Liberty Lions at Vacaville - Varsity 2017

If there was one word that accurately sums up Vacaville High School’s Week Zero win over Liberty, it would be resiliency. In what turned out to be a good old-fashioned shootout between a pair of teams that combined for 94 points under the bright lights at Tom Zunino Stadium, it was the Bulldogs who finally pulled out a pair of gutty drives to create separation late in the fourth quarter. Trailing 41-38 with 11 minutes left in the fourth, Vacaville orchestrated a methodical nine play drive that ate up over five minutes on the clock and concluded with junior running back Ethan Houdyshell scampering into the end zone from 26 yards out to give the Bulldogs a 45-42 lead.

++PHOTOS BY KIMMIE HAUCKES and TROY CARRINGTON++