From the Tyler Morning Telegraph, August 28, 2020:
TATUM 63, CENTER 62: TATUM - The Tatum Eagles opened the season and celebrated senior night with a win on Friday, holding on for a 63-62 win over the Center Roughriders.
Tatum took a 63-48 lead with 6:25 remaining on a Ty Hollins 3-yard run, but Center scored twice in the final 4:10 of the contest and converted a two-pointer to pull to within one point with 1:36 to play.
With Tatum facing a fourth-and-short late, Center jumped offsides and the Eagles were able to run out the clock.
Keomadre Horace turned in a huge night for the Roughriders in the loss. He opened the scoring with a 17-yard touchdown run, and finished with six rushing touchdowns on the evening.
Tatum countered Horace's TD run with a 24-yard touchdown pass from Kendrick Malone to Decartiyay Allison with 859 to play to tie things at 7-7, and Hollins put the Eagles in front with a 14-yard run two minutes later as Tatum built a 14-7 lead after one quarter.
Center's defense got into the scoring act early in the second when Keshun Hunt stripped a Tatum receiver of the ball at the Roughrider 3-yard line and returned it 97 yards for the TD to knot things at 14 apiece.
Center moved on top 21-14 with an 80-yard touchdown pass from Jake Hanson to Makel Johnson with 7:28 to play in the half, but Malone scored on runs of 6 and 9 yards to end the half with Tatum leading 28-21.
A 64-yard run by Hoarce at the 9:41 mark of the third period tied it at 28, and the teams traded scores - with Hollins scoring on a 1-yard run for Tatum and Hanson hitting Jamal Moore for 34 yards to make it 35-35.
Allison's 10-yard touchdown run and a 4-yard TD run by Malone gave Tatum a 49-35 lead with 28 second to play in the third, but Hoarce broke loose on a 54-yard scoring jaunt to make it a 49-41 contest heading to the fourth after a missed extra point.
Allison's 3-yard run kept Tatum in front, but Hoarce wasn't finished. He scored on a 67-yard run, and after Hollins went in from 3 yards out from Tatum, Horace plowed in from the 17 to make it a 63-54 contest with 4:10 to play and set up the wild finish.
