Santa Teresa 13 pic.twitter.com/uBSeJBvl0u
— Lincoln Lion Tales (@LHSLionTales) September 12, 2015
Lincoln’s next game will be at Aragon on Friday, September 18 with JV starting at 4:00 and Varsity at 7:00pm.
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