What an incredible night for the South Walton Seahawks - they earned their firste-ever playoff victory with a 34-27 win over the Bozeman Bucks - in frigid temperatures.

South Walton Coach David Barron was right when he called it a “physical war for 48 minutes.”

The Bucks got on the board first, then the Seahawks came flying back with two TD’s of their own in the last three minutes of the first half. Dennis Smith connected with Hunter Infinger in the left corner of the end zone for both TD. Infinger has some good hands - maybe that’s why he’s the shortstop on the baseball team.

In the third, Bozeman took the lead again20-13, but the Hawks answered. Destin’s David Bazylak and Bryant Adams picked up some yards on the ground, before Cody Adams completed a 21-yard pass to Infinger to get the Hawks down to the 28. Four plays later, Cody Adams found Infinger in his spot (the left corner) for a 21-yard strike. Bazylak kicked in the PAT for a 20-20 game.

The fourth quarter got interesting. South Walton took its first lead of the game after stopping the Bucks on a fourth down effort. Dennis Smith scored this one on a quarterback keeper up the middle for a 1-yard TD.

But the Bucks battled back with a 10-play drive to knot the score at 27-27.

South Walton on its next possession had a little help from the Bucks. Bazylak picked up 7 yards, then Bozeman was nailed for 15 yards on a late hit. As a matter of fact, Bozeman picked up four 15-yard unsportsmanlike calls in the last six minutes of play. Anyhow, the Seahawks marched it on down using up the clock and Bazylak scored on a 19-yard run, and then kicked in the PAT for a 34-27 lead.

Bozeman got the ball back with two minutes on the clock, but was intercepted by Dennis Smith — which pretty much wrapped it up for South Watlon — Way to go Hawks.

South Walton will play host to Florida High School next Friday night.

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