Week three of Texas high school football matched a pair of the top 4A teams in Central Texas. The Wimberley High School Texans (2-0) and Lyndon B. Johnson Early College High School Jaguars (1-0), both ranked in the state’s top 10, squared off last Friday night in a nondistrict match at Nelson Field in Austin. LBJ came out the victor with a 27-16 win.
LBJ’s quarterback Ali Scott has four years of Jaguar experience, while the Texans’ Cody Stoever, a three-year starter, is Dave Campbell’s Texas Football 4A pre-season all-state quarterback.
“The team that makes the least amount of mistakes will usually come out on top,” said Wimberley High School head football coach Doug Warren before the game in a televised interview.
While turnovers plagued both teams, and at times one play after another, it was LBJ who would capitalize on the Texans’ mistakes. Stoever scored two touchdowns on runs of three yards and two yards. A PAT attempt after the second touchdown turned into a failed two-point conversion and left the Texans trailing 14-13 midway in the second quarter. The Jags scored on a long touchdown pass just before the half ended for a 21-13 lead. The Texans were limited to a Daniel Jimenez 29–yard field goal in the third quarter, while LBJ scored on a long touchdown run. The Jag’s PAT was missed making it 27-16.
Wimberley’s Code Red defense contained LBJ to that one rushing score in the third quarter and shut out the Jags in the fourth quarter. But LBJ’s defense did the same.
Wimberley had averaged 431 total yards and almost 200 yards passing in its two previous games. The Jags stymied the Texans with 238 total yards and 112 passing yards. Wimberley’s Ethan Talley picked off one of Scott’s passes and Danny Effiom recovered a Jag fumble, but the Texans had three fumbles and two interceptions.
“That’s a good team [LBJ] that is going to be playing deep into December and so are we. Too many penalties and turnovers,” Warren told his team after the loss, “we’re going to learn from this and move on.”
The Texans (2-1) travel to Lampasas (3-0) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20.
