Boerne Champion used a fast start to move its non-district record to 2-0 after the Chargers defeated Medina Valley Friday night at BISD Stadium, 41-28.
Champion scored twice in the first three minutes of the game and was up 21-0 by the end of the first quarter.
Chargers coach Blane Ellis said jumping out to a big lead like that against a team like Medina Valley put the Panthers in a tough spot.
“To go up 21-0 is huge for us, when you get them behind, it’s hard for them to recover from that,” Ellis said about the run-heavy Panthers. “That first few minutes of the first quarter set the game up for us to be successful.”
The Chargers scored on their opening drive after Julian Navarrete found William Burgess on a 17-yard TD pass and it was 7-0 less than two minutes in.
Two plays into their opening drive, the Panthers fumbled and Maddox Wildey came up with the first of his two fumble recoveries in the contest.
Champion had the ball at the Panthers’ 10 and Zachary Garcia sprinted in on the first play from scrimmage to make it 14-0 after the Nathan Bell kick and the game less than three minutes old.
The Panthers fumbled again on their next drive, and this time, Joshua Surber jumped on the loose ball to give the Chargers the ball at the MV 32-yard line.
On the sixth play of the drive, Brady Smith took the handoff and scrambled in from the 8 and it was 21-0, but the Panthers finally held onto the ball and put together a solid drive.
Medina Valley went on an 80-yard, 15-play drive that consumed 8:09 off the clock to get on the board and make it 21-7 early in the second.
The Panthers went on another time-consuming drive in the period but another turnover by the MV offense killed their drive after Wildey recovered his second fumble of the half to keep it at 21-7 by halftime.
Medina Valley tallied the first TD of the third quarter and the Charger lead was down to 21-14 after the Panthers put together another long drive that chewed 5:51 off the clock.
After not scoring in the second quarter, the Chargers put the game away with 10 points in the final two stanzas.
Bell booted a 45-yard field goal and then Garland Whitehead ran the ball in from the QB spot from the 3-yard line to put Champion up 31-21 as the game headed to the fourth.
The Panthers had one more long drive in them and made it 31-28 in the final stanza on another 6-minute possession, but Mark Thompson had a great kickoff return just beyond midfield to set up the Charger offense.
On the first play after the Thompson return, Navarrete hit Brogan Dempsey on a 47-yard bomb and it was 38-28.
Whitehead was also playing defense and intercepted a pass to turn the Panthers away. The Whitehead pick set up a 29-yard field goal by Bell to push the lead to 41-28.
The Panthers went exclusively to the pass late in the game and got away from their strength, which is the run game and that worked to Champion’s favor.
Cash Hill basically ended the game when he intercepted a Panthers pass, as the Chargers defense turned MV away on its final possession.
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