Published Jan 16, 2021
Live Updates: Southlake Carroll versus Westlake
Joseph Hastings  •  DottingTheEyes
Recruiting Reporter

Ohio State Quinn Ewers and his teammates at Southlake Carroll (12-1) are facing off against Austin Westlake (13-0) on Saturday night for a chance to win the Texas 6A-D1 state championship.

BuckeyeGrove has live updates for this must-see matchup, so stay tuned throughout the night for additional coverage.


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First Half

First Drive: Ewers first pass of the game was completed for 14 yards for his team's first first down of the game.

On a second-and-eight, Ewers, out of the shotgun, fired a ball right to his wideout for a 16-yard gain. The very next play, Ewers threw a ball deep to the right sideline, but it was incomplete in great coverage.

Right after that, Ewers did a play-fake and passed it to the right to Brady Boyd that led to a nine-yard gain. A couple of plays later, Ewers threw a ball to Landon Samson on first down for a 19-yard gain to get the ball to Austin Westlake's eight-yardline.

Southlake Carroll went on to score a touchdown on a run a couple of plays later. Ewers was 4-of-5 for 72 yards on the first drive.

Second Drive: Westlake scored on a one-play, 75-yard drive to make the game 7-7.

Third Drive: On first down, Ewers threw a ball to Samson for another solid gain that went for 16 yards. Ewers did a fly sweep with Brady Boyd to pick up a seven-yard gain on second-and-eight, which was followed by a first down picked up by running back Owen Allen.

On the next play, from the shotgun on first down, Ewers fired a ball deep to Boyd that hit him in stride for a 49-yard touchdown to put Southlake Carroll up 14-7. Ewers is now 7-of-8 for 130 yards and a touchdown.

Fourth Drive: Westlake put together an eight-play, 76-yard touchdown drive to tie the score up at 14 apiece.

Fifth Drive: Ewers threw an incomplete pass on first down, which was followed by a one-yard pass the next play. He then took a seven-yard sack, leading to Southlake Carroll's first punt of the game.

Sixth Drive: Austin Westlake took the ball down 53 yards in seven plays to put them up 21-14 with 10:51 left to play in the first half.

Seventh Drive: On second-and-10, Ewers was flushed out to the right and threw the ball to Boyd for an eight-yard gain. Owen Allen came up short the next play, but Ewers followed it up the next play with a 26-yard pass on fourth down. This was fairly risky as the ball was on their own 34-yardline.

A couple of plays later, Ewers ran the ball for five yards to pick up the first down. On second down and seven from Westlake's 27-yardline, Ewers ran left for no gain. Play-fake by Ewers was followed by a back-shoulder fade to Boyd for a 27-yard touchdown to tie the score up at 21-21.

With 6:44 minutes left in the second quarter, Ewers is 11-of-13 for 192 yards and a pair of passing touchdowns.

Eighth Drive: Westlake went down 75 yards in 10 plays to go up 28-21 with 1:12 minutes left in the first half.

Ninth Drive: Ewers ran it 12 yards for a first down, and then threw a ball over the middle of the field that led to a 22-yard gain. He followed that up with a couple of incomplete passes, with the first one seemingly being pass interference on Austin Westlake, but it was not called.

On third down and 10, Ewers was hit as he was throwing the ball and was intercepted.

10th drive: Inside their own 10-yardline, Westlake played it safe and took it into halftime with a 28-21 lead.

Second Half

First Drive: Austin Westlake went down the field for 75 yards and scored a touchdown to go up 35-21.

Second Drive: Ewers rushed the ball for seven yards, but wound up throwing an interception on second-and-eight. The ball was placed just outside of the red zone for Austin Westlake.

Third Drive: On a short field, Westlake punched it in the end zone yet again to go up 42-21.

Fourth Drive: To start the drive, Ewers connected with Samson twice, the latter of which was a 25-yard gain.

The next couple of plays, however, Ewers could not complete passes to his wideouts. On third-and-10, Ewers threw the ball to Samson for a seven-yard gain to get to Westlake's 41-yardline.

On fourth-and-three near midfield, Ewers rolled to his right, threw across his body to the other side of the field, and missed a wide open target that could have led to a touchdown.

Fifth Drive: Southlake was finally able to prevent Westlake from entering the end zone as the Chaparrals were held to a 36-yard field. They are now up 45-21.

Sixth Drive: Once again, Ewers connected with Brady Boyd for a 49-yard gain. A few plays later, due to a penalty on third-and-10, Southlake got backed up and found themselves in a fourth-and-14 situation. Ewers threw the ball away after being under heavy duress, and the Dragons turned the ball over on downs.

Seventh Drive: Westlake's unstoppable offense went down the field for 67 yards in 10 plays to go up 52-21 with less than nine minutes left in the game.

Eighth Drive: In what is essentially garbage time, Ewers connected with Brady Boyd twice for 16 yards total, Owen Allen for two yards and R.J. Maryland for 31 yards. From Westlake's 10-yardline, Ewers passed it to Maryland once again for a touchdown.

Southlake was unsuccessful on their two-point conversion, so it's now 52-27, with Westlake on top.

Ninth Drive: Southlake executed a well-done onside kick and recovered it. Out of the shotgun, Ewers threw a ball over the middle that was incomplete, but there was pass interference on the play.

On second-and-seven from Westlake's 16-yardline, Westlake committed another penalty that led to Southlake getting an automatic first down. A couple of plays later, on second down from the third-yardline, Southlake scored a touchdown to make the score 52-34.

10th Drive: Southlake almost got another onside kick recovery, but they were unsuccessful.

11th Drive: Ewers started off the drive with two straight incomplete passes. On third-and-10, Ewers threw a pass to Boyd for two yards. Under heavy pressure on fourth down, Ewers was hit from behind and fumbled the ball, which was recovered by Westlake.

12th Drive: Westlake kneeled the ball to win the game 52-34.

Ewers' final stats were 23-of-39 (59 percent completion) for 350 yards, three passing touchdowns, two interceptions and a fumble.