.With temperatures dropping towards the freezing mark on Friday night the Boiling Springs football couldn't find a solution to counter the big plays by Clover as the Blue Eagles defeated the Bulldogs 49-14 in the first round of the 5A playoffs.
"We just didn't block or tackle well tonight," said Bulldogs head football coach Rick Tate. "If we done those things like we should have that game is probably 14-7 at halftime and it's a whole different ball game." Clover got the first score of the game when quarterback Gave Carroll found Zach Davis for a fifty-three yard touchdown down the right side of the field giving the Blue Eagles an early 7-0 lead. Clover added to their lead with just under four minutes to go in the first quarter when running back BJ Timms broke a thirty-six yard run up the middle to put Clover up 14-0. Carroll picked up his second touchdown pass of the quarter when he found Jaylin Lane on a fifty yard touchdown pass giving Clover a 21-0 lead. Just over a minute later with time running out in the quarter the Bulldogs got on the scoreboard when running back Kentavious Epps took a run down the left side and then broke it back to the right side of the field for a thirty yard touchdown run putting Clover's first quarter lead at 21-7. Epps led the Bulldogs in rushing on Friday night as he ran for seventy-six yards on seven carries with a touchdown. With just over two minutes to go in the first half the Blue Eagles put their halftime lead at 28-7 when wide receiver Zion Robbins caught a thirteen yard touchdown pass from Carroll that he caught just before the ball hit the ground after deflecting off the hands of another Clover wide receiver. In the second half the Bulldogs took the first drive of the half eighty-three yards to the Clover two yard line but were unable to get any points from the drive after a false start penalty and a sack forced Boiling Springs to attempt a field goal that bounced off the right upright. On the drive Boiling Springs got a big forty yard run from Tedron Barber and forty-three yards on three carries from Charles McFadden. "If we could have gotten that first drive in the endzone and made it 28-14 I feel like we could have gotten some momentum going in our direction," said Tate. On Clover's next offensive drive Carroll found Davis for their second touchdown connection of the game but this time for forty-one yards to give the Blue Eagles a 35-7 lead at the end of the third quarter. On the first drive of the fourth quarter Boiling Springs was able to make the score 35-14 just a minute into the quarter when quarterback Jalen Dodd found wide receiver Carlos Carson on a twenty-three yard touchdown pass to the left side of the endzone. Dodd led the Bulldogs in the passing game hitting seven of his sixteen passes for 128 yards and a touchdown while Carson led the Bulldogs in receiving with eighty-two yards on three catches. Clover was able to add two more touchdowns within a minute of each other as Tims and David Hall both ran for touchdowns and put the Blue Eagles lead at 49-14 and setting up a second round playoff match against Mauldin. With the loss the Bulldogs season ends with a 4-7 record while also finishing 3-4 in region play. Comments are closed.
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