Ballinger unfit to stop state control Cisco

CISCO – The Ballinger Bearcats took in an intense exercise about Texas secondary school football on Friday night. There's a major contrast between a rising contender and a perpetual contender.

Ballinger, a group on the ascent that is relied upon to be close to the highest point of District 4-3A Division II this year, opened area by running directly into the Cisco Loboes – the 2013 state champion and a four-time state sprinter up over the most recent 16 years.

Cisco beat Ballinger 36-8 Friday at Chesley Field by wearing out the Bearcats with better profundity and a predominant kicking diversion. The Loboes, positioned No. 12 in the current week's Associated Press Class 3A survey, got touchdowns from four distinct players while enhancing to 3-0 generally speaking. Running back Stanley Callahan scrambled for 94 yards, including a 8-yard touchdown, while tough exchange Israel Adame created touchdown keeps running of 7 and 12 yards on only five conveys.

Fullback Cam Nichols included 91 yards hurrying, including a 24-yard touchdown, and quarterback Cooper Witt passed 8 yards to Caden Burleson for the Loboes' other touchdown. Cisco's guard even scored as Matthew Wilson sacked Ballinger quarterback Tyler Vaughn at last zone for a second from last quarter wellbeing.

"To me, Cisco is the same as they were five years prior, 10 years back and presumably even 20 years back. They're great at what they do. They've been doing it quite a while, and they have a great deal of convention. That is the place we'd like our program to be," said Ballinger second-year mentor Chuck Lipsey, whose group tumbled to 2-2 generally speaking yet at the same time rates as the second-or third-best group in the District 4-3A DII.

Ballinger drove 8-7 after the primary quarter on Edgar Nunez's 72-yard go to Deaundre Manley, however Cisco's profundity – the Loboes have just a single two-way starter – incurred significant injury in the second half, when the Bearcats were constrained to three first downs and 70 add up to yards.

"I felt like other than that one major play, our safeguard completed an incredible activity of containing (Edgar) Nunez, both running and passing," Cisco mentor Brent West said. "I was extremely pleased with our guard. Disagreeably, we had such a large number of 10-yard (holding) punishments that halted an excessive number of drives."

Nunez, Ballinger's fast and dangerous quarterback, was held to 15 yards hurrying on eight conveys.

"Our mentors truly drew us up all week by and by for this amusement," said Callahan, whose 8-yard touchdown staked Cisco to a 7-0 lead. "We were anxious to play. Our line dependably completes a great job hindering for the backs."

The Loboes wound up with two open dates amid the primary month of the season – their consistently planned bye, in addition to a Friday night off Sept. 7 when lightning dropped their diversion against Wall.

Field position assumed an immense job in Friday's diversion. Profound kickoffs by Adame, joined with some uncertainty by Ballinger's arrival masters, left the Bearcats with normal field position at their 19-yard line. On half of its 14 belonging, Ballinger started inside its 20, and the Bearcats never took ownership in Cisco's half of the field.

"Field position was immense, particularly from the get-go in the amusement," Lipsey said. "We never got any breaks on field position, and they're sufficiently hard to move the ball on, at any rate."

Cisco, in the mean time, started five of its 11 drives in Ballinger's half of the field.

"Our kicker and punter, Israel Adame, may have been the MVP of the amusement," West said. "We completed an extraordinary activity of writing them inside the 20, and after that holding them there."

Up 21-8 at halftime, the Loboes opened the second half with Wilson's 35-yard kickoff return and started at the Bearcats' 45. Cisco scored in six plays as Adame's 12-yard run stretched out the Loboes' prompt 27-8 only 2:27 into the second from last quarter.

Later in the second from last quarter, an Adame punt wrote Ballinger at its 3, and Wilson sacked Vaughn at last zone for a security. Cisco drove 29-8.

The Loboes took the following free kick and scored in three plays on Nichols' 24-yard keep running for a 36-8 lead with 43 seconds left in the second from last quarter.

"Our huge thing is we need to remain positive with our children," Lipsey said. "There's a great deal of football left to be played. We're improving, and we will have a decent group. Our objective currently is to win out in the customary season."

Ballinger drove 8-7 after Nunez paralyzed the group with a 72-yard go to Manley, who was dashing down the field behind his Cisco safeguard. The touchdown went ahead first-and-20 after Ballinger was punished for holding.

After a bungled additional point snap, Nunez, the kicker, took the ball, mixed to sunshine and flipped a two-point change go to Joe Marcus Guerrero for a 8-7 Ballinger lead with 3:20 remaining in the principal quarter.

The Loboes commanded the second quarter and led the pack for good when Adame cleared his left end for a 7-yard touchdown run that gave Cisco a 14-8 edge with 9:43 remaining. The approval drive was set up by Callahan's 22-yard punt come back to the Bearcats' 37.

Cisco declared its control with a 76-yard, nine-play drive that stretched out its prompt 21-8. The Loboes defeated a first-and-20 with a 10-yard go from Witt to Stephen Bird and a 13-yard kept running by Callahan. Witt passed 8 yards to Caden Burleson for the touchdown that gave the Loboes a 21-8 lead with 2:54 remaining before halftime.