By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics Glynn Academy will play in the Class AAAAA playoffs, after all. The Red Terrors survived a scare against Evans Friday night at Glynn County Stadium to reach the postseason yet again as they pulled out a 28-24 come-from-behind victory over Evans which would have made the playoffs with a win. Glynn will travel to face Rome next week in the first-round of the playoffs as the No. 4 seed from Region 1-AAAAA. Brunswick High is the region’s top seed as the champion while Lakeside-Evans will be the No. 2 seed and Effingham will be the No. 3 seed. The Terrors will enter the playoffs with a 6-4 overall record after finishing 5-3 in the region. Evans finishes the year 5-5 and 3-5. As it turned out, a win over Glynn would have been good enough to get the Knights to the playoffs since Statesboro lost big to Lakeside-Evans in its finale. The loss left the Blue Devils with five region losses. Evans and Glynn would have both had four losses, but the Knights would have been awarded the fourth seed with the head-to-head win over the Terrors. Making the playoffs comes as a huge relief for the Terrors who have now reached the state postseason in all 11 seasons under Hidalgo. The Terrors have fought an uphill battle since the opening kick of this season, however. An adversity-filled year started with revamping the offensive line after preseason injuries, then included changing personnel around on offense and defense due to midseason player dismissals and dealing with a helter-skelter practice and game schedule as a result of two hurricanes that put a big-time monkey-wrench in the season schedule and weekly routine. The season came down to Glynn needing wins in its final two games between the bricks at home to assure the team of advancing beyond the regular-season. The Terrors won last week by 28-21 over Greenbrier with a late touchdown after the Wolfpack tied the score in the second half after trailing by 14 points at halftime. On Friday night, Glynn led by as much as 14-0, but Evans hung around and took the lead in the fourth quarter before the Terrors scored to regain the lead and made a pair of defensive stops to hold on. The game was too close for comfort for sure, and GA head coach Rocky Hidalgo was visibly agitated in the postgame press conference by the fact that Glynn didn’t win this game going away with every opportunity to do so. He gave the Terrors a mouthful in his postgame talk before sending them home for the weekend. “The halftime speech was even worse,” he told reporters. “This game should have been 42-0 at halftime. This game shouldn’t have even been close. “We continue to allow people to get easy points because of mental breakdowns defensively. We make the same mistakes over and over again. It’s frustrating. “And offensively, we run the same play four times in a row and block it differently every time. It’s frustrating.” The Knights took their first lead of the game just over two minutes into the fourth quarter when senior quarterback Jordan Swint heaved a 36-yard scoring pass over the top of the defense on third down to put the visitors in front 24-21 following the extra-point kick with 9:57 to play. Glynn picked up a first down on its next series, but a dead-ball unsportsmanlike conduct penalty moments later would put the Terrors behind the chains and they would end up having to punt. With Evans taking over at its own 38-yard line, the Glynn defense forced a quick three-and-out with the Knights losing a yard in three plays. The Terors would regain possession at their own 47 following a 23-yard return by Lavonte Lockett with 6:18 left in the game and possibly the team’s season. Three plays later, the Terrors were back on top on the scoreboard after giving the ball to junior running back Da’Sean Howard three straight times. The big back gained 4 yards to start the drive. Howard gained 10 more on his second carry and then broke off a 39-yard tackle-breaking run for the go-ahead touchdown. “We handed the ball off,” Hidalgo said of the winning drive. “We blocked the plays right every time and scored. We didn’t run but about four plays all game. It ain’t that hard.” Tuck Tucker added the PAT for the 28-24 cushion with 5:19 left. The GA defense would have to make two more stops for the Terrors to hold off the Knights. Qwon Coleman intercepted a fourth-down pass for the Terrors on the next Evans possession. Then, after Glynn couldn’t gain a first down and punted on fourth-and-1 from its 34, the Knights got one last shot in the final 1:49 as they got the ball at their own 41. This time, the Knights got behind the sticks on a penalty before Glynn senior lineman Tae Green came up with his sixth sack of the night to put Evans even further back before a fourth-down pass into heavy coverage was intercepted by Glynn’s Evan Rowe to end the game. The Terrors knelt on the ball to run the final seconds off the clock. GA finished the game with 347 yards, all of them coming on the ground. The Terrors held Evans to minus-1-yard rushing, and the Knights threw for 211 yards in the loss. Sean Wallace led the Terrors with 151 rushing yards on seven carries. He scored the team’s second touchdown on a 38-yard run in the first quarter and added a dazzling 77-yard touchdown run in the second quarter that gave Glynn a 21-10 halftime advantage. Howard finished with 143 yards on 19 attempts. He also scored the opening touchdown for Glynn on the team’s second possession, busting through the middle for a 45-yard TD run. Chisolm added 43 yards on 10 carries for the Terrors. The Knights got their first touchdown as a result of a busted coverage in the Glynn secondary. Swint found a wide-open Bryson Crewe for a 70-yard scoring pass that brought Evans within 14-7 in the first quarter. A fumble by Glynn on its next series was recovered by Evans who got the ball right back at the GA 21. Another broken coverage led to a 20-yard pass play for the Knights to give them first-and-goal at the 1. The Terrors would end up focing an Evans field goal that made it a 14-10 game going to the second quarter. “Really and truly, we’re playing great defense on 95 percent of our snaps,” Hidalgo said. “And on about 5 percent of them, we give up long touchdowns. It doesn’t matter who it is, where it is, what team. We just have busts, complete mental breakdowns.” Hidalgo said the inconsistent play on both sides of the ball stems from the same kind of performance in practice. “We continually shoot ourselves in the foot, and it’s unfortunate. Our performance is indicative of how we practice. We’re inconsistent in practice and we’re inconsistent when we play,” the coach said. “I challenged them to practice better and play better next week.”