Rangers Lose Heartbreaker in Garfield Heights

The Rangers football team fell just short of a fourth quarter comeback on Friday night against Garfield Heights High School.

They lost the game, 28-26, and saw their record slip to 5-4.

In the end, not even a dashing 90-yard punt return by senior Aturo Morgan for a touchdown could save them.

Morgan would later add another touchdown in a comeback bid in the fourth quarter with a 43-yard breakaway sprint to the endzone.

Ben Fitchwell scored a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter.

But it was Garfield Heights’ sophomore quarterback James Bennett who made the difference.

He launched an air assault, accounted for three of the Bulldogs’ four touchdowns — each of them passing.

In the fourth quarter, following Morgan’s dash to endzone to bring the Rangers back into the game, a tw0-point conversion attempt — that would have tied it — fell short.

With one game remaining, the Rangers — who have now lost two straight — will now try to salvage their season as they play their last game at home Normandy next Friday.