The South Harrison Bulldogs withstood a first-quarter touchdown pass that gave the Trenton Bulldogs an early first quarter lead, along with a slew of undisciplined penalties, slowly righting the ship while catching, passing, and beating THS in a 30-14 Grand River Conference final on Friday night from C.F. Russell Stadium.
Trenton opened the scoring with 2:03 remaining in the first quarter, with senior quarterback Sam Schilling throwing into the teeth of an on-rushing South Harrison defender, hitting Dalton Burchett on a well-timed slant pattern. Tom Johnson had the play-by-play call on Hot Country Z 101.7:
After the Schilling extra point upped Trenton’s lead to 7-0, it took only four plays for South Harrison to take the lead away. A kick return to the South Harrison 45, combined with an unsportsmanlike call against Trenton gave South Harrison the ball on the Trenton side of mid-field. A 37 yard gallop by Andrew Sweat gave South Harrison the ball close to the end zone, with Collin Haffey hitting the end zone two plays later on a 4 yard scamper with 58 remaining in the quarter. Haffey went in untouched on the two-point run to give the lead to the “Purple Bulldogs” 8-7 after one quarter.
South Harrison, just over 4 minutes into the second quarter, pushed the lead to 16-7, as junior quarterback Austin Lasher broke a pair of Trenton tackles at the line of scrimmage, burst into the secondary, and scored on a 30 yard carry. Junior fullback Braydn Linthacum added the two-point run for the halftime advantage of 16-7.
Another Lasher touchdown run, this an eight yard carry with 9:01 remaining in the third quarter, made the score 22-7, with Trenton stopping the attempted two-point run. A one-yard plunge by Haffey midway through the fourth quarter, with a two-point pass from Lasher to Braydon Sunderman, ended any realistic hopes of a Trenton comeback.
The host Bulldogs ended the scoring with 68 seconds remaining, on a 2 yard carry by Jaren Whitney. The two-point conversion failed.
South Harrison Head Coach Chris Schoning said while it was not the smoothest performance for his team, he was proud of the way the GRC co-leaders responded to road adversity:
South Harrison, now 7-0 on the season, and 5-0 in the GRC, will host the Milan Wildcats next Friday night, with Trenton, for the Bulldogs Senior Night game, playing host to Polo, with coverage on Hot Country Z 101.7.
The Princeton Tigers dramatically rallied from 18-7 down early in the fourth quarter to score the final 20 points of their GRC game at Maysville on Friday night, with PHS staying even with South Harrison atop of the conference standings with a 27-18 win. Here is Princeton Head Coach Nathan Powell:
Other final scores from Friday, October 11, 2019 were:
Gallatin 7, Milan 0 (on KTTN FM 92.3)
Putnam County 27, Polo 0
Penney 28, West Platte 6
Mid-Buchanan 42, Plattsburg 0
Lathrop 69, North Platte 6
Lawson 48, East Buchanan 8
Savannah 49, Chillicothe 14
Lafayette 35, Cameron 21
Benton 36, St. Pius X 6
Lexington 60, Carrollton 19
Higginsville 16, Knob Noster 12
Richmond 36, Holden 20
Marceline 47, Salisbury 12
Westran 25, Schuyler County 20
Scotland County 30, Knox County 0
Fayette 45, Harrisburg 6
Paris 50, Louisiana 28
Smithville 38, Winnetonka 14
Grain Valley 15, Kearney 7
Macon 36, Brookfield 22
Clark County 38, Palmyra 24
Centralia 20, South Shelby 0
Helias Catholic 49, Monroe City 24
Highland 40, West Hancock 12
Mexico 34, Kirksville 20
8 MAN:
Pattonsburg 82, Worth County 50
King City 68, Braymer 6
North Andrew 68, Albany 32
North Shelby 22, Stanberry 16
Orrick 66, KC East Christian 38
Northwest Nodaway 58, Bishop LeBlond 52
Southwest Livingston 62, Rock Port 12
Mound City 46, South Holt / Nodaway-Holt 0
East Atchison 62, Stewartsville 0
Norborne / Hardin-Central 62, Chilhowee 22
