Gateway, which is ranked #25 in the latest USA Today High School Football Poll, needed three touchdowns on kickoff returns...the last with less than a half minute remaining in the game...to escape with a 37-36 win over Norwin Friday night.
In a game that featured ten lead changes, Gateway (Monroeville, PA) needed a 65-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Brian Williams to avoid the Gators second loss of the year. Gateway's Cameron Sadler also got into the special teams' act returning kickoffs for touchdowns earlier in the game. Sadler scored on returns of 90 and 82 yards.
Norwin almost pulled off the upset behind the combo of quarterback Alex Dennison and receiver Mike Shanahan. The two hooked-up on five touchdown passes in the game. The last, an 18-yarder, coming with under a minute to give Norwin a 36-31 lead.
Dennison completed 10-of-14 passes for 234 yards and scores of 31, 2, 7, 20 and 18 yards. For the game Shanahan caught eight balls for 159-yards.
This blog is part of Jeff Fisher's High School Football America network that is dedicated to providing high school football fans in Pennsylvania with the most up-to-date news and information in the Keystone State.
1 comment:
This just goes to show how subjective the polls are. PA Football News already had Gateway as the 7th best team in PA before the loss last Friday. Of course, that poll had Upper St. Clair as the 3rd best team in PA, and USC lost as well.
Go Knights!
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