It was anything but a pleasant experience for McCallie School, but Brentwood Academy’s Tomario Pleasant and teammate Camron Johnson made sure the Eagles had an incredibly pleasant bus ride back to their Nashville suburb Friday night following a 46-24 Division II-AAA victory over the Blue Tornado.
Beneath a full moon, and before an uncharacteristically small McCallie home crowd due to fall break, Pleasant scored on touchdown runs of 67, 1 and 69 yards and Johnson caught three touchdown passes from senior quarterback Gavin Schoenwald that covered 145 total yards.
“We couldn’t tackle them,” said McCallie coach Ralph Potter, who coached at Brentwood Academy for five years before returning to the Blue Tornado for a second stint as head coach of his alma mater. “There were times we played pretty well defensively and times we played pretty well offensively, but the game got away from us midway through the third quarter.”
Offered winning coach Cody White, whose Eagles improved to 7-0 for the season: “We did a great job tonight. They got to our defense a little bit in the first half, which was good for us. But we responded in the second half really well.”
Indeed, after totaling 208 yards of offense in the opening half, the Blue Tornado (5-3) netted just 79 yards in the final two periods. Brentwood Academy, which piled up 249 yards before intermission, added 302 after the break to finish with 551.