Trailing 34-10 in the fourth quarter, the home team turned to its speed and experience for a jolt of offense that quickly had the improbable looking to be a possibility. In the final six minutes of play the Knights posted more offense than they had the entire game, but the six minutes were the same reason the team couldn't rally back into contention.

Ben Bolling found Aaron Smith on a 24-yard pass down the sideline for the first of Knightdale's two late scores, and Smith took the two-point conversion in on the ground much like he had stormed up the field to put the team in position for both its final two touchdowns. After an onside kick came back in favor of the Knights Bolling hit senior Ira Tripp for the second, but the team couldn't convert again. Had the conversion been punched in it would've been a one-possession game, but with very little time left to play.'

Coach Kamelio Johnson said his team wouldn't have been in such a pickle had Enloe not made all the right changes at the half.

"Hats off to Enloe," Johnson said. "They cam out in the second half, made some adjustments and did a great job. Coach Clark and his staff did a good job and their scheme was better than ours in the third quarter and they scored. That was it."

The visitors hit the scoreboard within minutes of the start of the game on a 65-yard interception returned by Qwen Yarborough before Bolling got the Knights on the board with a two-yard keeper early in the second quarter. But then the senior wingback duo of Joshua Senegal and David Highsmith kicked into high gear.

Highsmith dashed in from 12 yards before the half to oust Craig Gage's kick that followed and keep the lead, 14-10, at the half. Senegal took it in from 12 yards as well for the only score of the third quarter. An eight-yard run from fullback A.J. Winston, followed by a 58-ard run from Highsmith marked the difference in the game for the Knights.

Bolling finished the game 7-15 for 159 yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions and the one rushing touchdown. Smith led the team with 91 yards on the ground and 88 receiving yards. Smith was followed by Bolling with 29 yards on the ground, Terrence Davis with 21 yards on the ground and Tripp with 62 receiving yards.

"They make it tough they way they move the ball," Johnson said. "Sometimes they play keep away and if we aren't moving the ball on offense it puts a lot of pressure on us defensively."

Johnson gave his group credit for its late effort, but said in the end the team had some very ill-timed turnovers and very ill-timed mistakes.

"That's kind been our story this year," he said. "We've just got to find a way to overcome that."

The second-year coach said there's nothing positive about getting an L, especially when the team makes a late run at the win. Regardless, he said the team still has the opportunity to win the conference and itself ourselves a playoff spot, and that's where its focus will be heading to Smithfield-Selma next Friday.

"It's a brand new season for us starting then. We're going to take these last four games and find all the mistakes and tweak them and make the corrections - do what we need to do. But that's the good thing about conference play - what you do before the conference play doesn't really matter," Johnson said.

Execution and consistency are the challenges he said the team will face heading into the conference opener against the Spartans.

"We've struggled with consistency all year. You know, we put plays together - turnover. We put plays together - penalty. It's untimely always. Just being consistent on both sides of the ball is the biggest thing right now."