Prescott humbles Lamar behind Pipkin, Vanhook

PRESCOTT 53, LAMAR 28

PRESCOTT — Carlos Vanhook rushed for four touchdowns, quarterback Trevor Pipkin accounted for 300 yards of total offfense, and Prescott trampled Lamar 53-28 on a muddy Eddie Jackson Field at Cummins Stadium Friday.

Prescott (11-2) led 41-7 at halftime.

Prescott quarterback Trevor Pipkin completed 9 of 13 passes for 181 yards and 3 touchdowns and rushed 11 times for 119 yards. Pipkin accounted for 264 of his yards in the first quarter.

Prescott scored first, on Pipkin’s 63-yard pass to Kadarius Pearson with 11:07 to play in the first quarter, but the extra point failed, opening the door for Lamar (10-3) to take its only lead, 7-6, on a 46yard run and an extra point by Blake Kern with 9:58 to play in the first quarter.

The Curley Wolves countered with a 23-yard pass from Pipkin to Brandon Walker with 6:53 to play in the first quarter and Deontae Johnson’s 71-yard interception return for a touchdown at 2:01 of the first quarter.

Pipkin’s two-point conversion run made it 20-7 .

Prescott scored three more times in the first half to built its halftime lead.

Vanhook scored from the 8 at 6:53, and on a 2-yard run at 3:15 and Walker caught his

second touchdown pass from Pipkin, a 15-yard play, with 13 seconds to play in the half.

Prescott made it 47-7 on Vanhook’s third touchdown, a 1-yard run with 6:27 to play in the third quarter.

The Curley Wolves scored one more touchdown, on Vanhook’s 80 yard run, with 11:45 to play in the game.

Lamar trailed 47-7 when Austin Hency scored on a 10yard run to make it 47-13 after the third quarter.

Vanhook’s 80-yard run made it 53-13.

Lamar scored twice late in the fourth quarter.

HARDING ACADEMY 22, DANVILLE 14

DANVILLE — Alex Francis threw three second-half touchdowns as Harding Academy (12-1) rallied from a 14-0 halftime deficit to eliminate Danville (84) in the 3A playoffs.

Francis threw third-quarter touchdown passes of 63 yards to Dave Chapman and 7 yards to Carter Sipe to get the Wildcats to within 14-12.

Travis Turley’s 24-yard field goal gave

the Wildcats the lead for good in the fourth quarter before Francis threw 26 yards to Luke Fouts for his third touchdown pass of the game.

Danville took a 14-0 first-quarter lead on two 63-yard runs by Jake Madding. Madding added a two-point run after the second touchdown.

Francis was 26 of 45 for 294 yards passing.

Madding led all rushers with 208 yards on 29 carries.

SMACKOVER 15, WEST FORK 6

WEST FORK — Arkansas oral commitment Jordan Jones caught two

touchdown passes to lead Smackover (11-2) past West Fork (8-4) in the Class 3A quarterfinals.

West Fork led 6-0 midway through the second quarter, but Jones’ two touchdown catches — one late in the first half and the other late in the third quarter — were enough to move Smackover into the semifinals.

Keiandre Purifoy hit Jones with a 23yard touchdown pass with 23 seconds left in the first half, and the two connected again for a 17-yard touchdown in the third quarter that put away the Tigers for good.

Colton Wise hit Brayden Bowerman with a 6-yard touchdown pass for West Fork’s lone score.