The Iron West division had a shake-up today as STEELTOWN played its first games of the season. First it got a victory against undefeated division leader SIX, and next defeated the TITANS, 21-19, in a game that came down to the last second.

As time expired, the TITANS scored on a P.J. McGuigan touchdown pass to Jason Bialek, who had a long run after the catch to get into the end zone. The TITANS then lined up for a two-point conversation to tie the game, but the pass fell incomplete.

“I was just hoping that my guys on defense would stay at home,” STEELTOWN quarterback Chris Sullivan said. “I just knew one of my guys would make a play.”
 

Sullivan finished the game 10 for 17 with two touchdowns. His counterpart, McGuigan, finished 16 for 24 with two touchdowns as well, but he also had two interceptions which proved costly.

The game was scoreless until the final play of the first half when McGuigan threw a pass that was intercepted by Chris Conrad in his own end zone and returned for a touchdown to give STEELTOWN a one score lead at halftime.

The TITANS came back and scored on its first drive of the second half when McGuigan handed the ball off to Bialek who then threw it back to McGuigan in the end zone. The TITANS failed on the conversation to trail, 7-6.

STEELTOWN had a one-point lead late in the game and were facing a fourth down, when Sullivan found Conrad on a skinny post which proved to be the deciding points.

“They were just trying to take away the first down,” Sullivan said. “So we ran a skinny post and fortunately we were able to beat them deep.”

Despite the lapse late, Sullivan was impress by the TITANS defense all game.

“They played a good zone,” he said. “They knew what they wanted to do, and they took away our deep game.”