STEPHENVILLE – The Brownwood Lions’ six-game win streak concluded, and their path to a third straight district championship became much more difficult with a 56-43 road loss to the Stephenville Yellow Jackets in Tuesday night’s 6-4A clash.

“They outplayed us, they outhustled us on the rebounds, they outdid us on everything,” said Lions fifth-year head coach Nadir Dalleh. “It looked like we hadn’t practiced in a month. That has to be fixed, and it will be fixed starting tomorrow.”

The Lions (10-7, 1-1) surrendered the first 10 points of the game and faced an 18-10 deficit after one quarter. After pulling within a point, 31-30, at halftime, Brownwood drew even at 31 only for Stephenville (14-5, 2-1) to finish with 11 of the final 13 points in the third quarter. Down 41-33 after three frames, the Lions were unable to piece together another rally.

“Our guys that we were counting on scoring just didn’t do it,” Dalleh said. “We had wide open shots and they weren’t falling, but that can happen on the road and you have to figure it out. Good players and good shooters are going to figure it out, especially on the road, and that was the difference tonight.”

Christian Kinzler finished with 16 points followed by Jakob Hataway with 12, Nathan Wheelington, Zach Porter and Michael Felts with four points apiece and Luke Moss tacked on three points.

Grayson Traweek Led Stephenville with 16 points.

The Lions visit No. 21 Glen Rose (18-2, 2-0) – a 60-35 winner over Gatesville Tuesday – at 6:15 p.m. Friday.