Crestview wilts in 2nd half, loses to Aces

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CONVOY — The Crestview football team stayed with Hicksville for most of the first half, but the Aces took the starch out of Knights with a touchdown in the final 30 seconds of the half and went on to win 41-14 Friday in a non-conference grid contest played at Crestview.

Hicksville scored first with 1:38 remaining in the first quarter when Dillon Fuller found running room at the Knights’ 5-yard-line and took into the end zone for a 6-0 lead. The point-after was no good and the Aces were ahead 6-0.

Crestview evened the score at 6-all at the 8:21 mark of the second stanza when Jordan Miller rambled 28 yards for a TD, with Miller also running in the two-point conversion for an 8-6 lead over Hicksville.

The Aces took the lead back on a 2-yard Jacob Greer touchdown run with 6 minutes remaining in the first half to go up 12-8, but Crestview again scored, this time on a 19-yard Miller run with 1:06 remaining in the half. The PAT failed, but the Knights were again in the lead, 14-12, and were hoping to take that lead into the locker room at halftime.

It didn’t happen, though. Hicksville quarterback found Payton Tunis on a 50-yard touchdown run that gave the Aces a third TD in the first half. Fuller ran in the two-point conversion and Hicksville led 20-14 at the half.

The Knights would not score again, while the Aces put together three more scoring runs in the third period to run away with the contest, 41-14.

The first score came on an 11-yard run by Crall with 9:27 left in the third quarter. Salvador Alvalos ran for the two-point conversion and Hicksville led 28-14.

Crall next found Mason Hostetler for a 58-yard scoring strike just 22 seconds later, while Crall ran in the final score of the night from the Crestview 18-yard-line with 2:10 remaining in the third period.

Miller led Crestview in rushing with 128 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries, an average of 7.1 yards per carry.

Fuller was the workhorse for the Aces, garnering 145 yards and a TD on 27 carries. Crall added 75 yards and two scores on 18 carries, while Crestview’s Payton Knittle ran for 61 yards on three carries.

Crall was 7 for 9 passing with 178 yards and two touchdowns, while the Knights’ Dylan Grandstaff completed just 5 of 17 pass attempts for 46 yards, no TDs and one interception.

The Knights are now 1-1 on the year.