High school football: No. 10 Chaminade-Madonna wins Broward County battle over No. 13 American Heritage 42-34

With the game tied 28-28 late in the fourth quarter, junior running back Davion Gause plowed Chaminade-Madonna (4-0) up the field and into the end zone to take a 35-28 lead.

American Heritage (4-1) drove the ball down field on its next drive but fumbled inside the 20. From there, the Lions kept it on the ground and forced the Patriots to burn their remaining timeouts.

On third down, junior quarterback Cedrick Bailey hit junior Jeremiah Smith for an 85-yard TD to take a 42-28 lead.

Four-star senior Ohio State commit Mark Fletcher scored a rushing TD in the final minute for American Heritage but it wasn't enough.

The win is Chaminade-Madonna’s 15th straight. American Heritage had won nine straight games entering Friday's showdown. Gause, who has piled up over 200 yards in meetings against American Heritage in 2020 and 2021, scored three rushing touchdowns for the Lions and got the scoring started in the first quarter. He ran the ball 57 yards to the 1-yard line, then finished off the drive with a score.

This year, Gause had more than 250 yards and scored his second touchdown of the game on an 18-yard run in the second quarter.

The Patriots tied up the game before halftime with a pair of touchdowns from senior quarterback Blake Murphy to freshman wide receiver Malachi Toney.

American Heritage scored on its first drive of the third quarter to take a 21-14 lead when Fletcher carried the ball 41 yards into the end zone.

It didn’t take long for the Lions to tie up the game when Bailey tossed his 10th touchdown of the season to sophomore Kyle Washington on fourth down in the third quarter.