The Gans Grizzlies won their second straight football game. However, instead of an offensive shootout like the previous week against Midway, the Grizzlies used defense to get the win as they held off the Porum Panthers 14-12 Friday night at Grizzly Field.

The Grizzlies (2-3) used defense to set up their first score as Nakota White picked off a pass and returned it 20 yards, and the ensuing Gans drive was capped off by a 25-yard rushing touchdown by Anthony Vasquez. Hunter Walters ran in the twopoint conversion for an 8-0 lead. Gans led 8-6 at halftime.

Vasquez was in the right place at the right time for his second TD as he caught a deflected pass from Walters intended for White. Vasquez caught the deflected pass at about the Porum 5 and took it in from there. All total, the pass play covered 30 yards. The conversion failed, but Gans led 14-6.

The Panthers later scored a touchdown, but the Gans defense prevented the two-point conversion from being successful — and thus the Grizzlies held on for the win.

“Defensively, we really stepped up,” Gans coach Brian Morton said. “We he’d them to just two touchdownsand no two-point conversions.”