There might not have been a lot of scoring in the Brainy Boro, but Roselle made the key plays it needed to down the stretch in an 18-12 win at Metuchen Saturday afternoon.

Rams’ junior Raekwon Anderson caught the game-winning touchdown pass at the goal line against double coverage, pulling it almost out of thin air after both defenders got a hand on it, then turned into the end zone to put his team up 18-12 with just 18 seconds to go.

And even then, it wasn’t quite over. Roselle’s kickoff to Metuchen went deep, but it went off of Matt Jelleme’s hands, and the Rams’ Kevin Sanchez jumped on it to seal the win with just 13 ticks remaining on the clock.

Anderson got Roselle on the scoreboard at 9:47 of the first quarter with a touchdown catch, but the Rams would only have a 6-0 lead after their two-point try failed. Metuchen knotted the score with a one-yard run by Cam Hayes-Durina with 3:12 to go in the second quarter, but they got the extra point to go up 7-6, a score that would hold through the final horn of the first half.

In the third, Quarterback Deion Nelson then found Shymir Burgess with seven second left in the third to go up 12-7, but with 1:20 left in the game, a one-yard run by Hayes-Durina put the Bulldogs up 13-12, leaving Roselle in need of a late score to survive.

Indeed. they even survived a big sack with the ball just inside the 50 by Metuchen’s Kyle McPartlan. But the drive continued, and eventually led to Anderson’s heroics, his second TD of the day putting Roselle up for good.

Click below for postgame reaction with Central Jersey Sports Radio analyst Marcus Borden, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen!