Late connection
CASTROVILLE — Twenty seconds can be an eternity in Texas high school football.
Just ask the Medina Valley High School Panthers, who lost Friday night to the Marble Falls Mustangs, 42-38, during a nail-biter finish.
Marble Falls High School sophomore receiver Carson Bowen makes a catch for 11 yards against Medina Valley on Friday. Photo by Virgil Belk/Hill Country Sports Images
When junior running back Taylor Jungmann scored from the three-yard line to give Medina Valley a 38-35 lead with 20 seconds left in the game, the Panther faithful celebrated the home team erasing a 17-point deficit Friday.
It happened after the Panthers ran a punt 40 yards to the Mustangs’ 9 with Jungmann scoring on third down.
But they gave Marble Falls senior quarterback Zed Woerner and company 13 seconds for the comeback.
That was too much time.