Texas Tech commit Keegan Ash breaks 72-year old TX HS football rushing record

Billy Heyen

Texas Tech commit Keegan Ash breaks 72-year old TX HS football rushing record image

Keegan Ash isn't even expected to play running back in college.

But he just broke one of the immortal records in Texas high school football for an RB.

In 1953, Kenneth Hall ran for 4,045 yards for Sugar Land High School.

In the 72 years since, no one had ever equaled that mark for a single season for any high school football team anywhere in Texas.

Until Ash.

Ash, who plays for Mount Enterprise, broke the mark Friday night as his school advanced in the UIL Class 2A Division II playoffs past Bremond.

His 319 yards on the night, which followed 420 the week before, pushed Ash past Hall.

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With Ash's team still alive, he'll have a chance to push this record further out and make it tougher to ever catch.

Ash is signed to Texas Tech, where he's expected to play linebacker. He certainly knows where opposing ball carriers are trying to go, and he's got the speed and change of direction to make lots of plays on defense.

At least one running back nationally ran for more yards than Ash this fall, so far. Myles McLaughlin, out of Knox (Indiana), surpassed 4,800 yards to set the national single-season record.

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