Prep football: It’s late magic again as Highland downs Carson 22-7

POCATELLO – With a full caller formed of characters highlighting nan Highland shot roster, it’s a bully stake that it’s astir apt going to return immoderate clip for each nan pieces to commencement to autumn into spot for nan Rams. The programme has group a precocious standard, but sometimes patience tin beryllium a bully thing.

So, how’s that going 2 games into nan season?

Glad you asked.

Highland improved to 2-0 pinch Saturday’s 22-7 triumph complete Carson (Nev.) successful nan Rocky Mountain Rumble astatine nan ICCU Arena successful Pocatello.

“It decidedly wasn’t pretty,” Highland coach Nick Sorrell said of Saturday’s win. “But we preach being a fourth-quarter, second-half team, each nan measurement done nan summertime and done autumn campy and you look astatine nan past 2 games we’ve won nan crippled successful nan 4th quarter. We don’t springiness up, moreover erstwhile things are really reliable and we’re shooting ourselves successful nan foot, they’re uncovering a way.”

Highland opened its play past week pinch an awesome 21-13 triumph complete reigning Nevada authorities champion Legacy.

Saturday’s opponent, Carson, already had 2 wins nether its belt, but Highland struck first and took 7-0 lead successful nan first 4th arsenic Zaydin Alo ran for an 11-yard touchdown.

The early lead held arsenic some defenses stiffened into nan 4th fourth erstwhile Carson took advantage of a Rams fumble and tied nan crippled erstwhile Drake Hardcastle deed Zack Eaton for a 13-yard people pinch 10:50 left.

That’s erstwhile Highland’s late-game mojo kicked in, starting pinch nan defense.

McKay Galo picked disconnected a walk astatine nan Carson 25 gait line. The Rams yet converted a important fourth-and-inches pinch 2:38 near connected a tally by backmost Keaton Belnap. Galo past capped nan thrust pinch a 9-yard touchdown tally to put nan Rams successful nan lead pinch 1:54 left.

Carson Bates vanished it disconnected pinch a 45-yard pick-six pinch 53 seconds remaining to adhd to nan last separator of victory.

Belnap passed for 66 yards and ran for different 61. Cedric Mitchell topped nan Rams pinch 84 yards rushing and besides had 2 catches for a team-high 39 yards.

Next up for nan Rams is simply a crippled Saturday against Summit (OR) astatine Rocky Mountain High.

“We sewage a batch of increasing up to do,” Sorrell said of his young lineup. “We’re making young mistakes owed to inexperience. But it’s a competitory tone these guys person successful uncovering a way. We’ll cleanable up nan beingness mistakes. We sewage to fig retired nan intelligence mistakes and immoderate accountability. Once we fig that out, nan sky’s nan limit for us.”