Lakeside bounces back in blowout fashion against Bradwell Institute

The Lakeside Panthers run out onto the field ahead of their Region 1-AAAAA game against Bradwell Institute on Friday Oct. 25, 2024 in Evans, Georgia. | Staff photo by Rob Davis

Date: October 26, 2024

Lakeside held both their homecoming and senior night events Friday, but it won’t be their final home game after the Panthers clinched the two-seed in Region 1-AAAAA with a 59-20 win over Bradwell Institute Friday night. 

The Panthers found the end zone often in the first half, and Ty Jones got the scoring started with a 21-yard pass to Mikeal Grissom. 

A quick three-and-out led to a field goal off of the foot of William Brandenburg, giving the Panthers a 10-0 lead in the first quarter. 

BJ Grissom took advantage of a bad punt from Bradwell, and on the following play, took it 20 yards for a score. 

Defense gets offensive

At this point, it was 17-0 Lakeside, then came one of the craziest sequences one could witness. 

The Panthers’ Lathan Gardner intercepted a Tiger pass and took it in for the score. A few plays later, BJ Grissom snagged an errant Tiger pass and also scored, extending the lead to 31-0. 

About 19 seconds after that occurred, Corbin Velez picked up a Bradwell fumble and returned it for six (plus the extra point) to push Lakeside’s lead to 38-0. 

So, in about a span of two game minutes, Lakeside scored three defensive touchdowns.

The Panthers finally got the ball back on offense after all of that and Jack Thexton capped off a long drive with a six-yard score. 

Bradwell Institute finally got on the board when it returned a kickoff for a touchdown and cut the lead to 45-6. 

Cruising to the finish line

It was an impressive first half of football from a team that faced a setback a week ago with its 61-34 loss to Brunswick during the team’s third game in eight days. 

Not much happened in the second half because of the running clock, but Ty Jones did catch a pass that went 72 yards, and the Panthers picked up their fourth defensive score of the game with a 99-yard scoop-n-score.

Lakeside (8-1, 6-1) will get to rest next Friday before traveling to Statesboro (4-4, 2-3) on Nov. 8 for its final regular season game. Lakeside will gear up to host the three-seed from Region 5-AAAAA in the first round of the Class AAAAA playoffs. 

Statesboro defeated South Effingham 41-7 Friday night. 

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