MARKS — Porter’s Chapel Academy and Delta Academy played the kind of game that looked like it’d be won by whoever had the ball last.

It was actually who had it next to last.

Delta Academy’s Lance Johnson threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Landyn Simmerman and the go-ahead two-point conversion pass with 2:06 remaining, then the Raiders came up with one of the few defensive stops by either team to preserve its wild 58-56 victory over Porter’s Chapel on Friday.

The teams combined to score 15 touchdowns. PCA (0-2) has given up 132 points in its first two games.

“We just have to keep playing to our strength, which is running the football. We ran for 600 yards tonight. Offensively, we’re moving the football, we’re grinding out. We’re just playing with a ton of inexperienced guys right now,” PCA coach Blake Purvis said. “We just don’t have guys defensively that have experience. They made improvements from Week Zero to Week 1. It’s just going to be a process getting these younger guys ready to play these big roles that we’ve got to have them play.”

Porter’s Chapel’s senior running back Jase Jung set single-game Warren County rushing records with 532 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on a whopping 49 carries. He broke the records of 395 yards set by Demichael Harris in 2015, and six TDs shared by four players.

Jung scored on runs of 43, 35, 11, 6, 3, 55 and 1 yards. He also had nine tackles and one interception on defense.

Henry Slayton and Auston Moore each had 12 tackles for PCA, and Conley Johnston had nine tackles and a fumble recovery. Moore also ran for 40 yards and a touchdown.

PCA jumped out to a 28-8 lead after Moore’s 8-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter. Delta cut it to 34-30 by halftime and took its first lead of the game, at 44-42, on Johnson’s 2-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter.

The teams traded touchdowns the rest of the way, with Johnson’s short fourth-down pass to Simmerman and the two-point conversion putting Delta back in front 58-56.

PCA moved the ball inside the 35-yard line on its final possession, but was stuffed on a third-down run and had a fourth-down pass fall incomplete with less than 30 seconds to go.

“We had to try to toss it a couple of times because we were running out of downs and timeouts and things to run the ball. Credit to them. They tightened down a little more defensively after they took the lead and ultimately came up with the stop,” Purvis said. “We drove it 60 yards before we got stopped on fourth down. We weren’t grabbing quite the chunks we were getting. Instead of eight to 10, we were three to five in that last drive.”
PCA will be back at home on Aug. 30 to play Prentiss Christian.