It was a moment of joy on the high school gridiron.
“Before the game even started, I knew my brother is going to score,” declares Isaiah Turner, a running back with the Annandale Cardinals High School football team. “I just have a feeling.”
In the fourth quarter of an Oct. 22 game between Annandale and Spectrum, 14-year-old Josiah Turner, Isaiah’s brother, scored a touchdown.
He was wearing Isaiah’s jersey, #41.
“That was such a pivotal moment,” declares the boys’ mother, Joy. “Coach Walter allowed the kids to storm the field and took the penalty to kind of create joy for that moment, for our family and the community.”
“Totally took us by surprise,” smiled Mark Kovall, Annandale’s head defensive coordinator. “None of the coaching staff knew he was going to do this. And when it happened, and when they rushed the field, I still get chills. It was a very big moment.”
Isaiah, 16, was watching online from his hospital bed.
“I was just so …