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kent will vs lane
Terrance Wolfolk
27
Winner Lane College LC 2-1 , 2-0
24
Fort Valley State FVSU 1-2 , 0-1
Winner
Lane College LC
2-1 , 2-0
27
Final
24
Fort Valley State FVSU
1-2 , 0-1
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
LC Lane College 7 7 0 13 27
FVSU Fort Valley State 9 8 7 0 24

Game Recap: Football | | Chris Myers

Dragons Use Fourth Quarter Turnovers to Upset Wildcats

FORT VALLEY, Ga. – For three quarters, the Wildcats seemed to be in control. Lane College picked off two fourth-quarter passes and turned the first into the go-ahead score and sealed its upset football win, 27-24, over Fort Valley State with second with 26 seconds on the clock.
 
After driving 46 yards in just under four minutes to the visiting 24-yardline, FVSU (1-2/0-0 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference East) quarterback Tyrell Jackson fired into the left side of the endzone front, but Lane's Walter Tatum picked off his second pass of the game at the 1-yardline to seal his team's win.
 
The Lane (2-1/1-0 SIAC West) College victory was only its second in the last 17 meetings, but now two of the last three in the series. After posting a shutout in the season opener, the Wildcats have now dropped two-straight.
 
The final total offense numbers were as close as the game was. The Dragons outgained the Wildcats, 397-376, on six more offensive plays.
 
Shemar Bridges and Erron Price paced the FVSU offense with over 100-plus receiving yards apiece. Bridges pulled in 12 passes for 105 yards, while Price had his first surpassing the century mark with 109 yards on 10 catches and a 20-yard touchdown. Jackson completed 29 of 38 passes for 321 yards and two scores to go with three interceptions.
 
Defensively, Noah Waller led the Wildcats with seven tackles, a sack and a tackle for loss. From the secondary, Zach Adnerson, Tyler Moore and Mike Hicks, Jr. posted seven, six and six stops. Antonio Golden and Biron Silas both chipped in five tackles, one sack and a tackle for loss, while Tim Alderman and Caleb Thomas had five tackles as well.
 
After Lane took the opening possession 76 yards on six plays for a touchdown, FVSU answered with a 26-yard Andre Labat field goal and 7-3 score. Kentrelle Williams capped a 62-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown plunge for the home's clubs first lead of 9-7 following a botched point after hold with 42 seconds in the opening frame.
 
The two opponents traded touchdowns in the early part of the second quarter. Jackson found Price for 20 yards for the Wildcats, before the Dragons' backup quarterback Michael Huntley ran in from eight yards on the next possession for what would be the intermission score of 17-14.
 
The lone third-quarter points came with 5:02 left in the frame. On a 3rd-and-12, the Wildcats' Jackson lofted the ball down the right side where Cordell Pimienta pulled it in and scampered the rest of the way of the 42-yard scoring strike for a 10-point advantage, 24-14.
 
After both teams punted on three-and-outs, the Dragons went on the longest drive of the game taking 7:05 before Huntley found linebacker Andrew Farmer from three yards on a short pass to pull within 24-20 with 9:30 left.
 
The Dragons defense would step up in the final nine minutes. On the fourth home play of the next drive, Tatum picked off Jackson on the visitors' 30-yardline. Six plays later, Huntley found O'Joshua Bunton down the left sideline and cut between two defenders for the first Lane lead, 27-24, since it opened the game with a touchdown.
 
Covering 46 yards on six plays, FVSU took the ball down to the Lane 24-yardline with 37 seconds remaining. Following an first-down incompletion, Tatum made it two interceptions in a row when he snatched the ball out of the air at the front left of the endzone on the one-yardline to seal the upset, 27-24.
 
The Wildcats will track to get back on track next Saturday, Sept. 25, on the road in Columbia, S.C. FVSU plays at Allen University in a 6 p.m. kick-off.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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