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SANTA ROSA 23, FORT SUMNER 16
SANTA ROSA — Sophomore Joaquin Salazar ran for 128 yards and scored a late touchdown that helped Santa Rosa hold off Fort Sumner 23-16.
The win snapped Fort Sumner’s 12-game winning streak. The Foxes had not lost since losing to Santa Rosa 23-21 early in the 2002 season.
Santa Rosa, a Class 2A team, is now 3-1. Fort Sumner, the defending state champion in Class 1A, also is 3-1.
Fort Sumner had more total yards and more first downs than the Lions, but the Foxes lost three fumbles. One of the fumbles, by halfback Ryan Fikany, killed a fourth quarter drive by the Foxes that had reached the Santa Rosa 28-yard line.
Santa Rosa stopped another Fort Sumner drive on downs at the Lions’ 38 in the final quarter.
Santa Rosa’s Mike Salazar scored on a 15-yard run on the third play of the game and threw a 51-yard scoring pass to Tomas Gonzales with 3:13 left in the first half.
Fort Sumner got a safety in the second quarter when the Foxes tackled Santa Rosa’s Kasey White in the end zone and trailed 15-2 at halftime.
The Foxes rallied in the second half on a 13-yard TD pass from Jameson West to Fikany and a 25-yard pass from West to Roel Canales with 7:57 left in the game.
Sophomore Derek Dimitroff rushed for 152 yards on 23 carries for Fort Sumner. The Foxes had 329 total yards to 275 for Santa Rosa.
MULESHOE 15, FRIONA 14
FRIONA — Danny Bonilla scored on a 4-run run with a little more than a minute left and Daniel Campolla added the game-winning PAT as Muleshoe squeeze past rival Friday 15-14 in a non-district contest.
The score was set up by a 30-yard pass from Campolla to tight end Tatum Heathington.
Muleshoe (2-2) held the Chieftains (2-2) to 96 yards and forced four turnovers while ending a two-game losing streak to their Parmer County rivals.
Muleshoe’s first score came on a 35-yard pass from starting quarterback Landon Sheets to Campolla early in the first quarter.
Sheets was injured in the first half and did not return.
FARWELL 24, SUNDOWN 12
SUNDOWN — Hugo Vasquez rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown in the first half before leaving the game with a rib injury and Farwell remained undefeated with a 24-12 win over highly regarded Sundown.
The Steers (4-0) scored 21 unanswered points in the first half, including a 27-yard run by Vasquez and a 13-yard pass from Jason Johnson to Grant Gregory en route to a 21-6 halftime lead.
Farwell’s defense limited the Roughnecks (2-2) to 162 yards and one offensive touchdown. Sundown's first score came on a 59-yard punt return by Shannon Sehon.
The Steers also scored on a 2-yard run by Rowdy Mitchell and a 28-yard field goal by Jose Cabello.
TEXICO 21, CLAYTON 0
CLAYTON — Johnny Serrano rushed for 130 yards and a stingy Texico defense posted its second-straight shutout, blanking Clayton 21-0.
The second-ranked Wolverines (3-0) have allowed just one touchdown and six points this season.
Texico took a 14-0 midway through the third quarter on Mark Peabody’s 7-run and put the game away on a 27-yard pass from Braden Vaughan to Joe Ziakowski with a little less than five minutes left in the game.
Clayton is 3-1.
BOVINA 39, VEGA 8
VEGA — Jonathan Chisom rushed for more than 200 yards for the second-straight game and scored three touchdowns as Bovina beat Vega 39-8.
Chisom, who rushed for a career-high 256, scored on runs of 93, 60 and 3 yards as Bovina (3-1) won its third-straight game.
The Mustangs held Vega (0-3) to 111 yards and kept the Longhorns off the scoreboard until the fourth quarter.
Claude Tamez scored on a 42-yard fumble for the Mustangs.