Flash ahead to the third quarter.
For the only time all game, a play approached the lake at full throttle. Michael Dixon, Franklin's quarterback, rolled out and opted to keep . . . Splish, splash, three guys were taking a bath!!! . . . Dixon was tackled by Chris Hudson and Mark Bowser.
"I was there," Osborne said, "but I felt they had the hit, so I pulled back."
He smiled and added, "No need for me to be doing that."
As BL triumphed, 14-0, Osborne had fun in other ways. He twice made leaping interceptions deep in BL's ends - at the 5 in the first quarter, 3 in the fourth - and enjoyed watching his brother, Sam Drummond, post the first interception touchdown in school history (39-yarder, second quarter).
"It's a matter of watching the ball, then making a play on it," Osborne said of his picks. "I knew the quarterback just liked to put it up. I was ready.
"Teams don't like to throw my way. That hurt me a little last year against Morrisville. I was laying back too much, just trying to get some action, and I got burned a couple times. But today I was right where I needed to be. Those are my first career picks. Felt nice."
Drummond, a senior linebacker, intercepted a screen pass.
"We worked against that play in practice maybe 50 times," he said. "I mimicked the guy and saw what it was early.
"The whole time running, I was thinking, 'Don't get tackled.' I was looking back constantly. But to get the first pick-six in Boys' Latin history, I'm hyped."
Osborne, who lives on Frazier Street near Lansdowne Avenue, has proved to be more than an athlete at BL, which he balked against attending.
