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Duncanville weathers early storm, defeats Skyline: Live score updates (9/27/2024)

Nationally-ranked Duncanville survived an early scare to defeat Skyline in Dallas on Friday

Sam Brown

Duncanville captains take the field in Texas for a nationally-ranked high school football showdown with Maryland's St. Frances Academy on Sept. 14, 2024.
Duncanville captains take the field in Texas for a nationally-ranked high school football showdown with Maryland's St. Frances Academy on Sept. 14, 2024. / Photo by Michael Horbovetz, SBLive

Keelon Russell, Dakorien Moore, and the nationally-ranked Duncanville Panthers will look to remain perfect this Friday night when they make the short trek to Dallas to face Skyline.

The 3-0 Panthers are the top-ranked team in Texas high school football, and they held down their spot at No. 4 in this week's SBLive/SI Top 25 national rankings following a 41-17 win over Waxahachie last week.

Skyline is 2-2 coming off a 34-15 loss against Cedar Hill last week, but the Raiders held their opponents to a combined seven points in the two games they've won.

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FINAL: DUNCANVILLE 63, SKYLINE 14

FOURTH QUARTER

Duncanville take a couple knees to eat up the rest of the clock and the Panthers walk away with a 63-14 victory.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Joe McKinney gets in on the scoring action with his first of the night and Duncanville is now up 63-14.

THIRD QUARTER

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Russell connects with Zach Turner on a corner route. That's six passing touchdowns for Russell, three of them to Turner. Duncanville leads 56-14.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Ace Theus is having a night. He now has his third touchdown of the night, this one on a 30-yard bomb from Russell. Duncanville is really pulling away now. Panthers lead 49-14.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Ace Theus has his second score of the night on a short pass he takes to the house. It's now 42-14 Duncanville.

SECOND QUARTER

Skyline can't get anything going before half. Duncanville holds a 35-14 lead at halftime.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Russell and Turner are locked in and they connect for a 13-yard touchdown to give Duncanville a 35-14 lead just before halftime. That was a 4-play, 74-yard drive that took the Panthers just 44 seconds.

Russell hits Turner for a 32-yard gain and Duncanville is in the red zone.

A 32-yard kick return gives Skyline great field position for what will likely be the Raiders last drive of the first half.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Devine Green now has his second touchdown of the year after punching it in from a few yards out and Duncanville leads 28-14 with just over three minutes to go until halftime.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Russell hits Zachery Turner from 15 yards out and Duncanville has taken a 21-14 with just over seven minutes left in the half. Tuner is a four-star tight end with offers from several big schools such as USC, Houston, Baylor and Arizona State.

Devine Green catches a pass for 40 yards and the Panthers are in good position. Keelon Russell is already over 200 yards passing on the night and over 1,000 yards in this young season.

Skyline can't make anything of their possession as the drive ends with a punt. Duncanville has the ball back with exactly eight minutes left in the first half.

Duncanville starts the quarter with the ball but the drive ends in a punt that rolls out of the back of the end zone. Skyline has the ball on its own 20.

FIRST QUARTER

TOUCHDOWN SKYLINE! Tyreke Cockroft has his second run of 50+ yards as he makes a 54-yard house call and ties the game at 14-14 with 1:59 left in the first. That drive took the Raiders just 1:54.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! Devine Green scores the first touchdown of his senior year and Duncanville leads 14-0 with 3:26 left on the first quarter clock. That was a 10-play, 72-yard scoring drive.

TOUCHDOWN DUNCANVILLE! The Panthers waste no time responding as Ace "Boogie" Theus catches a swing pass and takes it 64 yards to the house to tie the game at 7-7.

TOUCHDOWN SKYLINE! Just a minute and 24 seconds into the game and Skyline leads 7-0 after an explosive first drive.

Skyline is off to a great start as Royse City transfer Tyreke Cockroft busts off a 59-yard run to give the Raiders first and goal.

We are underway! Duncanville kicked off and Skyline will start with the ball.

PREGAME

Back-to-back defending 6A DI state champion Duncanville has the roster that could not only lead the Panthers to a third consecutive state title, but keep them in the conversation as one of the best teams in the country.

There's Division I level talent on both sides of the ball, highlighted by several future Power 4 players such as QB Keelon Russell (Alabama commit), WR Dakorien Moore (Oregon commit), and four-star junior DE K.J. Ford.

Keelon Russell throws a pass during a win over South Oak Cliff to open the 2023 Texas high school football season.
Keelon Russell throws a pass during a win over South Oak Cliff to open the 2023 Texas high school football season. / Photo by Michael Horbovetz, SBLive

Skyline doesn't have quite the level of talent that Duncanville has, but the Raiders feature one of the best players in the state with linebacker Elijah Barnes leading their defense.

Elijah Barnes is committed to Texas
Elijah Barnes is committed to Texas /

The 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior is ranked No. 19 overall in Texas according to 247sports.com, and he is committed to play his college ball for the Texas Longhorns.

-- Sam Brown | sam@scorebooklive.com | @sblivesports

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SAM BROWN

Sam Brown covers high school sports as well as NCAA football and basketball. Sam began his professional career as a high school sports reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he covered boys and girls prep sports full-time and helped cover Vanderbilt football, Tennessee Titans football and Nashville Predators hockey. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a double major in journalism and communication studies and currently lives in Seattle with his girlfriend and dog.  

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