Botched Conversion Costs Eagles in 7-6 Loss

A botched 2-point conversion attempt in a second overtime period ended Barrington High School’s unbeaten football season on Friday night.

Barrington dropped a 7-6 decision to Portsmouth High on the road, according to eastbayri.com. The loss ended the Eagles win streak at nine, but did nothing to change its No. 1 seed for the upcoming Division I playoffs.

Neither team scored through four periods of regulation play and one overtime period, where teams are given the ball on the opponents’ 10-yard line. The Patriots finally scored a TD in the second overtime and kicked the extra point to go on top, 7-0.

Barringon got the ball back and scored on a fourth-down run by J. R. Martin to make the score 7-6. Coach Bill McCagney decided to go for the win with a 2-point conversion play. An apparent bad snap was mishandled by quarterback Matthew Rota, who recovered the fumble and he was downed by Portsmouth.

Barrington is now 9-1 on the year with a Thanksgiving Day game against Mt. Hope High School still to play.