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Thomasville Stuffs 2-Point Try, Wins 39th Straight 14-13
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| Tanis Jefferies makes one of his nine tackles, grabbing Thomasville’s 6-5 QB, E.J. Abrams-Ward. |
After Mayfield scored with 4:45 remaining to cut the deficit to one, Thomasville stuffed Quinton Faulkner at the 1 on a two-point trick play, and that allowed the Bulldogs (2-0) to hang on before a packed house and run their winning streak to 39.
In nonconference, both coaches have to agree before the game whether to play overtime. Thomasville coach Allen Brown didn’t want OT. So instead of sending out kicker Michael Rowe for the potential tying extra point, Davie coach Doug Illing gambled for the win.
The all-or-nothing run to the right by Faulkner didn’t pan out. There was a holding call against Davie (1-2) anyway. But if the two-point play works, at least Davie would have had a chance for a long extra point.
“We had plenty of time to get the ball back and score,” Illing said. “We got the ball back. We did exactly what I thought we would, we just didn’t execute at the end. I could have kicked the extra point and we would have been tied. But that’s how much I believe in them. I believed we were going to win at the end. They were giving it to us. They only had two guys out there covering it. They gave it to us the first time. Their two kids made a play on our three kids.”
A week earlier the War Eagles lost in the final two seconds to West Rowan and one of the finest running backs in the state, K.P. Parks. They lost to a 1-A team in Thomasville, but Thomasville is an uncommon 1-A that stockpiles talent to ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.