The Waller Bulldog football team won its fifth consecutive football game Nov. 13 defeating the Lockhart Lions 28-7 in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs. 

Defensively, the Bulldogs held Lockhart to just 219 yards. 

After getting off to a slow start in the first half, Waller contained Lockhart running back Dominique Hardaway to 92 total yards in the game. Keith White led the way with multiple tackles, a quarterback sack and an interception. Jordan Hamilton and Jacobie White had outstanding performances in the interior of the defense. Darius Nash, Jordan Ondijo, Trent Rape and Jordan Gooden put pressure on the quarterback and clogged Lion running lanes. 

David McDade and B.J. Kwiatkowski had solid performances at linebacker as well, making tackles from sideline to sideline. Matthew Pierce, Kalyn Utz, Jonathon White, Jyrin Broussard, Miller Pierce, Christ Tompkins and Chad Madden played very well in the secondary. White and Utz were very close to interceptions on stop routes. Miller Pierce made several great plays on speed option plays when he was one on one with Hardaway.

Offensively, the front line of Glen Hill, Sean Mangum, Jason Lafferty, Alex McFaddin and Matt Leviner paved the way for the Bulldogs to roll up 358 total yards. Glen Gilliam had 101 yards on 17 carries and four touchdowns. Miller Pierce had 17 carries for 118 yards. Christ Tompkins had a huge third down catch for a big gain to keep a scoring drive alive. 

Waller took on Dayton Nov. 21 at Houston’s George Stadium in the second round of the playoffs. Results of that game were unavailable at press time.

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