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Turp Football Research Paper

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On the evening of Friday, October 14th at the Anderson Redskins stadium, a barbarous game of football left the Turpin Spartans 8-0 after beating hometown rivals, Anderson Redskins, 38-21. A kick from Anderson started the game, not long after, QB Lucas Smith runs a 18yd touchdown, starting the game out with a 7-0 Turpin lead. The Redskins’ Kyle Blaha soon persevered through the unforgiving Turpin defense and ran a 2 yd touchdown, evening out the score out 7-7. “Our offense and defense did well, but there’s always room for improvement.” Coach Kenter explained after Turpin gave up 21 points in the first half. “But I think this was one of better games of the entire season, the team really brought it.” Second quarter brought both the Spartans and Redskins 2 new touchdowns each and an exciting 65 yard pass Turpin touchdown, Smith to Will Hausfeld. Halftime stopped the intense game at a suspenseful score of 21-21. Into the third quarter, Linebacker Lang Evans came up with the biggest play of the game, an interception leaving Turpin at the Redskin six yard line. On the next snap, Turpin’s Nathan Hooper scores a 6 yd run touchdown, breaking the tie. With a successful Turpin field goal from kicker Harry Sand and unsuccessful kick from Anderson, 3rd quarter ended in 31-21. …show more content…

But Lucas Smith, with his 2nd touchdown of the game, ran the ball 1 yd into the endzone, leaving the game at 38-21 and 51 seconds left in the 4th quarter. By the end of the night, the Turpin Spartans were the only undefeated team in the ECC. Coach Kenter, after the game, explains “I wouldn’t change anything about the game, the goal was to win and we did that”. Turpin’s hopes of the playoffs skyrocketed and now they face Glen Este High School, next Friday, October

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