Dec 11, 2023
(14-1) Wimberley Junior Quarterback Cody Stoever played an amazing game, but his game tying two point conversion was stopped shy of the goal line as (15-0) Bellville thwarted an amazing comeback to reach the UIL 4A Division II state football championship. Bellville was led by Junior Running Back DD Murray, who had several amazing touchdown runs. Bellville had leads of 7-0, 14-7, 28-14, before holding on for the dramatic 35-33 victory.
Bellville will play Gilmer, who defeated Glen Rose, this Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Bellville Defensive End DJ Sanders got the scoring started with a scoop and score 27-yard fumble recovery to give the Brahmas a 7-0 lead. Stoever tied it with a 5-yard TD run 7-7. Sam Hranicky made it 14-7 with a short TD run for Bellville, but Stoever tied it up again with a short yardage TD run 14-all with 10:33 to play in the 2nd quarter. Bellville's Murray scored on a 27 yard TD run to make it 21-14 with 1:17 to play until halftime. Corrdian Hood scored on a 69 yard touchdown run to open the scoring in the 3rd quarter for the Brahmas 28-14. Stoever responded with a 3 yard TD run to cut Bellville's lead to 28-21 late in the 3rd quarter.
Stoever adds his 4th touchdown in the 4th quarter dragging a defender into the endzone, but the extra point hit the upright and that proved costly. Down 35-27, Stoever drags more defenders on a 4th and 6 play to pick up the 1st down deep in Brahmas territory. Stoever added his 5th touchdown of the game with a short yardage run with under a minute to play. But the two piont conversion failed, as Stoever came up short with :43 seconds remaining in the game. Bellville got the onside kick and ran out the clock to preserve the dramatic victory.
By JOE BLOUNT Long before the birth of Christ the buckeye was known to have medicinal value. The nutlike seed, found abundantly on shrubs here in East Texas, first got its notoriety as a curative agent from the Greco-Roman culture. Their god of medicine was Aesculapian. Even today botanical scientists place the buckeye within the genus Aesculus, recognize it as a member of the horse-chestnut family and are still highly puzzled by its many and varied phytochemicals. “Phyto,” as you may recall from biology, simply means “from plants.” There are a great number of antioxidants and maintenance chemicals found in the buckeye’s pulp. There are also many toxic compounds and several of the substances are downright poisonous. Early Greek docs would skin the buckeye and boil the endosperm, producing a brew that was taken internally. Most often, just as the case may still be today, the cure inevitably turned out to be worse than the disease. So now, we see that the buckeye is poisonous. We also b...
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