{"id":132258,"date":"2020-06-19T03:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=132258"},"modified":"2020-06-19T03:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:55:01","slug":"friday-flashback-knights-challenge-mccomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/06\/19\/friday-flashback-knights-challenge-mccomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: Knights push McComb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: This week’s Friday Flashback takes us back to Week No. 11 of the 2015 high school football season. 4-6 Crestview qualified for the playoffs as the No. 8 seed in Division VII, Region 24, and the Knights pushed No. 1 seed McComb (9-1, No. 4 A.P. poll) to the brink before falling to the Panthers late in the fourth quarter. Below is the game story that appeared on the Sports page of the VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCOMB — After struggling most of the year, it looked as if the Crestview Knights, who led McComb 26-20, would be headed for the second round of the high school playoffs. The game ended with a heartbreaking finish to the Knights\u2019 season, though, as the Panthers rallied for one more score with a minute and half remaining for a 27-26 win over the Knights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Drew Kline (10) leaps over the end zone for a score in Friday’s playoff game against McComb. The Knights lost the game by a point, 27-26.<\/strong> (Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Drew Kline provided much of the offensive spark for Crestview, rushing for 150 yards and a 56-yard touchdown on 19 carries and passing for two more touchdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game started off well for Crestview, as Payton Knittle thrilled the Knight faithful with a 75-yard kick-off return touchdown on the opening play. Kline ran for the two-point conversion and the Knights led 8-6. Unfortunately, that was the only point-after Crestview converted on, and that stat alone led to the Knights\u2019 defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview outran the Panthers, 202 yards to 133, but McComb quarterback Malachi Abbott passed for 262 yards and three touchdowns, while Kline was 4-for-10 for 119 yards, two TDs. Abbott also had two interceptions, while Kline had none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Crouse was the Panthers leading rusher with 73 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries. In addition to his 75-yard kick-off return, Knittle had 32 yards rushing on seven carries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following Knittle\u2019s opening touchdown, McComb came back to score when Abbott hit Caden Schroeder on a 24-yard scoring strike with 7:30 remaining in the first period. The Panthers\u2019 point-after attempt failed and its was 8-6, Knights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Knight Dylan Grandstaff (12) hauls in a Kline pass for a touchdown during Friday’s playoff game against McComb.<\/strong> (Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

McComb added another score before halftime when Abbott hit Drew Siferd for a 20-yard touchdown with a minute left in the half to take a 12-8 lead into the locker room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview regained the lead in the third quarter when Kline threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Dylan Grandstaff with 4:25 remaining in the period. The PAT was no-good and it was 14-12, Knights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview increased the lead to eight points in the fourth quarter when Kline connected with Braden Van Cleave on a 74-yard touchdown pass with 6:53 remaining. The PAT failed and the Knights led 20-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McComb came back to tie the score at 20-all when Jake Crouse bulled his way into the Crestview end zone from the 1-yard-line with 5:35 remaining in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Knights weren\u2019t done, though, with Kline breaking into the open for a 56-yard touchdown scamper with 3:15 remaining in the game and a 26-20 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lead lasted a little more than a minute and a half, as the Panthers put together a scoring drive that ended with a 13-yard pass from Abbott to Chas Shoop with 1:30 remaining in the game. Abbott\u2019s point-after kick was the difference in the game, as it gave McComb as 27-26 lead, and the playoff win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: This week’s Friday Flashback takes us back to Week No. 11 of the 2015 high school football season. 4-6 Crestview qualified for the playoffs as the No. 8 seed in Division VII, Region 24, and the Knights pushed No. 1 seed McComb (9-1, No. 4 A.P. poll) to the brink before falling to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 10:40:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}