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Kings Bay Football Alumni wins MVP Walcott helps NYC rule Empire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BY MATT GAGNE DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Saturday, June 30th 2007, 4:00 AM Antonio Walcott rushed for 175 yards and scored two touchdowns, claiming MVP honors and leading New York City to a 35-27 victory over Long Island in the 10th annual Empire Challenge at Hofstra University last night. Walcott's best play came in the closing minutes, when he feinted on a pass-block but took a delayed handoff 45 yards down the left sideline to set up the game-winning touchdown, a tipped pass from South Shore's David Legree to Tottenville's Kenny Munson with 1:50 left in the game. "You give him the ball enough times, he's going to make great plays," said New York coach Vinny Laino, the longtime coach at Fort Hamilton who won the past two PSAL championships with Walcott in the Tigers' backfield. New York improved to 4-6 in the all-star series, which puts the city's best graduated seniors up against the best from Long Island. "I don't feel bad for Long Island because I've been on the short end of this game a few times," said Laino, who coached New York in 2003 and 2006 and lost each time by a point. The Empire Challenge was created in 1996 by former NFL quarterback and East Islip, L.I., product Boomer Esiason, who said he wanted to provide a top-quality all-star game while raising funds for cystic fibrosis research. Esiason's son, Gunnar, has had the incurable disease since 1993. (For the first two years, the series was called the Heroes Bowl and was played between Nassau and Suffolk counties.) "It's the best of both worlds for me, it's the game I love and the community where I live," Esiason said in Hempstead. "And it's a new experience every year, because we don't want people to think it's just another high school game. It means a lot to the kids and to the fans." Will Porter, a Freeport product who will play at Nassau Community College, was named the Long Island player of the game after rushing 11 times for 77 yards and scoring a touchdown with 11:08 left to give his team a 27-21 lead. But the momentum didn't last. New York's final drive was kick-started by a Long Island turnover, a botched handoff with 4:44 remaining. Columbus' Bernard Condejallow recovered the fumble at the New York 26. "I was just trying to get outside and it turned into a big play," Walcott, a Maine recruit, said of his late heroics. "It was real fun to come out here and New York can play." |
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