SPENCER — A year after being handed a 60-0 loss by Owen Valley in its football season opener, Brown County turned the tables on the Patriots with a 30-21 Western Indiana Conference victory on Friday.
Trailing 7-0, the Eagles got on the board when Kody Shugars took a bubble screen from Noah Lewis and turned it into a 5-yard touchdown. A successful 2-point conversion gave them the lead.
Owen Valley scored again to take a 14-8 lead, but Brown County used a 10-yard run by Bahati Fulton 10-yard run, a 30-yard pass from Lewis-to-AJ Bell and two more 2-point conversions to take a 24-14 halftime lead.
The Patriots cut the lead to 24-21 and had a chance to take the lead. But the Eagles came up with a goal-line stand and drove 95 yards for the clincher, a 15-yard pass from Lewis to Quentin Bell.
Kyle Cobb intercepted a pass in the final two minutes to seal the victory, allowing Brown County to match its win total from all of last season and giving Tony Bell a win in his first game as Brown County coach.
“From start to finish, we just came out and had the ball rolling on all levels,” Bell said. “You get a victory on the road at any level means something. We had several chances we could have folded and given in to the pressure, but we persevered.”
