ADDISON – Putting points on the board is a habit for Parish Episcopal.
Friday night at Trinity Christian, the pattern held as the Panthers scored 20 points inside the first eight minutes and almost three times that many by halftime en route to a 55-14 victory at Tom Landry Stadium.
Marcus Hanish ran 61 yards for a touchdown for the first points, and his 40-yard interception return for a touchdown had the score at 20-0 with 4:36 to go in the first quarter.
Then it started pouring as Siler Cooke scored on a 17-yard catch, quarterback Jonathan Phillips ran for three second-quarter touchdowns (covering 66, 5 and 12 yards) and Jaxon McKinney had a 45-yard scoring run for a 55-7 lead at halftime.
A fast start is welcome in any formula.
“The formula every week is to try to find something that works and try to do it better than the opponent,” TCA coach Daniel Novakov said. “I don’t know if we have a formula each week. It’s just trying to figure out that week what will be successful for us.”
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The Panthers (6-1, 3-0 TAPPS Division 1 District 1) are averaging 43.3 points and on a six-game winning streak since a season-opening loss to All Saints, a 24-21 decision. Friday was the second time Parish hit 55 points, also doing it in Week 4 against Austin LBJ.
Trinity Christian’s Chase Griffin caught a 49-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter, and Campbell Laible had a 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to account for the home team’s points.
“No excuses. This falls on me at the end of the day,” first-year TCA coach Trey Haverty said. “Got to get better. Got to do your job. At the end of the day, you got to do your job, through thick and thin.”
The Trojans (2-5, 0-3) continue to look for their first district victory. They looked forward to a bye week to reset.
“The players are fighting. We’ve got to find a way to coach better and just learn from it,” said Haverty, a former Big 12-leading receiver at Texas Tech who has been an assistant coach at schools including his alma mater, TCU, Texas, Lamar and SMU. “You go through things, you learn. We’re definitely trying to do that. TCA deserves better than what we’re doing, and that’s our job as coaches to do it.”
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