Loyd Cook Photo Dustin Foster (6) and Swaid Houston (12) blocked a Palestine punt in a game held in Brownsboro Oct. 22. Foster returned the ball to the Palestine 15-yard line and the Bears scored four plays later on a five-yard Tyler Thomison run. Brownsboro won, 28-6. Brownsboro Jr. High teams one one, lost one, in matchups with the Palestine Wildcats on Thursday, Oct. 22.

The eighth grade "A" squad won by 22 points, while the seventh grade "A" team was defeated by six.

Palestine only had the "numbers" to field one team per grade level, so Brownsboro Bears "B" squads were inactive last week.

8th `A' 28, Palestine 6

The Bears opened the game with 22 unanswered points in the first two quarters, taking a 16-point lead into halftime.

Bears quarterback Tyler Thomison opened the scoring with a 49-yard touchdown pass to Mitchell Penny with 3:50 left in the first quarter. Jesse Ray scored the 2-point conversion on a running play.

Thomison got the Bears on the board again about two and a half minutes later, running in from five yards out. Ray again ran in the 2-point conversion attempt and Brownsboro was up, 16-0.

Ray capped off a nineplay, 43-yard Bears drive with a two-yard scoring run with 2:46 left in the half and a 22-0 lead.

Palestine got its lone score of the first half with seven seconds left on a 46-yard touchdown pass to trim the lead to 22-6.

Brownsboro capped off the scoring with a third quarter touchdown pass thrown by Jarod Bragdon to Penny.

Palestine 22, 7th `A' 16

The Wildcats' seventh grade team did the same to the Bears that the Bears eighth grade team did to the Wildcats - score the first 22 points of the game.

A 54-yard run at the 4:05 mark of the first, and a 57- yard run as the first quarter expired, put Palestine up 16- 0. That was a lead the Wildcats expanded with a 33- yard run with 1:51 left in the first half.

But the Bears did mount a comeback.

Landon Mason caught a 30-yard scoring pass from quarterback Matt Bailey with 35 seconds to go in the first half to cut the deficit to 22-6.

Mason would catch another Bailey touchdown pass, this one in the fourth quarter, and Cody Renfro caught a 2-point conversion pass as the Bears pulled within 22-14 with 6:50 left in the game.

But the Bears last offensive possession was stopped by interception at the Palestine 13-yard line. After the Wildcats lost 12 yards on two plays, a kneel down by the quarterback resulted in a safety for Brownsboro as time ran out.