West Rusk scored a 43-20 win over the Troup Tigers on Sept. 26 in Troup. The Raiders meet Hughes Springs in a Class 3A Division II area playoff game at 7 p.m. Thursday at Jack V. Murphy-Bear Stadium in Gladewater.

TEMPLE 40, LONGVIEW 13

ARLINGTON — Longview was able to scrounge something together with sloppy play in the first half Friday night against Temple but that wasn’t the case in the second half.

Far from it.

Temple put up 30 second-half points and Longview couldn’t get out of its own way in any way, shape or form in a 40-13 pasting of the Lobos at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Penalties, turnovers and miscues happened early and often for Longview, who suffered its first regular-season loss since 2017 and the largest deficit in defeat since a 27-point loss to Lufkin in 2014.

Longview finished with four turnovers, three fumbles and an interception, with 24 coming off those turnovers to go with a fourth-quarter safety. The Lobos were hit with 17 penalties to the tune of 142 yards.

Temple, meanwhile, found its stride in the second half after coming into the third quarter down 13-10.

Quarterback Humberto Arizmendi finished with four touchdowns on 20-of-27 passing for 212 yards, targeting four receivers for scores. Tre’Darius Taylor led with three catches for 62 yards and Samari Howard had four catches for 61 yards.

Temple had three scoring drives of less than 40 yards and none over 65 yards in the win.

The Lobo defense did hold the Wildcats to 39 rushing yards on 23 carries and came away with an interception from Tyree Hale and a fumble recovery from Kybrien Jackson-Jamerson. Shannon Jackson turned in an all-over-the-field night and Trevor Tamplin was a standout up front.

Offensively, Longview finished with 161 rushing yards on 32 carries, led by 91 yards from Kaden Meredith on 16 carries. Markevion Haynes had 30 yards, including a seven-yard score.

The Lobos rolled out two sophomore quarterbacks with Jordan Allen and Landyn Grant getting a quarter each in the first half.

Allen finished 5-of-9 passing for 47 yards and Grant went 11-of-16 for 110 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

Jalen Hale pulled down six passes for 61 yards, including an 8-yard score, and tight end Justin Beltran had five catches for 43 yards.

It couldn’t have started any better for the Lobos, who marched 75 yards on eight plays with Haynes rumbling in for a seven-yard score. The point-after kick failed for a 6-0 lead.

But then the offense sputtered with three-straight punts, including two three-and-outs, with one coming after Tyree Hale’s pick.

— Hayden Henry

West Rusk 43, Troup 20

TROUP — James Greenalch rushed for 227 yards and two touchdowns, Jimmie Harper had a TD pass and a rushing TD and West Rusk rolled to a 43-20 win over Troup on Friday at Tiger Stadium.

Will Jackson added 33 rushing yards for West Rusk (1-3), which led 14-0 after one quarter and 33-6 at halftime.

Andon Mata completed 14 of 24 passes for 153 yards and a touchdown. Omarion Anthony had five catches for 69 yards, and Jackson added four grabs for 43 yards.

West Rusk is idle Friday. Troup (1-3) visits Arp.

Gladewater 42, Tatum 21

GLADEWATER — Tristan Holmes and D.J. Allen hooked up five times through the air, and the Gladewater Bears held on for a 42-21 win over the Tatum Eagles on Friday at Jack V. Murphy-Bear Stadium.

Holmes tossed TD passes of 15 and 48 yards to Allen to give the Bears a 14-0 lead on the Eagles. Kendric Malone countered with a 13-yard scoring strike to Kendall Williams late in the second quarter to cap a 9-play, 70-yard drive that made it a 14-7 contest, but the Bears weren’t done.

Holmes went up top again to Allen, and this time the scoring play covered 76 yards with just 26 seconds left in the half for a 21-7 Bear halftime cushion.

After Malone hit Quiston Sheffield on a 63-yard scoring toss in the opening minute of the third, Holmes and Allen connected on scoring tosses of 89 and 69 yards followed by a 2-yard run from Jakeven Hardeman to give Gladewatera comfortable 42-14 lead.

Malone’s 24-yard TD run for Tatum capped the scoring and made the final 42-21.

Tatum (2-2) is idle next week. Gladewater (4-2) will visit New Boston.