CHARLESTON — It took slightly more than three minutes at the outset of the second half for Charleston to turn a close game into a rout Friday night against Paris.
Charleston quarterback Ty Storey threw three touchdown passes in the first 3:08 of the third quarter after Charleston led 12-7 at halftime, and the Tigers (4-1, 2-0 in 4-3A) were on their way to a 46-20 victory.
“Three touchdowns in about three minutes, you just can’t make mistakes like that,” Paris Coach Bryan Hutsonsaid. “If you take away those three minutes this is a great ballgame.”
Storey completed 25 of 37 passes for 438 yards and 6 touchdowns for the Tigers. But Paris (3-2, 1-1) held Storey to 15 completions in 26 attempts for 188 yards and 2 touchdowns in the first half and appeared to be keeping the Tigers’ no huddle offense in check.
But Storey completed a 76-yard screen pass to Josh Moore for a touchdown with 11:25 left in the third quarter, and Storey ran in the twopoint conversion to give the Tigers a 20-7 lead.
Charleston’s Taylor King recovered Chance Shelby’s onside kick at Paris’ 41. Storey completed a 41-yard touchdown pass to Colton Ward on the next play. A two-point conversion pass from Storey to Shelby gave Charleston a 28-7 lead with 1:33 left to play.
Paris took over at its 46 after the kickoff, but Harrison Ramsey threw an interception to Wade Gerlick on the first play with 11:20 left in the third quarter.
The Tigers took over on the Eagles’ 48, and Storey led them on a 7-play 48-yard scoring drive that was capped by a 4-yard touchdown pass from Storey to Shelby. The Tigers missed the extra pointto make it 34-7 with 8:52 left in the third quarter and Paris was unable to get closer than 20 points again.
“I told them that we really had to come out strong to start the second half and you could see the momentum swing,” Charleston Coach Doug Loughridge said.
Paris came out using a power running game to drive 45 yards on 9 plays. Payton McClure capped the drive with a 3-yard touchdown run with 7:29 left in the first quarter.
Charleston came back with Storey leading the Tigers on a 15-play, 70-yard drive. Storey completed 7 of 9 passes for 58 yards, including a touchdown pass to Josh Moore for a 3-yard touchdown with 3:13 left in thefirst quarter. The two-point conversion attempt was unsuccessful and Paris led 7-6.
Storey gave Charleston a 12-7 lead with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Shelby with 1:30 left before halftime.
Justin Estala finished with 73 yards on 16 carries including a 4-yard touchdown run in the second half to lead Paris.
CEDARVILLE 46, DANVILLE 28
CEDARVILLE - Austin Soehlman ran for three touchdowns and Dylan Long threw for two more for Cedarville.
Both of Shelton’s touchdown passes went to Evan Fincher while Reese Harrison and Casey Sanders also had rushing touchdowns for Cedarville (3-2, 1-1).
Dakota Long threw three touchdown passes, all to Alex Xayadeth, with two coming in the fourth quarter for Danville (0-4, 0-2).
ATKINS 38, LAVACA 28
ATKINS - Ty Enis ran for two touchdowns and passed for two more as Atkins (4-0, 2-0 4-3A) fought off Lavaca.
Enis’ touchdown runs covered 3 and 7 yards. He threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Burns and a 15-yard touchdown pass to Matt Collins.
Alex Duval scored on a 2-yard run for Atkins, and Dylan Isom added a 25-yard run.
LAMAR 22, MANSFIELD 18
LAMAR - Justus Williams scored two touchdowns, including the game winner with 15 seconds left, as Lamar (4-1, 2-0 4-3A) held off Mansfield (2-3, 0-2).
Mansfield led 18-15 after scoring a touchdown with 39 seconds left in the fourth quarter, but Williams scored the game winner on a 5-yard run after Nathan Greene set up the Warriors on the 5 with a 44-yard reception.
Williams’ other touchdown was an 8-yard run, and Ryan Jones added a 2-yard run.
Green finished with two receptions for 52 yards.
Sports, Pages 24 on 09/29/2012