Texas Top 25 high school football scores: Lake Travis stuns Westlake in battle of Austin

Texas-bound Hudson Card fires two touchdown passes in final 10 minutes to lift Lake Travis to a wild back-and-forth win over Austin rival Westlake.

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By Mitch Stephens

Oct 11, 2019, 9:30pm

Starting Oct. 10, 2019, these are the top 10 games in Texas for the week. Highlights on No. 9 Westlake (Austin) at No. 25 Lake Travis (Austin)

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Austin showdown between Lake Travis and Westlake headlines weekend.

Lake Travis had a pair of losses to turnaround and did they ever Friday night with a wild 26-25 win over arch-rival and visiting Westlake in a showdown of Austin powers that highlighted Top 25 play in Texas.

Hudson Card threw his second touchdown of the fourth quarter, a 14-yarder to Grayson Sandlin with four minutes remaining. After Hays McCannon drilled the extra point, Lake Travis (6-1), ranked 25th in the state by MaxPreps, had a 26-25 lead and the defense did the rest.

The victory helped make up for losses the last two years to Westlake, 44-10 and 21-14. Before that, Lake Travis had won 10 straight in the series.

Westlake's Kirkland Michaux broke a 10-10 tie with 2-yard TD run, giving his team a 17-10 lead in the third quarter. After a Lake Travis safety, Card gave his team a 19-17 lead with a 30-yard TD pass to Kyle Eaves.

Cade Klubnik responded by firing a 20-yard touchdown pass to Jackson Coker, giving Westlake back the lead 23-19 and after a two-point conversion it was 25-19 in the middle of the fourth quarter. Once again, Card and Westlake responded to give them the hard-earned victory.

In other Top 25 action, Allen, the nation's No. 14 team and the fourth-ranked team in Texas, raced to a 45-0 lead through three quarters before rolling to a 45-14 win at Plano East.

A fumble return for score, four rushing touchdowns and a TD grab by Blaine Green led to the big lead for teh Eagles, who improved to 6-0. The rushing touchdowns came from four different players, Justin Hall (20 yards), Raylen Sharpe (1), Celdon Manning (4) and Jaylen Jenkins (10). James Griffith added a 28-yard field goal.

With the game well in hand, Trevion Jones-Scott and Donovan Henry rushed for touchdowns of 2 and 4 yards, respectively, for Plano East (1-5).

Top-ranked Duncanville (6-0) allowed two field goals in the first half and nothing more during a 28-6 win over Lake Highlands (3-3).

Second-ranked Katy (6-0), ranked 10th nationally, used a 95-yard kickoff return to start the second half by Bryan Massey to rolled to a 45-3 win over Morton Ranch (4-3).

Just just 10-0 at halftime, the Tigers got things rolling after Massey's kick return as Ronald Hoff had a TD run and catch and Jalen Davis (40 yards) and Sherman Smith (30 yards) broke off long touchdown runs.

Check back here throughout the night for all the Top 25 Texas scores and updates.

MaxPreps Top 25 Texas High School Football Scores

Lake Highlands (Dallas)

No. 1 Duncanville

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