WORCESTER – With his West Lynn B team trailing at halftime Saturday – mainly because it was far too generous when it came to turning the ball over – coach Maurice Cordy tried something a little different.He didn’t chastise his team for fumbling the football. Instead, he channeled his inner John Madden.No, he didn’t tell the kids to play for overtime – the way Madden told everyone that the Patriots should with time running out in the 2002 Super Bowl. His Madden reference was to the video game.Turns out channeling Madden worked so well he should probably do it more often. The West Lynners stormed back from that deficit to top Wolcott, Conn., 13-6, to capture the New England championship and qualify for the National Pop Warner championships next week at Disney World.West Lynn becomes the second Lynn team in two years to qualify for Disney. The East Lynn C team did it last year.”The Madden game has challenges,” Cordy said. “They’ll give you a situation, or a challenge, and you have to respond to it.”So I told the kids that their challenge was that we were behind, 6-0, mostly because of our mistakes ? and how are we going to respond to it?”They responded by blowing Wolcott’s doors off in the final two quarters. The West Lynn defense – stingy all day – allowed Connecticut all of one first down. Meanwhile, the offense played ball control to perfection, led by Brad Scuzzarella, who rushed for 68 of his 72 yards and scored a touchdown.”The kids, they really stepped it up,” said a jubilant Cordy, who – along with the rest of the West Lynn parents – must raise the necessary funds not only to accompany their boys to Florida but to pay the players’ way as well (unlike Little League, Pop Warner does not pay for the athletes to go). “They played really tough.”This could have been a much easier game for West Lynn. And even as it was, once the Rams got up 13-6, they were so dominant on defense that it seemed like a much wider margin.”Our defense did it,” said Cordy, who singled out both Robert Thomson and Micah Jackson as playing stellar games.”Micah made six tackles behind the line,” Cordy said. “That was really huge for us.”West Lynn marched right down the field on its opening drive – 40 yards on 13 plays – to get down to the Wolcott 38 ? and then fumbled.The defense held, however, and then the Rams gave the ball right back – this time on an interception. Wolcott responded by going from its own 46 all the way down to the Lynn 11 – its only real sustained drive of the day – before the Ram defense held and forced a turnover on downs.But the turnover bug hit again ? on West Lynn’s first play. And this time, Wolcott found the end zone – on a six-yard pass from Jayson Matos (playing because regular quarterback Mike Gigliotti was injured earlier in the game) to Brandon Black to make it 6-0.Lynn got to work in the third quarter, with Scuzzarella putting the Rams on the board with a 26-yard run, and then scoring the conversion to make it 7-6. From there, Lynn just dominated. And even when Scuzzarella went out for a spell with a leg injury, Lynn didn’t miss a beat. Jaylin Wiggins bulled is way over from the four, and it was 13-6 late in the third quarter.”Then I issued them another Madden challenge,” Cordy said. “I told them it’s the fourth quarter, and you’re up, 13-6. How will you respond?”They responded by keeping it that way ? and winning a title.The Rams have a week to raise the necessary funds to go to Florida. After holding a luncheon at The Connery Post Sunday, the parents will be canning from 4 to 6 p.m. today and Tuesday.West Lynn will also have a fund-raising dinner at Tatiana’s Tuesday night; and a West Lynn Rams Night at the Blue Note Wednesday.