Boiling Springs celebrated their homecoming by crowning Simrin Channa as the 2020 Homecoming Queen and defeating Fort Mill 63-0 on Friday night in their final region matchup of the season. With the win the Bulldogs punched their ticket into the 5A playoffs as the second seed out of Region III-5A.
"This is what homecoming is all about and I told the kids there would be a lot of eyes on us to see if we could back up our second half performance from last week and I think we did just that," said Boiling Springs head coach Rick Tate. "I have to give a lot of credit to those kids from Fort Mill because they kept fighting the whole game but we were able to get some young kids in the game and they shined. Those young guys work hard in practice and I'm glad to see them get their chance to shine tonight." Boiling Springs scored five different times in the first half and all five of those scores came at the hands of Bulldogs senior quarterback Jalen Dodd. The first four scores all came on Dodd runs as he scored from ten yards out, eight yards out, one yard out and the final run was a thirty yard touchdown run down the left side to give the Bulldogs a 28-0 lead. The Bulldogs put the halftime score at 35-0 when Dodd found senior Caden Sullivan on a pass down the right sideline for his fifth touchdown of the night. Dodd finished the game with 257 yards of offense with 178 coming through the air and seventy-nine on the ground. The Bulldogs first half offensive output was helped by senior running back Charles McFadden Jr who started the night at linebacker but took over the lead running back role after an injury to starter Cam Mills. On the opening defensive stand McFadden came up with two big tackles for loss before taking over on offense and rushing for 102 yards but it's a moment that McFadden says he stays prepared for at all times. "My motto is if you stay ready then you'll be ready," said McFadden. "Coach Tate does a great job of getting me reps on both sides of the ball in practice so when the time was called for me to go into the game I was ready." Coach Tate was very happy with the performance by McFadden on Friday night because of his commitment to the team. "That's really good for Charles," said Tate. "We're using him a lot and he was thrown into a defensive position because we were thin there early in the year but he just kept getting better and better in practice and we couldn't take him off the field. He really started looking good at running back last week and that was good because we needed him tonight." Boiling Springs got their first score of the second half when junior running back Montavious Perry-Dillard ran the ball in from one yard out to put the Bulldogs lead at 42-0. Perry-Dillard added another three yard touchdown to start the fourth quarter as he finished the night with seventy-four yards rushing on fifteen carries and two touchdowns. In between the scores by Perry-Dillard was an amazing twenty-six yard touchdown run by backup quarterback Ke'Tron Adams as the Bulldogs led 56-0 with eleven minutes to go in the game. The Bulldogs final score of the game came on a ninety-seven yard punt return by senior safety Caden Sullivan who finished the night with a punt return touchdown and a receiving touchdown to go along with a defensive interception. The performance by Sullivan didn't surprise Coach Tate as he believes he's the best two way player in the state. "Caden worked hard this offseason and the results of that is really paying off this year," said Tate. "It's unbelievable seeing the growth he's had since his sophomore year to now and I'm not sure there's a better two way player in the state right now. The colleges in this state shouldn't be letting him get out of this state." Boiling Springs finished the night with 545 total yards of offense with 367 of those yards coming on the ground while the Bulldogs defense held Fort Mill to fifty-three total yards and negative forty-one yards rushing. The Bulldogs will start their non-region play next week as they travel to Greenwood for their last road game of the season. Comments are closed.
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