Estancia football takes first loss as offense stalls versus University

Estancia kick returner Brandon Bettinghausen finds open space and runs around the defense for a touchdown against University on Thursday. There’s no way we should have won that game, with five turnovers.. We stunk up the place on offense tonight.. Just a nightmare.” Brown topped 100 yards for the third straight week, finishing with 127 on 21 carries, but it was two fumbles — the first, on a handoff, enabling the Trojans to extend their advantage to 13-0 at halftime; the second, at the University 31 after a 10-yard sprint late in the third quarter — that were on his mind at the finish. We’ve got to get stuff moving.” University went ahead at the start, marching 75 yards on a dozen plays over nearly six minutes behind sophomore quarterback Dylan Elmer, making his first varsity start. He hit on seven of nine passes for 68 yards and a Cruz McMullens’ end-zone grab on the opening drive, and the Trojans added two Jake Rabold field goals before the break, a 27-yarder following another long possession and a 40-yarder to end the half four plays after Brown’s first turnover. It limited University to 10 yards and one first down on its next four drives, but that led to nothing: three straight possessions ended with turnovers, with quarterback Heriberto Sanchez Martinez losing the ball on a sack and throwing an interception, and then Brown’s second miscue.