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LAUREN CHARLTON DALLAS Official SpOrtS Medicine SpOnSOr Of the athlete Of the Week
The Dallas senior scored 18 points in a back-andforth battle with Wilkes-Barre Area, including the gamewinning layup while facing a 1-point deficit.
Was there a play set up for you to get the ball at the end? no, it was actually the opposite. i was put in the middle to kind of pull in the defense, and then we could kick it out to the 3-point line to where everyone else on my team was, so they can get the shot, because we figured the defense would kind of collapse on me, but that didn’t happen. That game was back and forth. Did
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the team panic at all when you faced a deficit? honestly, no. We’ve had a few games where we’ve been in some close situations. But our team, we just have such great chemistry that we all just lift each other up and we’re fine. We try not to panic as much as we could. After all the injuries you’ve faced the last few years, how does it feel this year to be healthy and playing in games like this? it feels amazing, i’m having so much fun. i have the best team around me, amazing girls, and we’re just having the time of our lives. We’re just playing the game, having a good time. What are some of your goals for the
rest of this season? i would like to get to the arena (for the district 2 championships). We want to keep our record strong. We do have a few pretty tough games coming up in the next few weeks, so we definitely want to push through those and stay healthy and keep having fun with it. What it’s been like playing with your sister, Claire? it’s the best thing ever, and i could not be happier. We get along so well and, honestly, i feel like we have such great chemistry. We just know where we’re at on the floor and we can find each other. it’s really great having her out there with me.
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NFL PLAYOFFS
Packers hold off Seattle BY DAVE CAMPBELL aSSOciated preSS
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodg ers connected with Davante Adams eight times for 160 yards and two touchdowns, Green Bay’s spr uced-up defense fended off a spirited Seattle rally, and the Packers held on for a 28-23 victory Sunday night to reach the NFC championship game for the third time in six years. Aaron Jones rushed for 62 yards and two first-half scores for the Packers (14-3), who will travel next weekend to take on top-seeded San Francisco. “This is where it really gets fun. There’s only four teams left, and we’re one of them, and we’ve got a legitimate chance,” said Rodgers, who went 16 for 27 for 243 yards in his 17th career postseason start. He has 38 touchdown passes in the playoffs, good for fifth in league history. Russell Wilson carried the Seahawks (12-6) on yet another comeback, this time from a 21-3 halftime deficit, but the Packers forced a punt shortly before the two-minute warning on the second sack of the game by Preston Smith. That was Green Bay’s fifth of the g ame. Za’Darius Smith, the other bigmoney free agent added to the defense last spring, had two sacks too. The Seahawks never got the ball again. Please see NFC, Page B3
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass during Sunday’s game.
‘Something special’
Mahomes leads Chiefs surging back from deficit BY DAVE SKRETTA aSSOciated preSS
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Packers’ Aaron Rodgers passes during Sunday’s game.
WVC WRESTLING
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes stalked up and down the sideline like a field marshal rallying his troops, the brilliant young quarterback imploring the Kansas City Chiefs to stay together even as the Houston Texans were on the verge of taking them apart. The Chiefs already faced a 24-0
hole, bigger than any deficit they had overcome in franchise history. “The biggest thing I was preaching,” Mahomes said later, “was, ‘Let’s go do something special. Everybody is counting us out. Let’s go out there and play by play put it out there.’ And play by play, we did what we were supposed to do.” Beginning with the first of his f ive t o u c h d ow n p a s s e s,
Mahomes and the Chiefs slowly chipped away at Houston’s seemingly insurmountable lead. They continued to pick up momentum, outscoring the Texans 28-0 during the second quarter alone, and eventually reeled off 41 consecutive points before cruising the rest of the way to a 51-31 victory Sunday that propelled Kansas City back to the AFC championship game for the
second consecutive season. In doing so, the Chiefs (13-4) became the first team in NFL history to win a playoff game by at least 20 points after trailing by at least 20. They matched the fourth-biggest comeback in playoff history while winning a postseason game in back-to-back seasons for the first time. Please see AFC, Page B3
Recent tiebreaker went the distance Breaking down the result, plus some local history with the complex system. BY ERIC SHULTZ Staff Writer
Nanticoke Area wrestling never led at any point during its dual meet Thursday night. The Trojans still left Dallas’ gym with the victory. That sounds like a complex the citizenS’ VOice file riddle to solve, and it probably Officials go to Criterion H, which determined was a little tricky for the offiWestern Wayne a winner over Lake-Lehman at cial scorekeeper. But Nanticoke the District 2 Dual Championships in 2012. Area’s win ultimately came
down to a strong comeback effort and then, after tying the Mountaineers in the final bout of the night, a trip through the tiebreaking criteria process. The Trojans earned the extra match point at the end to defeat the Mountaineers, 43-42, via Criterion H, or most first points scored in each match throughout the meet. Down 36-18 with five bouts
remaining, pins by Isaiah Johnson (195 lb.), Jeffery Ultsh (220), Joseph Sauers (106) and Zach Capie (113) tied the final score. In a team sport with no overtime (how cool would a team tug-of-war be, though?), the match was taken to the scorer’s table from there. An efficient night of wrestling rendered the first seven criteria useless in deciding this one. The NFHS rulebook’s Criteria A-C deal with flagrant, coach misconduct and unsportsmanlike conduct pen-
alties assessed to overall teams, head coaches and wrestlers. Criterion D, most matches won including forfeits, was split evenly between the Trojans and Mountaineers, 7-7 (the Trojans won more contested bouts, for what it’s worth). Criterion E counts the total number of falls, defaults, forfeits and disqualifications, but Nanticoke Area and Dallas’ seven wins came exclusively by fall or forfeit. Please see WRESTLING, Page B6