District play is underway for high school football teams in Texas as Week 6 approaches.
Week 5 saw the region’s top-ranked team enforce their will as, once again, the only ranked DFW-area team to lose fell against another ranked opponent. Waxahachie was the No.24 6A team last week but dropped out of the rankings this week after a 42-24 loss to No.12 DeSoto.
Below are recaps of some of the biggest games from Week 4 featuring DFW-area teams ranked in Dave Campbell’s Texas high school football state rankings.
6A:
No.11 Arlington Martin 34, South Grand Prairie 21
Michael Barrow ran for two touchdowns to lead Arlington Martin (4-1,1-0 District 8-6A) to a 34-21 victory over South Grand Prairie in both schools’ district opener.
Barrow scored a 6-yard touchdown run in the second quarter to give Martin a 17-7 lead. He added his second touchdown in the second quarter, which gave Martin a 24-13 lead.
Martin needed both of Barrow’s touchdowns to overcome a 279-yard, two-touchdown performance from South Grand Prairie running back and Colorado commit AJ Newberry.
South Grand Prairie (0-5, 0-1) cut the lead to three points, 24-21, with 7:34 remaining, but Martin quickly extended the lead back to 10 with Josiah Charles scooping up the ensuing onside kick attempt and returning it for a touchdown to secure the win.
No.12 DeSoto 42, Waxahachie 24
DeSoto (4-1, 2-0 District 11-6A) led by 18 points at halftime and held Waxahachie (4-1, 1-1) to just a first-half field goal.
Waxahachie chipped away in the second half with a 13-0 scoring run that overlapped the third and fourth quarters to cut the lead to 11 points in the fourth.
Trailing 35-24 with 5:01 left in the game, Waxahachie executed a successful onside kick and recovered the ball at midfield. However, on the drive’s first play, DeSoto sophomore nose tackle Marshall Kirven intercepted a Waxahachie pass, setting up a 16-play, four-minute-long touchdown drive that chewed up most of the remaining clock and ensured a DeSoto win.
DeSoto allowed 251 total offensive yards versus Waxahachie, but just two plays — a 67-yard pass and a 54-yard run — accounted for over a third of the total yardage. When DeSoto led 28-3 in the third quarter, Waxahachie was averaging just 1.28 yards per carry on 23 attempts.
No. 20 Rockwall 56, Rockwall-Heath 21
Quarterback Lake Bennett accounted for seven total touchdowns, leading Rockwall (4-1, 1-0 District 10-6A) to a dominant 56-21 win over cross-town rival Rockwall-Heath (3-2, 0-1).
The Heath defense had no answer for the agile quarterback and his uptempo offense. Bennett completed 10-of-17 passes for 184 yards and two touchdowns, adding 91 yards on the ground, four rushing touchdowns, and even a 42-yard receiving touchdown.
Heath trailed by 14 at the end of the opening quarter before Rockwall blew the game open with three unanswered touchdowns in the second quarter to take a 43-7 lead into halftime.
Rockwall faces Mesquite Horn (4-1, 1-0) next as the top two teams in the district go head-to-head in what could give the winner a clear path to claim the 10-6A title.
No. 25 North Crowley 42, Euless Trinity 20
North Crowley (5-0, 2-0 District 3-6A) breaks into this week’s rankings for the first time this season, keeping the number of DFW-area teams in the 6A rankings at 11. North Crowley is 5-0 for the first time since 2005, which was the last time the school made the playoffs before a drought of 14 straight losing seasons.
Quarterback Chris Jimerson threw four touchdowns while running backs Dejuan Lacy and Cornelius Warren combined for 250 yards and a touchdown on the ground to help North Crowley dispatch Euless Trinity (0-5, 0-2).
North Crowley never trailed, capping a 99-yard drive with a touchdown after making a goal-line stand late in the first quarter.
Trinity pulled the score to 28-20 by the end of the third quarter, but North Crowley retook control with back-to-back scoring drives. Trinity, which has won three state championships and has finished with fewer than nine wins only once in the last 20 years, is off to its first 0-5 start in school history.
5A Div. I
No. 8 Frisco Reedy 59, Frisco Liberty 7
Frisco Reedy (5-0, 3-0 District 6-5A Div. I) continued its dominant 2022 season with a 59-7 rout of Frisco Liberty (0-5, 0-3) on Friday night. It is the third consecutive win for Reedy over a fellow Frisco ISD school.
Reedy started quickly, going up 21-0 after the opening quarter and leading 42-7 at the halftime break. Reedy’s starters were able to rest the second half, but the scoring continued as Reedy racked up 521 total yards of offense in the game.
Despite only playing in the first half, Reedy quarterback Caleb Deal had just one incompletion on his 13 passing attempts, as he threw for 199 yards and four touchdowns. Starting running back, Dennis Moody added 108 yards on 10 carries with one touchdown.
Reedy will look to continue establishing itself as the best in Frisco ISD when it faces Frisco Centennial (2-3, 1-2) next.
