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Fort Worth Southwest faces off against Benbrook during a high school football game at Handley Field in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, September 25, 2026. Benbrook won 17-14.<\/p>\n
Ryan Hunt<\/p>\n
Southwest HS Media<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH<\/p>\n
Benbrook opened district play with a 17-14 victory over Fort Worth Southwest at Scarborough-Handley Field Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more proud of the way that they fought,\u201d Benbrook head coach Cody Slater said. \u201cWe fell down, and we faced adversity, and we fought through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bobcats struck first when running back Hector Robles scored the only touchdown of the first half, giving Benbrook a 7-0 lead with 3:50 remaining in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
From there, defense controlled the game. Both teams struggled to break through, and Benbrook carried its 7-0 advantage into halftime.<\/p>\n
Southwest finally found the end zone with 8:58 remaining in the third quarter when defensive end Jeremiah Hogg intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown. The pick-six tied the game at 7-7 and gave the Raiders newfound momentum.<\/p>\n
\u201cExtremely talented, extremely skilled and super aggressive,\u201d Southwest head coach Joseph Turner said of his players this season.<\/p>\n
Neither offense was able to take control for the remainder of the third quarter, sending the teams into the final period tied at 7-7.<\/p>\n
Southwest broke the tie in the fourth quarter when Davian Fields scored a touchdown with 8:32 remaining, putting the Raiders ahead 14-7.<\/p>\n
But the Bobcats responded.<\/p>\n
Dorien Johnson scored a touchdown with 4:35 remaining to even the score at 14-14 and set up a dramatic finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all pulling and fighting for one another,\u201d Slater said. \u201cWe talk about being all in, and they\u2019re all in for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benbrook ultimately secured the 17-14 victory with a field goal from Corbin Biggins.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just thinking about making it,\u201d Biggins said. \u201cThat\u2019s all I think about just making it, picturing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bobcats will face Eastern Hills on Oct. 1, while Southwest will host Western Hills in its homecoming game on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Southwest faces off against Benbrook during a high school football game at Handley Field in Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-448288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448288","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=448288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}