Football Recap: Eagle Pass Skates Past Alexander with Ease

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Previous Games

10/16/25 - Home	34-3 W
10/19/24 - Away	14-17 L
10/05/23 - Away	20-28 L
10/07/22 - Home	35-24 W
10/15/21 - Away	21-16 W
+ 5 more games

Eagle Pass lost a heartbreaker the last time they played Alexander, but it's fair to say they got their revenge given the result of Thursday's game. The Eagles took their matchup on Thursday with ease, bagging a 34-3 win over the Bulldogs. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Eagles had established a 24-point advantage.

Eagle Pass got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was Xavier Barrera out in front who threw for 116 yards and three touchdowns while completing 72.7% of his passes, and also rushed for 51 yards and one score on only six carries. Another back making a difference was Avery Embry, who rushed for 127 yards and one TD on only 12 carries.

Wins are hard to come by when you can't run the rock, something Eagle Pass proved: they limited Alexander to a paltry 2.9 yards per carry. The team can thank Emmanuel Fernandez for the heroic effort on defense: he. Eagle Pass' run defense has been on the up-and-up: they allowed 4.87 yards per carry earlier this season, but they've only allowed 6.47 on average over their last five games.

Eagle Pass' defense didn't let Karlo Tenorio, get away unscathed either: they got into the backfield for 4.5 sacks. Ricardo Martinez refused to say out of the backfield, picking up 1.5 sacks all by himself. Another thorn in Alexander's side was Fernandez, who made 15 total tackles and snagged an interception.

The win made it two in a row for Eagle Pass and bumps their season record up to 4-2. Those victories came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered a grand total of 10 points in those games. As for Alexander, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 4-4.

We've got plenty of inter-district action coming up soon. Eagle Pass is set to square off against their familiar foe United at 7:00 p.m. on the 25th. That game will pit two of the most dominant signal callers against one another: Barrera and Jorge Luna. Meanwhile, Alexander will take on rival Laredo LBJ at 7:30 p.m. on the 24th.