By Justin Lafferty Special to the Review-Journal
September 18, 2026 - 10:13 pm
As soon arsenic Clark inferior kicker Steffon Swanson nailed the constituent aft touchdown successful the Chargers’ opening overtime possession against Legacy connected Friday, Longhorns manager Zachary Monticelli knew however his squad would respond.
Legacy wasn’t going to springiness the shot backmost to Clark. They were going for the win.
The archetypal portion of Monticelli’s program worked, arsenic Longhorns inferior backmost Jaelynn Love-Carter connected with inferior receiver Ky’Ree Perkins for a touchdown.
Then Love-Carter recovered a spread successful the Chargers defence for a palmy two-point conversion and a 27-26 Longhorns win, silencing the location crowd.
“I knew that I wanted to spell for two, and this crippled wasn’t going to spell immoderate further,” Monticelli said. “We were either going to triumph oregon we were going to lose.”
In a crippled wherever neither squad could find a accordant stride connected offense, Legacy (4-1, 2-0 Independent DII West) made plays erstwhile it needed to. The touchdown walk was Love-Carter’s 2nd of the game, and helium finished 14-for-26 passing with 221 yards and an interception.
“It was crazy,” Love-Carter said. “I truly bash emotion my teammates. We got it unneurotic successful the past mates minutes, erstwhile we needed it.”
That the Longhorns adjacent had a accidental for overtime was a substance of opportunity. Tied 19-19 with 24 seconds near successful regulation, Clark (3-2, 0-1) recovered Legacy elder moving backmost Cameron Turner’s fumble astatine the Longhorns 24.
Chargers elder backmost Ramiro Reinaldo led his squad down to the 9-yard enactment with 9 seconds left. Reinaldo went for the touchdown, but Longhorns inferior cornerback Jayden Durr came up with an interception connected a tipped walk astatine the 2. After a abbreviated dive by Turner, the crippled went to overtime.
“It was a heck of a shot game,” Monticelli said. “(Clark) came out, and they were conscionable hitting america successful the mouth, figuratively, implicit and implicit and implicit again. We conscionable made 1 much play than they did. That’s what it boiled down to.”
Turner ran for 105 yards and 2 touchdowns for Legacy connected 26 carries. Longhorns inferior jock Mehki Carter finished with 107 receiving yards.
Legacy scored connected its archetypal possession, connected a 1-yard Turner run. The Longhorns added to their pb soon earlier halftime connected Turner’s 2nd touchdown of the game.
Clark got connected the committee connected its adjacent possession, a 43-yard walk from Reinaldo to elder receiver Isaiah Romero, making it a 13-6 crippled astatine the half. The Chargers scored doubly successful the 3rd 4th to instrumentality the lead, connected a touchdown walk and a tally by Reinaldo. Legacy tied it precocious successful the 3rd 4th connected a touchdown walk from Love-Carter to Carter.
Clark inferior moving backmost Felix Romero had six catches connected the nighttime for 119 yards.
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