1nutlftHigley pulled out the upset against Casteel, 34-27, in a back-and-forth affair on Friday night.
Late in the fourth quarter, with the game tied at 27, senior quarterback Spencer Brasch scrambled, then threw a 40-yard pass to sophomore Truitt Robinson who ran it in for the TD that got the Knights the win.
“I was running away for my life,” Brasch said. “I was thinking about running it and at the last second, I saw Truitt a couple yards down the field, so I was like, I’m going to give him a chance, he’s open…I threw it up to him just over the safety and he caught it.”
Robinson was brought up from the JV team for the playoffs. The big touchdown grab was one of only a few Varsity passes the sophomore has caught in his young career, Higley head coach Eddy Zubey said.
“(Thursday) Coach told me that I was going to start in one of our formations,” Robinson said. “I was pretty hype about it, and then today in the game it showed off. I got all of the passes I could get, I made the plays that I needed and I showed up…I’ve got blood rushing through my body right now, it’s crazy.”
