What kept it close in the second half?
Son and I went to Seneca thinking it would be the better of the two “closer” games to us Friday night. Watched one half of that game, was 35-6 at the half and should have been 42-6 (Seneca was stopped at 1 as time expired) on the final play of the first half.
While checking scores, read that Lamar and McDonald County was 18-14 second quarter so we decided to make a beeline to Anderson for that game. Got there with 10 minutes left in the third quarter.
From what we watched … McDonald County has a southpaw quarterback who can sling it. He looked good, except he threw an interception in the end zone that was costly and found out earlier in the game he threw an interception right to the Lamar linebacker who was able to take it back for a score.
Second costly mistake by McDonald County was in the fourth quarter, had Lamar in a third and 24 situation and they converted it into a first down with over 3 minutes left. I assumed Lamar would run it for a first down and kill the clock and leave with the victory.
Nope, Lamar passed for a touchdown and a 32-14 lead.
McDonald County drove down and scored with 18 seconds left and no timeouts remaining to make it 32-21. Then they immediately recovered the onside kick, first play a touchdown pass and 11 seconds left. Mustangs went for 2, got it and a 32-29 score.
Lamar recovered the second onside kick and that was the ballgame. Should have gone to Anderson from the start.