Central junior Braden Gaston (7) looks for running room against visiting Halls on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. (Photo by Danny Parker)
With fewer than 3 minutes left in first half, Central High School football coach Bryson Rosser surveyed the Halls defense, checked out of a play and gave the new plan to quarterback Dakota Fawver.
No more than a second after the ball was snapped into Fawver’s hands, Rosser yelled: “Touchdown!”
Fawver saw the play unfurl, too, to his liking. And he delivered an easy 18-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Braden Gaston to put the Bobcats ahead by four scores with 2 minutes, 18 seconds left in the half.
Rosser celebrated the play’s success as if he was the one who threw it. But what was telling about the moment was: this Central team is in tune with what the coaching staff wants it to be and how it wants it to perform.
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