Football: Trojans edge Panthers to earn season split

Zama back Tyler Deiwert tries to outrun Yokota defender Michael Kasten. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
Zama back Tyler Deiwert tries to outrun Yokota defender Michael Kasten. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

Football: Trojans edge Panthers to earn season split

Stars and Stripes
October 31, 2021

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Keshawn McNeill has been the go-to guy at wide receiver for Zama all season. On Friday, he showed he could keep the ball out of opposing receivers hands at key moments.

The senior defensive back tipped the ball away from would-be Yokota receiver Caleb Jones to save what might have been the game-tying touchdown as the Trojans held off a rally by the Panthers for a 20-14 win Friday at Yokota’s Bonk Field.

“It was going right into his hands,” McNeill said of the game’s final play, on which Panthers quarterback Dylan Tomas tried to hit Jones in the left corner of the end zone.

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