Center Roughriders Stadium on Friday, November 6, 2020 –
The Center Roughriders took a 35-18 win over the visiting Rusk Eagles in Friday’s District 10 4A-2 varsity football game. This was both team’s regular season finale. The ‘Riders record moved to 7-3 overall and they finished at 3-2 in the conference. This gave CHS the district’s third seed for the UIL Football Playoffs.
Rusk gained an early lead with a 23-yard field goal by Aidan McCown with 5:43 minutes left in the first quarter. The Eagles 3-0 point lead held up throughout the remainder of the first period of play.
A 24-yard touchdown run by Keamodre Horace gave Center their first lead at the 10:49 mark of the second quarter. Luis Gonzales added the extra point kick and gave CHS a 7-3 advantage.
Horace added a 70-yard touchdown run with 8:08 left in the second stanza and CHS took a 14-3 lead. At the 6:28 mark of the second period Horace added yet another rushing score from 60 yards away to help boost the ‘Rider’s lead to 21-3.
Rusk got a 2-yard scoring run from Owen McCown with less than a minute left in the first half to cut Center’s lead to 21-10 at the halftime break.
Neither team scored during the third frame. The next score came with 11:18 left in the game when McCown found Trey Deveraux in the endzone for a score which cut the CHS lead to 3 points at 21-18.
Horace added another rushing score to his resume with a 14-yarder with 9:08 remaining. Center held a 28-18 advantage.
Senior Colton Crawford scored the final touchdown of the contest when he returned a fumble 86 yards for a Rouhriders score with just 3 minutes left in the contest.
