October 21, 2017
Louisa, Ky. — With a home playoff game on the line Lawrence Co. ( 5-5 ) suffered a 43-30 defeat on Senior night at Luke Varney Jr. Memorial Stadium last night vs Floyd Central ( 6-3 ).
In a high scoring first half Noah West had two touchdowns including a 50 yard fumble recovery for a touchdown and a 2 yard plunge.
After a Trey Dotson 2 yard touchdown run and a Ashton Blankenship 2 point conversion run the Dawgs led 22-21 with 1:38 before half. Floyd Central re-took the lead 27-22 on a Dustin Huff touchdown right before halftime.
Jaguar QB Dylan Caudill ran right up the middle for an eight yard TD and tacked on the 2 point conversion to give Floyd Central a 35-22 lead.
Ashton Blankenship scored from two yards out and West added the conversion run to cut the lead to 35-30.
With 2:54 to go in the game and facing 4th and goal from the four yard line Floyd Central QB Dylan Caudill hit Brady Conn in the end zone to seal the victory for the Jaguars.
West finished with 146 yards, Dalton Ferguson 92 yards, Blankenship 39 yards, Dotson 10 yards and Jarrett Fairchild 7 yards.
Brad Parks caught one pass for 17 yards.
Dylan Caudill had two touchdowns rushing and two touchdowns passing plus a two point conversion, Brady Conn caught two touchdowns, one PAT and one conversion catch, Josh Whitaker had a touchdown and one conversion run for Floyd Central.
Floyd Central 15 12 8 8 – 43
Lawrence Co. 14 8 8 0 – 30
Now the Bulldogs who are off next week will wait until all of the games are played Friday night to see where they will fall in District 6 after all of the tiebreakers pan out. Belfry is the one seed going 4-0 and Sheldon Clark is eliminated after going 0-4. Floyd Central, Pike Central and Lawrence Co. all went 2-2 and are in the playoffs and will be seeded 2-4.
Floyd Central will travel to Letcher Co. Central ( 0-9 ) on Friday night.
LC Head Coach Alan Short
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… Tough one last night. We hurt for our seniors. We wanted to honor them with a win last night. We just didn’t make enough plays when we needed to. Still very proud of our team, particularly the seniors. They have been a great group to coach the last couple of years.”
“… Hats off to Floyd Central and Coach Hager, they were ready to play.”
“… With a loss last night we will now have to wait and see how things play out to determine playoff seeding. Our district has a 3 way tie for second place. We should know something next Friday night.”
