Top 100: No. 5 Duncanville advances to Texas high school football quarterfinals by beating No. 66 Arlington Martin

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Duncanville’s drive for its first Texas high school football state championship since 1998 is still chugging along. Friday, the Panthers, ranked No. 5 in the High School Football America 100 national rankings, beat No. 66 Arlington Martin 45-17. Duncanville advances to the Class 6A Division I Region I final where it will meet the winner of Saturdays’s semifinal game between No. 21 Southlake Carroll and Midland Lee.

Junior wide receiver Roderick Daniels had a huge game. Daniels finished with 161 yards of total offense — 98 rushing, 63 receiving.

Duncanville improves to 13-0 and will play in the regional final next week for the third time in four years. Martin finishes 11-2, losing in the regional semifinals for the for the seventh time in ten years. The Warriors are 1-7 in regional semis in the last decade.

Duncanville QB Ja’Quinden Jackson, a Texas-recruit, scored three touchdowns on the ground, finishing with 164 yards on 16 carries.

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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.