Aledo may have been playing the Royse City Bulldogs, but the Big Dog wears an Aledo uniform.
Jase McClellan rushed for 240 yards and five touchdowns to lead the Bearcats to a 52-24 area playoff victory Friday at SMU’s Ford Stadium. McClellan carried the ball 22 times, and left the game after his fifth TD made it 42-10 with 3:25 left in the third quarter.
The Bearcats (11-1) will advance to the regional quarterfinals and will play the winner of Saturday’s Red Oak/Denton Braswell contest.
On the third play of the game McClellan broke free for a 51-yard TD run to give Aledo a 7-0 lead just 1:03 into the game. Of McClellan 22 carries, six went for 12 yards or more.
Many of his long runs were a result of breaking tackle attempts by the Bulldogs.
After the Aledo defense forced a three and out, the Bearcats made it 14-0 when quarterback Jake Bishop threw a 73-yard touchdown to Money Parks on Aledo’s fourth offensive play of the game.
McClellan scored Aledo’s next four touchdowns. He added a 7-yard TD run early in the second quarter, then finished drives with TD runs of 3, 52 and 6 yards in the third quarter.
Friday’s victory may have been the best game this season by the Bearcat defense. Royse City had been led by running backs Ahmon Petty-Dozier and Payton Petroff.
Petty-Dozier had 74 yards on 13 carries, but one of those runs went for 38 yards. On his other 12 carries, he had just 36 yards total.
Petroff managed just 25 yards on 9 carries after averaging more than five yards per carry during the regular season.
Royce City scored just 10 points and had less than 200 yards of offense against the Aledo’s first-team defense. The Bulldogs scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter against the second team defense on drives of 96 and 59 yards.
Aledo came up with three turnovers in the second half to help turn the game into a blow out.
Safety Nathen Fingar had an interception on the fourth play of the third quarter.
The kick off team came up with two fumble recoveries of squib kicks.
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