Stepp's Top 10 Texas High School Football Games of 2019: No. 4 Sundown 60, Panhandle 56

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November 15, 2019

Sundown 60, Panhandle 56: Sundown and Panhandle opened up the 2019 Texas high school football playoffs in style with a 4 p.m. kickoff at Kimbrough Stadium, combining for 116 points and 1,156 yards of offense.

Sensational Sundown senior QB Christian Huey was simply incredible with seven touchdowns,throwing for 334 yards and five scores while rushing for 71 yards and two TDs.

The first half was back and forth with Sundown holding a 28-21 lead with the difference being a pick six returned for a touchdown.

Panhandle would briefly take a 42-41 lead in the third quarter after Wesley Jones hauled in a 40-yard touchdown pass from Landyn Hack.

Sundown would answer with two straight scores to go up 54-42 with just over 10 minutes left in the game on a pair of Huey touchdown passes. Panhandle would answer less than two minutes later as Zion Mercer got a 22-yard touchdown pass from Hack to cut the lead to 54-49.

Huey and the Sundown offense would have the answer as Huey scored on a nine yard run with 6:43 left to extend the lead back to two scores at 60-49.

Panhandle would again answer quickly as Zach Wood’s 70-yard touchdown reception cut the lead back to four at 60-56 with 6:09 remaining. Sundown’s offense would stall and they’d give the ball back to Panhandle with 3:34 remaining. Pahandle would fumble on their second play after the turnover on downs and Kaden Marshall’s recovery and one subsequent first down from the Sundown offense clinched the Roughnecks first round win and would propel them to the third round of the playoffs despite the third place finish in district.

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