Photo by J Kroon Photography
By Jack McCaffery
The decision facing Steve Lennox late in a draining, demanding football game should have been difficult Friday. Fortunately for the Interboro High coach, Chris Thomas already had made a suggestion … and a vow.
Go for it.
That was the senior running back’s promise just before he’d scored his fourth touchdown of the night with 1:34 left to draw the visiting Bucs within a point of Strath Haven.
Go for the two-point conversion … and ready the celebration.
“I have a very good kicker, so I was back and forth with it a little bit,” Lennox said. “But we had the momentum. And we had this Thomas kid.”
After completing a 233-yard rushing night with a four-yard touchdown burst, Thomas blasted behind the sturdy line for a two-point conversion to push the Bucs to a 36-35 victory in as close to a classic high school football game as there might be a week before Labor Day.
The decision facing Steve Lennox late in a draining, demanding football game should have been difficult Friday. Fortunately for the Interboro High coach, Chris Thomas already had made a suggestion … and a vow.
Go for it.
That was the senior running back’s promise just before he’d scored his fourth touchdown of the night with 1:34 left to draw the visiting Bucs within a point of Strath Haven.
Go for the two-point conversion … and ready the celebration.
“I have a very good kicker, so I was back and forth with it a little bit,” Lennox said. “But we had the momentum. And we had this Thomas kid.”
After completing a 233-yard rushing night with a four-yard touchdown burst, Thomas blasted behind the sturdy line for a two-point conversion to push the Bucs to a 36-35 victory in as close to a classic high school football game as there might be a week before Labor Day.
