ARLINGTON - The second full day of 11-man UIL state championship action from AT&T Stadium featured one blowout and two highly entertaining games as Carthage won their ninth state title since 2008 and China Spring and South Oak Cliff repeated as state champions.

Carthage opened up the day with a 42-0 demolition of Wimberley in the 4A-Division II state title game; it was the only matchup of the weekend featuring two 15-0 teams. The Bulldogs raced out to a 21-0 at the end of the first quarter cruised the rest of the way as head coach Scott Surratt improved to 9-0 in state title games as head coach and ties him with the legendary Gordon Wood as the only UIL head coaches to win nine 11-man state titles.  

China Spring in the middle game of the day pulled off one of the biggest state championship comebacks in recent memory as the Cougars rallied back from a 21-0 deficit to knock off Boerne 24-21 as Thomas Barr kicked a 20-yard field goal as time expired to lift CSHS to their second straight state title. Boerne raced out to the 21-0 lead on the strength of two touchdown passes from Jaxon Baize to Braden Baize, but China Spring began to turn the tide late in the second quarter on a touchdown run from Tristan Exline. Exline’s 66-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter would tie the game up at 21-21 with 2:55 left in the game. China Spring’s defense then stopped Boerne on the ensuing drive forcing a Greyhounds punt, the Cougars got a major break on the punt as Boerne’s punt went just nine yards setting China Spring up with a relatively short field to drive for the game winning field goal.

In front of a crowd of 32,098 in the Friday finale South Oak Cliff won their second straight state title with a hard-fought 34-4 win over Port Neches-Groves. Former third-string QB William Little earned offensive MVP honors as in the first half with SOC’s ground game struggling, Little made several big throws to keep the Golden Bears in the game and only trailing 17-12 at halftime. Little’s three-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, gave South Oak Cliff the lead for good at 24-17 and then on the ensuing drive, Texas commit Malik Muhammad returned an interception for a touchdown, all but sealing the Golden Bears second straight title and cementing head coach Jason Todd’s place among the great coaches in the history of Dallas ISD and Texas High School Football.

The final day of the Texas High School Football season is on tap for Saturday with massive matchups in Class 5A-Division I and Class 6A.