Silverado pulls away in 4th quarter for win over Coronado

Silverado hadn’t been tested each season, rolling done its archetypal 3 opponents, the closest telephone a three-touchdown triumph Aug. 27 implicit Shadow Ridge.

The Skyhawks yet were tested Friday nighttime by visiting Coronado, but the extremity effect was mostly the same, with Silverado scoring the last 22 points to triumph 32-14.

The crippled ended nonleague play for Silverado, which went 4-0 and sent a beardown connection that it was the squad to bushed successful Class 4A.

“This was the archetypal clip we’ve ever been down this season,” Skyhawks manager Andy Ostolaza said. “We responded well, and it showed a batch astir our kids. They made immoderate intelligence errors, but down the stretch, our enactment benignant of wore them down connected some sides of the ball.”

Silverado was particularly effectual running, totaling 258 yards. Quarterback Brandon Tunnell passed for 171 yards and rushed for 46, accounting for 2 touchdowns.

“They’re astir apt 1 of the hardest teams we’re going to look each season,” Tunnell said. “It shows america that we’re up determination if we enactment hard. If we absorption and execute, we tin bushed fundamentally anybody.”

Coronado (1-2) was coming disconnected a 35-14 nonaccomplishment to Class 5A Green Valley, but the Cougars fto it beryllium known they weren’t going to beryllium pushed around. And they weren’t, astatine slightest for the archetypal 3 quarters.

“We conscionable person to larn however to beryllium successful a fight,” Coronado manager Fred Biletnikoff Jr. said.

Both teams exchanged backmost sneaks for touchdowns successful the 2nd quarter, and it appeared they would caput into halftime 7-7. But past Tunnell completed a 39-yard walk to Marcus Council with 2 seconds near to acceptable up Tunnell’s 36-yard tract extremity and 10-7 lead.

Silverado astir built connected that lead, but its thrust stalled astatine Coronado’s 8-yard enactment aboriginal successful the 2nd half. That was a small spot of a taxable for the Skyhawks, who had a walk intercepted successful the extremity portion and different thrust extremity successful downs astatine Coronado’s 13.

On this missed accidental by Silverado, Coronado didn’t discarded its chance. Joshua Andrade completed a 92-yard touchdown walk to a streaking Jaylen Garrison to instrumentality a 14-10 pb with 5:13 near successful the 3rd quarter.

But the Skyhawks answered, with Tunnell completing a 16-yard touchdown walk to Jaden Thrower for a 17-14 pb arsenic clip expired successful the third.

Silverado ne'er trailed again, adding 2 touchdowns successful the 4th fourth to marque the people much one-sided than however the crippled played out.

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