A sell-out crowd cheered on the Brownwood Lions Friday night as they brought another win in their home opener by beating the Graham Steers 37-7.
The Brownwood Lions came out strong scoring three touchdowns in the first quarter of play.
Graham won the coin toss, chose to kick off to Brownwood which was a very memorable kick, straight up in the air giving Graham negative yardage. Five plays later, only 1:02 into the game, RB Stehl Ratliff ran 8 yards for the first touchdown of the game. Dillon Ellis followed with the extra point, bringing the game to 7-0.
Later in the first quarter with 5:26 on the clock, Jaxon Shipley returned a punt 58 yards out of the end zone setting up the next touchdown. With 4:49 into the first quarter, Luke Chastain scored a touchdown on a 49 yard pass with Ellis making the extra point taking the score to 14-0.
The Lions pushed a 51 yard drive late in the first quarter with Levi Perez making a short run to score a touchdown bringing the game to 21-0 ending the first quarter.
In the second quarter with 7 minutes on the clock, Shipley jumped high catching a 25 yard pass in the end zone which completed this 73 yard scoring drive. The first half closed out with a 28-0 score.
During their first drive of the second half, Graham had a high snap over the quarterback’s head that went out of the end zone and gave Brownwood a safety taking the score to 30-0.
Four plays later, QB Graylon Brown handed off to Ratliff for a run into the end zone, for a 37-0 score.
Late in the game, Graham’s QB Bynum scrambled carrying the ball 12 yards their only TD in the game. After a good extra point, the score was 37-7.
Brownwood had a dominating performance over Graham Steers holding them in check for most of the game. Brownwood had 366 total offensive yards, as compared to Graham’s 212. Total rushing for BHS was 134 yards compared to 60 yards for Graham.
Brownwood coaches praised the offense for being more consistent than last week, but were really impressed with the Lions defense.
“Coach Howard and the defensive coaches had a great defensive plan,” stated Head Coach Bob Shipley. “We had more of a rhythm, last week we were really inconsistent.”
This was the 99th career win for Coach Shipley. A victory over Stephenville next week could be his 100th career win. When asked about the game against Stephenville scheduled for next week, Shipley said, “We will be working our tails off to be ready for this team. I’m not going to promise anything as to the outcome of this game, but we’ll be ready.”
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