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Bradley Sr. overpower Santa FeMedia swarms father-son matchupBy STEPHEN SCHROATS The New Mexican StaffROSWELL — The last time Santa Fe High School and Roswell met on a football field, the rights to a berth in the state championship were at stake. While that game was of statewide interest, the attention can’t compare to that given last night’s regular season game.Media play of the father-son coaching matchup of Roswell’s Jim Bradley Sr. and Jim Bradley Jr. of Santa Fe extended far beyond the boundries of either city. In Friday’s weekend edition of USA Today, a story on this gameanchored the popular Across the USA in Sports page where capsule reports from every state run daily.Earlier in the week The Associated Press led off its state high school report with the Bradley vs. Bradley confrontation.Next week, Dennis Deninger, producer of ESPN’s Scholastic Sports America show, expects to receive interviews and film of the game from Roswell television affiliate KBIM for use in his show.See Media on Page D-8Roswell,STEPHEN SCHROATS The New Mexican. StaffROSWELL — The battle for bragging rights in the Bradley family wasn’t much of a fight.Roswell High School used a big-play punt return and three pass interceptions to break open a close game and rout visiting Santa Fe High 35-7 Saturday night at the Wool Bowl The victory improved the state’s second-ranked Coyotes to 4-0. Santa Fe drops to 1-3.“I am glad this one is over,” sighed Santa Fe Coach Jim Bradley Jr. “The pressure has been unbelievable.”Media attention helped build this regular season game into much more than a game as the focus centered on the father-son coaching angle. Emotions ran high and finally erupted in the postgame handshakes as Santa Fe’s Mike Anaya and Daniel Freeman of Roswell exchangedpunches that led to a brief free-for-all at midfield.“It’s the frustrations and tempers of young guys just getting loose,” Roswell’s Bradley said.The decision-making of Coyote junior quarterback Jason Clemmons made the differencein the game. Clemmons can go unnoticed in the Roswell baek-field, especially when halfback Mickey Reeves presides there. But Saturday Clemmons was the show stopper.He audibled into an 8-yard quarterback keeper that kept the night’s first drive, a 17-playaffair that ate nearly eight minutes off the clock.Roswell’s other score of the first half was on Rudy Medrano’s 67-yard punt return. The Coyotes were turned away one other time when Aaron Martinez intercepted a pass in the Santa Fe end zone.In the second half it was back to Clemmons. He tossed a 21-yard scoring pass to Medrano on the first series to put Roswell up 21-0. But the back-breaker came when Roswell was pinned on its own 5 with a 3-and-16. Reeves sliced and diced through the Demons’ defense for 19 yards and the key play in an 89-yard drive. Reeves would later cap with a 1-yard scoring run.Santa Fe’s only points came with 5:35 to play as Eddie Fernandez unloaded a 24-yard strike to Walt Vieira on 4-and-12.Roswell, which had used Reeves at quarterback in the fourth quarter, went to sophomore George Candelaria for its last two series. The second started at the Santa Fe 37, after Fernandez suffered his third pass interception of the night.See Bradley Sr. on Page D-8
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sun, Sep 27, 1987
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