Myers guides Cougars to comeback victory

North Charleston was down, but never out.

The Cougars rallied from a 16-0 deficit with three second-half touchdown passes from Denzel Myers to beat Bishop England, 20-16, on Friday night at Jack Cantey Stadium.

"I'm glad I don't have hair," North Charleston coach Jimmy Brown said. "I would have pulled it all out by the third quarter. We made a lot of mental mistakes, but we never gave up."

Myers' 6-yard touchdown pass to Richard Holmes with 6:23 to play put the Cougars ahead 20-16.

On Bishop England's next possession, Myers came up with a drive-ending interception, his second of the game.

"Denzel is a great athlete," Brown said. "The first half was probably the worst football I've ever seen him play. I just told him to calm down, relax, trust your line and try to get the ball into the hands of your playmakers. That's what he did."

North Charleston is 2-0, while Bishop England fell to 1-1.

"We're usually the ones who put people away in the second half," Bishop England coach John Cantey said. "We kind of reversed that this time. We're a very conditioned team, but North Charleston got the best of us tonight."

The Bishops led 10-0 at the half and looked seemingly in command after driving 70 yards for a touchdown on their first possession of the third quarter to move ahead 16-0.

Bishop England's TD came on a 20-yard pass from Mikell Fosberry to Cody Cramer, but the key play was a successful fake punt that kept the scoring drive alive.

Facing fourth-and-10 from the North Charleston 42, Luke Navarro passed to Johnny Burke for a first down at the 15-yard line.

But North Charleston roared back on a pair of TD passes from Myers. The first covered 47 yards to Kayron Smith, and the second was a 63-yard completion to Holmes to cut the lead to 16-14 at the end of the third quarter.

Bishop England led 10-0 at the half thanks to a couple of big plays on offense and tough defense throughout by the Bishops.

A screen pass from Fosberry to Amrhein went for a 48-yard scoring play to put the Bishops ahead 6-0 with six minutes to play in the half.

One possession later, the Bishops drove for a 35-yard field goal by Thomas Warren with 16 seconds to play in the half to put Bishop England ahead 10-0.

Neither team could gain much of an advantage in a turnover-filled first quarter.

On Bishop England's first possession, Myers picked off a Fosberry pass to set up the Cougars on the Bishop England 43-yard line.

BE—Bay Amrhein 48 pass from Mikell Fosberry (kick failed).

BE—Thomas Warren 35 FG

BE—Cody Cramer 20 pass from Fosberry (Warren kick)

NC—Kayron Smith 47 pass from Myers (Jerial Ray pass from Myers)

NC—Richard Holmes 63 pass from Myers (run failed)

NC—Holmes 6 pass from Myers (run failed)

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