Glendale football fends off Rolla's final drive to advance past district quarterfinals
SPRINGFIELD — All Glendale needed was one final stop on Friday, Oct.30. Thanks to a stingy defense on the final drive, Glendale earned a 28-22 win over Rolla, which helped keep the season alive. Glendale’s reward for banding together on the final drive is at least one more week of practice together. “The guys played really hard,” Glendale head coach Frank Tristan said. “It’s too bad that it ended that way for them. They could be celebrating right now, just as easy as we were.” Scoreboard: Southwest Missouri high school football's first round of districts Glendale’s Denzel Washington rushed for a short touchdown with less than five minutes on the clock. The touchdown helped Glendale complete a fourth-quarter comeback after trailing 22-14. Rolla did not flinch on the final drive. The Bulldogs utilized their different running and passing packages to confuse Glendale’s defense. The team’s mix of option-style plays, while also spreading their receivers out wide, made it challenging for the Falcons. “They ran some option and found that an outside veer was going to work,” Tristan said. “Kudos to them, they schemed us up and did a really good job of exploiting us where we weren’t as strong as
