SANFORD — Anthony Bracamonte scored two touchdowns for the Thornton Academy football team on Friday night, but a catch he made early in the fourth quarter might have been the biggest play of the night.

A diving catch by Bracamonte gained 34 yards and set up his first touchdown of the night, which came three plays later on a 13-yard run. Bracamonte finished with 93 yards on 10 carries and 127 yards of total offense as the Trojans wrapped up the regular season with a 21-7 win over Sanford.

“We knew we needed to score off that drive, build some intensity,” Bracamonte said. “In the first half, we were just hurting ourselves, not playing our best football.”

Thornton will take a 7-1 record into the Class A South playoffs, which open next weekend.

“We found a way to win, but obviously, we made a lot of mistakes tonight,” Thornton Academy coach Kevin Kezal said. “For whatever reason, we just did not execute that well.”

A game that was scoreless through three quarters saw both teams score touchdowns just 10 seconds apart early in the fourth. Trojans quarterback Will Mitchell ran for 1-yard score to break the deadlock with 10:19 to go in the game. The Spartans — in the program’s final game at venerable Cobb Stadium — answered on the second play of the subsequent drive when Ryan Connarton hit Ethan Shain in stride for a 56-yard touchdown pass.

“Our kids just showed amazing character, heart, desire, and competed,” said Sanford coach Mike Fallon, whose team finished the regular season with a 4-4 record. “Thornton Academy is clearly one of the outstanding programs in the state. Our kids competed and played really hard.”

Bracamonte’s diving catch sparked the Trojans’ next drive, and the ensuing touchdown put the visitors up 14-7 with 8:22 to go.

Athan Gikas intercepted a Sanford pass just two plays into the Spartan’s subsequent drive, and two plays after that, Bracamonte rumbled into the end zone for his second score of the night, putting the Trojans up 21-7 with 7:11 to go in the game. Brady Forbes was 3 for 3 on extra points.

Both teams put together lengthy drives in the first three quarters, but neither could put anything on the scoreboard. Thornton got no farther than the Spartans’ 36-yard line in its first four drives. Jason Montano recovered a fumble late in the first half for the Trojans, but the subsequent drive sputtered at the Sanford 18 after two incomplete passes.

Thornton’s Grant Dow ran for 103 yards on 18 carries.

The Trojans will enter the playoffs as the second seed and will have a bye in the first round, while Sanford will be the fifth seed in the playoffs and will travel to South Portland next weekend.