A member of The Courier Herald’s sports team since 2015, Jeremy writes about Trinity Christian School baseball, basketball, football and softball. The Dublin native, a multi-sport athlete for the Crusaders in his playing years, keeps close tabs on the school’s athletic programs and serves as a go-to authority on Trinity sports history.
Much like the week before, the Crusaders' late first-half touchdown kept the game close, but the Cougars broke it open with three second half scores to pull away.
An offensive surge, including a good many of the Wildcats' 367 yards on the ground, swung momentum in the visitors' favor starting late in the second quarter of Friday's matchup at Cleve Warnock Field.
The Crusaders couldn't move the ball consistently enough to keep pace with the Gators, who rushed for 302 total yards with big plays from multiple ball-carriers in Friday's rout.
The Crusaders again found themselves in a dogfight, but used their grinding ground game and some clutch plays late in the game to come away with their second win.
The Crusaders came up with some big plays on defense, and two much-needed scoring drives in the second half, to take down last year's Class A state champs Friday.
The Crusaders couldn't get anything going at the plate as they were eliminated from the GIAA baseball playoffs by the Gators for a third time in four years last Thursday.
The Crusaders showed no signs of their recent slump as they broke out the bats and the brooms on the Raiders in two short victories Thursday afternoon.
After falling to the Jaguars in a walk-off loss earlier in the week, the Crusaders turned the tables at home on Friday with a win to finish the regular season.
The month of May got off to a rough start for the Crusaders as they lost via walk-off to Piedmont and Thomas Jefferson, and were crushed in a rematch with Tallulah Falls, on their last road trip of the regular season.