Tuscaloosa Academy scores late to edge Glenwood
Tuscaloosa Academy drove 98 yards in the final four minutes of the game and with the only pass completion for either team, came away with a 41-34 victory over Glenwood Friday night at Sammy Howard field.
Glenwood was driving for what looked like the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth period but fullback Mario Richmond was stopped after a 2-yard gain on a fourth-and-3 at the 4.
With 4:19 remaining in the game, Keonte Chambers picked up four first downs on runs and got the ball down to the 25. Following a penalty, quarterback Brook Brannon faked to Chambers and threw to a wide open Joshua Lanier for the winning score with 28 seconds to play.
Chambers had a monster game for the Knights as he ran for 138 yards in the first half and another 116 in the second and scored four touchdowns for Tuscaloosa Academy.
Chambers paced the Knights to an early 27-7 lead when he got his third TD on the first play of the second quarter. He had runs of 15, 55 and 3 yards in the first half to stake Tuscaloosa to the lead.
Chad Dykes, Carrington Huddleston and Richmond led the running attack and all of them gained big yardage for the Gators. The Gators went 52 yards and Huddleston scored his second first-half TD to close the gap to 27-14 and the Knights fumbled the ball back to Glenwood.
They took advantage of that miscue as Richmond barreled over from the five to make it 27-20 at the half.
The Gators then took a 34-27 lead on Richmond's second TD run and Chad Dykes 22-yard up the middle run before Keonte Chambers tied the score with his fourth TD.
Huddleston finished with 20 carries for 144 yards and 2 TD's, Dykes had 19 rushes for 136 yards and a TD and Richmond added 17 runs for 87 yards and two scores.
Friday at Sammy Howard FieldTuscaloosa Academy 20 7 7 7--41
Glenwood 7 13 14 0--34First Quarter
TA-Cameron Chambers 15 run (Trey Finison kick), 9:36
G-Carrington Huddleston 50 run (Thomas Camacho kick), 5:25
TA-Keonte Chambers 15 run (Finison kick), 5:03
TA- K. Chambers 55 run (kick failed), 0:41
Second Quarter
TA- K. Chambers 3 run (Finison kick), 11:45
G-Huddleston 9 run (Camacho kick), 5:29
G-Mario Richmond 5 run (run failed), 2:53
Third Quarter
G-Richmond 2 run (Camacho kick), 8:22
G-Chad Dykes 22 run (Camacho kick), 3:27
TA- K. Chambers 1 run (Finison kick), 1:12
Fourth Quarter
TA- Joshua Lanier 30 pass from Brook Brannon (Finison kick), 0:28
This story was originally published October 9, 2015 at 11:46 PM with the headline "Tuscaloosa Academy scores late to edge Glenwood ."