By Tom Nader

Publisher and Editor

Warren John F. Kennedy scored a touchdown and the go-ahead 2-point conversion with just 1:12 left in the game to score a comeback victory over the Garfield G-Men in Garrettsville on Friday.

Trailing 21-14, JFK scored on a 3-yard pass from Caleb Hadley to Ambrose Hoso to make the score 21-20. Hadley then took care of the conversion points by finding Thomas Valent for the eventual final score of 22-21.

Garfield had taken a 21-14 lead in the fourth quarter, with 8:49 to play, on a 4-yard run by Keegan Sell followed by an extra point by Ethan Bittence.

It was a back-and-forth game, with neither team leading by more than one score throughout the game and the game was also tied at 7-7 and 14-14.

Kennedy (3-0) got on the board first on a 4-yard run by Hoso in the first quarter.

Garfield tied the game at 7-7 on Sell’s first touchdown run of the night — this one coming from 12 yards out.

The G-Men (2-1) then took a 14-7 lead on a run from 6 yards out by Carter Bates at the 3:30 mark of the third quarter.

JFK’s answer came just 12 seconds later on a 65-yard gamebreaker by Antonio Smith to tie the score back up at 14-14.

Sell led a rush-heavy offense for the G-Men, who totaled 51 attempts for 325 yards. Sell accounted for 153 yards on 23 carries, while Bates had 80 yards on eight attempts and Jesse Grace used 12 totes to gain 49 yards.