Last Friday, Randy Allen’s squad won twice— first when Lewisville forfeited a 56-42 win Friday morning, and then when the Scots beat Garland Naaman Forest, 38-7, to open District 6-5A Division I play.
Now, the Scots are 4-2 and sit 2-0 after knocking off the No. 9-ranked Royals.
With Birdville losing on Friday, Highland Park is in first place in the district standings.
The Highland Park-Richland showdown featured 66 points in the first half and only 21 in the second half.
Richland led 35-31 after a high-scoring first half.
Each of the final three touchdowns in the second half was big — as each flipped the lead from one team to the other.
Turnovers led to the first two scores.
Richland, facing 4th and 2 from its own 14, rolled the dice.
Jayshon Gibson was stopped and the Scots took over with a short field and scored a minute later. Running back James Flowers lined up at quarterback two plays in a row and on the second scored.
With 1:44 left in the third, the Scots were up 38-35.
Highland Park fumbled and defensive lineman Quade Williams picked it up. He rumbled his way from the 40-yard line to the 17-yard line to give the Royals (5-1, 1-1) a short field.
On the very next play, Gibson scored on a 17-yard run, avoiding or bouncing off tackles almost the entire trip to the end zone with 9:31 left in the fourth.
Highland Park answered with a score on the next drive, moving 75 yards in 11 plays. Buck Randall had a 32-yard pass to Liam Thomas to move the ball into Richland territory.
Randall, who is committed to SMU, went 5-for-5 on the drive and his last completiong ot the ball to the 11-yard line. Facing 3rd-and-1 from the 11, Richland went offsides to set up a first down.
Flowers scored his third rushing touchdown to cap the drive. Shep Pryor’s PAT made it 45-42 with 6:39 to play.
The game switched on the next drive.
Gibson ran for 1 yard and was stopped at the 11-yard line.
He then left the game with an apparent injury. The Royals were forced to punt and the Scots were able to run out the clock.
Gibson ran for 271 yards and had a 68-yard touchdown catch as well.
Randall threw for 444 yards and had one touchdown pass.
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