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Parkland RB Deion Hankins sets El Paso rushing record, passing Edward Britton

Parkland hosted Chapin in a Northeast El Paso rivalry high school football game. Parkland running back Deion Hankins set a city record. Mark R Lambie, El Paso Times

Under slightly different circumstances, the 146 yards Parkland's Deion Hankins churned out Friday night was so typically excellent, so amazingly normal for him, it might have gotten lost in the Matadors' stunning 53-14 victory over Chapin High School.

Instead, Hankins' evening took center stage because of the 5,388 career yards that came before it. Add that up and it comes to 5,534, enough to break the 14-year-old El Paso County record held by Montwood's Edward Britton, who gained 5,524 yards in a career that went from 2002-04.