Shorter Hawks dominated on both sides of the ball and came through with a win due to a team effort. The Hawks marched the field with 561 total yards of offense, and the Hawk defense kept Brevard College to 176 yards of total offense.
Shorter held Brevard to just a 45 yard field goal by Stamati Damalos in the first quarter, putting the Tornadoes up 3-0 going into the second.Â
Aeneas Dennis, senior quarterback, led the offense with 228 total passing yards. Dorian Anderson, a sophomore, received a 48 yard passing touchdown from Dennis within three minutes into the second quarter. These two connected again twice in the the second for two more passing touchdowns, making the score 21-3 going into halftime.
During the third quarter Shorter's running back, Noah Holland, ran a 4 yard touchdown in. Noah ended the game with a total of 108 yards.Â
The Hawks scored once again late in the third with a 28 yard pass from Aeneas Dennis to Justus Durrant.Â
In the fourth quarter Harold Cook came in and threw a 5 yard touchdown pass to Trevon Dirden, leaving the score 42-3.
Shorter's kicker, Nicholas Pope, was 5-5 for extra-point kicks, and Brett Bardenwerper nailed a 43 yard field goal with 4:55 seconds left in the game. Brevard's Stamati Damalos then kicked a 36 yard field goal with 23 seconds left in the game causing the game to end 45-6.
The Hawks look ahead to Catawba College next Saturday, September  @12.