Completing a perfect 10-0 regular season, the Brownwood Lions dominated over Abilene Wylie with a score of 45-7.
Summarizing the game in a post game interview, Lions Head Coach Bob Shipley gave credit to the entire team, especially the defense that does not get the acknowledgement the playmakers often receive.
“It’s been an incredible ride so far,” stated Shipley. “Our defense doesn’t get near the credit they deserve.”
In speaking of the perfect 10-0 regular season, Shipley doesn’t take winning for granted staying focused on what the team needs to do each week to progress through to the state championship game.
“Getting to reach the first goal of District Championship, it’s just icing on the cake to do it undefeated,” said Shipley.
2010 is the fourth undefeated regular season for the Lions in BHS history.
The Lions enter the bi-district round of the playoffs next Thursday night in Springtown where they will face Iowa Park. Tickets go on sale Monday.
Scoring drives and highlights of the Wylie game include:
Just minutes into the game, QB Graylon Brown throws to Jaxon Shipley deep in the end zone with double coverage for the first touchdown. This was a 61 yard drive with 7 plays. Dillon Ellis gets the extra point and the score begins 7-0.
6:59 in the first quarter, Brown again connects with Shipley near the sideline at the 3 yard line for a 37 yard touchdown followed by the Ellis extra point. Score climbs to 14-0.
3:22 left in the first quarter, a handoff to Levi Perez for a 6 yard rushing touchdown. This was a 69 yard drive with 7 plays. Ellis gets another extra point and its 21-0.
7 plays later with 10:34 left in the 2nd quarter, Stehl Ratliff gets a 6 yard rushing touchdown. The game is now 28-0.
Brown throws his first interception of the game and Wylie runs for a 64 yard return; but a flag on the play sends the ball back to the 23 yard line due to a personal foul on Wylie. The Bulldogs remained scoreless.
BHS gets the ball back and is not able to score on this drive.
Wylie then gets on the board when their quarterback gets a touchdown, completing an 81 yard drive with 7 plays. Wylie gets the extra point and its 28-7.
With 2:26 left in the half, Dillon Ellis makes a 28 yard field goal. The score rises to 31-7
The clock running with just 31 seconds left in the first half, Brown fires a pass to Shipley in the end zone for a beautiful 39 yard touchdown. This brought the score to 38-7 ending the half.
In the second half, Derek Longoria kicks 61 yard punt.
Most of the second half is scoreless until Wylie is not able to get the ball down the field and is once again forced to punt. They make the mistake of sending it in Jaxon Shipley’s path who returns the punt 72 yards for a touchdown. Ellis delivers another extra point and Brownwood wrapped up the win and outright district championship with a score of 45-7.
Statistics for the game were:
BHS had 22 First Downs, Wylie had 12.
BHS Rushing Yards were 199 to Wylie’s 66.
Passing Yards for BHS were 325, Wylie 125.
Total Offense for BHS was 524 to Wylie’s 191
BHS had 2 punts averaging 50.5 yards each. Wylie had 8 punts with an average of 28.5 each.
BHS had 11 penalties for 100 yards and Wylie had 3 for 25 yards.
At the end of this game Jaxon Shipley completes 1014 yards in the regular season.
For this game, Brown completed 20/27 passes for 325 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 pick.
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