Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Comeback of the Year

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Posted: Dec 29, 2019

From now until Jan. 2, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester. These are the fall nominees for Comeback of the Year. Monday, we'll unveil the candidates for Male Performance of the Year.

The seventh annual Frosty Awards will take place in late April and honor athletic excellence in Carson-Newman's athletic department.

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Football at Limestone: Carson-Newman scored the go-ahead touchdown with 19 seconds left to cap a wild 42-35 win over Limestone on a crisp Saturday afternoon at The Reservation. Antonio Wimbush (Kingsland, Tenn.) called game with a three-yard score in the final 20 seconds to cap a frenetic game that saw Limestone rally from a 24-point deficit, only to lose in the final minute. After falling into a 24-0 hole, Limestone scored with 5:40 left in the fourth quarter, converted a two-point conversion and then recovered a pooch kick to take a 35-34 lead and set the table for one, the Saints first senior day win, and two the largest come-from-behind victory in school history. However, Carson-Newman kept its playoff hopes alive with a final four minutes for the ages. On third-and-16, Limestone had the ball at the Carson-Newman 21. Saint quarterback DJ Phillips ran a zone-read option. Damarkus Jones (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) stripped Phillips and Bernard Scott (Hollywood, Fla.) pounced on the loose ball to keep the deficit to one and give C-N the football back with 88 yards to go and 3:14 to go. Carson-Newman got help from a defensive holding penalty on Limestone and moved the ball out to their own 37 on four plays. That's when C-N hit the home run ball. Tyler Thackerson (Clinton, Tenn.) lofted a deep ball down the left sideline. Romain Kelly (Spartanburg, S.C.) ran under it and took it down inside the Saints' 13 to set C-N up for late game success. Freshman tailback Troy Dendy tallied back-to-back carries to get C-N down to the one with 58 seconds left. However, on first-and-goal from the one, C-N was called for a false start. Limestone elected to take the 10 second runoff moving the ball back to the six and the clock down to 48 seconds. Dendy took the ball down to the three before Wimbush capped Carson-Newman's 14th four-quarter comeback since 2001 by powering into the end zone from three yards out off right tackle. Dendy then scored the two-point conversion on the same play type to stretch the lead to a touchdown that ended up being the final margin 42-35.

Men's Golf at UNG Invitational: Heading into the final round of the North Georgia Fall Invitational, C-N was trailing the leading spot by seven shots. A field-best 12-under outing in the final round gave the Eagles their first win of the season at 27-under. Five Eagles shot in the red during that last round, including a three-under round for Tom Forster who was under par in all three rounds. The Eagles' three-round 837 total in the comeback was just six shots shy of matching the best score in the event set back in 2016.

Men's Basketball v. Coker: The first 14 minutes of Carson-Newman's Saturday tilt with Coker weren't pretty. The Eagles found themselves down 12, 31-19 with 6:07 to play after a 15-4 Cobra run. The Eagles had turned the ball over nine times in that opening span leading to an 8-0 edge in points off turnovers for the Cobras. However, Carson-Newman found its footing and dropped the hammer in hurry. Carson-Newman (5-5, 2-2 SAC) closed the first half on a 25-4 run en route to a 100-70 beat down of the Cobras (2-6, 1-3 SAC) Saturday afternoon at Holt Fieldhouse. After starting 7-of-21 from the field, Carson-Newman would make 15 of its next 17 shots to spark the surge that swelled C-N's bulge to double digits five minutes into the second half. The 30-point margin of victory is the largest by the Carson-Newman men's basketball team in program history when trailing by double digits.