Mark Sherrod made Chattanooga Football Club coach Brian Crossman look like a genius Saturday night at Finley Stadium.
Less than 20 seconds after being sent in as a substitute, in his first game action since joining Chattanooga FC, the forward scored the game’s only goal in CFC’s 1-0 win over the Knoxville Force.
“Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t,” a laughing Crossman said afterward. “We were happy to see one go in.”
Not only did Sherrod score the winning goal in front of an announced crowd of 2,056, but he did it against his hometown team. The Knoxville native was a four-time all-state player at Carter High School.
Sherrod scored four goals as a redshirt freshman at the University of Memphis last fall. He said he considered playing for the first-year Force (1-1-1) this summer, but his coach at Memphis advised him that CFC (2-0-1) might be a better option.