No. 33 Lone Star knocks-off 3X Texas high school football champ Highland Park in Top 100 showdown

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For the second time this year, Frisco’s Lone Star HIgh School, ranked No. 33 in the High School Football America 100 national rankings, snapped a Highland Park streak. During the regular season, the Rangers ended No. 46 Highland Park’s 33-game win streak; Friday afternoon, LS ended the Scots streak of three straight Texas high school football state championships.

Lone Star beat Highland Park 33-27 to advance to the Class 5A Division I state quarterfinals. After HP missed a field goal attempt on the first possession in overtime, Jaden Nixon scored the game-winning touchdown.

Highland Park’s Wesley Winters nailed a 39-yard field goal with 54 seconds left to tie the game at 27 and send the contest to overtime. 

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Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.