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Not every primetime performance follows a win. Sometimes teams come up short in spite of herculean efforts on the part of one player or another. Connor Bellows (’27) is a wide receiver/defensive back combo player who is a returner on the special teams units. Bellows is a three-phase performer for the Trigg County Wildcats and you guys who regularly read us are aware how Kentucky Prep Gridiron feels about three-phase guys. We have featured Bellows before this article. Matter of fact he has before won this particular distinction. Bellows gave his team a chance to win on the road at a tough place to play. The team fell a point short unfortunately, but that doesn’t diminish Bellows efforts in our mind.
The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company, based in Cadiz, Kentucky, was founded August 7, 1970. The bank obtained trust powers in 1978.
Bank of Cadiz
It is a locally owned, independent bank which has expanded, through the years, to locations in Hopkinsville and Murray in addition to Cadiz. The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company has focused on community finance and dealing face-to-face with both families and small-business owners while fulfilling customer needs and the dreams of area families and businesses regardless of size or construct.
We, like our area schools, strive for high performance and finding ways to prosper in an ever-changing economic environment. The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company remains committed to superior performance goals coupled with an exceptional quality of customer service.
A local, young, high school athlete who also rendered superior performance while achieving exceptional quality is Trigg County High’s, Connor Bellows, ’27 WR/DB/KR. Bellows is this week’s Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company Superior Performance/Exceptional Quality Player of the Week for the first time this year but the second time overall.
The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company…committed to superior performance with an exceptional quality of customer service
Cadiz, KY: I suppose that is why we shouldn’t taunt. Coaches used to tell their players, when you score make it appear it isn’t your first trip to the end zone.
That has probably been said to this Wildcat team from Trigg County by old-hand, Curtis Higgins, hundreds of times. It was for times like Friday night for which the coaching advice was given in the first place. Some players have to learn the hard way!
As reported by Scott Brown in YourSportsEdge.com, “A taunting penalty after QB, Caden Scott’s touchdown with less than a minute left, pushed Trigg County’s potential tying extra point back 15 yards. Brody Renfroe’s 35-yard attempt came up short, allowing Crittenden County to escape with a 21-20 win in Marion.”
Brown continued, “The gut-punch loss was Trigg’s fifth straight and dropped the Wildcats to 1-5 overall and 0-2 in Class 2A District 1.” Gut-punch, bravo Mr. Brown, apt description!
Trigg was flagged 16 times for 155 yards on the night. In a one-point game on the road; those are mistakes which just can’t be tolerated.
Crittenden County was flagged 11 times for 81 yards. That is 27 penalties, a very busy night for the referee crew.
Wildcat coach Curtis Higgins told Brown that his team simply made too many mistakes. One player who made plays, not mistakes, was ’27’s Connor Bellows.
Bellows returned a kickoff 52 yards to the Crittenden eight (8). Zammarion Broussard scored on the next play to tie the game at the time. A converted PAT would have given the Wildcats a lead, but alas…
Instead of attempting the PAT which would have staked Trigg to a lead at the time from a standard distance, Brody Renfroe had to attempt his PAT from 35-yards after marking off 15-yards for the penalty. He missed, the rest is history.
That one point turned out to be the margin of victory for the home-standing Crittenden County squad. Football really is a game of inches as the great Vince Lombardi is rumored to have said. The Rockets beat the visiting Wildcats 21-20.
“We did some really, really good things tonight,” Higgins said. “We fought all the way to the end. What a great drive we had. But you just can’t do that.”
This was another big-time opportunity. This was when big-time players step up their play; big-timers like Connor Bellows.
We can’t make it any simpler than that. We’ll see you at the next game!
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
Two-time winner of Kentucky Press Association awards for excellence in writing and reporting news stories while Managing Editor of the Jackson (KY) Times-Voice
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