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NEWTON – Holding to script for a third consecutive game, Fred T. Foard High won again in comeback fashion on Friday night.
The host Tigers nipped visiting West Lincoln 22-20 in the newly dubbed “Battle of Hog Hill” to improve to 3-1.
FRED T. FOARD 22
WEST LINCOLN 20
Foard, after losing its opener at home to Maiden, has scored come-from-behind wins over Bandys, North Lincoln and West Lincoln with a combination of defense and big-play scores.
West Lincoln (2-1) scored the game’s first two touchdowns to build a 14-0 lead – on a 64-yard TD run by Brendan Ikard and Seth Willis’ 1-yard run.
Foard pulled within 14-7 by halftime when quarterback Jack Colosimo found Tate Beaver for a 14-yard TD throw with 9 ½ minutes left in the half.
Beaver caught a 37-yard scoring pass from Colosimo, then adding a two-point conversion run, for a 14-all tie with 2:22 to play in the third quarter.
Foard got its first lead, at 22-14, with nearly nine minutes to play when Andrew Bishop scooped up a blocked punt and went 34 yards for a score with Beaver adding a two-point conversion run.
With 5:14 to play, the Rebels closed within two points when Nathan Hull caught a 21-yard TD pass from Willis. Foard’s defense stopped Nakathon Phansook on a two-point conversion that would have tied it at 22.
Colosimo completed six passes for 101 yards and had 122 yards of total offense for the Tigers, who also got 14 carries for 98 yards by Beaver (171 total offense with three catches for 73 yards). Cory Siemer ran seven times for 92 yards and had 92 in total offense for Foard.
Beaver, a sparkplug on both sides of the ball for Foard in each of its comeback wins, finished with 10 tackles and four of those were for lost yardage.
The Tigers had six sacks, one each by Beaver, Spencer Miller, Jackson Hyatt (eight tackles), Aram Lomax, Kamden Huffman and Matthew Greenwood (10 tackles).
Huffman blocked the punt that Bishop returned for Foard’s final score.
Foard — 3-8 last season in head coach Derrick Minor’s first season — goes for its fourth win on Friday night at St. Stephens (7:30 p.m.) and plays its Northwestern Foothills 2A opener on Sept. 22 at Patton.
West Lincoln, which had a two-game win streak over Foard snapped, travels to East Burke on Friday for a 7:30 p.m. game. The Rebels’ first South Fork 2A game is Sept. 22 at home against North Lincoln.