Cedar Grove caput manager John Adams (center left) celebrates with his squad aft winning the Georgia High School Association 3A title aft defeating the Carver-Atlanta Panters 56-26 astatine Centre Park Credit Union Stadium connected Saturday, December 11, 2021. (Photo: Itoro N. Umontuen/The Atlanta Voice)
ATLANTA – Carver-Atlanta fell to Cedar Grove successful a heartbreaking 56-26 nonaccomplishment successful the 3A 2021 GHSA Football Championship connected Saturday astatine Center Parc Stadium.
The Panthers stay bare handed successful the trophy lawsuit aft their archetypal title quality since 1967. Meanwhile, the Cedar Grove Saints marched backmost to East Atlanta with their 4th trophy successful the past 5 years.
Cedar Grove’s John Adams earns his archetypal title successful his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic caput manager and the Saints decorativeness the play 12-3, and 7-1 successful the region.
“It conscionable means a batch to maine and it’s a existent peculiar moment,” Adams said. “I’m going to spell backmost to the East Side and conscionable beryllium with friends and household and we’re going to person a bully time.”
Carver-Atlanta deed the field, scoring the sole touchdown of the archetypal 4th with an Owens 21-yard walk to Deondre Buchannon. The other constituent effort failed, and the Panthers led 6-0.
Wide receiver Barry Jackson would beryllium the archetypal to deed the endzone for the Saints with a 20-yard touchdown walk from backmost Jamar Graham.
A Jarveous Brown 25-yard tally would acceptable up the Panthers astatine the Cedar Grove 1 gait enactment allowing Lockett to unreserved into the endzone. Bowens would implicit a 2-point conversion to instrumentality the pb backmost astatine 14-7.
Janiran Bonner would people the last 2 touchdowns for Cedar Grove to headdress the archetypal half. The archetypal thrust would travel from a 6-yard walk to necktie the crippled astatine 14 apiece.
After the Panthers missed a tract extremity attempt, Bonner, a four-star wide receiver, caught a cannon of an 80-yard walk from Graham to enactment the Saints connected apical 21-14.
Notably, some teams struggled aboriginal with 16 penalties successful the archetypal fractional with 11 successful the archetypal 4th alone. Cedar Grove would travel retired with 7 against them successful the archetypal quarter, heading to the locker country with 11 penalties by the extremity of the archetypal half.
A dense downpour and a lightning onslaught forced some teams and their fans to question structure with 8:05 remaining successful the 3rd quarter. Play would resume 1 hr later.
As the prima reappeared, the Cedar Grove Saints’ discourtesy raised their game.
“I conscionable cognize these guys benignant of came unneurotic and decided they wanted to triumph this crippled and did immoderate it took,” Adams said.
Cameron Jackson of Cedar Grove forced a fumble and was recovered by Quinterio Lawson. On the ensuing possession, Graham hooked up with wide receiver Trevon Ferrell connected a 40 gait touchdown strike, which would widen Cedar Grove’s pb to 28-14 with 5:29 remaining successful the 3rd quarter.
Bowens would propulsion different interception picked disconnected by Jakyre Horton. Dubinion would people connected the possession, rushing for 11 yards.
Jarveous Brown would adjacent the 4th with a 2 gait run, keeping the Panthers successful the crippled astatine 35-20.
Cedar Grove solidified their triumph with 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions successful the 4th quarter.
Rashod Dubinion snuck into the endzone astatine the 1 to propulsion the Saints up 42-20 with 10:07 near successful the 4th quarter.
Quintavious Lockett would people the last touchdown for the Panthers, rushing 26 yards for his 2nd touchdown of the game, which brought the Panthers to 42-26 with 8:54 remaining successful the fourth.
On the adjacent Carver-Atlanta possession, Kayin Lee jumped to intercept a Bryce Bowens walk to springiness Cedar Grove the shot close back.
Jamar Graham would walk to Ricky Lee for a 13-yard touchdown to enactment the crippled retired of reach.
Lee would interrupt different Carver-Atlanta pass, and the Saints would enactment a bow connected their stellar show with Robert Shell breaking done aggregate tackles to gain the last touchdown of the night.
After the upwind delay, Cedar Grove outscored Carver-Atlanta 35-12.
“Man I don’t cognize if we conscionable played sloppy due to the fact that of the weather, but we got it together,” Adams said. “We got immoderate worldly going connected discourtesy and past we ended up connected top.”
Carver- Atlanta finished their play 12-3, and finished 2nd successful the portion with a 6-1 record.
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