Boyd Buchanan’s magical football season will roll on for at least another week.
The unbeaten Buccaneers punched their ticket to the TSSAA Division II-AA semifinals with a 28-3 home win over Northpoint Christian on Friday night.
The Bucs (12-0) took advantage of mistakes by the Trojans (8-4) and controlled the game throughout for the win. Northpoint Christian had three costly turnovers and turned the ball over on downs twice inside the Boyd Buchanan 10-yard line, giving coach Gary Rankin’s team the chance to build a lead and control the game down the stretch.
“Coach Rankin always tells us — and tells me especially — that the team that makes the least mistakes is going to win the ballgame,” Boyd Buchanan quarterback Houston Hicks said. “That’s what we did tonight, and that’s what we’ve done all season. We’ve done a really good job keeping the ball in our hands, and we played really good defense as well.”
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