As storms rolled through the upstate of South Carolina on Friday, the Boiling Springs football team saw running back Carmelo Martin storm through the Nation Ford defense but it wasn’t enough for the first victory of the season as the Bulldogs fell to the Falcons 56-27 in another region matchup.
”We got ahead 7-0 early but had a hard time stopping their offense,” said Bulldogs head coach Rick Tate. “We had some mistakes throughout the game that put us behind but just like I told our guys we’re just going to keep fighting.” The Bulldogs offense saw significant improvement against the Falcons as the team finished the game with 359 yards of offense which put them averaging right at seven yards a play as the majority of those yards came on the ground as the Bulldogs rushing attack accounted for 253 of those yards. Carmelo Martin, a junior running back for the Bulldogs, had a huge night for Boiling Springs as he led the rushing attack picking up 144 yards on seven carries with two touchdowns while also adding eighty-seven yards receiving on two catches with another touchdown. ”Carmelo had a great game,” said Tate. “He had two long rushes and probably had over two hundred yards tonight.” Boiling Springs took the lead early in the game when a bad snap on a Nation Ford punt gave the Bulldogs the ball at the Falcons seven yard line and quarterback Ketrone Adams took advantage of the mistake running to the right side before cutting back to the middle for a touchdown to take a 7-0 lead. Nation Ford responded by taking scoring twenty-one unanswered points from the nine minute mark of the first quarter until just over seven minutes were left in the second quarter thanks to three touchdown passes from quarterback Carson Black who found wide receivers Quadier Hand, Kenyan Bowman, and Jerrick Foster each for a touchdown, with the longest being the last one which was a fifty-four yard pass to Foster. Martin scored his first touchdown of the night when he took a swing pass from Ketrone Adams down the left side of the field sixty-nine yards dodging two defenders and outrunning the rest to cut the Falcons lead to 21-14 with just over six minutes to go in the game. The Falcons added one more score before the half as Black connected with Foster again for a sixteen yard touchdown pass to give Nation Ford a 27-14 halftime lead. Jeremiah Hailstock ran a touchdown in from forty-four yards out to push the Falcons lead to 35-14, which turned out to be the only score in the third quarter. Eli Whitner opened the fourth quarter with a five yard touchdown run to push the Nation Ford lead to 42-14 over the Bulldogs. Martin struck again for the Bulldogs just twenty-three seconds after the Nation Ford score as he went seventy-yards in two runs, with the last being a twenty-seven yard touchdown run to cut the lead to 42-20. Nation Ford added two more scores as Black added another touchdown pass and Hailstock added a twenty-three yard touchdown run to give the Falcons a 56-20 lead. Martin finished his impressive game with a sixty-one yard touchdown run down the left side to put the Nation Ford lead at 56-27 as the Falcons melted away the last two and a half minutes of the game. While Martin had a very impressive game for the Bulldogs he wasn’t the only player to have a good game as fellow running back Kam Williams had seventy-two yards on thirteen carries. Quarterback Ketrone Adams, making his first start of the season, finished the game with 116 yards passing with a touchdown while also adding thirty-five rushing yards. Elijah Smith had four tackles for the Bulldogs, with one for a loss, while Brent Fowler added three more tackles, one for a loss, including an interception. Nation Ford quarterback Carson Black ended the game with 323 yards passing with five touchdowns to lead the Falcons offense that accounted for over 500 yards of offense on Friday night. Boiling Springs will look to build on their offensive momentum next Friday when they host Clover, who defeated Fort Mill 44-7 on Friday night, in another region matchup. Comments are closed.
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