Clay High's flag football team opened quickly with a Teaghan Moses pass to Bella Saunders followed by a pass to Charlotte Andrus to the Baker County red zone. From there, Clay scored with a …
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MACCLENNY - Clay High's flag football team opened quickly with a Teaghan Moses pass to Bella Saunders, followed by a pass to Charlotte Andrus to the Baker County red zone.
From there, Clay scored with a jump ball to wideout Cora Parker in the corner of the end zone that led to a 27-0 district championship win over the Wildcats on Thursday, April 23. The win was for the third consecutive district title for the Blue Devils. Clay has a 12-1 season record with a loss to 2A top ranked Tallahassee Chiles in their season finale.
After the initial salvo of scoring passes, Baker County again got stung with defender Lucy Nosse snaring one of many double and triple pass play attempts by the Baker County coaching staff.
A drag pass to Parker got followed by a miss by Parker in the back of the end zone, but Moses found the 6-foot-7 Andrus for an acrobatic, bobbling, deflecting over her forehead touchdown catch that would up a ESPN Top 10 play as Clay went up 13-0 with two minutes left in the first quarter.
As the second quarter started, Clay's defense, with rusher Emma Nesmith and Emma Pu crashing in on Baker County's attempts at multiple passes behind the line of scrimmage to counter the Blue Devil rush, Clay forced a punt that Moses again moved quickly to paydirt this time with freshman wide receiver Makayla Clark winning a contested pass in the back of the end zone to score the game at 18-0. Up back Charlotte Glavin took a direct snap for the two point conversion for the 20-0 score that stood to halftime.
Clay ended as the lone district title winner for area teams with Fleming Island falling 34-0 to Ponte Vedra in their district 3A semifinal 34-0 and Oakleaf, after a double overtime round one win over Atlantic Coast, falling to Mandarin 26-13 in their 4A district semifinal. Ponte Vedra continued with a 17-0 season record continued to beat Bartram Trail 26-6 in the 3-3A championship game while second seed Tocoi Creek beat top seed Mandarin 13-7 for the district 1-4A title.
Keystone Heights opened district 4-1A play with a 33-6 win over Hawthorne but fell 45-13 to Bradford in that semifinal. Bradford, the top seed, beat No. 3 Palatka 34-12.
Fleming Island falls to unbeaten Ponte Vedra
Courtesy of FIHS assistant coach Mike Lyons
The Fleming Island Girls Flag Football team opened the district playoffs with an 18-13 road win at Orange Park High.
