By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics Glynn Academy pulled out a 27-20 victory Thursday over Baker County (Fla.) on the opening night of the Under Armor Border Classic at Glynn County Stadium. Last year, the Red Terrors saw their 20-7 halftime lead erased by Creekside in the their first Border Classic game here in Brunswick as the Florida team scored off two Glynn turnovers in the third quarter and went on to notch a 21-20 win. The Terrors actually had a chance to pull out a win in the inaugural football showcase between the bricks but missed a late field goal. A year later, Glynn (3-1) again saw a halftime lead disappear as Baker County erased its 20-6 deficit at the break and tied the Terrors at 20-20 on the scoreboard early in the fourth period. This year, though, it was the Terrors who took advantage of their opponent’s turnover and turned it into a game-winning touchdown. A fumble by the Wildcats (0-2) at their own 31-yard line with just over two minutes to play was recovered by Glynn’s sophomore linebacker Smith Whitehead to give the Terrors the ball deep in Baker territory. On their first snap from scrimmage, the Terrors reached into their bag of tricks and called a play that won them the game. Senior quarterback Ryan Schueneman took the snap and tossed a lateral to sophomore T.Y. Chisom, one of Glynn’s most athletic players who caught passes and ran the ball while playing running back for the Terrors in this game. Chisom continued to run to his right for a few steps, stopped and then planted before unleashing a pass to senior wideout David Prince who got behind the defense along the Baker sideline and hauled in the pass for a touchdown. What Baker likely didn’t know was that Chisom played quarterback last year for Glynn’s junior varsity team and was a capable passer. “That wasn’t necessarily our best trick play,” said GA head coach Rocky Hidalgo when asked. “That’s just one of them. We felt like we would be able to get it by watching film and how they were covering certain things.” Hidalgo praised the throw by Chisom. “He can do anything. He’s gonna be special,” Coach Rock said about the sophomore. The fumble by the Wildcats ended up being the break that Glynn had been looking for as it played a field-position game throughout the second half as its offense struggled to mount drives. “We were winning, and that’s the smart thing to do,” Hidalgo said. “Really, in this game, I felt like our defense could keep them hemmed in. We wanted to make them drive the field. I knew we were gonna need a short field to score. We knew we had a couple of plays we might be able to get a score on like that, and that’s basically what happened.” Tuck Tucker added the extra-point kick after Glynn regained the lead, but the Wildcats still had chances to score. Glynn had to kick off from its own 20-yard line after a celebration penalty following the touchdown and didn’t execute the kickoff properly, giving the ball to the Wildcats on a short kick at the 40. But on Baker County’s second play, Whitehead intercepted a pass to prevent any sort of scoring threat by the visitors. Glynn regained possession with 1:23 left at its own 42. The Wildcats still had all three of their timeouts, though, and after three straight running plays by the Terrors, Baker used their timeouts to stop the clock and force a punt. The Glynn kick was partially blocked, and the Wildcats got one last shot with the ball from their own 40 with just 58 seconds to play. But again, the Terrors got an interception - this one by senior linebacker Da’Vontae Lang - as junior lineman Tae Green’s pressure on Baker quarterback Makhai Mosley forced an errant throw. “It was ugly,” Hidalgo admitted. “We did some dumb things, but the other side of that is we have to get healthy. We have to get (junior running back) Greg Peacock healthy. I just made a decision on Tuesday when he really couldn’t go in practice, that win, lose or draw, we weren’t playing him unless we were in an emergency situation at running back. He’s got to get healthy.” Peacock, a major-college prospect with scholarship offers from Florida State and Virginia Tech among others, missed Glynn’s opener with a lingering shoulder sprain. He was limited as he returned in Game 2 at McIntosh County Academy, but then suffered a sprained ankle in that game which has hampered him the last two weeks. The Terrors have a bye-week next week. Their next game is two weeks from Friday on Sept. 22 when they face Brunswick High in the Region 2-AAAAAA opener for both teams. Of course, the rivalry game also will be for the annual City Championship. Glynn ended up totaling 234 yards in Thursday’s game with 120 rushing and 114 passing. Willie Butler, the No. 2 running back on the team’s preseason depth chart, played for the first time this season after missing the first three games due to injury and led GA with 94 yards on 19 attempts. Schueneman was 10-of-20 passing for 83 yards and a touchdown. He also threw two picks. The Wildcats lost their starting quarterback, Davion Dean, to injury early in the game. Mosley filled in admirably the rest of the way, and Baker ended up outgaining Glynn as it finished with 294 yards including 237 on the ground and 57 through the air. Ke’Nais Williams led the Wildcats’ rushing attack with 129 yards. Glynn scored on its second offensive series of the night on a pass on first-and-goal from the 8. Schueneman threw the ball to the left corner of the end zone, where Prince outjumped a defender and hauled in the pass for the first of his two touchdown grabs. Prince has five TD catches on the season after his two in this game. He had a touchdown reception in each of Glynn’s first three games. Glynn drove 89 yards in eight plays for its second score late in the first period, getting a 34-yard TD run by Butler to finish off the drive. Chisom had a 21-yard reception on the drive and also a rush for 10 yards. Tuck Tucker added the point-after for a 13-0 lead. Moments later, Baker gift-wrapped a score for the Terrors when they were backed up against their goal line. A bad snap bounced into the end zone, and Glynn’s Chandler Owens pounced on the ball for a touchdown and a 20-0 lead in the final seconds of the opening frame after the extra-point. The Wildcats scored early in the second stanza on a 16-yard carry by Benny Lewis to make the score 20-6. Glynn’s Ryan Young blocked the extra-point. The score stayed at 20-6 going into halftime. Baker County pulled within 20-14 early in the third after a short punt gave the visitors the ball at the GA 37. They covered the distance in four plays with Lewis crossing the goal stripe from 6 yards away. Again, the kick failed. With Glynn’s offense continuing to sputter, the score remained 20-14 going to the fourth quarter. It became a tied game just moments into the final frame when the Wildcats crashed through the Glynn line as they attempted to block a punt and wound up tackling the punter for a 10-yard loss at the GA 34. Baker turned the great field-position into the tying score. On third-and-8, Williams broke off a 32-yard jaunt to paydirt, and with a running play for two points, the game was tied with just over nine minutes to go. The score stayed tied for the next seven minutes until Glynn capitalized on the Baker County fumble by immediately dialing one of the plays it had been holding onto all game. The Terrors had chances to make it easier on themselves, admitted their head coach, but were struggling up front on offense with linemen missing key blocks that could have led to big gains. “We’re coming off the ball, knocking people off the ball,” Hidalgo said. “But, we’re turning guys loose. A play that should go for an 8-yard gain is a 2-yard loss. It was the same thing last week. “They gave us three different looks tonight, and we really struggled. When we blocked it up, we ripped it. Other times, we’d turn a guy loose, and a big play becomes a 2-yard play.” Penalties also were an issue for both teams. Glynn was penalized 8 times for 80 yards. Baker County had 10 penalties for 80 yards. In the opening game of the Border Classic on Thursday afternoon, University Christian toppled Charlton County 40-13 after leading just 8-6 at halftime.