Friday, October 13, 2006

Kicking Off a Career


Congratulations to Boston College walk-on Steve Aponavicius (shown above, during practice). The soccer player-turned-kicker played in the first football game of his life on Thursday night, converting on all four kicking attempts (two field goals and two PAT) to help the Eagles defeat Virginia Tech, 22-3.

After missing three extra points in two weeks this season, struggling starting kicker Ryan Ohliger was suspended after finally connecting on a kick ... to somebody's face in a bar fight. In stepped Aponavicius (that's AH'-pah-nah-VIH'-chis ... but we'll just call him Steve). "All of it was fun. Every minute of it," said Steve to ESPN.

A year ago, Steve was wearing a slightly different uniform, sitting front and center in the student section, face painted and "BC Superfan" emblazoned across his chest as per the student uniform during home games. Fastforward to Thursday and Steve can be seen kicking 36-yarders against Michael Vick's alma mater during a perfect football debut. Said one BC junior: "The man can kick." He certainly can, sir -- he's your new kicker.

4 Comments:

At 12:38 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

2 xtra points

 
At 2:10 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn't we hear that story 7 times watching the game....ps. he is a great guy

 
At 2:57 PM , Blogger Jay said...

It was 2 extra points, you're right. I made the changes. Also, stories are worth repeating. Newspapers, magazines and web sites all run stories discussed in games multiple times. For those who didn't watch, the media is there for them the next day.

 
At 10:48 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love that guy. SID VICIOUS is the man, and I hope you keep writing about BC because we are the man.

-one BC junior

 

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