Jackson MacDonald interception, Dylan Curtis ground attack leads Sycamore to playoff win at Belvidere
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In a game featuring healthy doses of Sycamore running back Dylan Curtis and his Belvidere counterpart Nick Alvarez, the Bucs tried to get something going through the air late in the second quarter.Sycamore’s Jackson MacDonald had other ideas, intercepting Jackson Sternquist’s pass and changing the tide of the game in the ninth-seeded Spartans’ 42-20 win over the eighth-seeded Bucs in a Class 5A first round game on Friday in Belvidere.“This is amazing. I get a little emotional talking about this team because I wasn’t really thinking about coming out,” said MacDonald, a baseball standout with the Spartans who tore his meniscus two years ago and decided to skip football last year before returning this year for one last go-around with his friends. “And I am just blessed that I did.”Buy photos from this gameNeither team had a defensive stop before MacDonald’s interception. On the drive before, Sycamore (7-4) took a 21-14 lead on a touchdown run by Curtis on which he leaped over the pile and