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Lifegate eliminated in surprising defensive struggle
(Bellville) – A final score of 27-14 is no shootout in 11-man football, and in the six-man game, it’s a downright defensive slugfest. That was the final tally on the scoreboard at Faith Academy in Bellville on Friday in the opening round of the TAPPS Division-II Six-Man playoffs, with the host Knights eliminating Seguin’s Lifegate Christian School.
In a rematch of a game Bellville-Faith won 39-36 in Geronimo on Sept.28, with both teams coming off 50-point outings in their regular season finales, neither squad reached 300 total offensive yards on Friday. Lifegate outgained the Knights 269 yards to 220, and the teams combined for four punts in the contest.
Faith took the game’s first lead on a five-yard touchdown run by Scott Hunter with 1:10 to play in the first quarter. The PAT kick failed, and the Knights led 6-0. The Falcons engineered a drive and were threatening to tie the score when Hunter intercepted a pass from Lifegate spread-back Cruz Sepeda and returned it up the left sideline 68 yards for his second touchdown of the night. Alex Hunter’s kick made it 14-0, a margin that would last through halftime.
Falcons’ head coach John Rabon credited Bellville-Faith coach Ryan Keen for having his defensive unit well prepared.
“He did a real good job of defending us in the first half,â€