{"id":10369,"date":"2025-10-18T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:43:07","slug":"tascosa-closes-strong-to-beat-monterey-keeps-pace-in-2-5a-division-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10369\/","title":{"rendered":"Tascosa closes strong to beat Monterey, keeps pace in 2-5A Division I"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tascosa Rebels took care of business in the second half Friday night, ending the warm-up portion of their district schedule.<\/p>\n

Tascosa was tied with Lubbock Monterey at halftime of their District 2-5A Division I game at Lubbock\u2019s Lowrey Field in a crucial district game for both teams. The Rebels turned things on in the second half though, scoring the first 21 points of the half to roll to a 35-21 victory and stay unbeaten in district play.<\/p>\n

Halfway through district play Tascosa (5-2, 3-0 in district) is in solid position to clinch a playoff spot with three games remaining. The Rebels are a half-game behind district leader Abilene High, whom they\u2019ll host next Friday night at Dick Bivins Stadium in a game which could go a long way toward determining a district championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel real good about it,\u201d said Tascosa coach Ken Plunk of the win. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to go on the road and win because I think Monterey\u2019s probably a playoff team. We did play well the second half. I do think we have to figure out a way to start with more energy on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

With win, Monterey (4-4, 2-2) would have been alone in second place in the district. Instead, the Plainsmen are in fourth place.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lubbock Monterey\u2019s Deuce Moore turns upfield for yards against Tascosa on Friday. [Roy Wheeler\/ Press Pass Sports]<\/p>\n

Monterey got on the board first after a scoreless first quarter on a 10-yard touchdown run by Deuce Moore for a 7-0 lead in the second quarter. Tascosa tied the game on a 53-yard run by quarterback Coltyn Fulton only 23 seconds later, and at halftime the game was tied 14-14.<\/p>\n

The Rebels took the lead for good early in the second quarter on a 15-yard scoring run by Reese Cabe. Traeson Elliott and Tendrick Sargent scored on short runs to make it 35-14 in the fourth quarter and clinch the win.<\/p>\n

Tascosa got it done on the ground with 389 yards. Fulton, a three-year starter at quarterback, led the way with 224 yards rushing on only 15 carries.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a lot of experience and traditionally when we\u2019ve had that guy whjo can operate at a high level at that position I feel we can play with anybody,\u201d said Plunk of Fulton.<\/p>\n

Monterey\u2019s Jonah Reed threw for 253 yards and two touchdowns, including one to Quarren Boyd, who had six catches for 128 yards.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tascosa\u2019s Coltyn Fulton ran for 224 yards against Lubbock Monterey. [Roy Wheeler\/ Press Pass Sports]<\/p>\n

On the flip side, though, Tascosa held the Plainsmen to only 30 yards rushing.<\/p>\n

Abilene High (6-2, 4-0) maintained a half-game lead in the district by routing Lubbock High 73-0. The winner of next week\u2019s game with Tascosa will have sole possession of the district lead with two games remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously they\u2019re playing good football,\u201d Plunk said of Abilene High. \u201cWe need to execute on offense and not put the football on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tascosa Rebels took care of business in the second half Friday night, ending the warm-up portion of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-10369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}