{"id":240626,"date":"2025-09-20T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240626\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:45:10","slug":"waxahachie-stuns-duncanville-in-monumental-upset-of-dallas-areas-top-ranked-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240626\/","title":{"rendered":"Waxahachie stuns Duncanville in monumental upset of Dallas area\u2019s top-ranked team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WAXAHACHIE \u2014 With the game on the line, Duncanville<\/a> decided to go for it on fourth-and-2 at the Waxahachie 29 with just under two minutes remaining. <\/p>\n

No good. <\/p>\n

Safety Kaden Tolleson stopped Duncanville\u2019s Ayson Theus, and with it pushed Waxahachie<\/a> to its first win after four consecutive losses against Duncanville. <\/p>\n

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Waxahachie defeated Duncanville 28-27 to open District 11-6A play, upsetting The Dallas Morning News\u2019 top-ranked area team<\/a> in Class 6A at Lumpkins Stadium on Friday night. It was Waxahachie\u2019s first win over Duncanville after four consecutive losses. <\/p>\n

But Duncanville (1-1, 0-1), who had a bye last week and had played in only one game this season, had to shake off the rust. <\/p>\n

Waxahachie\u2019s Zaeden Smith returned the opening kickoff 78 yards to reach the Duncanville 11. Quarterback Jerry Meyer II capped off the drive with a 11-yard touchdown pass to running back Taylen Furlough-Strange, who put Waxahachie (3-0, 1-0) on the board early. <\/p>\n

But Duncanville answered quickly when quarterback Maximus The Great Denson threw a 77-yard dime to Trenton Yancey for a score.<\/p>\n

But Waxahachie blocked the extra point attempt and Braylon Davis returned the block 92 yards for a safety with 4:26 remaining in the first quarter and a 9-6 lead. <\/p>\n

Following its early miscues, Duncanville took over from there. Behind Brayden Arnold\u2019s running game, including a 12-yard rush into the end zone, Duncanville took its first lead of the night. <\/p>\n

Then, with 1:54 remaining in the first, Duncanville\u2019s Victor Lincoln intercepted the ball and returned it for 35 yards to push the team to a 20-9 lead that stood until halftime. <\/p>\n

To open the third quarter, Denson threw another long ball to Theus for an 85-yard touchdown. Waxahachie put itself back in the game seconds later behind running back Jordan Smith\u2019s 77-yard kickoff return to close the gap to 27-15 with 11:28 remaining in the third. <\/p>\n

In the fourth quarter, Waxahachie continued to cut into the lead, refusing to relent. Meyer sent a 24-yard pass to a wide open Jordan Thompson-Woods to put Waxahachie within five. <\/p>\n

With 3:52 remaining, Waxahachie pushed to the Duncanville 1. Then, Nolan Barnard battled into the end zone for the score to take a 28-27 lead. <\/p>\n

On Duncanville\u2019s ensuing drive, the team made it to the Waxahachie 29 before being stopped on fourth-and-2.<\/p>\n

Waxahachie will look to stay in the win column next week against DeSoto as Duncanville hopes to rebound against Skyline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click or tap here for the box score. WAXAHACHIE \u2014 With the game on the line, Duncanville decided…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,13424,13425,1318,10858,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,13430],"class_list":{"0":"post-240626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-duncanville","11":"tag-duncanville-school","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-high-schools","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-waxahachie-school"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234807694321135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}