DESOTO, Texas — The back-to-back UIL 6A Division II state champ DeSoto Eagles have been knocked off for the first time in nearly two years.
After dropping an eye-opening 70 points against Georgia's Creekside Seminoles in Week 1, the Eagles looked to be flying high to another likely undefeated season in pursuit of a three peat. Not so fast said the No. 5 ranked North Crowley Panthers.
The Panthers went into DeSoto and knocked off the Eagles, 57-51, in an upset win that snapped the third-longest active win streak (23 straight games) in Texas high school football, according to Bally Sports Southwest's Greg Tepper. The last time DeSoto had lost was in October of the 2022-23 season, when the Eagles fell to Duncanville 41-17, who are the back-to-back 6A Division I state champs.
When WFAA's Joe Trahan ended his report of the DeSoto-North Crowley highlights on "High School Game Night," the Eagles still had a 44-33 lead in the fourth quarter.
North Crowley pulled off the fourth quarter comeback, though, to improve to 2-0 on the season and snag the biggest win of the night in the Lone Star State.
"This team, they have a lot of resolve," North Crowley head coach Ray Gates told Bally Sports on Friday night. "The experience was on display tonight. We have been pushed. We told the guys tonight that we were going to be Buster Douglas and we were fighting Mike Tyson, who is 37-0 and never hit the canvass."
DeSoto will face the Miller Buccaneers next week. North Crowley takes on another Texas juggernaut in Denton Guyer for their next game, which will be broadcast on Friday Night Football on WFAA+. For a look at the full Friday Night Football schedule, click here.
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