Franklin’s Jah’naad Cady hands off in a Big Central National Silver Division game at Edison on September 26, 2025. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
Minor league baseball runs a lot of promotions and gimmicks, one of which is a baseball bingo card, with all different kinds of plays. Some are simple, some are complicated.
If you had one of those for Friday’s high school football game between Edison and Franklin, everyone would have won. This one had something for everyone.
Interceptions. Penalties. Tipped balls. Fumbles. A fumble where Franklin lost it with a pick, Edison got it, and Franklin got it back on the same play.
Edison, down 27-20 with 4:24 to play after a 12-yard TD run by Franklin’s Jah’naad Cady, answered with a long drive and five-yard touchdown run by Shaun Garland with just over 46 seconds to play. The extra point put them up 28-27, but they probably should have been down more.
That’s because Franklin, on its previous touchdown, lined up for a PAT, got called for delay of game, called another timeout, then picked up another delay of game call. Now, 13 yards from the end zone, staring at a 30-yard PAT, went for two and failed.
But Franklin got the ball back, with one time outs left, and got a big pass play to Amir Glover – after callig their final time out – to set them up first and goal at the seven. But with no time outs – and not even enough time for a short run out of bounds – Cady made the game his.
He saw open field to his left, threaded through two Edison defenders, and left them on the turf as he crossed the goal line with the clock reading :00.
33-28, Franklin over Edison.
It was the Warriors first win against Edison since their first meeting in 2020, a 7-6 victory. Edison had won three since and leads the all-time series 3-2.
Franklin is now 3-2, 1-1 in the Big Central National Silver Division heading into next Friday’s game at Plainfield. Edison drops to 1-4, 1-2 in the division. The Eagles visit Colonia next week.
Click below for postgame reaction from Franklin QB Jah’naad Cady and head coach Blair Wilson, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:
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