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McAllen High’s Josh McGowen broke the school’s single-game rushing record with 340 yards as McAllen High secured home-field advantage in the bi-district round of the playoffs with a 42-13 win against La Joya Palmview on Thursday in La Joya.
McGowen found the end zone four times, including rushes of 51, 59 and 99 yards. In doing so, he set the school’s single-season scoring record with 154 points. He also pushed his season rushing total to 1,814 yards — just 40 away from the school’s single-season rushing record.
“He did a great job,” coach Kevin Brewer said. “Every week, people scheme to stop him, and he did a good job of being patient.”
Mark Martinez notched two touchdowns for McHi.
Brewer said he was most impressed with the team’s defense, which gave up a decent total on the ground but made critical stops when it needed to.
“The defense played tremendously all night long,” Brewer said. “Palmview spent a lot of time in the red zone and we held them out on several occasions. On fourth-down stops and turnovers, we got lord knows how many turnovers. Four or five, at least. I’m really proud of our defense.”
McAllen High finishes the regular season 5-5, and 4-2 in District 30-6A. Palmview drops to 4-6 overall and 2-4 in district, but will still reach the playoffs if McAllen Memorial defeats Mission High tonight.
PSJA NORTH 17, EDINBURG HIGH 15: At Edinburg, Bo Adams rushed for a touchdown and threw one to teammate Saul Zuniga as the Raiders defeat the Bobcats.
“We won ugly tonight,” North coach Jorge Peña said. “There were too many Raiders looking ahead to the playoffs, including myself. We were focusing on next week too much. We had to fight hard to win.”
North (5-5, 4-2, District 31-6A) secures its second straight playoffs appearance, and will face San Benito on November 13 at Bobby Morrow Stadium.
Edinburg finishes with a 1-9 record, including a 1-5 mark in district play.
CLASS 5A
BROWNSVILLE PACE 31, PSJA SOUTHWEST 21: At Brownsville, Vikings quarterback Luis Rodriguez scored on three first half runs, and Pace withstood a second-half rally to defeat the Javelinas.
“We started slow, we started sluggish,” PSJA Southwest coach Jesus Reyes said. “We always preach about starting fast and we just didn’t do it. We dug ourselves in a hole and tried so hard to get out of it that we started to press and make mental errors.”
Neither team advances to the postseason and finishes with a record of 3-7.
