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The Clarion \ October 9, 2019
Tornados improve record
line. Although BC couldn’t punch it in for a
touchdown, Damalos’ 20-yard field goal put
the Tornados on the board, cutting Maryville’s
advantage to 7-3 at the half.
Following a 34-yard kickoff return by EC’s
Hines to start the second half, Cole and the
offense strung together a six-play, 53-yard drive
that was thwarted by a Maryville interception.
However, BC’s special teams came through in a
huge way on the ensuing Maryville possession.
On fourth down and five from the Scots’ 14-
yard line, punter Ian Hubbs was stripped of
the ball by BC’s Wyatt, who forced a fumble
that was recovered in the end zone by Brevard
freshman Tate to give the Tornados their first
lead of the contest. BC held a 10-7 advantage
following Damalos’s extra point.
Mar5rville took a risk on their following drive,
as a lengthy 10-play, 35-yard drive that lasted
nearly six minutes was halted on fourth down
by an Issac Crisp pass breakup.
Following a Brevard punt, tragedy struck
the Scots once more, as a snap sailed over
Mar5wille punter Hubbs’s head. With no other
option, Hubbs booted the loose ball out of his
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own end zone, resulting in a safety score for
Brevard to extend its lead to 12-7.
The Scots’ special teams unit was able to
redeem itself on their following drive, as Hubbs
put a 36-yard field goal through the upright to
cut Brevard’s lead to two at 12-10.
After BC’s Hines ran the ensuing kickoffback
43 yards, the Tornado offense took advantage
of the favorable field position. Cole and the
Tornados strung together a five-play, 34-yard
drive capped off by Cole’s 19-yard touchdown
pass to Rouse that extended Brevard’s lead.
BC lead grew to 19-10 following Damalos’s
extra point.
On a fourth-down attempt, Maryville’s
Harbin threw a costly interception that landed
in the hands of BC’s Diaz. Following the
turnover, Brevard’s offense ate up 2:14 off the
clock and sent Damalos out to hit a 30-yard
field goal that pushed the Tornados’ lead to a
12-point margin at 22-10.
Diaz and junior defensive back Dante
Anderson clinched the victory for the Tornados,
as the pair stopped Maryville’s Jacob Bunch
short of a first down on fourth-and-2, sealing
the game in favor of Brevard.
“It has been so exciting to watch the number
of people who have become more interested
in what Brevard College Football is doing,”
added Coach Khayat on the overall experience
of the Homecoming weekend and his team’s
3-0 start. “Our kids are thrilled that the BC
community - fellow students, staff, faculty and
student-athletes - are all rallying around the
Football program and are excited about what
we are doing.”
Brevard College Football returns to action
next Saturday, Oct. 12 when the Tornados
take on USA South in-state foe Methodist
University at 1 p.m. in Fayetteville, N.C.
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New men's basketball assistant coach
By Phil de Montmollin
Sports Information Director
Miles Leathers has been named Assistant
Men’s Basketball Coach at Brevard College,
announced by Head Coach Lee Burgess. An
alumnus of Brevard College who set several
records as a Tornado student-athlete. Leathers
will begin his responsibilities as Assistant
Coach immediately.
“I am very excited to have Miles back
with our program,” said Burgess. “He was
part of my first recruiting class here, and his
understanding of what it takes to be a student-
athlete at Brevard College will be extremely
valuable to our players. He is a high character
person that will continue to work hard until
the job is done well. I am excited to get to
work with him.”
Leathers arrives at Brevard after most
recently serving as the Associate Head
Coach for the NC Raptors AAU basketball
program and the Warren Country High School
Men’s Basketball team in Warrenton, North
Carolina.
As a student-athlete. Leathers is the only
player to surpass the marks of 1,000 points,
500 rebounds, 250 assists and 100 steals at
Brevard College. A four-starter at Brevard
playing under Coach Burgess, Leathers owns
the school’s NCAA-era records in career assists
(252), career steals (170), career total rebounds
(tied, 596), career defensive rebounds (476)
and single-season defensive rebounds (166,
2015-16) while ranking second in career points
(1,265), games played (99), games started
(91), field goals made (441) and free throws
made (292).
A team co-captain and co-MVP of the 2015-
16 Brevard College Men’s Basketball team.
Leathers was named BC’s Male Athlete of
the Year as a senior. An All-SAC Conference
preseason selection in 2015-16, Leathers also
won the BC’s Defensive Most Valuable Player
of the Year Award in 2012-13.
Active in community service as a student-
athlete, Leathers completed an internship
as a counselor with the Cindy Platt Boys &
Girls Club of Transylvania County in his final
semester prior to graduating from Brevard
College.
Following graduation in a summer of 2016,
Leathers earned a spot on the USA Select Tour
team where he played in England, Ireland
and Norway. He followed that experience,
along with experience with the Washington
Elementary Boys and Girls Club in Raleigh,
North Carolina, with the start of his coaching
career at Warren Country High School and
with the NC Raptors AAU team.
“It is a true blessing to come back to
Brevard College, said Leathers. “I have so
many great memories here as a player, now
I’m looking to create more fond moments as
a coach. I couldn’t be more excited about this
opportunity.”
A native of Charlotte, NC, Leathers is a 2016
graduate of Brevard College with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Exercise Science.
The Brevard College Men’s Basketball team
opens its 2019-20 season on Tuesday, Nov. 12
at 7:30 p.m. vs. Toccoa Falls at the Boshamer
Gymnasium.