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Tailback Dvontae Bradley did not play football for Cooper last season because he transferred from Ryle too late to be eligible for his sophomore year.

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Better late than never, said Cooper coach Randy Borchers, who has made Bradley the Jaguars’ bell-cow back in Bradley’s first varsity season, and is reaping some surprising results.

“Bradley’s an amazing back,” Cooper coach Randy Borchers said. “Look what he did tonight.”

Bradley set Cooper’s single-game rushing mark for the second game in a row Friday. The 6-foot, 195-pound junior rushed a school-record 28 times for 268 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the Jaguars shocked the Eagles with a 28-27 come-from-behind road victory.

Cooper is 2-0 after Bradley helped propel the Jaguars to a season-opening win over Shawnee with 244 yards on 16 carries.

After the dust clears from this weekend’s football games around the state, Cooper, in its second season of existence, will be one of a smattering of Class 6A teams with an unbeaten record. Bradley will be among the state’s rushing leaders with 512 yards on a whopping 11.6 yards per carry.

“He’s a very good back, and we didn’t have an answer for him,” Scott coach Dave Campbell Anderson said of Bradley. “We lost two defensive starters (defensive back Ryan Sowder and end Alex Fischesser) in this game with injuries, and I think everybody else got tired because we have so many guys who play both ways. It’s a very disappointing loss.”

Scott took the lead 20-6 with 3:05 to go in the third quarter when quarterback Zach Sowder threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to receiver Doug Patton. Sowder’s extra-point kick made it 21-6.