It was a sweet homecoming of sorts Friday night for former Baylor coach Ralph Potter.

Potter, who coached at Baylor before becoming the head man at his alma mater – rival McCallie – led his Brentwood Academy squad past Baylor, 42-21, in a Division II high school football game Friday night at Heywood Stadium.

Potter left McCallie and took the head-coaching job two years ago at Brentwood Academy. It was his first trip back to Baylor as the Brentwood coach.

Brentwood improved to 4-1 overall and 2-0 in the DII standings. Baylor dropped to 2-2 and 0-2.

Brentwood, which beat two-time defending Class 5A state champion Smyrna by 13-0 last week, took a 7-0 lead on a 4-yard run by Victor Caro.

Baylor responded with a 1-run touchdown run from Sam Williams and a 47-yard touchdown pass from Charlie Wilson to Brett Murray.

Brentwood rallied and scored on a 6-yard pass from Cody Nelson to Weldon Garlington. Baylor scored again as Murray ran 4 yards for a score and the Red Raiders led, 21-13, at halftime.

Baylor didn’t score in the second half, but Brentwood put up 29 points.

Joshua Pleasant scored on a 69-yard pass from Nelson and Garlington caught a 60-yard touchdown pass from Nelson. Caro then scored on touchdown runs of 9 and 13 yards.

Williams had 106 yards rushing on 30 attempts for Baylor and Joshua Tate rushed for 163 yards on 23 carries for Brentwood. Tate ran for a conversion.

Brandon Pickett had an interception for Baylor.

STATISTICS

Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Score
¬--------------------- -- -- -- -- -------

Brentwood Academy….…..…..…7 ….6 ..22 .7 -- 42
Baylor….………………………...14 …7 …0 ..0 -- 21

BR—Victor Caro 4 run (Bryant kick)
BA—Sam Williams 1 run (Tanner Taylor kick)
BA—Brett Murray 47 pass from Charlie Wilson (Taylor kick)
BR—Weldon Garlington 6 pass from Cody Nelson (Kick failed)
BA—Murray 4 run (Taylor kick)
BR—Joshua Pleasant 69 pass from Nelson (Joshua Tate run)
BR—Garlington 60 pass from Nelson (Bryant kick)
BR—Caro 9 run (Bryant kick)
BR—Caro 13 run (Bryant kick)

Statistics:
…………………………………………..BA………….BAY

First Downs……….……………………....24……….......13
Yards Rushing…………………………..42-267……41-85
Yards Passing…………………………….210………….124
Passes Comp-Att-Int ………………….9-18-1………8-11-2
Fumbles………………………………….6-2………….-0
Punts (Number-Ave) …………………1-45.0….……5-31.4
Penalties-Yards ………………………..9-88…………12-153

(E-mail Stan Crawley at wscrawley@earthlink.net)