The Anna defense secured its fourth shutout of the season and did so on the biggest stage — a 26-0 blanking of Tyler Chapel Hill on Friday in the Texas high school Class 4A Division I championship football game at AT&T Stadium.
Facing a Bulldogs’ offense that had scored 50 or more points in 7 of 15 games entering the finals, the Coyotes posted a shutout.
It marked only the third time in the past five years that Chapel Hill left a field with a 0 on the board.
“Everyone always says air raid offenses can’t win championships because they have no defense," Anna head coach Seth Parr. "I’d like to say we just proved that theory wrong,”
The Coyotes held Chapel Hill to only 206 yards of total offense. In the first half, they were just downright stingy.
Chapel Hill ran 23 plays and had 19 yards of total offense.
The Coyotes' offense accounted for four scores in the first half and then a safety with 36 seconds left capped off a 36-point first half for Anna (15-1).
"We made a lot of mistakes, a lot of execution things,” Chapel Hill coach Jeff Riordan said. “We didn’t play our best football tonight. That was an unbelievable football team …well-coached. They are solid on defense. They made it tough on us all night. Every time we got something going something would happen and we would get behind the sticks. No football team is good from playing behind the sticks. That hurt us offensively.”
Anna defensive coordinator Efrain Ramos drew up a defense that forced a fumble, a turnover on downs, four punts and the safety on a tackle in the end zone on a running play.
Twelve different times, the Bulldogs were stopped for a loss carrying the ball — losing 45 yards.
Rickey Stewart, who had 2,797 yards and 40 touchdowns heading into the game, was held to 66 yards on 14 totes. He was averaging 186 yards per game.
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