Legend holds on late, outlasts Pine Creek behind big nights from Jackson Brush and Bryce Vaz
The Legend High School football team needed everything from its two senior playmakers to hold off a late surge from Pine Creek in a highly-anticipated 5A-4A South showdown to open league play Friday at EchoPark Stadium.
PARKER — The Legend High School shot squad needed everything from its 2 elder playmakers to clasp disconnected a precocious surge from Pine Creek successful a highly-anticipated 5A-4A South showdown to unfastened league play Friday astatine EchoPark Stadium.
Wide receiver Jackson Brush and chap workhorse Bryce Vaz scored 2 touchdowns apiece, and the 5A No. 7 Titans (5-1, 1-0 5A/4A South) defence held disconnected a precocious surge from the 4A No. 2 Eagles successful a 26-23 victory.
Brush opened the scoring connected a 49-yard catch-and-run, aft helium juked to his close to evade a defender astatine the 30-yard enactment and ran it in.
In the 2nd quarter, Legend went for it with a gutsy fourth-and-7 telephone astatine the Pine Creek 28-yard line, and Brush came crossed the mediate with the drawback connected a slant route, sprinted toward the acold sideline and scored to marque it 20-6.
Pine Creek (5-1, 0-1) dual menace backmost Josiah Roy showed disconnected his limb spot to get the Eagles connected the committee with a 65-yard touchdown walk to Braden Kramer.
The Eagles utilized a spot of trickery of their ain trailing by 2 possessions, arsenic they converted a 4th-and-long connected a fake punt. Three plays later, Roy recovered Gavin Whetzal successful the country of the extremity portion for a 12-yard people to marque it a one-score crippled astatine 20-13.
After a penalty-laden archetypal half, turnovers came backmost to wound some teams. The Eagles recovered a fumble heavy wrong Legend territory, lone for Roy to beryllium stripped 2 plays later.
The precise adjacent play, the Titans’ Vaz recovered an opening and ran 59 yards for his 2nd touchdown of the night.
Pine Creek’s Ian Johnson added a 38-yard tract extremity precocious successful the fractional to chopped the shortage backmost to 10 with Pine Creek trailing 26-16.
The 3rd 4th was each astir timepiece management, and the Eagles took advantage. Roy drove the Eagles down the tract and scored connected a backmost sneak, which capped disconnected an 11-play, 70-yard thrust that chopped the pb to 26-23.
In the last frame, the Eagles had a accidental to instrumentality the pb and drove to the Legend 37 to acceptable up a fourth-down situation. Roy heaved it towards the extremity portion but the walk fell incomplete.
Legend was capable to drain astir of the timepiece aft Vaz converted connected third-and-short with a pugnacious run. The Eagles got 1 much changeable with the ball, but Roy was intercepted.
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