QUINCY – The City of Lynn has a football champion after all.Lynn Tech had to hang on last night at Veterans Memorial Stadium as Southeastern Regional plodded downfield on an excruciatingly long drive. But time ran out for the Hawks in the end, and the Tigers claimed an 18-16 victory for the Massachusetts Vocational Championship’s large division.It was Tech’s first appearance in the state vocational championship, which was established in 2004.”It really is a dream come true,” said Brad Tilley, Tech’s assistant athletic director and assistant football coach.”My heart was in my mouth for that whole last drive (by Southeastern),” said head coach Gary Sverker.The drive in question began early in the fourth quarter and lasted until there were 32 seconds left in the game. Tech clung to its 18-16 lead, having scored all of its points in the first half.”I think we won the first half,” said Sverker, “and our goal was to win the second half, too ? but I don’t know.”Tech had a golden opportunity to put the game away with a fourth-and-one from the Southeastern 16, four plays into the fourth quarter. The Tigers had driven the length of the field, aided by the one-two back combination of Ryan Murphy and Pedro Martinez. But the Tigers stalled when quarterback Luis Tavarez – playing in place of starter Dustin Rooney (who was ineligible) – was stopped for a three-yard loss.So, with the ball on their own 19, the Hawks ran their option methodically up the field, a little at a time ? but just enough to frustrate Sverker and the Tigers.”It must be a South Shore thing,” said Sverker, referring to the option. “I saw Rockland do it (in Tuesday’s playoff game against Marblehead) and now I saw these guys do it.”Four times in that drive, the Hawks had fourth-down plays, and on three of those occasions, quarterback Mike Smith used a nifty move where he spun around and faked a handoff, and then plowed straight up the middle for the necessary yardage.But even though Southeastern moved the ball, it didn’t move it fast enough, or far enough, to stay with the ground game. On the last set of downs, from the Tech 28, it had to switch gears and pass – something it hadn’t done very much during the game. Smith attempted long bombs on third and fourth down, and both fell incomplete – with Steven Caisse breaking up the final pass and giving the Tigers the ball so they could take a knee and run out the clock.”I can’t say enough about Tavarez,” said Sverker. “He really grew up in front of our eyes tonight. He completed a couple of early passes, which kind of set the tone a little, and he ran that keeper (a sweep to the right) very well. He played very well.”So did Murphy and Martinez. And Joe Brady was immense early in the game, when Tavarez and the Tigers were trying to establish their passing game.Tech drew first blood when, on a second-and-17, Tavarez (who came out firing, hitting Brady with a 26-yard pass on the first play of the game), threw one up that Southeastern’s Kenneth Brodie tipped ? right into Martinez’ hands. Martinez turned around and ran it in to complete a 30-yard scoring pass (Tech could not connect on any of its three conversion attempts).The Hawks responded, however, taking most of the rest of the first quarter to go 81 yards in 11 plays, with Tyson Boone carrying it the final 15 for the tying score, and Nicholas Ready scoring the conversion to make it 8-6.Undaunted, Tech pushed back. Murphy was a load on this drive, with rushes of 18 and 11 yards contributing to the 54-yard scoring drive. Martinez got the final seven with 6:44 to go in the half after Tavarez found Brady for a 23-yard pass that put the ball at the Southeastern seven.In a first for either team, Southeastern couldn’t take it to the house on its next possession and gave the ball up on downs at the Tech 41.”That was a huge turning point,” said Sverker. “We made a nice defensive stop there, and then we came right back down and scored.”Taking over from the 41, Martinez and Murphy kept al