Turnovers kill Tide

Over the many years okay, perhaps the last 20 since Columbia and Annville-Cleona have started playing football, there have been some interesting games.
Last year, a late interception helped the Little Dutchmen hand the Tide their seventh loss of the season.
Friday night at a windy A-C field, turnovers were huge as the Little Dutchmen held off the Tidefor a 21-13 win.
Threre were eight turnovers in the game -- six by the Tide, five of them coming in the second half and two by A-C. Only one of the Tide's six turnovers were converted into points by the Little Dutchmen. The other five kept the Tide out of the end zone.
Here's a recap of the fumbles, which kept the Tide from ending a two-year losing streak to the Little Dutchmen.
In the first half, in fact on the Tide's second offensive play of the game, the Tide fumbled when quarterback Tyler Harrison fumbled a shot gun snap at the 12. Seven plays later, A-C scsored on a 2-yard run by Ruck Snyder to take a 14-7 lead.
That was it for the Tide turnovers in the first half. The worst was yet to come.  The Tide had six offensive possessions in the second half. They punted once, which turned into an A-C score of 54 yards by Snyder. The others ended in fumbles, all on the A-C side of the field.
Trailing 14-13 at the half, the Tide quickly moved onto the A-C side of the field to open the second half on a pass from Harrison to Michael Burke. On first down from the A-C 46, Harrison found Johnny Vazquez for a 7-yard game, but Vazquez was stripped of the football, giving the ball back to the Little Dutchmen.
After forcing an A-C punt, the Tide on three big runs fro Keenan Edmond moved to the A-C 43. On first down, Edmond fumbled going up the gut, giving the ball back to A-C.
Still in the third quarter, A-C quarterback Tyson Hayes quickly gave the ball back to the Tide when he fumbled at the Tide 42.
Harrison, who had a big night in the air, connected on passes to Nick Nobile and a couple of runs and penalties moved the ball to the A-C 9. But on first and goal, Edmond fumbled trying to get into the end zone on the final play of the third quarter.
A-C couldn't capitalize and punted. This time, the Tide moved to the A-C 38 when Brock Taylor broke loose for a 23-yard gain to the 15. But, Taylor fumbled and the Tide, still trailing failed to score again.
After trading punts, A-C finally got some insurance points as with 2:25 left in the game, Snyder broke a 54-yard run to give A-C a 21-13 lead.
But back came the Tide. Shakim McIllwain broke a 24-yard run to the A-C 31. But, he fumbled, ending the Tide's hopes of a win .
It was an interesting first half as well.
A-C ran 37 plays, but only had two Snyder scores to show for it.
The Tide ran 13. They scored twice on passes of 63 and 94 yards from Harrison to Burke.