The kick was good for Lancaster, and the streaks are over for Orchard Park.

Lancaster junior Alex Debbins hit a 21-yard field goal in the final seconds to give the

Redskins a 9-7 victory over visiting Orchard Park, giving the No. 2 football large school a victory

over No. 1 and ending a number of streaks for the defending Class AA state champions.

Orchard Park had won 17 straight games overall and 31 straight against Section VI teams.

The Quakers' last loss was to Canandaigua in the Far West Regionals in 2007.

An estimated 2,000 at Foyle-Kling Field watched Lancaster (5-0, 4-0 Class AA South) drive from its own 27 on its game-winning possession as it ended a five-game losing streak to OP (4-1, 3-1). The Redskins hadn't beaten the Quakers since a 15-13 win

in 2004.

"The first time in it seems like forever," said coach Len Jankiewicz. "I think the

marvelous thing about the game is how they recovered from adversity."

Justin Juda was tremendous in the second half for Lancaster, throwing for a highlight

touchdown in the third quarter and coming up with several big plays on the winning drive,

which began with 4:56 left in game. The senior quarterback ran 12 times for 114 yards for the

game while he was 12 for 21 for 82 yards passing.

"I'm overwhelmed -- our offensive line played a heck of a game, our defensive line played a

heck of a game," said Juda. "It was unbelievable how we pulled that one out."

Juda threw for a first down to Sean Pantling early in the game-winning drive and also ran

for a first down to get to midfield. A personal foul call on Orchard Park moved Lancaster to

the OP 37. Another first-down pass to Cory Davis moved Lancaster to the 23. On third-and-3 at

the 16, Juda ran up the middle for a first down at the 13.

Lancaster went conservative on its next few plays, and earned a first down on a Davis run

up the middle that put the ball at the 3. A measurement with 23 seconds left was needed to

determine that first down, and after some confusion on the Lancaster sidelines and a timeout

call, coach Len Jankiewicz called for Debbins and the field goal team with 10 seconds on the

clock.

"I was standing on the sideline right next to coach and waiting for the call, hoping he

actually did say, "field goal,' " said Debbins. "Once he did, I ran right out to the field.

... There was a little pressure on it, being against OP, but it was a really easy chip shot --

a PAT. The team always comes up to make sure I'm calm before the kicks."

The strong kick went right up the middle to all but win the game for Lancaster, which had

missed its extra-point kick after its only touchdown of the game.

Trailing, 7-0, for much of the night, Lancaster began to look like the team that has been

ranked in the top five all season late in the third quarter. The Redskins stopped Orchard Park

on a drive in the Lancaster end when senior Kevin Schwach picked off a pass by Dave Janca (10

for 23, 100 yards, two interceptions) that gave the Redskins the ball at their 27 with 1:52

left in the third.

On Lancaster's first play, Juda kept the ball up the middle and sped through the secondary

and he made it 55 yards to the OP 18 before he was forced out of bounds by Kevin Collins.

Lancaster had its drive stall and it faced a fourth-and-7 at the OP 15 with 12 seconds left in

the quarter, but Juda came up with one of the best plays of the game.

The senior quarterback rolled left, then reversed field and went back to the right side

while several Quakers bore down on him. Juda put up a great pass to the end zone, putting the

ball over an OP defender and right where Sean Pantling (three catches for 37 yards, all in the

second half) could reel it in for the touchdown.

"We were rolling out left ... and it looked all blurry to me, so I was about to tuck it and

run to turn the corner [on the left side] and it still looked blurry," said Juda. "So I just

stopped, tried to go back side [to the right], and then I saw everyone sprinting so I knew I

couldn't get to the edge.

"I saw a little red dot, a little red helmet and just kind of threw it because I knew it

was fourth and 5 -- I knew that was the game."

On the extra point, however, there was a bad snap and junior Michael Theuerkauf -- the

Redskins alternate their kickers -- never got off a kick.

Juda had struggled in the first half -- he threw an interception that set up Orchard Park's

first score.

"I knew I had to be the difference in that game, and in the first half I did not show it,"

said Juda. "I was throwing balls high, they were spying me and I couldn't really run. In the

second half, we tried to go ground off the bat, and it worked, and we were just rolling thanks to our offensive line.

They were playing unbelievable."

In the first quarter, Quaker junior Paul Leavell stepped in front of a nicely-thrown ball

by Juda at the Lancaster 45 and returned deep into Lancaster territory.

A lengthy drive by OP ended with a 1-yard run by Okoya Anderson (31 carries, 105 yards) on

a fourth-and-goal play. Anderson carried left and followed a nice push into the end zone for

the score. Sophomore Austin Reece added the extra point and Orchard Park had its 7-0 lead with

3:08 left in the first quarter.

"We just had to have faith," said Pantling. "Coach "Jank' just kept telling us, 'When are

we going to start believing that we're good?' He's been saying it all year. He believes in

us."

Orchard Park's kickoff return in the final seconds -- the ball was kicked with six seconds left -- didn't go too far as Anderson was taken down near the OP 30.

The victory puts Lancaster in prime position for the division championship as it heads to Jamestown for next week's Class AA South finale.

Jankiewicz said the win was that much more meaningful because recent injuries to the

Redskins. Lancaster was without senior running back Eric Rindo, junior lineman Jeremiah

Ludermann, senior Eric Seger and senior running back Zack Kozlowski, and then lost top

reciever senior Andrew Mrozek in the first half with a collarbone injury.

"If you look at the whole scope of the game, it's how many people we lost to injury, how we

lost a key receiver in the first part of the game -- we were dealt all these blows," said the

24th-year coach. "I hate to say it, and I'm not downplaying OP, it wasn't OP, t was us that

was the enemy.

"We had players hurt, and for our quarterback not to have a stellar day in the first half

-- they just kept plugging away. They're a bunch of undersized, good kids, your typical

field-of-dreams kind of team. They're great kids to coach."