The towering lights seemed to serve as the pillars that held up the cloudless blue sky at the SAC on Thursday night as the two stingiest defenses in District 29-5A met on the gridiron.
It was LBJ, however, that bested previously undefeated Cigarroa, as senior running back Ricky Flores paved the way for a 14-0 win.
The Wolves improved to 2-2 in 29-5A, 3-2 overall, and matched the program's high for a win total in a single season.
The Toros tasted defeat for the first time, falling to 3-1 in 29-5A, 4-1 overall.
The Toros poisoned themselves with penalty after penalty at the start, while the Wolves eventually implemented their slobber knocking run game down Cigarroa’s throat.
Cigarroa began the night with the first possession, but self-destructed every drive with botched snaps, fumbles and three-and-outs. The Toros punted their first two drives and fumbled their third.
The Toros finished the game, behind the play of junior quarterback Victor Martinez, with 108 yards of total offense, but lost 35 yards from penalties and also accounted for two fumbles and two interceptions.
Nothing could dig them out of the hole they had dug themselves.
Flores' Wolves capitalized enough to muster two touchdowns, one in the closing minutes of the first half by senior quarterback Juan Perez on a 48-yard keeper, and the other in the third quarter on a Flores run.
The Wolves juggled between two basic offensive attack tactics: the off-tackle toss plays or the straight-up-the-gut dives by mostly Flores, who was forced to make a fashionably late entrance due to missing Monday’s practice.
He didn't get his first rep until the first LBJ play of the second quarter.
The Wolves took the ball away and shut down the Toro offense by muscling their offensive line and rushing Martinez’s pass timing.
Then the offense handed the ball securely to Flores, allowing him to take out his aggression on his opposition.
He finished with 119 rush yards in just three quarters of play.
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