Ty Garver hauled in two touchdown passes and Casmen Hill romped for 258 yards as Chandler beat Kellyville 40-19 Friday night.
The win boosted the Lions’ record to 3-1 for the season and left them as one of the four leaders in the District 2A-2 standings along with Luther, Jones and this week’s Homecoming opponent, Meeker.
Despite the Lions dominating the stats and the scoreboard, head coach Jack Gray wasn’t pleased with their play.
“We played sloppy the first half,” he said. “We came out a little flat. The whole team was flat, just not fired up.
“As a unit, we weren’t doing things like we should. It was just little things, like staying on a block or blocking the right guy or being in the right formation. A lot of miscues.
“We’ll fine-tune a lot of things and we’ll be cooking a lot better.”
Chandler took a 6-0 lead late in the first quarter when quarterback Alec Jackson hit Corbin Hollon with a fade in the corner of the end zone.
The Lions pushed it to 14-0 early in the second quarter when Jackson scrambled until he found Ty Garver in the end zone. Hill ran for the conversion.
Chandler added two more scores, a five-yard run by Blake Rickner and a 76-yard catch-and-run by Garver.
That made it 26-0, but Kellyville’s Cody Barnes got the Ponies on the scoreboard when he picked a loose punt and ran it in for a touchdown. Trevor Sutton blocked the point-after, keeping the score at 26-6.
Early in the third quarter, Chandler stopped Kellyville on fourth down at the two-yard line, then put together a 98-yard drive that made the score 33-6 and took much of the remaining mystery out of the final score.
Hill peeled off two long runs and then raced 20 yards for the touchdown, making it 33-6 with 8:36 left in the third.
Jackson added a 6-yard run later in the period to make it 40-6.
Kellyville added two scores later, accounting for the final.
The Lions got Hill back after a game-and-a-half’s absence due to injury, and he put an exclamation point on the night, running 17 times for an average of more than 15 yards per carry and a touchdown.
“I think he got a little winded a couple of times,” Gray said. “You can run all you want to, but until you get out there, it’s a different deal. I thought he ran well and looked good.”