And just like that we're down to the final two weekends of the Texas high school football season. The 6A tripleheader at Globe Life Park had a lot of big names coming in but only one really delivered - and not the one everyone expected - and then an OT thriller out at McKinney sets up all the State Semifinals.
Let's run through them, shall we.
Quinn Ewers Career Day Powers Southlake
<h5>Southlake Carroll 59, Euless Trinity 35</h5><p>It was the Quinn Ewers show for Southlake as he started the game completing his first 15 passes and ended the day with a career-best 450 yards and 6 touchdowns.</p><p>A week after a rough outing back from injury, Ewers looked every bit of the nation's No. 1 quarterback for 2022, as he picked apart the Trinity secondary all game long.</p><p>Ewers completed 35 of his 39 pass attempts as Southlake dominated Trinity from the jump.<br></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" class="" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 673px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1345424675451658240&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vype.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2649720522%23publish&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px" data-tweet-id="1345424675451658240" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Southlake scored on 9 of its 10 meaningful possessions to get back to the state semifinals for the first time since 2011.</p><p>With Ewers' career day, Brady Boyd also had a career day with 17 receptions for 261 yards and 4 touchdowns. And not to be outdone, Landon Samson added 13 receptions for 137 yards and 2 scores.</p><p>Southlake meets up with Duncanville for the third straight postseason.</p>
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