The Aubrey Chaparrals football team returned home to take their third loss of the season, getting their wings clipped 56-7 against the Brock Eagles.
The Eagles passed through Chaparral Memorial Stadium with flying colors, racking up over 450 yards of total offense and 8 touchdowns while holding the Chaps under 200 yards and one score in a dominant win.
“Our kids played extremely hard,” said Keith Ivy, Aubrey athletic director and head football coach. “Truthfully, we played our best game, even though the score against a state-ranked team certainly didn’t indicate that. All in all, our intensity was turned up a notch or two from what it was the first couple of weeks; it’s just continuing to try to find consistency in what we’re doing that’s important.”
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The Eagles hit the field at full speed, scoring the opening touchdown on a 12-yard touchdown run by running back Bryer Mc-Donald and putting Brock up 7-0 after a successful extra point kick.
Brock added to their lead with a punt returned for a touchdown, putting the Eagles up 14-0 at the end of the first quarter.
The Eagles continued to pour on the points in the second quarter, with Brock quarterback Holt Frazier connecting with receivers Charles Hibbler and Colt Matlock for backto- back touchdown tosses.
Frazier picked up a third Eagles touchdown with a goal plunge into the end zone, extending Brock’s lead to 35-0 as the teams went into the half.
The Chaps finally got on the scoreboard when fullback Logan Gannon powered his way into the end zone from 2 yards out, making the score 35-7 in the third quarter.
It was all Brock after that, with the Eagles finding the end zone on two more touchdown passes by Frazier and a 94-yard touchdown run by running back Levi Dean to close the game at 56-7.
Despite the Chaps’ early season struggles, Ivy said building confidence is the most important aspect at this point of the season.
“We’ve played three good teams, including two [exceptional] teams that are ranked in the Top 10 in their division, so to be able to go out there and have some success against teams of that caliber, that’s the thing that builds confidence,” he said. “As a younger team, we just don’t have a lot of it yet, just based on the fact that our guys haven’t played a lot of Friday night football. Right now, we’re still trying to fill things out and figure each other out, but one thing that we wanted to see was for them to try to match the intensity and effort, if not exceed that of Brock’s, and I certainly feel like they went out and played extremely hard.”
Brock receiver Colt Matlock, District 3-4A Division II’s reigning Utility Player of the Year, stiff arms an Aubrey defender on his way toward the end zone Sept. 12. Martin Edwards/The Post-Signal
