NELSONVILLE — Ryker Hutchins’ attempt at a 51-yard game-winning field goal had the distance, but went wide left as Waterford fell to Nelsonville-York 29-28 Friday night.

Cameron Sullivan connected with Alec Thompson for a 10-yard touchdown pass with a minute left to cut it to 28-27. The Buckeyes lined up to kick the extra point, but kicker Grant Elliott took the direct snap and hooked up with Thompson for two points to put Nelsonville-York in front 29-28.

At their own 31, the Wildcats watched Hayden Jones complete a 27-yard pass to Weston Fairchild to push the ball to Nelsonville-York’s 42-yard line with 11 seconds to go. Jones then ran 7 yards to the 35 to set up the try by Hutchins.

Waterford trailed early after Dakota Cunningham’s 3-yard touchdown run, but answered with 21 straight points.

Jones tied the game with a 27-yard TD burst and later gave the Wildcats a 14-7 lead when he threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Fairchild.

Trevin Zimmer hurdled a defender and found the end zone from 7 yards out to stretch Waterford’s lead to 21-7. That was the score at halftime.

The Buckeyes scored 14 straight points on a 19-yard touchdown run by Sullivan and a 13-yard TD pass from Sullivan to Levi Snedden to tie it at 21-all at the 11:16 mark in the fourth.

Waterford put together a nice go-ahead drive, capped by Jones’ 3-yard rushing TD, to make it 28-21 with 6:54 on the clock.

Jones finished with 171 yards on 23 carries. He was 7 for 14 passing for 108 yards and two interceptions. Fairchild had two catches for 70 yards.

Frontier 52, Valley (Wetzel) 8

PINE GROVE — What better way to snap a three-game losing skid than a 44-point blowout victory?

The Frontier Cougars got back on track with a 52-8 win over Valley (Wetzel) Friday to improve to 2-3. They’ll play host to St. Marys next week.

Caleb Kirkpatrick, who rushed nine times for 102 yards, had rushing touchdowns of 4 and 65 yards and also had a 65-yard TD catch.

Austyn Kephart ran for a 19-yard touchdown and caught a 39-yard TD pass from Aaden Bills, who went 7 for 13 for 169 yards in his first varsity start at QB. Bills also had a 22-yard rushing touchdown.

Rounding out the scoring for the Cougars, who amassed 397 total yards while limiting the Lumberjacks to 67, was Aiden Wolfe, who had a 40-yard pick-six.

Valley (0-3) got on the board late on Ryder Gravette’s 19-yard rushing touchdown.

Morgan 21, Crooksville 18

CROOKSVILLE — Tanner Bankes did the heavy lifting for Morgan as the Raiders handed previously-unbeaten Crooksville a 21-18 loss Friday night.

Bankes carried 27 times for 121 yards and all three of Morgan’s touchdowns. Bankes scored from 4 yards out at the 11:55 mark in the second, then again from 8 yards out at 4:36, then one last time with 8:29 left in the third from 5 yards out.

That gave the Raiders (3-2) a 21-0 lead, but the Ceramics (4-1) didn’t go quietly.

Brody Cottrill threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Brayson Hill at the 5:30 mark in the third to get CHS on the board. Hill again found paydirt later in the quarter on a 1-yard run to cut it to 21-12.

Cottrill threw his second TD pass of the night, a 4-yarder to Gage Love, with 3:58 left in the game to make it 21-18, but Morgan held on from there.

The Raiders, who play host to West Muskingum next week, won despite completing just one pass for 15 yards.

Hill carried 13 times for 78 yards and caught eight balls for 90 yards to lead Crooksville. Cottrill went 17 for 27 passing for 181 yards.