Arlington Martin, on the strength of a 22-point fourth quarter, rallied to defeat Aledo, 35-21, Friday night at Tim Buchanan Stadium in Aledo. The setback ended a 136-game district winning streak for the 12-time state champion Bearcats (2-3, 1-1 in District 3-6A), which has started its first season in Class 6A with three losses in its first five games. It was the first district loss for the Bearcats in 19 years – since October 5, 2007 – when Aledo lost 35-28 to Everman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Down 21-13 entering the fourth quarter, Martin, which remained unbeaten on the season at 5-0 (2-0 in district play), got a 77-yard touchdown run from punter Kevin Grant on 4th-and-2 at its own 23 on the first play of the period to pull within a point, 21-20.<\/p>\n
After forcing an Aledo punt on the ensuing possession, Martin, ranked No. 19 in the Dallas Morning News area rankings, proceeded to march 62 yards in plays before a 13-yard touchdown pass from Chase Devoll to Malik Mason midway through the fourth quarter gave the Warriors their first lead of the game. A two-point conversion run by Julian Delora on the PAT made it 28-21.<\/p>\n
From there, the Martin defense took control. After allowing 21 points in the first half, the Warriors shut out Aledo in the second half, forcing a three-and-out and two turnovers-on-drives on the Bearcats’ last three possessions.<\/p>\n
After Aledo turned the ball over on downs at its own 33, Kaden Phillips completed the comeback with a 33-yard touchdown run on the first play after the 2-minute timeout on his only carry of the game to seal the victory.<\/p>\n
Aledo had dominated the game for the first three quarters. The Bearcats marched down the field on their first possession to take a 7-0 lead on a 13-yard pass from Tre Williams to Caden Palmquest. Martin quickly answered after a 55-yard run by Martin running back Javian Jones-Priest, a four-star Virginia Tech pledge. But Aledo kept Jones-Priest bottled up the rest of the night, and he finished with zero net yards on his other 13 carries. Jones-Priest came into the game averaging over 100 yards a game.<\/p>\n
The loss overshadowed a huge game for Aledo running back Wyatt Dorsey, who finished with 210 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington Martin, on the strength of a 22-point fourth quarter, rallied to defeat Aledo, 35-21, Friday night at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-448607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448607","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=448607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}