Warsaw rallied in the second half to beat 5A #1 Concord 31-28 in the 5A Sectional 11 championship game Friday night at Jake Field in Dunlap. 

Quinton Brock scored on a four yard run on 4th down and three with :12 left put the Tigers in the lead and give the program its second sectional championship. 

The Tigers trailed 21-10 with less than 2:00 left in the first half when Concord fumbled and Warsaw recovered inside the Minutemen 20-yard line. The Tigers turned that miscue into a touchdown on a 15 yard halfback pass from Brock to Tucker Reed with :34 left. 

Warsaw received the kickoff after halftime and went on a 72-yard drive that chewed up 10:12 of the 3rd quarter. That drive was capped off by a 6-yard Drew Sullivan run that briefly put Warsaw ahead 24-21. 

That lead lasted until 9:17 of the 4th quarter, when Purdue-commit Jaron Thomas went 54 yards for a touchdown that made it 28-24. 

That score made Tiger fans shudder. It was the exact same score of the first meeting back in September, but this time the ending was different. 

Reed took the kickoff to the 25-yard line, and Warsaw went on an epic, 9:05 drive for the lead and the win. 

Ethan Egolf made an incredible catch on the Tiger sideline to keep the game-winning drive alive, and was one of several key conversions for the Tigers in that final drive. 

With Warsaw pounding the running game into the middle of the offensive line, it was the pitch from Drew Sullivan to Brock that secured the win with a dozen seconds left to play. 

Concord's last-ditch effort to score on the final play led to a fumble that was recovered by Grady Nelson and set off a massive celebration on the south end of Jake Field.

Sullivan carried the ball 32 times for 120 yards--part of a Warsaw ground game that went for 280 yards on 63 attempts (tied for 5th most attempts all time). 

Warsaw compiled 27 first downs, while Concord--who scored 4 touchdowns of more than 50 yards--only ran 16 total plays from scrimmage. Warsaw had three drives in the game that went over nine minutes, and two were over 10 minutes. 

The Tigers will host the regional game Friday at 7:30pm against #2 and unbeaten Lafayette Jeff.