WALTHAM — Within the forty fifth annual Shriners Basic at Bentley on Friday night time time, it regarded like, for sure, additional time was coming.
However then the North squad, with some late heroics, proved that won’t be very important.
After a late drive led by Peabody quarterback Shea Lynch and Andover working once more Lincoln Beal, Andover’s Andrew Wetterwald booted a game-winning self-discipline goal as time ran out to supply the North an thrilling 17-14 comeback win.
With the score tied at 14, the North took over on a turnover on downs at its private 40-yard line and easily 27 seconds to play.
However Lynch, who was the North Offensive MVP, was a peaceable self-discipline frequent. He achieved a 3-yard transfer to Beal, then flipped the ball over a defender’s outstretched hand to Beal for a 19-yard catch-and-run on the following play. Beal carried the ball for an 8-yard obtain to the South 30, and the North generally known as timeout with six seconds left.
Lynch as soon as extra made points happen with a completion to Beal that the working once more ran out of bounds with decrease than a second remaining.
From there, Wetterwald booted the 36-yarder to power the North to victory. The Endicott-bound Lynch achieved 13 of 17 passes for 140 yards and a touchdown.
“It was type of a surreal second,” Wetterwald talked about. “We lined up, and I don’t know, (Studying’s James Murphy) had an amazing maintain, and it went via. So I used to be comfortable.”
“As a participant, I really feel like I’ve been ready for (late, game-winning) drives my entire life,” Lynch talked about. “With this workforce, everybody out there’s so assured. We’ve recognized one another for perhaps per week and a half, two weeks. However we go on the market, now we have an amazing connection happening. I belief the O-line, receivers make the catches, and that’s how it’s.”
It was a back-and-forth recreation all via. The North dominated the early going, and took a 6-0 second-quarter lead when Lynch hit Masconomet’s Tyler McMahon on a 20-yard touchdown on fourth and goal.
The South responded with a 34-yard touchdown transfer from Holliston quarterback T.J. Kiley to Hanover huge receiver Joseph Curran with merely 20 seconds left inside the half. Curran caught 5 passes for 81 yards and two touchdowns, and was the South Offensive MVP.
Within the third quarter, it regarded identical to the South was in administration, as Curran caught a 9-yard touchdown transfer from Brighton’s Sahmir Morales to help in giving the South a 14-6 profit.
However the North countered. Everett quarterback Kamarri Ellerbe ran in a 2-yard touchdown with 5:23 to play. Murphy threw a two-point conversion to Wetterwald to tie it.
The teams traded interceptions – by Wakefield’s Javin Willis and Stoughton’s Tagh Swierzewski, respectively — sooner than the ultimate South drive ended near midfield on the turnover on downs.
The North took over from there.
“It was superior,” Beal talked about. “I like all my teammates. The final two weeks have been superior. The Shriners recreation is simply unbelievable.”
