Windsor’s Quick TD

WINDSOR — One big play turned the tide for the Windsor Greyhounds football team on Friday night.

Spencer Quick returned a fumble 98 yards for a touchdown, thwarting a late Sweet Springs drive, and Windsor knocked off the Sweet Springs Greyhounds 21-12.

Quick’s play came as Sweet Springs had driven to the Windsor 4-yard line with Windsor clinging to a 13-12 lead and a little more than three minutes left in the game.

Tyler Rennison carried the ball up the middle for Sweet Springs, had the ball stripped from his hands, and Quick grabbed it on the bounce.

“He doesn’t have that speed in practice,” joked Windsor coach Dave Wanninger about Quick’s long return. “We’ll have to make sure he runs that fast in practice. Outstanding play.”

Windsor quarterback Brett Shoop hit Matt Madole for the 2-point conversion, giving Windsor control of the game after the teams had battled toe-to-toe for the first 45 minutes.

Neither team could dent the scoreboard in the opening quarter as defense dominated.

Sweet Springs (0-2) begin a drive at the end of the quarter that led to points as the second began.

Rennison capped that drive, beginning after a Windsor fumble, with a 4-yard burst up the middle to put Sweet Springs in front 6-0. That lead held up until Windsor’s second possession of the quarter.

Runs by Corey Bradford and Madole put Windsor on the Sweet Springs 3, and Ryan Hamilton raced around the right side for a touchdown to tie the game.

Shoop booted the extra point and Windsor led 7-6, and that was how the score remained at halftime.

Sweet Springs regained the lead with its second drive of the third quarter, a seven-play, 76-yard effort. Tyler Dohrman provided the big play of the drive, a 36-yard run, and quarterback Billy Martin scored on a 3-yard run to give Sweet Springs a 12-7 advantage heading into the fourth.

“They were adjusting to us,” Wanninger said of the long Sweet Springs drive. “We had some young kids in there playing quite a bit to give some of our two-way starters a break. They kind of caught on to them, but our kids came through and played well.”

Windsor (1-1) began to go to the air in the fourth as Shoop scrambled and threw to several receivers. On a third down and 19, Shoop hit Corey Buford for 24 yards to keep the drive alive.

After moving to the Sweet Springs 22, Shoop completed his biggest pass of the night, a fourth-down scoring strike to Dillon Johnson for a 22-yard touchdown that put Windsor in front 13-12 with 7:51 left in the game.