2010 History 

Red 20, Blue 14 

Red 0 0 0 14 6 20 

Blue 0 7 7 0 0 14 

Second quarter B – Caleb Holbrook – 6 yard run (Trever Owen – PAT) 

 

Third quarter B – Evan Ward – 11 yard run (Owen – PAT) 

 

Fourth quarter R – Brelan Chancellor – 17 yard run (Chris Barrick – PAT) R – Cody Vaughn – 21 yard run (Barrick – PAT)  

Overtime R – Chancellor – 2 yard pass from Vaughn (pass failed) 

Individual statistics Rushing Red— Desmond Guy 8-46; Cody Vaughn 7-38, TD; Brelan Chancellor 6-29, TD; William Wright 6-12; Julian Young 3-7; Tracer McClinton 1-2; Hunter Johnson 1-(-8); Kelvin Anthony 1-(-11) Blue — Evan Ward 15-59; Randy Price 12-49; Caleb Holbrook 6-40; CJ Willis 9-33; DJ Williams 1-1 Passing Red — Cody Vaughn 10-22-0, 155 yards, TD; Kelvin Anthony 0-2-0, 0 yards Blue — Randy Price 6-11-0, 62 yards; Caleb Holbrook 7-13-1, 42 yards Receiving Red — Desmond Guy 2-62; Jeff Lepak 5-55; Julian Young 1-19; DeVincent Brooks 1-17; Brelan Chancellor 1-3, TD Blue — DJ Williams 6-40; Jarrod hall 3-26; Levi Norwood 1-19; CJ Willis 1-10; Tanner McGee 1-9; Demeris Randolph 1-0 

 

Red stars work overtime for Victory Bowl win, 20-14 By JASON ORTS Waco Tribune-Herald 

 

In only its second year or existence, the Super Centex Victory Bowl is already establishing a reputation for exciting finishes. 

 

On Saturday, Blue team quarterback Randy Price of University sprinted to the outside and leapt toward the end zone with the ball extended. Price appeared to break the plane before losing the ball, but it was ruled a fumble and the Red team recovered to cap a 20-14 overtime victory at Waco ISD Stadium. 

 

“It was close,” Red coach Rodney Southern of Belton said. “You hate for a game to end like that. But that can happen when you have overtime.” 

 

It’s the second straight year that the game has come down to the final play. In last year’s inaugural Victory Bowl , which is hosted by the Heart of Texas Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Red team stormed back from a big early deficit for a 29-24 victory . 

 

Vaughn gave the Red the lead when he connected with his Copperas Cove teammate Brelan Chancellor on a 2-yard scoring pass in overtime on fourth-and-goal. 

 

It was Vaughn’s second scoring strike of the night to go with 155 yards, and he also ran for 38 yards and a TD to account for all of the Red’s scoring and earn him the offensive MVP honor. 

 

“It’s a great honor,” Vaughn said. “I hoped somebody on the Red team would get it. It just happened to be me. But I couldn’t have done what I did without teammates blocking and guys catching the ball.” 

 

The game followed a similar plot this season, with the Blue taking a 14-0 lead early in the third quarter, only to watch the quarterback Cody Vaughn of Copperas Cove guide the Red to 20 unanswered points. 

 

The turning point came on the last play of the third quarter. 

 

Leading 14-0, the Blue took possession after a Red punt. On the first play of the drive, Price drilled a pass to receiver Levi Norwood of Midway, who hauled it in near midfield. But Norwood was hit and fumbled, and Red safety Donovan Shumpert of Temple pounced on the loose ball to give his team new life. 

 

“The turnover hurt us,” Blue coach Matt Carroll of University said. “It’s no different in an all-star game than in a regular game. If you have turnovers, it’s going to hurt you. We were going in for a 21-0 lead, we have the turnover and it turned the momentum.” 

 

Did it ever. 

 

All of a sudden, a Red offense that had sputtered all evening ignited. Vaughn completed passes of 15 and 13 yards to Jeff Lepak of Belton, before Brelan Chancellor of Copperas Cove finished the drive with a 17-yard run to paydirt and cut the Blue lead in half. 

 

On his touchdown jaunt, Chancellor was stacked up after taking a pitch left. But he broke away, found an opening all the way back across the field and snuck into the corner of the end zone. 

 

The Blue managed one first down on its next march before having to punt. 

 

That gave the Red the ball just shy of midfield, and it went back to work. Vaughn again found Lepak for 14 yards to the Blue 37-yard line, and a pair of runs from Itasca’s Desmond Guy pushed the Red to the 21. 

 

Vaughn took it from there, holding onto the ball on the zone read and tiptoeing into the left corner of the end zone to even the score with 6:45 left in the game. 

 

The teams traded punts from there before the Red had one last chance to win it in regulation. It received the ball with 24 seconds left at its own 26. On the first play, Vaughn scrambled around before launching a pass for Guy, who had found his way behind the Blue secondary. 

 

The ball was slightly underthrown, but Guy made a leaping catch for a 57-yard gain — the longest for either team in the game — giving his team the ball at the Blue 17. After Vaughn misses a pass into the end zone, kicker Chris Barrick of Copperas Cove came on for a 34-yard field goal attempt. 

 

But the kick just missed outside the left upright as regulation time expired. 

 

“I thought the game went well,” Southern said. “You’re going to have ups and downs in a game like this. We got a chance to get everybody a bunch of snaps. It was a good week, a good learning experience for the coaches. (Heart of Texas FCA Director Ben Johnson) said we’d go one overtime, and I didn’t think we’d have to. (Barrick) has a leg to kick it from anywhere, but he just missed it.” 

 

Neither team got much going offensively until early in the second quarter. 

 

That’s when the Blue embarked on an 11-play, 68-yard march led by Lorena running back Evan Ward and Groesbeck quarterback Caleb Holbrook. Other than a pair of 10-yard passes from Holbrook to University’s Jarrod Hall and Mexia’s D.J. Williams, it was all Ward and Holbrook on the ground. That included the touchdown run, on which Holbrook found a hole on a zone read and plowed into the end zone for the game’s first score and a 7-0 Blue advantage. 

 

But that was all the scoring either team mustered in the first half. Shumpert picked off Holbrook’s heave to the end zone on the last play of the half and scampered 73 yards before finally being dragged down. Shumpert finished with six tackles, and the interception and fumble recovery to earn the defensive MVP award. 

 

The Blue put together a long drive to open the third before being stopped on fourth down. But it made good on its next march. 

 

Mixing run and pass, the Blue went 54 yards in seven plays. This time, it was Ward powering over the goal line from 11 yards out, and it was a 14-0 score. 

 

Ward finished with a game-high 59 yards on the ground, while Price added 49. Guy was the Red team’s leading ground-gainer with 46 yards and topped the squad with 62 receiving yards. 

 

“I’m thankful for Ben Johnson and what he’s done to put this game together,” Carroll said. “I think him for this opportunity to be a part of such a great organization.”