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The game produced 152 points and 1,613 total yards - 899 by Stamford and 714 by De Leon. I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life,” said Dickson, who saw plenty of offense while serving as a Texas Tech strength and conditioning coach under Mike Leach. “They’d score in two plays, then we’d score in two plays. Stamford answered with Bevel throwing a dozen touchdown passes against De Leon’s depleted secondary. De Leon retaliated the only way it could - with Kevin Yeager running and passing for eight touchdowns. “I looked up on our third defensive series, and we had backups or JV call-ups playing at all our secondary positions,” said Andrew Dickson, De Leon’s defensive coordinator last year.Īnother factor leading to the outrageous final score was Stamford racing to a 28-0 first-quarter lead. Looking back: De Leon-Stamford box score 2018 That didn’t bode well for a Bearcats’ defense assigned to stop the potentially explosive Bulldogs led by Bevel and receiver Tre Mitchell, who caught eight passes for 305 yards. De Leon came in with multiple injuries and suffered more during the game. There were multiple factors that produced a final score that looked more like a basketball game or a six-man football game. “It seemed like that game took forever with the clock stopping for extra points, kickoffs and injuries.” It was a long game, then we had a two-hour bus ride home,” said David Yeager, the Bearcats’ head coach in 2018. “I kept hoping the clock would hurry up and run out. 7 state ranking were overturned by multiple injuries. “It was truly amazing.”įrom De Leon’s perspective, the 28-point loss was its third straight after a 2-0 start and a No. “You had two of the best Class 2A quarterbacks to ever face each other, and they put on a remarkable show,” Stamford head coach Ronnie Casey said. He outdueled De Leon senior quarterback Kevin Yeager, whose 527 yards and eight TDs rushing and passing were reduced to a footnote in a 28-point loss.
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When these two Abilene-area teams met on this same weekend last year, Stamford outlasted De Leon 90-62 in what stood as the highest-scoring 11-man high school game in Texas for 2018.įrom Stamford’s perspective, it was a night of celebration as senior quarterback Peyton Bevel set 11-man single-game state records with 789 yards and 12 touchdowns passing. Watch Video: Stamford QB Peyton Bevel talks about breaking Texas passing recordsįriday’s game between Stamford and De Leon is more than a non-district football matchup between Class 2A schools 110 miles apart in West Texas.