Posted Oct. 26, 2015 at 12:01 AM
Down to its last play, Delta College’s football team came up with a big win for its program.
Andre Lindsey dove in the end zone and came up with a 32-yard touchdown pass from Phillip Kimble with 31 seconds remaining and the Mustangs stunned College of Sequoias 42-38 late Saturday night in Visalia.
Delta coach acknowledged this was not an ordinary win for his team.
“I think this one is a little special because we had to keep believing and had to battle through some tough odds,” Barlow said. “So much of winning these types of game at the end is believing you can win it. We’re trying to build a culture where you never feel like you are out of it, and this type of win helps.”
It didn’t look great for the Mustangs (3-4, 1-1 Valley Conference) with less than a minute to go in the game. They faced a fourth-and-nine on their won 25-yard-line, when Kimble connected with Jaxon Wagner for 43 yards to the Sequoias 32.
After an incompletion in which he was looking for Wagner, Kimble heaved the ball into the end zone and found Lindsey in man-to-man coverage. Lindsey done to come up with the score.“We called a play that we hoped would let Andre work on a defensive back one on one, and that’s what happened,” Barlow said. “Phillip was able to put some air under it, and Andre laid out in the end zone and made a great play.”
The Giants (4-3, 0-2)were able to get to the Delta 40 before time ran out on their comeback bid. The had taken a 38-35 lead on Jeremiah Johnson’s 76-yard TD run with 12:07 left in the fourth quarter.
Kimble went 22 for 39 for 357 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions. Wagner had six catches for 141 yards and a score, Lindsey caught five passes for 97 yards, and Jermaine Williams had three catches for 67 yards and a score
Running back Evan Owens had a fine day for Delta rushing 23 times for 124 yards and two touchdowns. Tywayne Ario-Adams also rushed for a score.
The Mustangs had 499 yards in total offense, and Sequoias had 424.