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SPORTSSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 SECTION B

KRUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38BOYD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

CHICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53DH-JARVIS . . . . . . . . . . 22

ALVORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

FOSSIL RIDGE . . . . . . . . 52NORTHWEST . . . . . . . . . 42

DECATUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56BRIDGEPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Myers ‘great night’ leads

Eagles to win

BY RICHARD [email protected]

As the fi nal minutes ticked off the clock Friday night, Jus-tin Myers stood on the side-lines with a chance to refl ect and take in the night.

“This is a great night,” said the De-catur senior signal caller. “This outcome is a result of all the work all week. There’s still a few things that can get better. But to-night was great.”

Myers was a big reason it was a great night for the Big Blue and Decatur in the Bat-tle of Big Sandy. In his fi rst start in the 95th meeting be-tween the two rivals, Myers torched the Bulls with his arm and legs to lead Decatur to a 56-27 win over Bridge-port.

Myers ran for 204 yards and three touchdowns and added 252 yards through air, com-pleting 15 of his 22 attempts.

“He did a great job,” said Decatur coach Mike Fuller. “He did a good job passing and made plays with his feet when he needed.”

Myers wasted no time put-ting his mark on the game, hitting speedster Gunnar Parker for a 50-yard touch-down on the Eagles’ fi rst pos-session.

After the Decatur defense made a stop at the 10-yard line, Myers broke free for a 65-yard romp to set up a second touchdown.

“I’ve always come to this game when I was little. The Battle of Big Sandy was al-ways a big thing,” Myers said. “I got in last year after Gray-son [Muehlstein] did great things. It’s great to be a part of it.”

Myers didn’t stop there. When it looked like maybe his team was losing grip on the game as Bridgeport ral-lied behind a pair of plays from the dynamic Keenan Holdman, it was the steady hand of Myers completing a 26-yard pass on a third-and-8 to get the Eagles back on track. He scored on a 8-yard run on the next play.

He then put the game away in the third quarter, marching the Eagles on four straight scoring drives. He capped one with a 9-yard scoring run. His fi nal series he threw a pair of touchdowns. The fi rst a 47-yard strike to Payton McAlister was called back for illegal touching. The next play, Myers connected with Ryan Durdon for 33 yards. He then closed the night with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Parker.

Aside from trotting back on the fi eld to punt twice in the fourth quarter, he spent the rest of the night on the side-lines — where he’d hoped to be.

“We put in such a good week of work, we were confi dent this was going to happen,” Myers said.

But he reached the sidelines only after a truly great night in the Battle of Big Sandy.

GREENE

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TRYING TO BREAK FREE — Decatur freshman running back Mario Reyes tries to shake Bridgeport tackler Lane Morrow during the Eagles’ 56-27 victory Friday in the Battle of Big Sandy.


After missing its opportu-nity to land knockout shots in the fi rst half, the Deca-tur Eagles didn’t make the same mistake in the third quarter.

The Eagles turned an eight-point game at half-time into a 56-27 rout of the Bridgeport Bulls, putting up 21 straight points in the fi rst seven minutes of the second half.

Quarterback Justin My-ers scored on runs of nine and one yards and Payton McAlister added a 7-yard dash to pay dirt in the 21-point blitz in the Battle of Big Sandy.

“We had a few hiccups in the fi rst half but still scored on four of our eight possessions,” Myers said. “We then got to rolling in the third quarter. We were more focused and came out guns ablazing.”

Myers turned in a stellar night running and throw-ing the ball. He rushed for 204 yards and three touch-downs. He also threw a pair of scores to Gunnar Parker, including a 50-yard strike barely two minutes into the game.

“We knew we were going to be able to get that fi rst pass play and it was going to be open,” Myers said. “That got us rolling.”

Myers spent all but one possession on the sidelines in the fourth quarter after throwing for 252 yards, completing 15 of his 22 at-tempts.

“He did to us what he’s done to everyone else,” said Bridgeport coach Danny Henson. “He’s a good quar-terback. In this era, if you have a true dual-threat quarterback they are hard to stop. The SEC couldn’t

stop Johnny Manziel.”The Decatur defense

also did its part in turn-

ing a possible shootout into a one-sided affair in the second half. The Eagles

held Bridgeport to a single touchdown — a 5-yard pass to Keenan Holdman from Trey Cook — after halftime. The Bulls, who had 232 yards at halftime, put up 135 in the third and fourth quarters and turned the ball over on downs three times and punted twice.

“We played great in the second half,” said Decatur linebacker Cole Vaughan. “We added fi ve new blitzes this week and all of them worked well. We were able to contain Trey and their running game.”

Decatur coach Mike Fuller added praise for the defense, which was with-out some starters in the second half.

“We had some subs in but they did a good job of picking it up,” Fuller said. “We did a good job in the fi rst half but No. 7 (Hold-man) made some plays.”

Holdman caught touch-down passes of 69 and 29 yards in the fi rst half. He also ran back a kickoff 80 yards to bring the Bulls within one, 21-20. Hold-

man fi nished with seven catches for 136 yards.

The Bulls trailed 28-20 at the break after McAli-ster’s second 2-yard touch-down run of the fi rst half for the Eagles. McAlister scored three times, rush-ing for 56 yards.

Bridgeport twice drove inside the Decatur 10-yard line in the fi rst half and turned the ball over on downs.

“There was the two big series in the fi rst half where they stopped us,” Henson said. “That was a big turning point. We needed to capitalize on every possession to win a high-scoring game like this.”

Decatur jumped out to a 14-0 lead, scoring on its fi rst two drives. Each pos-session took less than a minute, covering 70 and 90 yards.

Myers went 9-for-17 through the air for 164 yards in the fi rst half. He added 125 yards rushing and an 8-yard touchdown run.

Decatur looked on the verge of breaking the game open after a Vaughan in-terception off a defl ection at the Bulls’ 23. But the next play the Eagles gave the ball back to Bridgeport with a fumble.

Cook then connected with Holdman on a 69-yard touchdown pass. Then, after the Eagles were stopped on fourth down at their 39, Cook found Holdman again for a 29-yard touchdown.

When Efrain DeLuna’s PAT hit the upright and bounced back, the Eagles held on to a 14-13 lead.

Decatur never relin-quished its lead or the jarof sand as the champions of the Battle of Big Sandy.

Eagles blast Bulls with big 3rd quarter

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IN THE OPEN FIELD —

Bridgeport receiver Keenan

Holdman breaks loose

on his 80-yard jaunt to

the end zone. He scored

three times for the Bulls

Friday.



KNOCKING IT AWAY — Decatur’s Ryan Durdon fl ies in to swat a ball away from Bridgeport receiver Dylan Garrison during the Eagles’ win Friday.

2B WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Saturday, September 27, 2014



BIG SANDY FLIGHT —

An Air Evac Lifeteam

helicopter touched down on

Deactur’s fi eld to

deliver the game ball for Friday night’s

Big Sandy football game.


STORMING THE FIELD — A host of Bridgeport Bulls show their school spirit and hold aloft their food drive trophy. Bridgeport collected more than 10,000 pounds of canned goods for WARM.


EAGLE PRIDE — Three Decatur students, (from left) Jennifer Shaffer, Kendal Martin and Asten Higgins, painted their faces supporting their team during Friday night’s Big Sandy showdown.


MASKED AVENGERS — A couple of Decatur High School trumpet players wore silver masks as they played Friday night.


WALKING TALL — Bridgeport sophomore Kellen McCauley holds his school’s fl ag high as he marches down the sideline during the Big Sandy rivalry game.

WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Saturday, September 27, 2014 3B


Early in their running careers, each Boyd cross country race became a personal duel be-tween Aaron and Cameron Hammett.

“Before, when it was just us, it was a compe-tition,” Aaron admits. “Our parents would say, ‘If you beat him, you don’t have to do dishes.’ But now, it’s just about beating everyone else.”

Helped powered by the Hammett twins along with fellow senior Marco Martinez, the Yellowjackets are outrunning their share of the competition. The Yellowjackets have fi n-ished runnerup their past two meets.

The Boyd squad will run at Jacksboro Sat-urday and next weekend will head to Round Rock for the McNeil Invitational.

Aaron is the older twin by two minutes. While not identical, the two are hard to tell apart.

“I still can’t tell them apart and I’ve been coaching them since seventh grade,” said Boyd cross country coach Oscar Hernandez.

Along with their looks, the Hammetts share many of the same traits and sometimes even the same thoughts.

“One night we had the same dream,” Aaron said.

Cameron added: “Sometimes we’ll start singing the same song.”

On and off the course, the twins are best friends, hanging out together.

“It’s the longest sleepover by far,” Cameron said.

This year, they’ve been excited to share the same classes and nearly the same 4.0 grades. Cameron does claim to have a slight advan-tage in the classroom.

“He’s more athletic, but I’m smarter,” Cam-eron said.

Aaron added: “His grades are usually two points higher so I try to make sure I’m farther ahead out here.”

Since they started racing in seventh grade, Cameron said he’s only beat his brother once.

“It was a bad day for me,” Aaron admitted.The twins got their start running in middle

school.“Coach [John] Basting had us run four laps

around the gym,” Cameron recalled. “He said you are going to run cross country and we’re going to turn you into runners.”

As seventh graders, Aaron said Hernandez approached them the fi rst day and asked why they missed practice.

The next day they joined in but didn’t im-mediately take to it.

“After that fi rst practice I didn’t want to do it,” Cameron said.

“Our parents never let us quit,” Aaron add-ed.

So for the past six years, the Hammetts have been cornerstones for the program.

“They don’t miss a practice,” Hernandez said.

Over the summer, they challenged each other through every workout.

“We always push each other,” Cameron said.

Aaron added: “It’s cool in a race to see my brother right behind me.”

Their work ethic has become a mantra for the team — “the Hammett way.” Hernandez has reminded the Hammetts’ younger sister, Jasmine, that she has a tradition to carry on.

“I told her, ‘Your brothers never miss. You’ve got to learn to do it the Hammett way,’” Her-nandez said.

Jasmine then went out and won the middle school race at last week’s meet in Wichita Falls.

“She’s going to be better than us,” Cameron predicted.

With the District 9-3A meet approaching, the Hammetts are setting their sights on helping the Yellowjackets earn a regional bid and a possible trip to Round Rock for state.

“That’s been the goal forever,” Cameron said.

They are also hoping to get a chance to pos-sibly run together in college. A few schools have already contacted Aaron, who has thrown in a word for his brother.

“We want to keep the twin thing going in college,” Aaron said.

CROSS COUNTRY

Twin-powered


ON COURSE TOGETHER — Twins Cameron and Aaron Hammett have helped the Boyd Yellowjackets bring home second place at their last two meets.

Hammetts help pace Yellowjackets


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Northwest’s Moore catches

5 TDsBY RICHARD [email protected]

In an offensive shootout, Northwest receiver Em-manual Moore and Keller Fossil Ridge running back Keyshawn Mitchell kept trading huge plays and scores Thursday night. The two accounted for nine touchdowns and 500 yards of offense.

But Mitchell got the ben-efi t of two big interceptions by his defense that allowed Fossil Ridge (4-0, 1-0) to pull out the 52-42 victory at Keller ISD Athletic Com-plex in the District 5-6A opener.

The Fossil Ridge defense picked off passes from Northwest’s Jesse Drum-mer on the opening drive of the game and midway through the fourth quarter with the Panthers protect-ing a 45-35 lead.

“We had a couple of turn-overs, and in a game like this you can’t have them,” said Northwest coach Bill Poe. “If you don’t win the turnover battle, it’s tough to win.”

Those turnovers were magnifi ed because the Tex-ans’ defense never found a way to slow Mitchell and the rest of the Fossil Ridge of-fense. The Panthers scored on eight of their 11 posses-sions, piling up 597 yards.

“They played lights out. They executed fl awlessly of-fensively,” Poe said.

Mitchell did the bulk of the damage, running for 279 yards on 33 carries and scoring four touchdowns. He found the end zone twice on runs from 24 and 1 yards out in the fi rst half. In the second half, he added a pair of 6-yard scoring runs.

Fossil Ridge quarterback Bryce Baccarini infl icted his share of damage against the Texans, running for 111 yards and a 16-yard touch-down.

Baccarini also threw for a pair of scores. His 32-yard touchdown pass on a fourth-and-5 to Cameron

Castleberry stretched the Panthers’ three-point lead to 10 with 9:04 left.

Nearly every punch the Fossil Ridge offense threw, the Texans (2-2, 0-1) matched behind big plays from Moore. The senior re-ceiver hauled in 11 passes for 221 yards and fi ve touch-downs.

“It was an unbelievable night,” Poe said. “We knew we had to get the ball in his hands to make plays.”

Moore’s fi fth touchdown grab from 34 yards out with 1:52 left gave the Texans a little bit of late hope. North-west recovered the ensuing onside kick but couldn’t go anywhere, turning the ball over on downs.

Moore started his big night on the opening kickoff with a 69-yard return. Un-fortunately two plays later the Texans lost the ball due to an interception at the 4-yard line.

Soon after Fossil Ridge drove the length of the fi eld

for a score, Moore hauled in a 55-yard strike from Drummer. On the Texans’ next possession, he ran un-der a 43-yard toss to the end zone from Drummer to tie the game at 14.

“It was intense. It was a shootout,” Moore said.

After Fossil Ridge built a 28-14 lead on two Mitchell runs, the Texans’ defense made its lone stop of the fi rst half in the fi nal minute. Get-

ting the ball at the 41-yard line, Drummer marched the Texans for a score fi ve plays later. He connected with Gavin Holmes with a 27-yard strike to pull North-west within seven, 28-21.

Drummer found Moore for 33-yard touchdown in the middle of the third quarter. Then after Fossil Ridge got a 31-yard fi eld goal from Cody Seidel, Drummer went to Moore again with

a 21-yard touchdown on abackwards dive into the endzone to bring Northwestwithin three, 38-35, going tothe fi nal quarter.

“That’s just us playing to-gether and the bond we’veformed from last year andover the summer,” Mooresaid. “It’s nothing special.”

Drummer fi nished 20-for-33 for 302 yards with sixtouchdowns passes and twointerceptions.

FOOTBALL

Fossil Ridge shoots down Texans, 52-42


UNSTOPPABLE — Northwest’s Tanner Savoy holds on to Fossil Ridge running back Keyshawn Mitchell Thursday night during the Panthers’ 52-42 victory. Mitchell ran for 279 yards and four touchdowns.



FAST START —

Northwest’s Emmanual

Moore breaks into

the open fi eld on the

opening kickoff. Moore

caught fi ve touchdown

passes in the game.

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The Northwest Lady Tex-ans couldn’t overcome a slow start Tuesday against Byron Nelson.

The Lady Texans fell 25-17, 25-20, 22-25, 25-18.

It was the Lady Texans’

third straight loss in District 5-6A and dropped them to 11-20 for the year.

The Lady Texans hit .109 for the match with 36 kills.

Camryn Berryhill led the team with 16 kills. Oakley

O’Dell added six fi nishers.Morgan Baker handed out

17 assists.Defensively, Tatum Talley

made 19 digs. Christine Ruy-balid added 12 digs. Tessa Harfi eld recorded fi ve blocks.

Kim Luco and Jessica White turned in big offen-sive efforts as the Bridgeport Sissies took down Diamond Hill-Jarvis in four games Tuesday.

Luco recorded 10 kills, and White nine as the Sissies won 25-26, 20-25, 25-11, 25-14.

Bridgeport coach Rebekah Cummings praised the work of her team in the win.

“We had a lot more energy tonight and hitters took care of the ball,” Cummings said. “We didn’t give away very many points, so we were able to control the pace of the

game.”Nikki Barbour handed out

15 assists, and Ryhan Read had 13.

White served up three aces. Kensley Turner, Barbour and Read added two each.

Barbour made 12 digs. Mariah Leyva dug 11 shots.

The Chico Lady Dragons’ unbeaten run in District 9-2A ended Tuesday night with a sweep at the hands of Bryson.

Bryson won the match 25-19, 28-26, 25-23, dropping Chico to 4-1 in district.

Alli York put down eight

kills. Hope Webb recorded seven kills. Hannah Davis and Kiley Marburger fi nished with six each.

Chico hit .122 for the match with 31 kills.

York and Britton Petty served three aces each.

Marburger blocked four shots. Davis made 11 digs. York had nine. Brianna Mar-tin, Destinee Hardee and Webb fi nished with eight apiece.

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WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Saturday, September 27, 2014 9B

Pep talk fuels late surge


With her team trailing 20-16 in the fourth set against rival Argyle Tuesday, Deca-tur coach Claire Benedict-Gay called a rare timeout to make a few quick points to her team.

“I reminded them they hate to lose more than they like to win, and that this is their time to make a state-ment,” Benedict-Gay said.

Her message got across to her team. Decatur rattled off the next four points to tie the set and then fended off tenth-ranked Argyle to take game and the showdown of Class 4A top-10 teams, 3-1.

Second-ranked Decatur (22-10) won the rematch of last year’s playoff classic 25-20, 21-25, 25-19, 26-24.

Senior Caroline Lowery said their coach hit the right buttons during the timeout.

“She said we needed to be able to dig deep within our-selves, motivate ourselves and fi ght,” Lowery said. “Last year, we would go crazy over every point and wanted it so bad. This year, we haven’t had the fi re yet. We had to fi nd it.”

Lowery led the Lady Ea-gles with 20 kills, including three in the fourth-set rally.

Makayla Mayfi eld added 16 kills. Her kill off an Ar-gyle block put Decatur up 25-24. She then ended the match with a block.

“It was a pretty good way to end it,” Mayfi eld said.

The victory also ended a tough non-district schedule for the Lady Eagles in which

they played mostly 6A and 5A schools before taking on 4A powers Abilene Wylie and Argyle this past week.

“For our program, this has been the toughest pre-season schedule,” Bene-dict-Gay said. “The girls wanted to compete with the best and that’s what we did. There were times we looked very confi dent with that reality and times we didn’t. Overall, it’s going to

help us in the end and be very benefi cial. We’ve seen the best teams in the state, and we’ve competed with them.”

Tuesday, Decatur and Ar-gyle were not at full strength. Decatur was without middle blocker Dylana Hutchins, while Argyle was missing senior captain Katy Keenan.

Decatur players admitted it threw them off not seeing Keenan across the net.

“Once we found out that Katy wasn’t playing we got a little lackadaisical, which we shouldn’t have, because they are very capable of beating us just like they did that one set,” Lowery said.

Without Keenan, Argyle found other weapons to turn to — primarily Eighmy Dob-bins, who put down 20 kills. Alexa Bass added another 14 fi nishers.

“Someone else was going

to have to step up tonight, if we wanted to be competi-tive,” said Argyle coach Clark Oberle. “Eighmy did, and Al-exa Bass did. I thought the two girls playing different positions with Katy being out, Halee Van Poppel and Meagan Dealy did a good job against one of the best teams in the state.”

Argyle challenged Decatur at the net throughout the match, forcing Decatur to

constantly change their at-tack.

“I told them to be aggres-sive. We’ve got nothing tolose,” Oberle said. “We knewwho their big guns were.We’ve played them about1,000 times over the years.We knew what to expectfrom them. But they aregood enough they still scoreda lot of points.”

Decatur setter StormiLeonard kept moving theball around to fi nd shots forher hitters, including call-ing her own number for fi vekills. Leonard collected 45assists with six different hit-ters getting kills. She alsomade a team-best 21 digs.

The entire match wentback and forth.

Decatur took a 14-8 lead inthe opening set before Argylefought back to get withintwo, 20-18. Decatur fi nallytook the set with the help ofa pair of Argyle errors.

Argyle responded with anear wire-to-wire victory inthe second set behind fi vekills from Dobbins and fourfrom Bass.

With the match square,Decatur jumped out to a10-4 lead in the third gameon kills from Mayfi eld andCourtnie Roberts. After Ar-gyle closed within two, Low-ery stopped the run with akill. Lowery recorded six inthe set including the game-winner.

“Once we started mixingup our shots and startedplaying our game we camethrough,” Lowery said.

But Argyle wouldn’t goaway, breaking a tie at 10 inthe fourth set and buildingthe 20-16 lead on a Dobbinskill. That also prompted thefi nal pep talk from Benedict-Gay.

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JUMP FOR JOY — Decatur’s Cooper Martin (10) and Maclaine Lowery (6) leap into the air after the Lady Eagles score the fi nal point during the victory over rival Argyle Tuesday night. Decatur won the top-10 showdown in four games.


MAKING THE SAVE — Decatur’s Stormi Leonard lays out to dig a shot during the Lady Eagles’ win over Argyle Tuesday. Leonard made 21 digs in the match.


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After all the clay pigeons were loosed over Fossil Pointe Sporting Grounds, three winners emerged.

Cory Kruse of Houston won high overall in the state shoot, busting 192 out of 200 clays during the Tex-as State Championship clay shoot last weekend. Kruse beat out runner-up Scott Robertson by a single bird.

Janet McDougal of San Antonio won the women’s division, shooting a com-bined 175, edging Haley Dunn by one shot.

Gebben Miles of Arizona shot 191 of 200 clays to secure his place as the high overall in the out-of-state division.

Each of these winners de-feated between 627 and 700 competitors, all vying for

$50,000 in prize money. This was Fossil Pointe’s

fi rst time hosting the event, which is the largest state championship shooting event for the National Sport-ing Clay Association and the National Skeet Shooting As-sociation.

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EYE ON THE MARK — A shooter takes aim on a clay during Texas championship shoot last week at Fossil Pointe Sporting Grounds.

Caitlin Pruett ran a 13:39 on the 3,200-me-ter course at Poolville Wednesday to finish eighth.

Kylie Franklin took 33rd in 14:46. Kayson Roof finished 37th in 14:49. Makayla Fitzgerald was 39th in 14:55. Sydney

Keating crossed the fin-ish line in 71st as Slidell’sfifth runner in 16:49.

Megan Garcia ran 19:02 for 87th.

Behind Jett Preather, the Paradise Lady Panthers continued their roll in Dis-trict 9-3A Tuesday with a four-game win over Holli-day.

Preather hammered home 18 kills as the Lady Pan-thers won 25-12, 21-25, 25-22, 25-17.

The Lady Panthers moved to 4-0 in their league.

“Everything is clicking,” said Paradise coach Su-sie Burt. “Jett got on a tear

against Holliday with 18 kills. We were setting her, and she was fi nding every spot.”

Reagan Taylor added nine kills, and Shelby Bradshaw eight.

Along with her strong play on offense, Preather served seven aces and made 20 digs.

Madi Horne also made 20 digs, continuing her strong play.

“Anything she can get to, she’s getting up,” Burt said.

Amber French added 14 digs.

Paradise came out and set an early tone against Hol-liday behind Preather. Afterthe 13-point win, the LadyPanthers took a step back,falling in the second set.

“We missed too many serves,” Burt said.

Paradise quickly rebound-ed in the third and fourthsets.

“We stepped up and played,” Burt said.

VOLLEYBALL

Paradise victorious over Holliday

CROSS COUNTRY

Pruett finishes 8th at Poolville

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Chico 53, Diamond Hill-Jarvis 22

Chico 9 16 14 14 — 53DH-Jarvis 6 0 16 0 — 22

First quarterDH-Jarvis - 6:55, Trey Bentley 2 run, PAT failed.Chico - 5:45, Kalan Johnson 3 run, Cameron Starnes kick.Chico - Safety, Cameron Weatherly tackles DH-Jarvis player in end zone.Second quarterChico - 7:57, 26 pass from Jericoe McGuire to Jastin McBee, McGuire runChico - 4:18, 35 pass from McGuire to Corbin Blackwood, Pass from McGuire to Weatherly.Third quarterChico - 9:05, 33 pass from Crese Redman to

McBee, PAT failedDH-Jarvis - 5:54, 5 run Ivan Vega, Vega run.Chico - 3:43, 20 run Tyler Alexander, McBee RunDH-Jarvis - 1:50, 1 run Sammy Gonzales, Vega RunFourth quarterChico - 11:20, 17 run Johnson, pass from Redman to BlackwoodChico - 6:52, 6 run Redman, Kick failed.

Chico DH-JarvisFirst downs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. . . . . . . 15Rushes—Yards . . . . . . . 25-209. . . .51-242Passing Yards . . . . . . . . . . . 237. . . . . . . 30Total Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446. . . . . . 272Comp-Att-Int . . . . . . . .11-18-0. . . . . 4-1-0Punts-Avg. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26. . . . . .5-23Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2. . . . . . .3-2Penalties-Yards . . . . . . . . 11-85. . . .16-125

Individual StatisticsRushing: Chico, Alexander 7-65; DH-Jarvis, Eduardo Tolvar 20-91.Receiving: Chico, McBee 4-113; DH-Jarvis, Gonzales 1-30.Passing: Chico, McGuire 6-10-0 for 147 yards; DH-Jarvis, Bentley 4-1-0 for 30 yards.

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Krum 38, Boyd 22

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First QuarterKrum - 3:04, 10 run Dane White, kick failed.Boyd - 2:52, 59 run Qualyn Wells, Spencer Pellegrini kick.Second QuarterBoyd - 8:17, 6 run Xavier Kyle, Pellegrini kick.Krum - 4:07, 5 run Matt Robinson, kick good.Krum - 1:52, 5 run White, PAT failed.Krum - :35, 77 fumble rec. Jacob Spencer, PAT

failed.Third QuarterBoyd - 6:51, 54 run Wells, Barnett to Kyle pass.Krum - 65 run White, Brooks kick.Fourth QuarterKrum - 4:55, 6 run Colten Graham, kick failed.

Krum BoydFirst Downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10. . . . . . . 15Rushes-Yards . . . . . . . . 40-323. . . .45-338Passing Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . 57. . . . . . 115Comp-Att-Int . . . . . . . . .8-10-0. . . . 8-19-1Total Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380. . . . . . 453Punts-Average . . . . . . . . . 4-44. . . . . .4-34Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0. . . . . . .2-2Penalties-Yards . . . . . . . . . 9-85. . . 10-80.5

Individual StatisticsRushing — Boyd, Wells 25-244; Krum. White 25-244.Passing — Boyd, Barnett 8-19 for115; Krum, Graham, 8-10 for 52.Receiving — Boyd, Kyle 5-63; Krum, Robinson 1-24.

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First QuarterFossil Ridge - 7:52, Cody Seidel 37 pass from Bryce Baccarini, Seidel kickNorthwest - 7:26, Emmanual Moore 55 pass from Jesse Drummer, Chris Hamilton kickFossil Ridge - 4:56, Baccarini 16 run, Seidel kickNorthwest - 2:32, Emmanual Moore 43 pass from Drummer, Hamilton kickSecond QuarterFossil Ridge - 10:43, Keyshawn Mitchell 24 run, Seidel kickFossil Ridge - 4:19, Mitchell 1 run, Seidel kickNorthwest - 0:06, Gavin Holmes 27 pass from Drummer, Hamilton kickThird QuarterFossil Ridge - 9:33 Mitchell 6 run, Seidel kickNorthwest - 7:50, Moore 33 pass from Drummer, Hamilton kickFossil Ridge - 5:23, Seidel 31 field goal

Northwest - 0:04, Moore 21 pass from Drummer, Hamilton kickFourth QuarterFossil Ridge - 9:04, Cameron Castleberry 32 pass from Baccarini, Seidel kickFossil Ridge - 3:16, Mitchell 6 run, Seidel kickNorthwest - 1:52, Moore 34 pass from Drummer, Hamilton kick

Northwest Fossil RidgeFirst Downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. . . . . . . 29Rushes-Yards . . . . . . . . 32-122. . . .54-397Passing Yards . . . . . . . . . . . 302. . . . . . 200Total Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424. . . . . . 597Comp-Att-Int . . . . . . . .20-33-2. . . 12-21-0Sacks-Yards lost . . . . . . . . 4-22. . . . . . .1-6Punts-Average . . . . . . . . . 1-29. . . . . . .0-0Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 0-0. . . . . . .3-0Penalties-Yards . . . . . . . . . 6-65. . . . . .6-60Individual StatisticsRushing: Northwest, Quentin Thorpe 21-123, Jesse Drummer 6-(minus 8), Justin Butler 2-(minus 1), Blake Ibarra 2-6, Emmanual Moore 1-2. Fossil Ridge, Keyshawn Mitchell 33-279, Bryce Baccarini 20-111, Anthony Smith 1-7.Passing: Northwest, Drummer 20-33-2-302. Fossil Ridge, Baccarini 11-20-0-159, Mitchell 1-1-0-41.Receiving: Northwest, Emmanual Moore 11-221, Colton Boyd 2-7, Gavin Holmes 3-37, Blake Ibarra 2-19, Syrus Moore 3-22. Fossil Ridge, Cameron Castleberry 4-109, Brian Ochoa 1-2, Ryan Franklin 1-7, Cody Seidel 1-37, Mitchell 2-14, Dylan Nuese 3-21,

BY JIMMY [email protected]

The Dragons Friday night 53-22 victory over the Dia-mond Hill-Jarvis Eagles started on a somber note. Donald Joe Clark, the 22-year game announcer for Chico High School football died the previous day after a tragic car accident.

His son, Chico Mayor J.D. Clark, spoke following a moment of silence in his fa-ther’s memory. Clark’s voice shook as he told the crowd of Chico football fans and fam-ily how much they all meant to his dad.

“Our family will never be the same and neither will the community. We are missing him at home, but we know you are also miss-ing him here,” Clark said. “I don’t know if this stadium will ever be the same with-out his voice in it. I do know that my dad would not be happy if he thought people weren’t having fun at this football game because of him.

“He loved his sport, he loved this school and he loved this town. So while my family appreciates this mo-ment of silence in my dad’s honor, that is not quite his style. My dad liked noise and he liked spirit and he liked things loud. So to-night as you remember my dad, don’t focus on his ab-sence, focus on his energy, his humor and his spirit.”

The crowd roared and the opening kickoff soon sailed through the air. The Drag-ons dominated the Eagles nearly the entire game.

Diamond Hill-Jarvis did

draw fi rst blood in the open-ing quarter, matching their season high of six points. It was the only time the Eagles would have the lead. A minute later the Drag-ons answered back with a touchdown from Kalan Johnson and an extra point kick from Cameron Starnes put Chico ahead and they never looked back.

While the Dragons domi-nated scoring, neither team was able to gain much momentum as play was stopped frequently by more than 200 total yards of pen-alty fl ags. Chico had 11 penalties for 85 yards and Diamond Hill-Jarvis had 16 for 125.

Aside from the penalties both teams suffered injuries in the fi rst half, with Chico’s J.D. Brown taken away via ambulance because of a leg

injury.The Eagles made a surge

in the third quarter for 16 points but to no avail, as the Dragons proved too much.

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ander led Chico in rushing with seven carries for 65 yards. Jastin McBee caught four passes for 113 yards and Jericoe McGuire com-pleted 6 for 147 yards.

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Krum took an early lead after driving deep into Yel-lowjacket territory in the fi rst quarter, when Dane White made a 10-yard run into the end zone.

Boyd struck back with a 59-yard sprint from Qualyn Wells. A extra-point kick by Spencer Pellegrini through the uprights gave the Yel-lowjackets its only lead.

Boyd added to its lead when Xavier Kyle ran in another touchdown. But Krum came back with a

vengeance, crossing the paint three times consec-utively to close the half ahead 25-14.

Boyd and the Bobcats battled back and forth throughout the third and fourth quarters, but Krum’s offense was too much.

Boyd fought hard getting

15 fi rst downs to Krum’s 10 and barreling down the fi eld for 453 total yards versus the Bobcats’ 380.

Wells led Boyd in rushing with 244 yards. Clay Bar-nett dominated the passing game with 8 completions for 115 yards. Kyle caught 5 for 63 yards.

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It took Alvord one offensive drive to get set, but after they punted the ball away and al-lowed Paradise to score with-in the fi rst two minutes of the game, the Bulldogs came back to life and held the Panthers to 14 points in the fi rst half. Alvord went on to win the game 38-21.

“I told my guys, when you play against tough teams, you learn to play hard,” Alvord head coach Pete Hart said. “Our goal was to come out here and beat Paradise, and we think Paradise is a pretty good team. They had that fi rst long play for the touchdown, and I wanted to see the char-acter of our team, and our kids fought back.”

That “fi rst long play” from Paradise was a monster 80-yard run from Austin Hogan, followed by a two point con-version by quarterback Cash Preather. However, Paradise wouldn’t see another offensive drive until late in the second quarter.

The Bulldogs scored four times in the fi rst half, spurred on largely by an onside kick re-covery after a 27 yard touch-down pass from Cassidy Pat-terson to Jaylon White, that brought the score to 8-7.

Seven plays after Alvord’s onside kick recovery, Joe Randall ran it in on a one-yard scoring play to turn the control of the game in Al-vord’s favor, 14-8 at the end of the fi rst quarter.

Randall would go on to have one more touchdown and 195 yards rushing on 29 carries.

The Bulldogs scored on a Jose Luna fi eld goal and a 10-yard Patterson run before Paradise scored on a 3-yard Chris Hill run with 1:23 left in the half.

Hill, who put up 219 yards

against Krum last week, was contained to one touchdown and 71 yards this week.

Paradise’s third and fi -nal score came less than two minutes into the fourth quarter, another Austin Ho-gan run, this time from a yard out.

Alvord answered that scor-ing play with a 28-yard run

from Joe Randall to clinch the victory.

Paradise head coach Scott Broussard called the Pan-thers’ performance “the worst football game [we’ve played] this year.”

“I’m not real happy at all. We shot ourselves in the foot and made too many mis-takes.”

Alvord 38, Paradise 21

Alvord 14 10 7 7 - 38Paradise 8 6 0 7 - 21

First QuarterParadise - 10:49, Austin Hogan 80 run, Cash Preather 2 runAlvord - 3:48, Jaylon White 27 pass from Cassidy Patterson, Jose Luna kickAlvord - 0:38, Joe Randall 1 run, Luna kickSecond QuarterAlvord - 8:19, Luna 32 field goalAlvord - 4:51, Patterson 10 run, Luna kickParadise, 1:23, Chris Hill 3 run, conversion attempt no goodThird QuarterAlvord - 2:01, Randall 15 run, Luna kickFourth QuarterParadise - 10:10, Hogan 1 run, Carlos Powers kick

Alvord - 5:22, Randall 28 run, Luna kick

Alvord ParadiseFirst Downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16. . . . . . . 11Rushes-Yards . . . . . . . . 42-208. . . .36-246Passing Yards . . . . . . . . . . . 110. . . . . . . 56Total Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318. . . . . . 302 Comp-Att-Int . . . . . . . .10-15-0. . . . 5-10-0Punts-Average . . . . . . . . 2-37.5. . . . . . . . . Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 0-0. . . . . . .3-1Penalties-Yards . . . . . . . . . 8-50. . . . . .8-90Individual StatisticsRushing — Alvord, Joe Randall 29-195, Jaylon White 1-16. Paradise, Austin Hogan 18-156, Chris Hill 12-71.Passing — Alvord, Cassidy Patterson 10-15-0-110. Paradise, Cash Preather 4-9-0-56.Receiving – Alvord, Jaylon White 3-43, Heath Walker 3-30. Paradise, Chris Hill 3-37, Colton Brown 1-17.

Decatur 56, Bridgeport 27

Bridgeport 7 13 7 0 — 27Decatur 14 14 2 1 7 — 56

First QuarterDecatur - 9:55, Gunnar Parker 50 pass from Justin Myers, Jorge Martinez kickDecatrur - 4:25, Payton McAlister 2 run, Martinez kickBridgeport - 0:00, Keenan Holdman 69 pass from Trey Cook, Efrain DeLuna kickSecond QuarterBridgeport - 9:52, Holdman 29 pass from Cook, kick failedDecatur - 7:30, Myers 8 run, Martinez kickBridgeport - 7:19, Holdman 80 kickoff return, DeLuna kickDecatur - 4:37, McAlister 2 run, Martinez kickThird QuarterDecatur - 9:49, McAlister 7 run, Martinez kickDecatur - 7:51, Myers 9 run, Martinez kickDecatur - 4:28, Myers 1 run, Martinez kickBridgeport - 0:41, Holdman 5 pass from Cook, DeLuna kickFourth QuarterDecatur - 11:43, Parker 10 pass from Myers, Martinez kick

Bridgeport DecaturFirst Downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16. . . . . . . 26Rushes-Yards . . . . . . . . 33-122. . . .47-344Passing Yards . . . . . . . . . . . 245. . . . . . 260Total Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367. . . . . . 604Comp-Att-Int . . . . . . . .20-35-1. . . 16-26-0Sacks-Yards lost . . . . . . . . 4-17. . . . . . .0-0Punts-Average . . . . . . . . 3-37.3. . . . 3-34.6Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1. . . . . . .1-1Penalties-Yards . . . . . . . . . 4-29. . . .12-110

Individual StatisticsRushing: Bridgeport, Grayson Mathes 13-62, Keenan Holdman 3-7, Brazier Talley 15-48, Trey Cook 4-20, Corbin Coleman 2-(minus 15). Decatur, Justin Myers 20-204, Mario Reyes 9-39, Eddie Martinez 7-15, Payton McAlister 10-56, Gunnar Parker 1-30.Passing: Bridgeport, Cook 19-33-1-224, Coleman 1-4-0-21. Decatur, Myers 15-22-0-252, Jake Kemp 1-4-0-8.Receiving: Bridgeport, Chayton Stotts 1-14, Talley 3-4, Raby Hawkins 3-28, Holdman 7-136, Jake Simmons 2-14, Dylan Garrison 4-54. Decatur, Aaron Shetter 1-9, Tanner Shields 2-15, Ryan Durdon 4-72, Martinez 2-29, McAlister 2-56, Parker 3-66, Carsen Medlin 1-6.

FOOTBALL

Bulldogs bite Panthers

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RANDALL WITH THE CARRY — Alvord running back Joe Randall outruns a Paradise defender during the Bulldogs’ 38-21 victory over the Panthers at home Friday night. Randall rushed for 195 yards and three touchdowns.

Bobcats walk over Boyd

Dragons fly over Eagles

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TEARFUL GOODBYE — Chico Mayor

J.D. Clark stands near his

nephew Cain Clark, 3, prior

to speaking to Chico fans

about his father Donald

Joe Clark, who announced

Chico football games for 22 years. Donald Joe Clark died Thursday in a

wreck.

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EXTRA POINTS

— Chico’s Jericoe

McGuire crosses the

paint for two points during the Dragon’s

win over Diamond Hill-Jarvis Friday

night.

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