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NOVEMBER 15 - 28, 2024 SPORTS | PAGE 5

PORTS Taking a look back at sports highlights throughout

Muskingum County for November 1 - 11, 2024.

Tornadoes sweeping through playoff contenders as they head

to Athens to face Wheelersburg Pirates in Regional Semi-Finals

by Matthew Dotson
Vs Fairland (11/8) a good match for West as they battled
On the road to play second-seeded through the first quarter with no score
Fairland, the Tornadoes were expect- until there were only five minutes left
ing a challenge Friday. The two teams in the period, that is when the Nubians
battled head-to-head throughout the en- struck hitting the scoreboard first with a
tirety of the first quarter without a score passing touchdown but missed the two-
even though the Tornadoes completed point conversion to take a 6 – 0 lead.
a 79-yard screen pass play. The second A minute later, the Tornadoes answered
quarter was a continuation of the battle back with a touchdown of their own and
with West Muskingum being the first to tied up the score at 6 – 6 after missing
hit the scoreboard with the only score in their two-point conversion as well.
the first half of the game, sending the In much the same formula, in the sec-
Dragons to halftime down 7 – 0. ond quarter, it was West Muskingum
In the first minute of the second half, that crossed the goal line first with only
West Muskingum jumped into action five minutes left in the first half of the
with a rushing touchdown, the point af- game taking a 13 – 6 lead after the
ter was good, but after a penalty on Fair- completed PAT. Africentric came back
land for false start the Tornadoes decid- to score a touchdown but missed the
ed to try fo two and missed the attempt conversion and still trailed 13 – 12. With
leaving their lead at 13 – 0. With six under a minute left in the first half, the
minutes left in the period, #14 Jake An- Tornadoes struck again with a touch-
ton landed a 30-yard pass to #15 Brax- down taking a 20 – 12 lead into the half-
ton Brownrigg for a touchdown punching time break.
their lead to 19 – 0. West Muskingum With the lead in place, West Musk-
recovered the onside kick to take pos- ingum went back to work after the in-
session of the ball again and capitalized termission to try to build their tally. Two
on it with a rushing touchdown and extra minutes into the quarter the Tornadoes
point to put the Dragons behind 26 – made a rushing touchdown followed by
0. Fairland’s #7 Ethan Wall completed the extra point to push their lead to 27
a short pass to #5 CJ Graham for their – 12. They followed it up with another
first touchdown of the night narrowing touchdown with seven minutes left in
the gap to 26 – 7 after the PAT to end the quarter building he deficit for the Nu-
the third quarter. bians to 34 – 12 before the end of the
In the final minutes of the game, the quarter.
Tornadoes nabbed another short-yard The fourth quarter was all Africentric
touchdown moving their score to 33 – 7 as they landed a passing touchdown in
to end the game with a victory and send- the first minute of the period, but missed
ing them to Athens to face the Wheel- their two-point conversion to narrow the
ersburg Pirates on Friday, November gap to 34 – 18 West Muskingum. As the
15th kickoff is at 7 pm. clock ticked down, the Nubians made
one final touchdown and were able to
Vs Africentric Early College (11/1) pull of the extra point conversion but it
Friday night, the Tornadoes hosted was too little too late and the Tornadoes
the Africentric Nubians in West Musk- took the victory at 34 – 26.
ingum. From the start the team was

West Muskingum’s Carter Winland catches a pass for a touchdown against Africentric. Carter Winland blasts past the Nubian defenders for positive yards. Matthew Dotson
Matthew Dotson