Temple running back Lache Seastrunk blazed onto the Texas high school football scene as a sophomore, and on Thursday he was rewarded with an honorable mention on the Associated Press Sports Editors Class 5A All-State Team.

Using stellar speed and moves, Seastrunk rushed for 1,385 regular-season yards and 18 touchdowns - 10 of 45 yards or longer - on 116 carries for an 11.9-yard average. He helped lead the 7-4 Wildcats to a 6-0 record in District 13-5A for their first league title since 1999.

Seastrunk added 147 rushing yards, including an 80-yard touchdown, in Temple’s 34-31 overtime loss to eventual Division II state finalist Pflugerville in the first round of the playoffs.

San Antonio Reagan running back Marcus Wright became the latest to stop a Southlake Carroll streak this season.

Following five straight seasons of Carroll quarterbacks winning the APSE 5A Offensive Player of the Year award, Wright, a senior, finally wrested that honor from the Dragons.

A statewide panel of sports writers voted on the 18th annual APSE All-State Team based on statistics from the regular season, when Wright rushed for 2,012 yards and 23 touchdowns. He finished with 3,374 yards and 45 TDs for the 11-3 Rattlers.

Wright is the first non-Carroll quarterback to win the award since Baytown Lee quarterback Drew Tate in 2001.

Carroll surrendered its monopoly on that award in the same year the Dragons saw their 49-game winning streak and run of three straight state championships come to an end.

“It’s an outstanding honor, and he’s certainly deserving,” Reagan coach and former Killeen boss David Wetzel said.

Abilene junior linebacker Chris Williams, whose Eagles eliminated Carroll from the playoffs, was selected Defensive Player of the Year. He made 80 tackles and 11 sacks in leading Abilene to the Division II state semifinals.

Williams continues a legacy of dominating defensive players at Abilene, which had Jerrod Carroll pick up the same honor in 2004.

“He’s only a junior, but people keep asking me where he’s going to go,” Abilene coach Steve Warren said. “I keep saying, ‘He’s signed with us for one more year.’”

Wright, a Tulsa commitment whose rushing yards and touchdowns set single-season records in the San Antonio school district, finished his high school career with 7,036 yards and 85 touchdowns.

Carroll senior quarterback Riley Dodge, the 2006 Offensive Player of the Year, was named first-team quarterback this year. He was among four Carroll players named to the first or second team, the most in 5A.

Allen’s Dan Buckner, North Mesquite’s Daymond Patterson and Smithson Valley’s Cody Renken were first-team wide receivers.

Saturday’s state title games in San Antonio’s Alamodome won’t exactly be flush with top all-state selections. Of the four teams remaining, only Euless Trinity has a player - offensive lineman Josh Ayers - on the first team.

Trinity (14-1) will play Converse Judson (11-4) in the Division I final, and Pflugerville (12-3) will face Katy (15-0) for the Division II championship.