Patterson did everything it could to give away Friday’s season-opening game to West St. Mary.
Fortunately for the Lumberjacks, the Wolfpack ran out of chances — finally, after a three-hour, four-minute game as the result of sanctioned heat timeouts, incompletions,
penalties and a myriad of players succumbing to cramping injuries due to the heat.
Patterson committed three turnovers, including one on a simple quarterback kneel-down that would have ended the game almost automatically, but still held on for a 14-12 victory.
That was largely because West St. Mary struggled to get into the end-zone; the Wolfpack had no less than three red-zone or goal-to-goal ...