Chisholm goes airborne in routing Perry Through Wednesday, Chisholm quarterback Taggart Brown had thrown for 481 yards as a 2A passer. On Thursday, he flirted with doubling that. The junior quarterback completed 13-of-21 passes for career highs of 344 yards and three scores including a 94-yard touchdown to Austin Swann, and Chisholm throttled visiting Perry, 40-12. Chisholm (6-1, 2-1) took an 8-0 lead in the first quarter on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Brown to Swann, but led just 8-6 late in the second quarter when the Longhorns took possession at their own 3-yard line with 1:57 left in the first half after a Perry punt, facing third-and-seven from its own 6 two plays later. As Brown faked a handoff, Swann broke a press by Perry defensive back Sam Wisdom, pulling in Brown’s pass near the 25-yard line and streaking untouched for the next 75 yards, giving Chisholm a 14-6 lead and its longest play in head coach Joey Reinart’s five years with the team. “We’ve never had the speed to do that before,” Reinart said. “I knew it,” said Brown. “I knew it was gonna be a touchdown when that cornerback walked up. Swann, he’s very fast — he runs a 4.5 (second) 40 (yard dash) — and I knew he was gonna catch it and just run down the sideline for a touchdown.” Chisholm freshman Brock Elmore recovered an onside attempt on the ensuing kickoff with 34 seconds left that nearly yielded another touchdown for the Longhorns, but Britton Yunker was ruled out of bounds at the 3-yard line before diving into the endzone with no time left, and Bryce Stewart was stopped at the goal line on an untimed down to finish the half. Still, the long pass spurred a Chisholm team that through 22 minutes seemed flat. “It just got everybody else fired up, especially the sideline,” said Swann, who finished with a career high 113 yards and two scores on three catches. “You hear that, and the stands, when you’re running down the sideline, and everything just blew up from there. The intensity went up. We started hitting harder. You could hear the pops. We were bringing it then. Before, we weren’t.” Chisholm outscored Perry 26-6 after the final first half series and was never stopped in the last two quarters, scoring on all four drives. Anthony Vallejo scored on a 17-yard run in the third, and after Perry’s Hunter Condit capped an 18-play, seven-minute, 18-second drive with a 6-yard scoring run drive to bring the Maroons to within 20-12, Chisholm pulled away with fourth-quarter touchdown runs of 36 yards by Stewart and 14 yards by Britton Yunker, and a 56-yard TD catch by Bryson Rolfe, giving the Longhorns their second straight win of at least four touchdowns after beating Crooked Oak 54-21 in Week 6. “We set the standard in every single game now,” Brown said. “We want to pass for 200 yards, run for 200 yards and score 40 points.” Condit finished with 92 yards and two scores on 19 carries for Perry (1-6, 0-4). Quarterback Cooper Sluzacek completed 9 of 19 passes with 91 yards and two fourth-quarter interceptions, one by Swann and a second deflected by Yunker and hauled in by Brock Chance. Stewart finished with 108 yards and a score on 21 carries to eclipse the 900-yard mark on his senior season, and Yunker added 36 yards on six carries. The win pushed Chisholm past its 2013 win total with three regular season games left and a chance to pull closer to a playoff berth next week against 2A-1 rival Pawnee. “We just want our kids to keep working and fighting like they have been,” Reinart said. “They do those things, and everything else just takes care of itself.” By Ryan Costello, Staff Writer Enid News and October 18, 2013
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:23:58 +0000
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