Custom excerpt from WYSIWYG advanced custom field leads to HTML markup issue

I’ve a custom excerpt function to get an excerpt from an advanced custom fields WYSIWYG field. The function inside functions.php is:

function custom_field_excerpt($title) {
    global $post;
    $text = get_field($title);
    if ( '' != $text ) {
        $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
        $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
        $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
        $excerpt_length = 35; // 20 words
        $excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
        $text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
    }
    return apply_filters('the_excerpt', $text);
}

the function is called in the html with:

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt"><?php echo custom_field_excerpt('news_post'); ?></p>

the resulting html looks like:

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt"></p>
<p>Worf, It's better than music. It's jazz. Mr. Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship. This is not about revenge. This is about justice. The Federation's gone; the Borg is everywhere! In all trust, [...]</p>
<p></p>

but i would have expected as well as wanted:

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt">Worf, It's better than music. It's jazz. Mr. Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship. This is not about revenge. This is about justice. The Federation's gone; the Borg is everywhere! In all trust, [...]</p>

After further research I guess the cause for the issue are that html tags are added by the WYSIWYG field. I tried to add:

$text = strip_tags( $text );

to the function from the beginning but no luck. but is there a way to get to that single line from above?

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt">Worf, It's better than music. It's jazz. Mr. Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship. This is not about revenge. This is about justice. The Federation's gone; the Borg is everywhere! In all trust, [...]</p>

where only the wrapping p elements are stripped that e.g. anchor tags remain inside. Best regards Ralf