Stephenson's D'Vonn Gibbons (6) had a pair of touchdown passes to rally Team World Star to a 21-13 win over Team Zoom in the DeKalb Co. Coaches Association All-Star game on Thursday night. (File photo by Mark Brock)

Stephenson’s D’Vonn Gibbons (6) had a pair of touchdown passes to rally Team World Star to a 21-13 win over Team Zoom in the DeKalb Co. Coaches Association All-Star game on Thursday night. (File photo by Mark Brock)

Team World Star put together a 21-point second half rally and then held off Team Zoom’s come-back attempt at the final horn to win the 2016 DeKalb County Coaches Association All-Star Football Game at Hallford Stadium on a cold Thursday night.

The 95 players involved represented 27 first team All-Region selections for 2016 along with many more second team and honorable mention members and the game reflected the great talent of the 17 DCSD teams represented and Marist.

Team Zoom, led by Stone Mountain Coach Utavius Ingram, took a 7-0 lead into the half behind a two-yard touchdown pass from Arabia Mountain’s Samad Noble to McNair’s Jaylin Macklin, a Region 5-3A first teamer.

Coach Roderick Moore of Redan’s World Star squad came out of the half on a roll scoring a pair of third quarter touchdowns to take the lead.

Stephenson’s duo of quarterback D’Vonn Gibbons and fullback Keshon Jackson connected for the first of the two touchdowns to knot the game at 7-7.

Arabia Mountain's Samad Noble tossed a pair of touchdown passes, but his Team Zoom sqaud fell just short in a 21-13 loss to Team World Star. (File photo by Mark Brock)

Arabia Mountain’s Samad Noble tossed a pair of touchdown passes, but his Team Zoom sqaud fell just short in a 21-13 loss to Team World Star. (File photo by Mark Brock)

Later in the quarter, Druid Hills quarterback Harrison Aiken hooked up with Martin Luther King Jr.’s receiver Hunter Brown to put World Star up 14-7 heading into the fourth quarter.

Gibbons again hooked up with a Stephenson teammate early in the fourth quarter as he found receiver Hassan Littles, Region 4-6A first team defensive back, to give World Star a two touchdown lead at 21-7.

Team Zoom answered with four minutes to play as Noble and Macklin hooked up for the second time of the game, this time for 36 yards, to pull their squad to within 21-13.

Leading 21-13 with under 4 minutes to play, a bad snap on a punt put the World Star defense’s back against their own goal line as time was running out to give Team Zoom a shot at tying the game.

A pass as the final horn sounded went incomplete and World Star held on for the 21-13 win.