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Lely's Gerry Reyes booms a 45-yard field goal that ignited his team to come back from a 14-point deficit to take the lead. only to lose to Gulf Coast in the last minute on Friday night.

ROGER LALONDE

A host of Lely blockers set Frank Pugh free on a touchdown run in the Trojans loss to Gulf Coast on Friday night.

ROGER LALONDE

A hug push by Lely's offensive line leads Quarterback Dennis Marcelin (10) into the end zone as the Trojans rallied only to lose to Gulf Coast on Friday night.

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Lely must have hit the snooze button on Friday night at Gulf Coast, losing 31-25.

The Trojans didn’t answer the wake-up call until Gerry Reyes booted a 45-yard field goal with 1:05 left in the third quarter.

Then Lely made the game interesting, after trailing 21-7.

Earlier, the only score for Lely was a two-yard touchdown run by Frankie Pugh with 5:27 left in the second quarter.

He was playing in place of Darian Hall, the leading rusher in the county, who was under team discipline. The Sharks were playing without its leading rusher, Sebastian Zuluaga, who was on the sidelines with a foot injury.

Actually, Zuluaga has rushed for around 500 yards, less than a third of Hall’s totals. What the Sharks had was their star quarterback, Jeff Schmidt. He threw for 254 yards, with Lely again getting beat on the long pass, a 48-yarder for the clinching touchdown in the fourth quarter. An earlier 40-yard pass play set up another score.

Schmidt’s passing total for the season jumped to 2,295 yards and he has scored 10 rushing touchdowns.

Statistically, Lely rolled up 280 yards on the ground, with Pugh getting 169 of them. Dennis Marcelin passed for another 287 yards, but threw three interceptions and fumbled once to set up a Sharks score.

Pugh sparked a fourth-quarter rally on a 38-yard TD jaunt. Marcelin tossed a two-point conversion pass to Marco’s Michael Gober. When Pugh scored on a two-yard run and Reyes kicked the extra-point, Lely led, 25-21 with four minutes to go.

But Schmidt wasn’t done. In just two pass plays, he moved the Sharks 76 yards for the decisive score.

Both teams finish 7-3 on the season. Lely travels to Fort Myers-Dunbar, while Gulf Coast travels to Miami-Washington for playoff battles Friday.