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Guesman scores AG-record 7 TDs in 63-56 win

By Rob Burchianti 4 min read
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Albert Gallatin's Tee Guesman runs through the end zone after scoring a touchdown against Uniontown on Sept. 19 at Bill Power Stadium. Guesman scored a school-record seven touchdowns in the Colonials. 63-56 win at Allegany in Cumberland, Maryland, Friday night.

Tee Guesman rambled for 285 yards and a school-record seven touchdowns in Albert Gallatin’s game against Allegany in Cumberland, Maryland on Friday night.

The Colonials needed every one of those scores in a battle full of fireworks.

Albert Gallatin rolled up 484 rushing yards but had to hold off the explosive Campers for a 63-56 non-conference victory to keep its record perfect at 6-0.

“I’ve never been in a barn-burner quite like that with that many points,” said AG coach Drew Dindl, who has now guided the Colonials to nine consecutive wins, dating back to last year, also a school record.

Dindl praised Guesman.

“He was a machine,” Dindl said. “On a lot of those runs he was breaking two or three tackles and getting through people.”

Albert Gallatin had three other players top 60 rushing yards.

Adam Pegg had 64 yards on the ground and had a touchdown reception, Clayton Bolinger ran for 62 yards and a TD and Roman Smith followed with 61 yards.

Allegany quarterback Dylan Black threw five touchdown passes with four of them going to Sebastian Stewart, and Aidyn McKenzie ran for three TDs and had a touchdown catch.

“That game was just wild,” Dindl said.

Albert Gallatin took an early 21-0 lead thanks to kickoff-return woes by the Campers (1-3).

“They fumbled the first kickoff and we scored on the first play,” Dindl said. “The second kickoff bounced near the sideline but stayed inbounds and their kid just looked at it and we jumped on it, then scored again. The third kickoff, it bounced in front of their kid then bounced backwards away from him and we recovered that one, too.”

The three turnovers were followed by Guesman touchdown runs of 11, 17 and 14 yards.

“Our kids thought Allegany was going to quit but they didn’t and I knew they wouldn’t,” Dindl said. “They came right back on us and we had to regroup a little bit and get going again.”

The Campers scored on a 46-yard run by McKenzie and a 33-yard catch by Sebastian to pull within 21-14 before the first quarter was over.

Khiante Bible scored on a 6-yard run early in the second quarter and suddenly Allegany was back even at 21-21.

Bolinger’s 40-yard TD run put the Colonials back on top but Blank tossed a 22-yard touchdown pass to McKenzie and the game was again tied, 28-28.

Albert Gallatin followed with its longest drive of the game, capped by Bronx Jamison’s 8-yard touchdown pass to Pegg with 25 seconds left in the half to give the visitors a 35-28 advantage at intermission.

“We had a nice long drive right before the half, punched it and took the lead, and then we got the second half kickoff, went down and scored and took a two-score lead. They switched their defense on us at halftime.”

It didn’t matter.

“We ended up going back up by 21 again and this time we hung on after that.”

Guesman’s 17-yard touchdown run capped that third-quarter drive and he also ran in the two-point conversion to make it 43-28, but Blank’s 16-yard pass to Sebastian cut the margin to eight.

Guesman added touchdown runs of 37 and 6 yards at 9:11 and 7:51 in the fourth quarter to give the Colonials a seemingly safe 56-35 lead.

The Campers still weren’t done, however.

Blank fired a 47-yard touchdown pass to Sebastian with 7:32 left and McKenzie scored on an 11-yard run with 5:01 remaining to get Allegany back within 56-49.

The Colonials drove back down the field once more with Guesman’s seventh touchdown of the night coming from 2 yards out with 1:10 left. Sam Evans converted his seventh straight extra-point kick to put AG ahead 63-49.

The Campers refused to surrender and Blank’s 10-yard TD pass to Sebastian made it a seven-point game with 23 seconds left.

Albert Gallatin’s Aidan Garcia recovered the impending onside kick to finally seal the game for the Colonials.

Jamison completed 2 of 4 passes for 41 yards and the TD to Pegg.

“That was crazy,” Dindl said. “I’m just happy we got out of there with the win.”

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