Lake Travis (13-0) did everything it had to Saturday in the Alamodome, building on a tough win over Steele with a 52-13 whipping of Corpus Christi Flour Bluff (11-2).

After both teams sputtered on their respective opening drives, Lake Travis wound up with great field position thanks to an intentional grounding penalty that forced Flour Bluff to punt from its own 11-yard line. A poor punt a good punt return by Andy Erickson gave Lake Travis exceptional field position at the Hornet 23-yard line. Three plays later, Erickson finished the job with a 15-yard scamper to put the Cavs up 7-0. They never looked back.

The Cavs followed that score with a defensive stop, and then set up a three-yard touchdown run by Brewer with a 51-yard bomb from Brewer to Conner Floyd.

“You know, I was just getting good passes all day from [Brewer],” Floyd, who finished with six receptions for 146 yards and three touchdowns, said. “When he’s throwing like that and we’re calling the right plays, this happens.”

The Hornets’ lone score of the first half came on a 28-yard touchdown by running back Trenton Bailey.

“We felt like coming in that this was our game,” Lake Travis defensive end Trevor Gillette said. “We knew we wanted to respond as a defense, and it really was pretty clear we had the game when we started getting them for losses toward the end of the second half.”

Lake Travis answered in eight plays on the following drive, with Brewer diving in from a yard out and then hitting Jack Patton for a two-point conversion pass to make it 22-7. That’s the lead the Cavaliers would take into halftime, as a late drive was thwarted when Brewer had a pass picked off by a Hornet defensive back.

“I wasn’t disappointed so much in our play, it’s just that I felt like we had a chance to slam the door before heading into the break, and we squandered it,” Lake Travis head coach Chad Morris said. “[Brewer] could have pulled the trigger quicker on that ball, and he knew it from the minute he let it go. But sometimes that’s how it goes and I was really happy with the way he responded and came back in the second half.”

The Cavaliers responded with a four-and-out stop of Flour Bluff to open the second half, and then scored in five plays, this time with Brewer hitting Floyd for a 17-yard pass to make it 29-7 after a Kramer Fyfe extra point. The touchdown was set up by a Brewer run in which he broke at least six tackles, escaped from what would have been a loss beyond his own 40-yard line, and turned it into a gain down to the Flour Bluff 17-yard line.

Lake Travis sophomore Tyler Paulson snared the first points of the day for the defense, wrangling down Hornet quarterback Jackson Bonnette for a safety on the very next drive. A kickoff return by Collin Lagasse to the Flour Bluff 24-yard line set up another touchdown run by Erickson to make it 38-7. Just like that, Lake Travis had scored 16 points in the span of 1:18.

Bonnette put in a days’ work on the next Flour Bluff drive, rushing for 74 of the 81 yards covered by the Hornets on their second scoring drive of the game. He capped it with a one-yard dive, but his conversion pass was dropped.

Brewer hit Floyd twice more to close out the scoring for Lake Travis, and the junior quarterback finished the game with 14 completions on 22 attempts for 214 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.

Lake Travis will play Alamo Heights in the Region IV final next Friday at 7:30 in San Marcos’ Bobcat Stadium.

The two teams have met twice since 2004, with Alamo Heights topping Todd Reesing and Co. in a 2004 bi-district match up, and the Cavs topping the Mules the following year in the same game.