{"id":83081,"date":"2025-12-10T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83081\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:23:35","slug":"texas-tech-commit-keegan-ash-breaks-72-year-old-tx-hs-football-rushing-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83081\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech commit Keegan Ash breaks 72-year old TX HS football rushing record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keegan Ash isn&#8217;t even expected to play running back in college.<\/p>\n<p>But he just broke one of the immortal records in Texas high school football for an RB.<\/p>\n<p>In 1953, Kenneth Hall ran for 4,045 yards for Sugar Land High School.<\/p>\n<p>In the 72 years since, no one had ever equaled that mark for a single season for any high school football team anywhere in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Until Ash.<\/p>\n<p>Ash, who plays for Mount Enterprise, broke the mark Friday night as his school advanced in the UIL Class 2A Division II playoffs past Bremond.<\/p>\n<p>His 319 yards on the night, which followed 420 the week before, pushed Ash past Hall.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After 72 years, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TXHSFB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#TXHSFB<\/a> has a NEW single-season rushing yards king. \ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mount Enterprise ATH &amp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WreckEm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#WreckEm<\/a> signee, Kaegan Ash, on shattering Kenneth Hall\u2019s record of 4,045 rushing yards in one season!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NETsn_Live?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@NETsn_Live<\/a> &amp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFHSNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@NFHSNetwork<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kRZK5Rw9ZU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kRZK5Rw9ZU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Campbell&#8217;s \u2014 TexasFootball.com (@dctf) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dctf\/status\/1997130550755135880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/buffalo-bills-home-snow-december-nothing-certain-streak\/12f85de95c155a9fd9db8be3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How the Buffalo Bills at home in the snow in December are an unbreakable streak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Ash&#8217;s team still alive, he&#8217;ll have a chance to push this record further out and make it tougher to ever catch.<\/p>\n<p>Ash is signed to Texas Tech, where he&#8217;s expected to play linebacker. He certainly knows where opposing ball carriers are trying to go, and he&#8217;s got the speed and change of direction to make lots of plays on defense.<\/p>\n<p>At least one running back nationally ran for more yards than Ash this fall, so far. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/indiana-hs-rb-myles-mclaughlin-171131282.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Myles McLaughlin, out of Knox (Indiana), surpassed 4,800 yards to set the national single-season record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Ash isn&#8217;t even expected to play running back in college. 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