Tempers flare as Canyon Springs narrows its deficit to 21-14

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The temperature is dropping by the minute here at Colony, but the tension sure is heating up.

Canyon Springs cut the deficit to 21-14 with two minutes remaining in the third quarter, but the biggest news happened a few minutes earlier.

Canyon Springs quarterback Ryan Warren appeared to throw an elbow into a player as he was being driven out of bounds, leading to a brief skirmish on the Canyon Springs sideline. I wouldn’t call it a bench-clearing brawl, but things were pretty close to getting out of hand.

Looks as if Colony lineman Quayshawn Buckley and running back Daniel Simmons have been kicked out of
the game, possibly for leaving the bench and running to other side of field. That’s a big loss for the Titans.

Back to the game.

Colony receiver Bobbby Wagner hurt the Titans with a personal foul on the opening drive of the second half. He slipped and lost yardage on a swing pass and then spiked the ball into the turf, an obvious no-no. That left the Titans with a second-and-35 situation and basically killed the drive.

Canyon Springs obliged with its own drive-killing penalty, as an offensive lineman was called for illegal procedure on third and one. That elicited the strongest response all night from the Canyon Springs coaches in the room next door. It sounded as if they identified the player as, ‘Jack Lass,’ but I couldn’t find Jack in the program.

-- Dan Arritt