Fort Pierce Westwood 24
Palm Beach Gardens 20
The Panthers erase a late 3rd quarter 20-0 deficit come back for a 24-20 win. After cutting it to 20-18 with 1:33 to go, they failed to execute the onside kick with PBG taking over around midfield. Westwood had two timeouts left, so conventional wisdom says you run the football twice, forcing Westwood to burn their timeouts, then run it a third time to burn another 30+ seconds off, then punt it away, leaving Westwood a long way to go with no timeouts. Instead, PBG threw the football on first down, and a quick slant fell incomplete, giving Westwood another timeout in the process. After that, Westwood was able to stop the clock to force a punt from midfield with around 1:15 to go. The snap on the punt was bad and the punter couldn't field it cleanly. Three plays later, Westwood scores on a 27 yard TD pass with 42 seconds to go, then holds on for the win as a Hail Mary falls incomplete to end the game.
Say what you will about the FIT, but those kids tonight gave everything they had, and it's great that they had that opportunity.