Signal Mountain’s Hunter VanDyken (23) scores the winning touchdown against McCallie School during the jamboree at Finley Stadium Friday.If he hadn’t seen it, McCallie School football coach Ralph Potter might never have believed it.
“They’ve got to go 50 yards in 30 seconds and their guy runs right past our defensive back,” Potter said.
That guy, Hunter VanDyken, was on the receiving end of a Jack Teter pass and took it 37 yards for the winning touchdown in Signal Mountain’s 10-7 victory over the Blue Tornado in the Best of Preps high school football jamboree.
“I knew it was a touchdown when I heard the play called,” said Teter, who also had a 38-yard connection across the middle. “Hunter’s a good receiver and a good runner with good eyes.”
The Eagles might have been playing for a tie if not for the leg of German import Josh Patta, a soccer player who’s in his first year of football. Patta missed a field-goal try on the Eagles’ first possession but toed home a 38-yarder midway of the 20-minute scrimmage.