Mart Continues Record-Breaking Day

By Chris Doelle
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Updated: December 20, 2018

The Mart Panthers were not content to watch McLean being the only record-breakers of the day. The faced off against Gruver Greyhounds in the UIL Class 2A DI Texas High School Football State Championship and left no doubt with a record-breaking - score.

The records started to fall before the end of the first half as Mart's 63-12 lead broke the 2A record for total points in a state championship game. Also, by the break Tyrek Horne had already notched 6 rushing TDs. This broke the 2A record for that as well.

Shortly into the 3rd quarter, Mart tied the record for total points across all classifications with 70 points (tying Cameron Yoe '14 & Stephenville '12.) Horne also scored his 7th rushing TD of the game leaving him just 1 behind tying Jonathan Gray from Aledo '09. The team moved into the final quarter with the only mystery being if they could break those records before accepting the 2018 State Championship trophy.

The final quarter did see the record for most points in a championship game fall by the wayside as the Panthers finished with a score of 76-33.

Tyrek Horne was award the offensive MVP trophy and teammate Jacob Ybarra took home the defensive MVP. He finished the game with 6.5 tackles, 4 broke up passes and 2 interceptions.