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West Wins on Last-Second Play
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| Matt Oswell blocks a West Rowan extra point in the second half of an eventual 28-24 loss. |
On fourth down from the Davie 2, the fourth-quarter clock was nearing zeroes with Davie clinging to a 24-21 lead. With the game on the line, there was only one guy West coach Scott Young was going to let decide the outcome - Parks. As the Falcons have come to expect, the extraordinary sophomore tailback didn’t let his team down, delivering a TD on a sweep right with two seconds to go.
While the 2-0 Falcons celebrated wildly, the end was too much for the War Eagles (1-1) to stomach, watching Parks power West 54 yards in the final 3:20. Davie had the offensive balance, with Mayfield rushing for 201 yards and Garrett Benge passing for 162 and running for 55. But Parks was a one-man show, churning 40 times for 267 yards and four TDs.
Davie coach Doug Illing consoled the heartbroken troops in the postgame huddle, insisting they will grow stronger from the nonconference experience. They have serious work to do in tackling, but they left every ounce of energy on the field.
“We’ll pull the good things out of it,” he told the players. “This is not a playoff game. Be disappointed and be upset that you lost, but by gosh don’t go into the tank on me. There’s a lot of games left. This is the kind of fight we need to be in. This is exactly why I scheduled who we scheduled, so we can face some of this and learn how to persevere through adversity. Get over the bumps and bruises. That’s football. I saw some of you gut it up and get right back in there. That’s being a football player. We didn’t play our best. You can run up a mountain as hard as you can blindfolded, or you can be smart and play the way you’re supposed to play. We’ve got to learn how to put the two together - effort and execution. It wasn’t because of ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.