The ride of a lifetime for the West Lynn Pop Warner B team ended just short of the finish line Friday, as the Rams fell to the New Jersey Giants, 26-8, at Disney World in the championship game of the Junior Midget Thomlin Division.”We can’t make any excuses,” West Lynn coach Maurice Cordy told The Item after the game. “They were good. They deserved to in.”You can’t win all the games we won this year, and then make excuses when you lose,” he said. “They outplayed us ? gave us a few wrinkles.”One of the biggest wrinkles was a passing attack that even the Giants didn’t know they had.”Nobody had shut down their running game,” Cordy said, “but we did. So they went to the air, and looked good doing it.”After the game, the coach said they didn’t hardly pass at all, but you couldn’t prove it by me. They were good at it.”Things began much more auspiciously than they ended for the Rams. After holding the Giants to a three-and-out on the game’s first offensive series, Micah Jackson – perhaps the team’s fiercest defender all year – blocked the kick and then ran it down to the 15-yard line. Brad Scuzzarella, playing three days after bruising his knee in Tuesday’s division semifinal win, punched it in from a yard out, and West Lynn – with the kick – had an 8-0 lead.The exact same thing happened in reverse in the second quarter. West Lynn had a punt blocked, and New Jersey fell on it in the end zone. However, the rush failed, and Lynn still led, 8-6.New Jersey scored once again before the half ended, but the conversion rush failed again, and it was 12-8 at the h alf.”It was a pretty tight game for three quarters,” said Cordy. “That final score isn’t really an indication of how it went.”Cordy feels the game turned in the third quarter when West Lynn drove the length of the field, taking up almost the entire period, and then a few more minutes in the fourth quarter, and came away empty.”The drive finally stalled when West Lynn couldn’t convert on a fourth-and-3 at the New Jersey 15.West Lynn withstood that disappointment, but fumbled later in the quarter and the Giants struck, rumbling 55 yards for the score that put them ahead, 19-8.”The team was a little down after that,” Cordy said.By the time West Lynn got the ball back, it was getting late, and with a minute and a half to go, Cordy felt he had to take a huge risk, going for a fourth-and-15 from his own 10.”I wanted to go out with some pride,” he said, “and I tried to do something ? and it didn’t work.”The Giants made Rams play when, one play later, the closed out the scoring.”With 4:55 to go in the game, it was 12-8,” Cordy said. “I thought we played well. But that’s a good team.”The Rams will leave Disney World today on a chartered bus and hope to return home Sunday afternoon.