History | 2009-2020

The Scores
2020: Cancelled COVID
2019: 34-0 at Clay, FIHS wins
2018: 27-20 at FIHS, FIHS wins
2017: 27-6 at Clay, FIHS wins
2016: 24-14 at Clay, FIHS wins
2015: 28-0 at Clay, Clay wins
2014: 25-22 at FIHS, Clay wins
2013: 17-14 at Clay, FIHS wins
2012: 31-14 at FIHS, FIHS wins
2011: 42-21 at Clay, FIHS wins
2010: 20-17 at FIHS, FIHS wins
2009: 31-21 at Clay, FIHS wins

2010: 20-17, Fleming Island quarterback Kade Bell, a transfer from Fletcher High now starting quarterback at Jacksonville University, hits wideout Brontrell Roberts with 33 seconds remaining to win. Clay quarterback Austin Sweatt has two touchdowns. Clay up 14-13 with :53 to go after an interception by safety Jared Singletary, now at Middle Tennessee State. After final score, Fleming Island safety Craig Brodsky, starting safety at Delaware, intercepts Sweatt to end game.

2011: 42-21, Under first year coach Jeff Webb, Fleming Island quarterback Dante Roberts, a transfer from Palatka High, passes for 233 yards and three touchdowns. A 14-14 halftime score explodes with touchdown passes of 28 yards to Frantz Caudio, now at Jacksonville University, and 62 yards to Brontrell Roberts, now at Bethel University. Dante Roberts is quarterback at Glenville State College (WV). Fleming Island running back Kent Minor, now at Maryville College, rips a 91 yard touchdown also.

2012: 38-14, Clay scores first with quarterback Hunter Alexander hitting Wes Weeks from 53 yards out to wake up the Fleming Island sideline with first year coach Frank Hall. Fleming Island, led by quarterback Michael Scarnecchia, now at the University of South Carolina, scores 31 straight points starting with a 14 yard touchdown pass to tight end Jalen Kindle, now a linebacker at Delaware. After an interception by defensive back Justin Keyes, now at Lenoir-Rhyne, Fleming Island scores on a four yard pass to Vincent Buzzy. Two runs scores; one by Terrence Nelson, now at FAMU, the other by Mike Brown, seal the Golden Eagle win. Clay turns the ball over three times.

2013: 17-14, Clay dominates scores first on touchdown run by freshman Colin Wilson, but Fleming Island is timely in the last 3:15 of the game with linebacker Brandon Kuhn, now at Wofford, blocking a Quirino Esquival punt that turns into a touchdown fumble recovery by Bryce Motes, now at Wofford, to tie the game at 14-14. Fleming Island safety Zack Devore, now at Northwestern Oklahoma, intercepts a Wes Weeks to J.T. Turner pass attempt to seal the tie. In overtime, Brandon Beebe recovers a fumble at the Clay six that Fleming Island kicker Will Brooks wins the game with from five yards out.

2014: FLEMING ISLAND - Clay High field goal kicker Lane Delapp got iced by Fleming Island High’s coaching staff, but the extra time to think about his first foray into big-time football was not deterred.
“It was just like any kick in practice,” said Delapp, a junior. “Honestly, I didn’t even think about it.”
Not only was Delapp in his first-ever varsity football game, he was about to dabble historically with a 30 yard field goal attempt that would forever be remembered in Clay County football folklore.
After a classic throwdown of a high school football game, complete with turnovers, bad penalties and imminent lead changes in the final moments, Delapp calmly completed the Blue Devils epic journey of redemption, with yet more end-of-game heroics by junior quarterback J.T. Turner. Turner, walking gingerly between snaps from leg cramps near the Blue Devil 20 yard line, wiggled around Fleming Island linebacker Austin Smenda on the left side of the Clay offensive line, found a gap and galloped 73 yards to the Fleming Island five yard line to quell the Fleming Island fan base just moments after the Golden Eagles had battled back to tie the game 22-22 with 3:39 remaining.
“All game the coaches kept telling me if I didn’t see anything over top to just take off downfield,” said Turner. “I finally listened to them, didn’t see anything and just took off. I saw the kid chasing me (Smenda) on the edge and saw the field behind him. I had to get around him and then I took off.”
After the run, where Turner was caught by Fleming Island cornerback David Butler before the end zone, Clay tried three times to get into the end zone, but to no prevail, thus setting up Delapp with three seconds.
“It was back and forth the whole game,” said Clay High coach Joshua Hoekstra, who had a 2013 state playoff run chock full of exciting, last-second endings. “For us to win the game, it was special teams play on our side. To win on a field goal was awesome.”
In the first half, Clay scored first off an 80-yard drive and a one yard plunge from sophomore tailback Colin Wilson. The key play of the drive, which chunked out nearly three minutes of game clock, was a 52 yard run by Turner to the Fleming Island 25 yard line. Turner was top rusher for the game with 203 yards on 13 carries. After the score, Hoekstra elected to go for the two-point conversion and got a quick slant to wideout Jeremy Peters and an 8-0 score.
“That two points was the difference in the end strategy of the game.” said Hoekstra.

2015: GREEN COVE SPRINGS - In the grasp of a tumultuous downpour and with the Blue Devils’ top player, junior running back Colin Wilson, on the shelf for another week as he recovers from a knee injury, the Clay High football team took control early, disregarded the near-tornadic activity around them and put a hurricane of their own on the field in senior running back Bilal Ally on the Fleming Island High Golden Eagles to the tune of a 28-0 blowout in the annual rivalry that landed in Green Cove Springs Friday night. The win was the second in a row for the Blue Devils who won a 33-28 spinetingler last year after five consecutive losses. Ally, returning from a second knee injury, blasted the knee-deep Clay swamp of a field and the befuddled Fleming Island defense to the tune of 119 yards and two scores to lead the Blue Devils ground pounders.
“It has been a day on the calendar we have worked for all summer. I was so impressed with our work every day during the off-season. We just kept talking about the importance of this game” said Clay Blue Devils head coach Joshua Hoekstra.
Even with a torrential downpour starting from the National Anthem and lasting until halftime the electricity in the air from the fans could be sensed all over Green Cove Springs. The blue painted faces on one side and the green painted faces on the other, even the most casual sports fan knows how much this game means.
The game started more like a backyard slip and slide than a football game with both teams trying to adjust to the field conditions which in some parts were literally underwater.
Fleming Island would start their first possession in an aggressive mode as they would convert a fourth down thanks to running back Trey Sneed. However, junior quarterback Spencer Mallnow would be intercepted by Tony Stephenson near the end zone and he would run 35 yards to bring the home crowd to their feet.
The Blue Devils would drive down the field behind running back Bilal Ally, playing his first game since his recovery from a knee injury in last year’s rivalry game. Senior quarterback Jake Smith would find wide receiver Jaylan Jenkins for a 29 yard touchdown pass to give Clay a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter.
One of the big storylines of the game was the battle of the running backs between Clay high’s Bilal Ally and Fleming Island’s Trey Sneed. Ally, who is sometimes overlooked when it comes to the top players in Clay County, seemed on a mission to prove he is back and his best is yet to come even after two severe knee injuries.
“He’s certainly gone through alot the last two years,” said Hoekstra. “When he came back during our state championship run two years ago he was one of our best players. It’s a great way for him to start his senior year.”
Ally finished the game with 26 rushes for 119 yards; nearly doubling the entire Golden Eagle running game that totaled just 63 yards on he evening.

2016: FLEMING ISLAND - Clay High struck first, but Fleming Island turned the tables with a vengeful defense and a cool-as-the-backside-of-a-pillow first-time quarterback to dethrone the Blue Devils as the first week kings of Clay County with a 24-14 non-district win Friday night at Fleming Island High School.
“We asked our kids to step up to the next level,” said Fleming Island High head coach Damenyum Springs, who took over midseason 2015 amidst a tumultous coach shakeup that proved inocuous. “Our D-Line is our guys; big Mackey (Brandyne) down there, big Jose (Concepcion), Jalyn (Robinson), Ferendo (Nick) and Darius (Gooden) all held their own against the Clay High offensive line which was big and strong.”
Fleming Island running back Chauncey Garrison pounded for 151 yards and the go-ahead score in the first half. Anfernee McKaskill and Jackson Bull also scored for Golden Eagles. Colin Wilson scored game’s first touchdown with 53 yard pass.

2017: GREEN COVE SPRINGS - Fleming Island High senior tight end Nick Ferendo snatched three key passes in the first half of the Golden Eagles rivalry clash with Clay High then sophomore tailback Dewayne McBride stole the show in the second half as Fleming Island shoved their way to a 27-6 non-district win Friday night in the season opener for both teams.
“You see it working right there; me and Dean (Fleming Island quarterback Dean Hyams),” said Ferendo, who caught a first quarter touchdown to capitalize on a Clay turnover. “We had a good thing going all summer and it came out tonight.”
The Fleming Island win, the second under coach Damenyum Springs, who snagged a 24-14 win last year in his first foray as official head coach for the Golden Eagles, showed off a bit of daring on the part of the Eagles coaching staff.
“We knew they had that big running back (junior Aundre Carter at 240 pounds) and their linemen are always big, so we put our two big boys up front to battle,” said Springs, talking about seniors Jose Concepcion and Will Hudgens who teamed up with senior veteran Darius Gooden to keep the Blue Devil ballcarriers in check for most of the game. “We had those guys step up in a big way to clog up the middle for us and give the linebackers time to get to the ball.”
Fleming Island running back DeWayne McBride finished with 167 yards on just seven carries with two scores.

2018: FLEMING ISLAND - Despite two missed scoring opportunities and a near-perfect onsides kick, a Clay High football comeback was not in the cards Friday night against rival Fleming Island High who opened quick and held on for the rollercoaster in a 27-20 non-district win in both teams’ season openers.
“It’s Clay and we knew they were going to come after us in the second half,” said Fleming Island coach Damenyum Springs, who now has three wins in a row in the Clay County classic matchup. “We may have come out a little down in the third quarter, but the defense held up. They wore us down in the fourth quarter.”
Right from the opening whistle, the matchup of the two region finalist teams from last year, was going to be a mainly determined on the ground.
Clay High coach Joshua Hoekstra quickly commented that his team needs to improve.
“We’ll fix it,” said Hoesktra.
With the full strength return, for Fleming Island, of junior tailback Dewayne McBride, who riddled the Blue Devil defense last year for the Golden Eagles own second half surge and the win, the Golden Eagles got 156 yards rushing and two scores from the bruiser to dictate the first half action.
With 2:10 left in the first and a first down at their own 20, Hyams orchestrated an 11-play scoring drive behind McBride and a facemask flag that put tailback Tim Thomas on fullback Max Michaels’ tail for a five yard score as the quarter ended with Fleming Island up 13-0.
Clay continue to throw running back Cedrick Brown at the Fleming Island defense in an effort to keep the Blue Devil offensive line in play for a second half takeover.
Brown and LeSage executed a inside/outside attack on Fleming Island and moved the ball 60 yards to paydirt with LeSage keeping from the four yard line to score the game 20-6 with 4:29 left in the half.
In the third period, Hoekstra introduced mammoth freshman running back Al’Querious Ray, a 6’-0, 240 lbs. Lake Asbury Junior High product, to the Fleming Island defense with a 45 yard run up the middle that Oglesby saved from a score with a tackle from behind at the Fleming Island 30 yard line.

2019: Not only did Fleming Island wideout Brody Domenico snag five passes and score a touchdown, but also picked up a muffed fumble for the Golden Eagles who rode an aggressive offense to a 34-0 blowout win over Clay in the annual rivalry game at Clay High School on Friday.
Domenico and tailback Tim Thomas both shared the offensive load while a relentless defense did the rest as rushed for 77 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries in three quarters of action with Domenico accruing 107 yards and a score on five receptions.
“We just came out and executed,” said Fleming Island head coach Damenyum Springs. “We are pretty good when we carry out our assignments and have no turnovers.”

2020: Game Cancelled Due to COVID