WARTRACE, Tenn. -- Cascade scored a touchdown and passed for the conversion with 1:42 left and shocked Signal Mountain, 25-24, in a Class AA high school football game here Friday night.
Signal Mountain had taken a 24-0 lead, but Cascade won the game on a 35-yard touchdown pass from Jared Carkuff to Ricky Hood and a conversion pass from Carkuff to Tyler Bowen.
Cascade improved to 8-3 and will play next week at Boyd-Buchanan.
Signal Mountain ended its season at 10-2 with the other loss to Class A South Pittsburg. It was the first year of varsity competition for Signal Mountain.
Signal Mountain struck early and led 17-0 at halftime. The Eagles pushed the lead to 24-0 on a 35-yard pass from Hogan Whitmire to Mitchell Hall with 8:18 left in the third quarter.
That's when the Cascade rally began.
Bowen quickly caught two touchdown passes from Carkuff and a 22-yard field goal by Josh Molder pulled Cascade within 24-17 with 6:01 left in the game. That led to the late touchdown, the conversion and the Cascade win.
STATISTICS
Signal Mountain……...….………0 17 7 0 -- 24
Cascade…………..…….….……..0 0 14 11 -- 25
SM—Will Queen 42 pass from Hogan Whitmire (Dane DeWet kick)
SM—Whit Sitton 2 run (DeWet kick)
SM—FG 42 DeWet
SM—Mitchell Hall 35 pass from Whitmire (DeWet kick)
CA—Tyler Bowen 36 pass from Jared Carkuff (Matt Henderson pass from Carkuff)
CA—Bowen pass from Carkuff (pass failed)
CA—FG 22 Josh Molder
CA—Ricky Hord 35 pass from Carkuff (Bowen pass from Carkuff)
SM CA
First Downs………………………………13 11
Yards Rushing……………………………166 54
Yards Pasing……………………………..92 277
Comp/Att/Int…………………………….7-18-1 14-21-3
Punts/Avg………………………………4-37.0 2-42.0
Fumbles/Lost……………………………..1-1 1-1
Penalties/Yards…………………………...6-31 7-55
(E-mail Stan Crawley at wscrawley@earthlink.net)