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by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
Football
is supposed to be a game of inches, and
this one certainly fit the bill.
Grundy scored a touchdown as time expired, but
Carroll County, which was stopped at the goal line at
the end of the first half, stopped Josh Lindsay at the
goal line on a two-point conversion attempt that would
have tied the score.
It preserved the Cavaliers’ 14-12 win over the
Golden Wave in Southwest District play Friday night at
Nelson Memorial Field.
Despite poor field position and despite using its
last timeout with 1:41 remaining, Kaleb Smith led the
Golden Wave on a breathtaking, 10-play, 75-yard
scoring drive that ate up the final three minutes.
The junior quarterback completed a 31-yard pass to
Jimmy Ashby on third down, and drilled a 37-yard
completion to Dustin Daugherty on fourth down right
after the final timeout. Daugherty snatched the ball
away from a defender, turned and wheeled his way down
the left sideline to the Cavaliers’ five-yard line.
Smith managed to get the offense set for three
running plays inside the five in the final minute. He
scored his second touchdown of the game from one yard
out as the clock ran out.
On the conversion try Lindsay took a swing pass at
the four and had an open lane to the end zone for,
perhaps, a second before several defenders closed in
on the Golden Wave sophomore.
"We thought it would be there, we hadn’t shown
that
play all year," Grundy coach Greg Rowe said. "We
probably should have made the first two-point
conversion. Then we would have been going for the win
instead of the tie."
Grundy (1-6, 0-3) played its best game of the
year,
shutting a 6-2 Carroll County team out after the Cavs
scored two early touchdowns. The second Cavalier TD
was set up by a muffed punt at the Grundy five-yard
line.
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by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
Garrett
Horne and Wyatt Justus combined for nearly 300
yards rushing as Twin Valley pulled away in the second
half to a 34-12 win over Montcalm (W.Va.) in an
interstate battle Friday night at Twin Valley Middle
School.
Horne, Justus and Colten Allison all ran for
touchdowns for Twin Valley (2-6), which got 318 of its
357 yards of total offense on the ground.
The Panthers took a 13-0 halftime lead on the
strength
of two rushing TDs from Horne. The sophomore back
scored on runs of 29 and 5 yards, respectively, and
finished with a game-high 149 yards on 17 carries.
Justus went over the 1,000-yard mark for the year
after rushing got 146 yards and two touchdowns on 21
attempts. The senior halfback ran seven yards for a
touchdown in the third quarter. Twin Valley took a
21-0 lead after a two-point conversion pass from Jory
Rife to Matthew Baldwin.
The Panthers scored twice in the fourth quarter.
Justus had a 28-yard TD run early in the final
period.
Allison capped the scoring for Twin Valley with
a
one-yard touchdown run.
"We played better in all phases of the
game," Twin
Valley coach Charlie Vandyke said. "We got pretty good
blocking up front and Garrett and Wyatt both ran well.
And Jory Rife threw the best he has all year.
"This was a ballgame we needed. We had a
lot of kids
who hadn't got to play much and they all got a chance
to play, and that a bright spot for me. Everybody got
to play and all of them gave a pretty good effort."
Matthew Vandyke led Twin Valley defensively
with nine
tackles. The Panthers snapped a three-game losing
streak with Friday's victory.
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