Week 3 Highlights — 5A Championship Site Announced; 4A #1 Falls
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Updated: September 21, 2009
Highlights:
Did you hear? The 5A Championships will be played at the Alamo Dome this year. The Alamodome was chosen over Reliant Stadium when the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington already had a Texas-North Carolina basketball game scheduled for that date.
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14 of the top 25 teams in 4A were idle
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#103 1A Van Horn beat #90 3A Tornillo 76-0
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#2 3A Gilmer Ran up 604 yards of offense and had 31 first downs in a 70-27 win over #106 4A Kilgore
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#164 5A Amarillo trailed #24 5A Odessa Permian 20-0 before the Sandies scored five straight TDs to win 38-26. Amarillo Running Back Heath Herrington finished the night with 253 rushing yards and 3 TDs.
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#115 3A Jasper upset #11 3A West Orange-Stark, 23-19. The upset was West Orange-Stark's first regular-season loss since September of 2007
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#39 5A Tyler John Tyler continues to impress as the Lions beat #62 4A Wichita Falls Rider 53-13 this week Tyler John Tyler Outgained Rider 502-16 in offensive yardage for the game. They have also beaten #10 4A Texarkana Texas 41-17, #22 5A Lufkin 27-18 and #66 5A Arlington Lamar 39-22.
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#14 1A Clarendon has not put up 236 total points in 4 games to lead all 1A teams
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#19 5A Galena Park North Shore's Running Back Tim Cornett rushed for 352 yards on 17 carries and had four TDs against #84 4A LaMarque in a 44-34 victory
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#36 4A Frisco Wakeland's QuarterBack Tyler Kirkindoll was 19-27 for 416 yards and five passing touchdowns to lead Wakeland to a 56-20 victory over #143 4A Fort Worth Brewer
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#165 5A McKinney Boyd's QuarterBack Jonovan Griffin ran for 329 yards and four TDs and threw for 304 yards and four more TDs in a wild 78-51 victory over #68 4A McKinney. The final score tied the state record for the sixth most combined points (129) in a game
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#5 1A Golthwaite's defense has only given up 13 points in 4 games
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#4 Austin Lake Travis's Garrett Gilbert’s heir apparent Michael Brewer is on pace to shatter his records and the Cavaliers seem well on their way to challenge for a third straight state crown. In four lopsided wins, Brewer has completed 70 of 99 passes for 1,312 yards and 11 touchdowns (1 interception).
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#41 5A Euless Trinity lost to #1 5A Cedar Hill and #4 5A Allen in back to back weeks. Trinity hadn’t lost at home in three seasons. Trinity's regular-season losses was only the third and fourth in five seasons. After four straight seasons with no more than one loss, Euless Trinity now has a two-loss year
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#23 1A Lovelady has now scored 190 points in their four games
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#11 5A DeSoto racked up 678 yards of total offense in a 64-23 win over #72 5A Duncanville. DeSoto Quarterback Ryan Polite completed 24 of 35 passes for 479 yards and four TDs
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#7 1A New Deal has allowed just 4 total rushing yards all season
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#23 5A San Antonio Roosevelt Running Back Brandon Armstrong only had 3 carries but they total 178 carries and 3 TDs during a 49-14 win over #200 5A San Antonio Lee
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#46 5A Coppell Quarterback Hayden Hawk threw for over 350 yards in a 42-0 win over #171 5A Weatherford
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#21 4A Corpus Christi Calallen Trailed by 17 after the first quarter and still won 29-24 vs. #48 5A Los Fresnos. Calallen has now knocked off three of the best teams in South Texas: Los Fresnos, #52 4A Edcouch-Elsa and #39 4A Gregory-Portland.
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#18 3A Graham Quarterback Case McCoy stays threw for 296 yards and three TDs in a 38-6 win over #152 3A Iowa Park
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#6 2A Bushland Quarterback Sawyer Cornelius threw for 378 yards and four TDs in a 35-9 over #2 1A Stratford
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G.A. Moore has #47 2A Aubrey at 3-0 including a 43-0 win over #113 3A Nevada Community this week
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#8 1A Wellington Quarterback Westin Williams rushed and passed for over 200 yards to lead his team to victory over #107 1A Electra, 60-20
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#19 2A Alpine Quarterback Dominic Scott completed 31 of 44 passes for 478 yards 6 TDs during a 52-28 win over #93 3A Clint
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#30 4A Big Spring Running Back Monte Anderson rushed for over 300 yards and had 2 TDs in their 49-7 win over #149 3A Andrews.
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#178 5A San Antonio Brandeis Running Back Noah Copeland rushed for 260 yards and had 4 TDs in a 27-14 win over #155 5A San Antonio Taft.
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#6 1A Cayuga Quarterback Malcome Kennedy had 380 total yards and picked off a pass in their 32-36 win over #17 2A Kerens
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#104 5A Plano West Quarterback Michael Pruneau passed for 420 yards and 4 TDs in a 49-35 win over #45 5A Garland Naaman Forest.
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#61 3A Canton Quarterback Chance Wallace passed for 391 yards and 5 TDs in a 60-35 win over NR Waco Reicher.
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How do the higher ranked teams do overall? Records are taken when 1A plays 1A, 2A plays 2A and so on.
1A -- The favorites won 32 of 43 games
2A -- The favorites won 26 of 38 games
3A -- The favorites won 28 of 39 games
4A -- The favorites won 21 of 36 games
5A -- The favorites won 47 of 62 games
Team Milestones
#49 1A Windthorst celebrated their 500th all-time game with a 28-8 win over #141 2A Alvord
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#150 1A Agua Dulce won their 650th all-time game 48-26 against 4A Corpus Christ Flour Bluff Sophomores
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#33 2A Boyd played in their 750th all-time game against #42 2A Godley. Godley won 38-21
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#26 3A Monahans won their 800th all-time game 57-7 vs. #98 3A Pecos
Coaching Milestones:
Mark Reeve got his 75th win at #14 3A Cuero with a 38-10 victory over #221 4A Bay city
Rivals:
#25 5A Lufkin beat #1 4A Longview 28-14. Lufkin now leads the series 13-5-1 since 1995. Longview has now lost seven straight at Lufkin's Abe Martin Stadium
Current Longest Win Streaks Through 2008
Wins - Team (District)
34 — Austin Lake Travis (25-4A) (Tied for 10th All-Time) with Pflugerville,(1A) 1960-1962
19 — Muleshoe (2-2A)
17 — Carthage (18-3A)
16 — Prosper (9-3A)
15 — Daingerfield (17-2A)
13 — Sulphur Springs (13-4A)
11 — Canadian (1-1A)