LA GRANGE — The Sealy High School football team secured a quality road win Nov. 8 at Leopards Field in La Grange by a final score of 48-28. La Grange was able to hang with the Tigers throughout the ball game, but Sealy had just a little more offense in order to pull out the victory. "We got our quarterback back tonight and that gave everybody a little spark," said Sealy head football coach Clint Finley. "He did a good job. He's a good football player. He knows our offense really well and has a lot of confidence. When he's out there doing it, it lifts the rest of the team. He did a great job.
Really happy about that. He got through it healthy. Defensively, the boys did good. They came out and gave us a couple formations they weren’t quite ready for and made some good adjustments at halftime. We got some good stops at the beginning of the second half. We did a good job." Sealy junior quarterback Kane Killough went 11/14 for 234 yards and had three touchdowns for a big offensive night. "It's just a lot of reps in practice," Killough said. "All offseason, this is what we were thinking about. Getting into the playoffs, trying to make a run. This is what we worked for all off-season. It's just second nature at this point." La Grange is still in very good shape heading into the postseason with a solid regular season and plenty of offense to show for it. "Didn't get a lot of stops," said La Grange head football coach Kyle Cooper.
"Come out in the second half and turn the ball over two possessions in a row. We got stopped on a couple drives in the first half. Those are the big things, so we got to get people off the field and we can’t turn the ball over. On a night when wind's a huge factor and it plays all into your special teams, I thought the game went pretty even there. We didn’t quite get it done." Killough ran for a 12-yard touchdown for Sealy's first score, then La Grange quarterback Clayton Cooper ran in for a touchdown of his own for five yards midway through the first quarter to make it a 7-6 game due to a blocked extra point on Sealy's touchdown. Tiger running back Alan Williams added to the score with a 70-yard touch- down run on the very next drive and the Leopards responded with a touchdown for 42 yards from sophomore Dillan Johnson shortly after. Sealy scored again on a 66-yard touchdown pass from Killough to senior Noah Washtington at the 3:18 mark for the last score of the first quarter.
Leopards kicker Taylor Cook hit a 42-yard field goal at the beginning of the second quarter, which was followed by a 21-yard touchdown catch from Sealy's Caleb Labba to put the score at 28-17 with 5:56 to go. Cooper answered with a goal line touchdown for the Leopards a few minutes later, then Washington ran in for a 25-yard touchdown shortly after to make it 34-24 after a blocked extra point.
The Tigers ran in for another touchdown with 8:18 to play in the third quarter by sophomore Romeo Castillo to make it 41-24, then the Tigers added to their lead with a goal line touch down six minutes later for a 4824 advantage at the end of the third quarter. La Grange scored touchdowns in the fourth quarter on a nine-yard run from Davon Giscome near the beginning of the third quarter, which was followed by a 22-yard touchdown catch from Johnson before a twopoint conversion on a feather pass to Oliver Gunn. This was the last score of the game as Sealy kept their defense intact to wrap up a 48-38 win.
