It took 21 years for Brenham and A&M Consolidated to renew their Brazos Valley rivalry, and it took hardly anytime to get the scoring started.
The Consolidated Tigers scored first, and often, to pull away with a 27-7 win in the Class 5A Division II Region 3 Area Round game. It was the first-ever high school game at Prairie View University’s Panther Stadium that opened this fall.
Consolidated made a statement on the game’s opening possession with a five-play, 67-yard drive capped by Robert Franklin’s 10-yard run off an option pitch. The drive took less than two minutes, and the score was set up on a personal foul (hands to the face) call against the Cubs defense.
Brenham needed just three plays to answer when quarterback Kendarin Ray found a wide open Darvis Watson for a 59-yard touchdown strike to even the score at 7-7. That’s as close as Brenham got the rest of the night.
The teams twice traded possessions before Consolidated mounted a five-play drive to start the second quarter. Tigers quarterback Cade Williams took a keeper 48 yards to the 1-yard line to set up a Franklin rushing score. A missed extra point left Consolidated’s lead at 13-7.
After Consolidated forced a Brenham punt, the Tigers marched 76 yards in seven plays, capped by a Williams 11-yard rushing score, to make it 20-7, where it stood at the half. The Tigers put an exclamation point on the night with a 10-yard touchdown pass from Cade Williams to Tony Williams. The Consolidated defense stymied the Brenham offense all night, as the Cubs played without leading rusher Ralph Kallie.
A&M Consolidated marches on to the regional semifinal next week to play Fort Bend Marshall at Houston’s NRG Stadium in what will be the third game of a triple header. Consolidated is on pace to clash with crosstown rival College Station High School in the state quarterfinal the following week.
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