BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The Red Terrors played the game they needed to in order to advance to the quarterfinal round of the Class 6A playoffs.

A handful of miscues made it all for naught as Glynn Academy fell against Valdosta 35-24 on Friday at Glynn County Stadium.

“We had two turnovers, and we knew going in we couldn’t give up big plays and we missed a tackle on a long touchdown,” said Glynn Academy head coach Rocky Hidalgo. “It is what it is. They’ve got a good football team.

“We had an opportunity to win this game, we just didn’t make the plays when we needed to make it.”

The Terrors (8-4) entered the contest looking to limit the number of possessions in order to keep the high-powered Wildcat offense on the sideline, and they found some success as each team only received 11 possessions in the game.

Glynn just wasn’t efficient enough with its limited possessions to pull off the upset against No. 10 Valdosta (8-4).

Despite rushing for 326 yards at 5.5 yards per carry, three turnovers and a blocked field goal kept the Terrors from converting yardage into enough points. Glynn lost a fumble on its first play of the first half, and quarterback Sam Wagner tossed an interception on the final play of the first half as Valdosta carried a 28-10 advantage into the locker room.

Wagner also lost a fumble at the end of a 15-yard run early in the fourth quarter that would have set the Terrors up inside the 5-yard line, looking to cut the deficit to 11. Glynn Academy blocked Valdosta’s punt on the ensuing drive and scored on Nolan Grant’s 14-yard touchdown run, but by then, more precious time had ticked off the clock.

On the other side of the ball, if unable to stop a Valdosta offense that entered the game fresh off dropping 70 in their first-round victory, the Red Terrors hoped to at least force the Wildcats to work the ball down field methodically.

It was to no avail.

Valdosta produced six plays of 25 yards or more, including a 59-yard scoring pass to Tarrell Roberts that saw quarterback Tate Rodemaker break the storied program’s single-season record for passing touchdowns set at 30 in 2010 and give the Wildcats a 14-10 lead with 4:27 in the first half.

Following a Red Terror punt, it took the Wildcats just 57 seconds to work their way down the field and into the end zone on Jaheim Bell’s 5-yard touchdown run to go up 21-10 with 26 seconds until halftime.

Valdosta got the ball first in the second half and pushed its advantage to 18 points on Rajaez Mosley’s 30-yard touchdown run less than a minute into the second half, but it did nothing to dampen the mood on the Glynn sideline.

The Terrors put together a 16-play drive on their ensuing possession that ended with Quantavious Bostic’s 8-yard touchdown run as they continued to fight.

“What we do is important to these kids and they’re not going to lay down and quit, I knew that,” Hidalgo said. “They fought their tails off. I’m really proud of them, because when they went up 28-10 they could have just shut it down and gone home. They didn’t. They hung around here and fought their tails off, had a chance to get back in the game, and we just didn’t do it.”

Ultimately, unable to produce quick-strike scores of its own, Glynn ran out of time. A 50-yard field goal attempt was blocked as time wound down in the fourth quarter, and Valdosta ran out the clock before celebrating the win.

It was a heart-breaking loss for a Glynn Academy program looking to return to the Class 6A semifinals after falling a game short of a trip to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium a year ago, but Hidalgo is confident his team will return to the big stage soon enough.

“We’re going to be back,” Hidalgo said. “We’ll be back…

“I’m going to go back to work, I’m going to do a better job as a head coach over the next 12 months. “We’ll be back here playing in the second round next year and moving on.”