Sacred heart vs Dallas Shelton
by Tom Carson
SPORTS PRIDE WITH STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL IN RECENT TIMES. SOUND FAMILIAR ?
FRIDAY NIGHT THE HORNETS WON THE TOSS AND PROMPTLY DEFERRED TO RECEIVE THE KICK OFF IN THE SECOND HALF. DURING THE FIRST WINDTHORST DRIVE THE TROJANS WERE FORCED TO PUNT AFTER AN INCOMPLETE PASS AND A FIVE YARD PENALTY LEFT THE ''W'' MEN FLAT. HORNETS DEFENDERS SHAWN SICKING, KOHL TAYLER, BRADEN BERKLEY, AND COLTON DECKARD SET THE TEMPO FOR THE NIGHT SHUTTING DOWN THE GROUND ATTACK..
BEGINNING AT THEIR OWN 38 FOLLOWING A PUNT, THE HORNETS USED THREE PLAYS TO MOVE TO THE WINDTHORST 47 YARD LINE. FROM THERE SENIOR RUNNING BACK COLTON DECKARD, TEXAS FOOTBALL MAGAZINES 2A -II PRE-SEASON RUNNING BACK OF THE YEAR, WENT TO WORK. BURSTING THROUGH THE LINE BEHIND THE BLOCKING OF GABE GREWING, KOHL TAYLER AND GARRETT HESS, THE SENIOR SPEEDSTER BROKE A TACKLE IN THE SECONDARY AND DASHED INTO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE END ZONE. DEVON BINDEL BOOTED THE EXTRA POINT AND WITH 8:46 REMAINING IN THE FIRST PERIOD THE BOYS FROM MUENSTER LED IT 7-0.
THE TROJANS ARE NEVER OUT OF THE FIGHT AND THEIR GAME PLAN LIVED UP TO EXPECTATIONS WHEN SENIOR QUARTERBACK LOGAN COPE CONNECTED WITH A WIDE OPEN RECEIVER DOWN THE LEFT HASH FOR A TD. SUDDENLY WITH 3:21 REMAINING IN THE OPENING FRAME THE MUENSTER DEFENSE WAS CALLED ON TO PUT ON A SHOW. LINEBACKERS HUNTER PEEL, GRANT WARD, AND MARCUS ANDERLE HELPED FILL THE GAPS AND THE EXTRA POINT TRY FOR TWO WAS QUELLED.
LEADING BY A POINT, THE MUENSTER BOYS RETALIATED WITH AN EIGHT PLAY, FIVE MINUTE DRIVE THAT WAS CAPPED OFF WITH AN ELEVEN YARD MEANDER OFF OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE OFFENSIVE LINE GOOD FOR ANOTHER SIXER. GABE GREWING, HUNTER PEEL AND ISSAC WOLFE OPENED THE WAY FOR THE CABETT BLAKE BOLT. HELP WAS ADDED BY DAWSON VOTH, BRADEN BERKLEY, AND BRODY TYLER.
WINDTHORST'S NEXT DRIVE ENDED AFTER A FUMBLE AT THE HORNETS 35 YARD LINE. TWO PLAYS LATER MUENSTER FOUND ITSELF AT THE WINDTHORST FIFTEEN BUT COULD GO NO FURTHER, SETTLING FOR A 35 YARD FIELD GOAL BY DEVON BINDEL TO RAISE THE HALFTIME SCORE TO 17 - 6.
THE THIRD QUARTER TIGHTENED UP WHEN WINDTHORST'S QUARTERBACK COPE TOSSED A THIRTEEN YARD PASS TO HIS 6'4 JUNIOR WIDE OUT, KOLBY TEAKELL. TO CLOSE OUT A FIFTY-THREE YARD DRIVE THAT STARTED WITH A MUENSTER FUMBLE AT THE HORNET 47. THE KICK CONVERSION PUSHED THE TROJANS EVEN CLOSER 17 - 13 WITH 8:44 REMAINING IN THE QUARTER, BUT THAT AS AS CLOSE AS WINDTHORST WOULD COME ON THE NIGHT.
THE REMAINDER OF THE CONTEST DEFENSIVE PLAYERS CONNER WALTERSCHEID, BRADLEY LUTKENHAUS, DAWSON VOTH, CASEN CARNEY, SETH STOFFELS, AND COMPANY TIGHTENED DOWN THE SCREWS ON OVERSIZED WIDE RECEIVERS BRAYDEN BEREND (6'3) AND TEAKELL (6'4).
WITH :39 REMAINING IN THE THIRD, MUENSTER LAUNCHED A NINE-PLAY 53 YARD DRIVE CAPPED OFF WITH A FIVE YARD TD BURST BY BRADEN BERKLEY, A 200 POUNDER, WHO PIN BALLED HIS WAY ACROSS THE SOUTH END ZONE WITH STYLE. THE EVER DEPENDABLE DEVON BINDEL TOED THE BALL THROUGH THE UPRIGHTS FOR THE POINT AFTER, MAKING THE TOLL 24-13 WITH 9:18 REMAINING IN THE GAME.
BINDEL WASN'T THROUGH FOR THE NIGHT. WITH 3:46 SHOWING IN THE FOURTH, THE 187 POUND SENIOR SHOT HIS WAY 12 YARDS UP THE GUT FOR SIX MORE AND THEN PERFORMED THE FINAL OFFENSIVE ACT OF THE GAME WITH THE POINT AFTER KICK TO MAKE IT 31-13.
FOR THOSE USED TO SEEING THE COLTON DECKARD SHOW IN THE SECOND HALF, THE PREMIERE RUNNING BACK WAS USED PRIMARILY AS A DECOY OFFENSIVELY AND A DEVASTATING DEFENSIVE END FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CONTEST. IT WAS A RUSE THAT WORKED, ULTIMATELY FOUR DIFFERENT RUNNING BACKS WOULD SCORE FOR THE HORNETS.
FOR THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT THE WISDOM OF PLAYING A FRESHMAN IN A BIG GAME COACH CARNEY MADE A GUTSY CALL AND HIS SON, CASEN CARNEY TOOK OVER AT THE HELM. WHAT THE CROWD WITNESSED WAS A POISED PERFORMANCE WORTHY OF SENIOR. A VETERAN COOLY DIRECTING HIS SQUAD TO THE END ZONE, SIDE-STEPPING EVEN A HINT OF INDECISION. A LONG SIDE LINE PASS TO TIGHT END GARRETT HESS, THE OTHER FRESHMAN IN THE STARTING LINE UP, WAS RULED AN OUT-OF-BOUNDS CATCH, BUT AN OVERHEAD ACTION SHOT SEEMS TO CALL
THE MATTER INTO QUESTION.
2022 MUENSTER 31 WINDTHORST 13
2021 MUENSTER 16 WINDTHORST 8
2020 MUENSTER 7 WINDTHORST 18
2020 MUENSTER 20 WINDTHORST 30 PLAYOFFS
2018 MUENSTER 52 WINDTHORST 21
THIS FRIDAY POTTSBORO, ANOTHER 3A I TEAM COMES TO TOWN TO TANGLE WITH THE HORNETS. THE CARDINALS WON THEIR 2019 MATCH UP 39-12 GIVING THE TWO TEAMS A 1-1 RECORD IN MATCH PLAY,
A Game To Remember
by tom carson
BY FOUR FOURTY-FIVE THEY HAD ALREADY ARRIVED. LIKE ANTS ON AN ANTHILL STIRRED WITH A STICK, PEOPLE SOON BOILED OUT OF THE LARGE BLACK ENAMELED BUS, ITS DARK TINTED WINDOWS DISGUISING THE CONTENTS OF THE DIESEL POWERED RIG. AS THE BLUE CLAD STUDENTS ABOARD POURED OUT ONTO THE STREET ADJACENT TO TIGER FIELD IN MUENSTER IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THEY WERE NOT FROM ONE OF THE SMALLER UNDER FINANCED TAPPS SCHOOL IN THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, BUT RATHER HAILED FROM ONE OF THE WEALTHIER PRIVATE SCHOOLS THAT A FEW YEARS FROM NOW WILL CONTINUE TO ECLIPSE THE SACRED HEART TIGERS IN ENROLLMENT AND IN CLASSIFICATION.
TWENTY MINUTES LATER, A SECOND BLACK BUS IDENTICAL TO THE FIRST, CAME TO LIGHT AND PARKED IN FRONT OF THE FIRST BUS DISGOURGING 44 ATHELETES ALONG WITH A BEVY OF SUPPORT STAFF..ASSISTANT COACHES, TRAINERS, STATICIANS, AND EVERYTHING A MUCH LARGER, WELL FINANCED SCHOOL WOULD NATURALLY PACK FOR SUCH OCCASIONS.
UNTIL RECENT YEARS, GEORGE TEAGUE, A FORMER DALLAS COWBOY SERVED AS ATHELETIC DIRECTOR AND HEAD COACH OF THE CHARGERS. THE SIZE OF THE SHELTON STAFF DWARFS THAT OF THE TIGERS. ALL OF THE WINDOW DRESSING ASIDE, FRIDAY NIGHT, THE GAME CAME DOWN TO SACRED HEART'S 18 FOOTBALL PLAYERS GIVING IT THEIR ALL.
FROM THE OPENING DRIVE WHICH ENDED WITH A BLOCKED PUNT BY SETH HUCHTON AND A QUICK SIX POINTS, FOLLOWED WITH A TWO POINT CONVERSION BY SACRED HEART BELL COW BEN SICKING, IT BECAME OBVIOUS WHO WAS IN CHARGE.
THE SECOND DRIVE BY THE CHARGERS ENDED IN DISASTER WHEN ARLO NASCHE INTERCEPTED AN ERRANT PASS TO GIVE THE MEN IN RED POSSESION AT THE SHELTON 39 YARD LINE. FROM THERE, THREE PLAYS LATER BARRETT WALTERSCHEID RANG THE BELL FROM TEN YARDS OUT. THE TWO POINT EXTRA POINT TRY FAILED BUT WITH 8:05 REMAINING IN THE OPENING FRAME THE SCORE STOOD AT 14-0.
PROBLEMS CONTINUED FOR THE CHARGERS ON THE NEXT SERIES WHEN A SHANKED PUNT ENDED UP IN THE MITTS OF BEN SICKING WHO SHOT THE DISTANCE TO THE END ZONE FOR HIS SECOND SIX POINTER OF THE NIGHT. BARRETT CASHED IN ON THE EXTRA POINT TRY FOR TWO AND WITH 5:45 REMAINING IN THE FIRST IT STOOD AT 22-0.
FOLLOWING A THREE AND OUT ON THE FOURTH CHARGER POSSESION, THE TIGERS TOOK OVER ON THE 50 YARD LINE WITH 4:51 REMAINING IN THE FIRST AND WENT TO WORK. ELEVEN PLAYS LATER SOPHOMORE QUARTERBACK SETH HUCHTON FED THE PIGSKIN TO BEN SICKING ON A FOURTH AND TWO PLAY TO CASH IN FROM FIFTEEN YARDS OUT. THE TRY FOR TWO FAILED AND WITH 11:44 REMAINING IN THE HALF IT WAS 28-0.
A DEEP KICKOFF AND BRIEF RETURN SET THE CHARGERS UP AT THEIR OWN 26 ON THEIR NEXT POSSESSION. A TEN YARD HOLDING PENALTY SET THEM BACK FOLLOWED BY A SACK BY SACRED HEART'S RELENTLESS DEFENSIVE LINE MADE UP OF SENIOR END SAWYER HUCHTON, A 230 POUNDER AND JAKE BECKER, A 210 POUND JUNIOR, ALONG WITH TACKLE CAMERON WHITECOTTON, A SENIOR AT 210 AND 200 POUND TACKLE JOHN 'BISQUIT' BARTUSH.
A SHANKED PUNT ON FOURTH DOWN SET SACRED HEART UP WITH THEIR BEST POSITION OF THE NIGHT. FROM THE 19 IT TOOK THE TIGERS ONLY ONE PLAY TO SCORE AS THE SOPHOMORE QUARTERBACK ACED ONE TO DEPENDABLE WIDE RECEIVER KANE WITTBOLD, A RANGY 6-3 SENIOR WITH GREAT HANDS AND INSTINCTS.
THE TWO POINT ATTEMPT FOR THE EXTRA POINTS WAS PULLED IN BY SENIOR CASON KNABE MAKING THE SCORE 36-0.
THE FOLLOWING CHARGER ATTACK BEGAN WITH THE VISITORS BEST STARTING POSITION OF THE HALF GETTING UNDER WAY AT THE TIGERS 47 YARD LINE. ON FIRST DOWN A DASH TO THE LEFT GARNERED SIX YARDS TO THE 41 OF THE TIGERS BUT THEN AN ILLEGAL PROCEDURE CALL BACKED BY TWO CONSECUTIVE SACKS AGAIN PLACED THE TIGERS IN GOOD FIELD POSITION.
THE SECONDARY AND PARTICULARLY THE WORK OF OUTSIDE LINEBACKERS MICK SCHILLING AND ELI SICKING PLAYED KEY ROLES IN THE DEFENSIVE EFFORT.
ALL NIGHT THE CHARGERS HAD NO SOLUTION FOR SAWYER HUCHTON WHO WAS RELENTLESS. TAKING OVER THE FOLLOWING TIGER DRIVE AT THE CRUSADER 37 YARD LINE WITH 7:02 SHOWING IN THE HALF, IT TOOK HUCHTON ONLY FOUR PLAYS TO AGAIN RING THE TOUCHDOWN BELL BY CONNECTING WITH MAN OF THE HOUR KANE WITTBOLD. THE 6'3" WIDE RECEIVER OUT RAN THE DEFENDERS UNCONTESTED TO THE END ZONE FOR ANOTHER HALF OF A DOZEN POINTS.
MICK SCHILLING, THE MAN HEAD COACH DALE SCHILLING DESCRIBES AS "ALL HEART AND ALL FIGHT", BURST THROUGH THE LINE FOR THE TWO POINT CONVERSION MAKING IT 44-0.
SHELTON'S ENSUING DRIVE ENDED IN CALAMITY, WHEN AFTER THREE NEGATIVE PLAYS, THE CHARGERS LINED UP TO PUNT THE BALL AWAY FROM THEIR OWN TWELVE YARD LINE. THE BALL WAS THEN INADVERTENTLY SNAPPED OVER THE PUNTER'S HEAD INTO THE END ZONE RESULTING IN A TOUCHBACK.
NOW 46-0. WITH 2:51 REMAINING IN THE FIRST HALF THE TIGERS OFFENSE AGAIN WENT TO WORK WITH CENTER CLAYTON BAYER AND TALENTED LINEMEN BISCUIT BARTUSH, CAMERON WHITECOTTON, JAKE BECKER, AND OTHERS PITCHING IN.
ON A SECOND AND TEN CALL AT THE SACRED HEART 41, HUCHTON HANDED OFF TO RESERVE TAILBACK MICK SCHILLING WHO SHOT THROUGH THE GAP IN THE LINE AND DODGED AND JUKED HIS WAY 59 YARDS TO PAYDIRT.
MICK THEN PERFORMED AN ONCORE PERFORMANCE OF HIS EARLIER 2 POINT CONVERSION ON THE PREVIOUS DRIVE. THAT BROUGHT THE HALFTIME SCORE TO SACRED HEART 54 - SHELTON 0.
AT THE MIDWAY MARK, ALONG WITH A SPIRTED SHOW BY THE SACRED HEART DRILL TEAM, THE CROWD WAS TREAT- ED TO A DAZZLEING PERFORMANCE BY THE SHELTON DRUM CORP AND ACCOMPANYING MUSICIANS. LITTLE WONDER THEY AND THEIR DRILL TEAM RATED THEIR OWN FULL SIZED BUS. THEIR PERFORMANCE WAS EXCELLENT.
THE SECOND HALF SAW A BEVY OF LINE UP CHANGES AND SACRED HEART'S ONLY TWO MISCUES - A FUMBLE AT THE SHELTON 29 TO END THE TIGERS FIRST SECOND HALF DRIVE AND A FORCED PUNT TO END THEIR LAST DRIVE OF THE GAME.
DURING THE SECOND HALF THE FANS GOT A LOOK AT SECOND TEAM QUARTERBACK ELI SICKING. A FRESHMAN. ELI GARNERED NATIONAL HEADLINES LAST YEAR, AS A SELF TAUGHT EIGHT GRADER, WITH HIS DISCUS THROWING ABILITIES. HEAD COACH DALE SCHILLING GIVES FULL CREDIT TO THE UPSTART, ADDING THAT ELI GETS HIS ATHLETIC ABILITIES FROM HIS GRANDPA CLIFFORD SICKING.
ALSO, TIGER FANS WERE INTRODUCED TO THE RUNNING OF COY JOHN EDDLEMAN. THE 6'1" SENIOR IS BEST RECOGNIZED AS THE PLAYER SHUTTLEING IN PLAYS FROM COACH SCHILLING IN THE THICK OF ACTION.
STARTING QUARTERBACK SETH HUCHTON MADE GIGANTIC STRIDES IN THE GAME WITH TWO TD PASSES TO SENIOR WIDE OUT KANE WHITTBOLD. HE ALSO SHOWED OUT IN THE GAME MAKING A BIG PLAY DEFENSIVELY ON THE CHARGERS THAT LED TO THE FIRST SCORE OF THE CONTEST.
BEN SICKING LED THE GAME IN RUSHING TO PACE THE BOYS IN RED, WHILE SCORING TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND A TWO POINT CONVERSION. THE RUNNING ONSLAUGHT WAS AIDED BY BARRETT WALTERSCHEID WHO ADDED A TOUCHDOWN AND TWO POINT CONVERSION AND MICK SCHILLING MOPPED UP THE SCORING PARADE WITH A TOUCHDOWN AND TWO , TWO POINT EXRA POINTS.
FRIDAY NIGHT THE TIGERS HIT THE ROAD TO WACO TO TAKE ON UNDEFEATED BISHOP REICHER IN THE
DISTRICT OPENER FOR BOTH TEAMS. GAME TIME IS SLATED AT 7:00.
FOR SHELTON SCHOOL OF DALLAS IT WAS A DISAPPOINTING NIGHT, BUT WITH A ROSTER THAT HOLDS THIRTEEN SOPHOMORES AND SIXTEEN FRESHMEN ON THEIR FORTY PLUS ROSTER THINGS LOOK BRIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS WELL COACHED TEAM.