SUFFOLK – Senior Robby Tew finished his career in style, passing for 382 yards and five touchdowns as Nansemond-Suffolk Academy defeated Hampton Roads Academy, 55-13, Friday night in high school football at Arthur Jones Field.
N-SA’s first play from scrimmage was a bomb, as Tew found Zach Morris streaking down the right sideline for an 80-yard score. Before the period was over, Tew had thrown a 40-yard TD strike to Ehron Knight and a 58-yard score to Morris. The last score came after HRA (4-6) quarterback Kahleef Jimmison threw a 21-yard pass to senior Nathan Bagley to cut the margin to 14-7.
Ahead 27-7 at the half, the Saints (6-4) put the game out of reach on Knight’s 16-yard run and Tew’s 8-yard scramble. When the Navigators tried to come back with Jimmison’s 30-yard TD pass to Messiah Russell, Tew closed out the third quarter with a 72-yard score to Knight, and a 73-yard completion to Erek Smith, making it 48-13.
Bagley, who finished the season with 7 touchdowns and over 600 yards in receptions, was injured late in the first half and did not return. He averaged better than 17.5 yards a catch. Not only was Bagley the team’s top receiver, but also the ‘Gators punter.
The season-ender for each school pitted an injury-riddled HRA and its 17 players against a squad that had more than two times as many players. HRA, which lost four of its first five games, was 3-2 in the second half of the season.
Jimmison led the team with 1,027 yards rushing and 1,376 passing, nearly half of it to Bagley. The sophomore QB was victimized with a pair of interceptions at N-SA. They were the first thefts against him in seven games.
The Navigators averaged better than 27 points a game in Ron DeChirico’s first season at the helm, with the 13 against N-SA being its second-lowest total of the year.
Submitted by Alan Hirsch
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