(El Campo) — The Seguin Matadors rolled up nearly 500 yards of total offense and earned their second straight win in dispatching Brazoswood in El Campo on Friday night.
Matador quarterback Corey Dailey threw for 310 yards and a touchdown. He also ran for 71 and two scores as Seguin finished their non-district schedule with a 34-27 victory over the Buccaneers. The Mats head into District 13-5A play next week with a 2-1 record.
Dailey hooked up with wide receiver Ayden Avila for an 18-yard touchdown strike to cap the game’s opening drive. After a Buccaneer TD late in the quarter evened the game, Avila set the Mat offense up with a short field with a long kickoff return deep into Brazoswood territory. Running back Ian Moreno would reach the end zone from two yards out one play into the second quarter to make the score 14-7 Seguin.
Following a Brazoswood field goal, Moreno would cross the goal line again with a five-yard score on a fourth down play to extend the Seguin lead to 21-10. The Buccaneers kicked another field goal with 34 seconds in the half to seemingly close the half trailing by eight points, but mere seconds would be enough time for the Matadors to answer the score before the teams went into their locker rooms.
Avila would run the ensuing kickoff out from five yards deep in the end zone and advance the ball to the Seguin 26-yard line with 18 seconds left. On the next play, Dailey hit Avila down the middle of the field and the junior wide receiver forged ahead to the Brazoswood 45-yard line.
The Matadors, out of time-outs, rushed to the line of scrimmage and Dailey would spike the ball with nine seconds on the clock. Dailey then launched a long ball down the right side that wide receiver Daniel Pinon would haul in with an over the shoulder diving catch at the two-yard line with two seconds to go.
With the clock stopped for the first down, Brazoswood called a time out and then Dailey ran the ball into the end zone on the half’s final play. The 74-yard drive in 18 seconds gave Seguin a 27-13 lead at the break.
Brazoswood would get even in the third quarter thanks to a couple of Seguin miscues. The Buccaneers turned a Seguin muffed punt return and a deflected interception into two touchdowns to even things up at 27.
The Mats responded late in the third and early in the fourth quarter with a 75-yard touchdown drive that ended with a Dailey five-yard run to account for the final scoring in the game. The Mat defense would come up with two interceptions in the fourth quarter to keep the Buccaneers off the board.
Marcus Troy had his second interception in as many weeks to turn away a Buccaneer drive. And late in the fourth, reserve defensive back Zaedyn Silva picked off a Brazoswood pass that allowed the Matador offense to run out the clock and head back to Seguin victorious.
The Matadors put up 480 yards of total offense while the defense held Brazoswood to 286 total yards. Avila finished the game with 134 yards receiving on 10 catches. Ian Moreno carried the ball 24 times for 107 yards and two touchdowns. Linebacker Zayon Goldsberry led Seguin defensively with eight tackles, two for loss, and a sack. Troy also had eight tackles to go with his interception. And linebacker Damian Garcia had seven tackles including two for loss.
Seguin will open district play on the road next Friday at Victoria East. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. and we’ll have the game on AM 1580 KWED and streaming at SeguinToday.com.
In other area games on Friday:
(Gonzales) — The Class 3A Marion Bulldogs fell for the first time this season in a 51-27 defeat at Class 4A Gonzales.
(Fischer) — And the Navarro Panthers dropped a 21-13 decision on the road to the Canyon Lake Hawks.