LUBBOCK — For most of the first half Friday, it appeared as though the Cisco Loboes and Stinnett West Texas Comanches were headed for an old-school thriller in the the Region I-2A Division I championship game at Lubbock Cooper’s Pirate Stadium.
But when momentum turned late in the second quarter, it did so sharply and for good, allowing still-undefeated West Texas to pull away for a 48-22 win and end the Loboes’ best season since 2014 at 12-2.
Led by senior quarterback Cayde Winters, whose bowling ball running style proved too much for the Cisco defense to handle over the course of four quarters, the Comanches rallied from first-half deficits of 7-0 and 14-8 to take a 24-14 lead into halftime. And they continued to pile on after the break, stretching their lead to 40-14 by the 8:55 mark of the final period to stamp out any hopes of a Loboes comeback.