On this day in 2002; The Greatest High School football Game I ever saw

The best High School football Game I ever Saw

                        On October 18, 2002, The Lehman Cavaliers hosted the Marion Local Flyers at Juila Lamb Stadium. The Cavaliers were coming off a tough defeat the previous week at Chaminade Juilenne and needed to beat the Flyers to make the playoffs for the Second Straight year under Second Year Head Coach and former NFL Center Jeff Uhlenhake. Things looked bleak for Lehman, The Flyers came out and scored the first 21 points of the night. The Senior-laden Cavaliers would not quit. Lead by Justin Seger, Jack Haas, Josh Schachner, Andy Ratermann, Tim Badgett, Adam Cisco, Marc Palmer, the Cavaliers reeled off 32 unanswered to turn a 21 point deficit into a 32-21 lead. The crowd at Juila Lamb was Electric. This was turning into a classic. Both teams left it all out on the field. Marion Local would fight back and take a 33-32 lead late in the fourth quarter. With Two minutes to go, Seger drove the Cavaliers down to the Marion 24 yard line. With 25 seconds left and the Cavaliers facing a 2^nd down, time out was called and the Seger lined up to kick a field goal. The field goal looked good from where we stood, but the official said it was no good.

                Lehman Class of 2003-2006, I am so proud of how hard all of you competed on the night of October 18, 2002. Especially proud of the seniors for how hard you competed and represented Lehman’s football team and program in the biggest game of your season and of your football lives. To this day, I have never seen a football team play so hard. I remember going to a party at Seger’s that night and gave Justin a hug and told him good game. Justin was to me one of the best all around athletes of the 2000’s at Lehman. Jim Dembski, Zach Schmitz, were a couple, but Justin was a superior athlete.