Pound, Virginia 31 Morgan County 28 (OT)

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Pound spoils the Cougars bid at ending a 20 game losing by drilling a FG in OT to beat Morgan 31-28.

 

Pound would lead 14-0 before Morgan's Mitchell Harvey scampered 75 yards on the kickoff return to make it 14-6. Pound returned the favor by returning Morgan's kick about 80 yards to make it 20-6.

 

Kyle Havens, Adam Cooper, and Mitchell Harvey would get Morgan back in it and got a late 2nd Q. TD from Kyle Havens, to make it 20-14.

 

Pound would score to make it 28-14 in the 3rd, but Morgan battled back and marched it down field and scored to make it 28-22.

 

Late in the 4th, Morgan stopped Pound on 4th and short from the Cougar 30 yard line, however, Morgan would turn it over on downs with about 2:00 minutes left and Pound had it deep in Cougar territory. Pound would manage to get the 1st down they needed and actually march the football in side the Cougar 10 yard line with under a minute to go. However, Pound went for the nail in the coffin score with under :30 seconds to go in the game, Morgan's Jamie Ferguson would rip the football out of the QB's arms at about the 4-5 yard line, as fans were leaving, they began screaming....and I think about 700 people outran Ferguson to the other end of the field...rumbling, stumbling, and huffing with about a 25 yard gap from anybody behind him....he was eyeing paydirt.....and a miracle score, however Pound players caught him at the 15 yard line with under :25 seconds to go......Morgan would get three plays off and score in miraculous fashion with 14.1 seconds to go to tie the game at 28-28...Morgan elected to kick the XP...and what many thought was "good"...was called no good by the officials and they headed to overtime.

 

Morgan was stopped a yard shy of endzone on their possession, and on 4th and goal Pound drilled the 18 yard FG to win 31-28.

 

An exciting game and at least Morgan Co. had a chance to win and kept battling. Morgan Co. is much improved but are very, very young. Freshman QB Larrin Collins has managed the offense excellent. while Junior QB Jared Curd remains out with a broken thumb.

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Thanks for the recap, sorry to hear that they lost but what a huge improvement over last week. Keep fighting Cougars !