A rough start was too much for Greenwood to overcome against a veteran Lubbock-Cooper Liberty team on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The No. 7-ranked Patriots jumped out a 21-0 lead and took advantage of Greenwood miscues in a 56-25 victory at First United Liberty Park in Lubbock.<\/p>\n
Liberty (3-0) had a 14-0 lead before Greenwood even touched the ball.<\/p>\n
After a 6-yard TD run by Talon Wilcox, the Patriots recovered the ensuing onside kick. Six plays later, the Wilcox added a 1-yard TD run.<\/p>\n
The Rangers (2-1) fumbled on their ensuing possession and Liberty made them pay when JJ Thompson scored on a 13-yard run for a 21-0 lead through the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Greenwood got on the board early in the second quarter when Andrick Rodriguez threw a 25-yard TD pass to Hyden McNutt. After a 2-point conversion, the Rangers cut it to 21-8.<\/p>\n
The Patriots continued to dominate the rest of the first half as a Greenwood red zone fumble led to a 79-yard TD pass from Cy Leach to Pierce Fioroni.<\/p>\n
Then with the Rangers inside the Patriots\u2019 5-yard line, Luke Livingston picked off a shovel pass and raced 96 yards for a touchdown to give Liberty a commanding 42-8 advantage at the half.<\/p>\n
Liberty led 49-8 late in the third quarter when Rodriguez found\u00a0Grayson Leatherwood for a 21-yard TD pass to cut it to 49-15.<\/p>\n
Leatherwood added his second TD of the night early in the fourth quarter when he caught a 28-yard pass from Rodriguez in traffic to cut it to 49-23.<\/p>\n
The Rangers added a safety when the Patriots snapped the ball through the back of the end zone late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Leatherwood finished with five catches for 86 yards and two TDs; McNutt added seven catches for 106 yards and a TD; Rodriguez was 16-of-29 passing for 225 yards, three TDs and an interception, to go with 39 yards rushing on 12 carries; and Jackson Audas added 133 yards rushing on 18 carries.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Cy Leach was 11-of-11 passing for 243 yards; Fioroni had six catches for 142 yards; Koleman Hendrix had four catches for 63 yards; Talon Wilcox had 77 yards rushing and three TDs on 15 carries; and Brecken Wilcox added 73 yards rushing and a TD on seven carries.<\/p>\n
The Rangers will look to bounce back at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 when they host Wichita Falls Legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rough start was too much for Greenwood to overcome against a veteran Lubbock-Cooper Liberty team on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,27659],"class_list":["post-433833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-pubnow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433833","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=433833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}