Late score lifts Garden Spot over Daniel Boone
By Sean McBryan — MikeDragoSports.com correspondent
Blake Weaver scored on a 38-yard touchdown run with 1:26 left to propel Garden Spot over Daniel Boone 19-10 Friday night in a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 opener at Birdsboro.
“I definitely knew throughout the game, something big was going to happen,” Weaver said. “We’ve been a second-half team the entire year so I knew something was gonna happen eventually. I had a feeling it was gonna be us.”
Weaver’s score made it 17-10 before a late safety finished the scoring.
The Spartans (1-0, 3-1) scored first on a Nick Gleason 38-yard field goal with 4:20 left in the first quarter. Kyle Harting then hit Zechariah Nagle for a 71-yard touchdown off a screen pass to make it 10-0 with 8:56 left in the second quarter.
The Blazers (0-1, 1-3) battled back when Dean Rotter hit Max Heffner on a beautiful back-shoulder pass from 25 yards out on fourth down with 6:26 left in the first half. Chad Brown knocked in a 27-yard field goal to tie it 10-10 at halftime.
Neither team scored in the second half until Weaver’s touchdown.
Kye Harting finished with 104 rushing yards and 136 passing yards and Weaver had 72 rushing yards for Garden Spot.
Dean Rotter had 52 rushing yards and 160 passing yards for Boone, including 132 to wide receiver Max Heffner.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Final | |
| Garden Spot | 3 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 19 |
| Daniel Boone | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Scoring summary
| 1 | Garden Spot | Gleason, 38 FG | 4:20 |
| 2 | Garden Spot | Nagle, 71 pass from Harting (Gleason kick) | 8:56 |
| 2 | Daniel Boone | Heffner, 25 pass from Rotter (Brown kick) | 6:16 |
| 2 | Daniel Boone | Brown, 27 FG | 1:30 |
| 4 | Garden Spot | Weaver, 38 run (Gleason kick) | 1:26 |
| 4 | Garden Spot | Safety, Domenech tackled in end zone | :50 |
Team statistics
| Garden Spot | Daniel Boone | |
| First downs | 11 | 18 |
| Rushes-yards | 27-175 | 47-153 |
| Passing yards | 136 | 160 |
| Total yards | 311 | 313 |
| Passes | 8-19-0 | 13-24-0 |
| Fumbles-lost | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| Punts-average | 5-30.6 | 2-32 |
| Penalties-yards | 9-55 | 4-35 |
Individual statistics
RUSHING
Garden Spot: Harting 16-104, Weaver 7-72, Burkholder 3-0, Hoober 1-(-1).
Daniel Boone: Kryman 26-65, Rotter 9-52, Tolosky 10-46, Errington 1-(-4), Heffner 1-(-6).
PASSING
Garden Spot: Harting 8-19-0–136.
Daniel Boone: Rotter 13-24-0–160.
RECEIVING
Garden Spot: Conrad 2-7, Nagle 1-71, Hoober 1-23, Weaver 1-13, Smucker 1-11, Gleason 1-9, Smeltz 1-2.
Daniel Boone: Heffner 8-132, Klick 3-26, High 1-5, Kryman 1-(-3).
MISSED FIELD GOALS
Daniel Boone: Brown 27, 35, 44.