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Klein Oak vs. Klein Forest
JV Gold
September 25, 2008
Tough Loss for JV Gold
By Don Porter
The JV Gold lost a hard fought
game to the Klein Forest Golden Eagles, 0 – 12.
Captains Travis Arthur
and Drew Latham received the short kick-off from the green clad Eagles.
With excellent field position, the
 Panthers pounded the ball up the middle with
Darius Butler running behind a stellar O-line of Tanner Grebe,
Jeffrey Dalton, James Fuentez, Eric Sanchez and Kyle
Phillips. On a 4th and two, QB Alex Sisson jammed the
ball up the middle for the first down. The offense then went into a nice
rhythm, of option plays to Jason Williams and middle passes to
Nicholas Bradley and Dustin Scott. Defying the conventional belief
that lack of practice and electricity after Hurricane Ike would hurt the timing,
a beautiful 16 play drive unfolded before our sun-filled eyes. Pounding their
way down to the Eagle 12 yard line, the drive stalled on a 4th and
two pass attempt that didn’t quite work. Taking over on downs, the Eagles began
their own drive behind a large O-line, big fullback and very quick QB. Tackles
by Will Hoffmans, Dillon May, Brycen Turner, Ryan Emerson, Sam Porter and
Chase Kaiser just weren’t enough to stall the Forest drive as the quarter
ended with no score.
Klein Forest opened the second
quarter with the score on the long
drive but missed the PAT to
go up, 0 – 6.
The kick-off went awry and the Eagles recovered the bouncing elliptical orb in
the middle of the field. No matter, Dillon May snagged the interception
and the Panthers were back in business. Jason Williams promptly took the
ball 60 yards the other way. The option plays stalled and the Eagles took over
on downs. Brandon Vong dropped the Eagles QB for a huge loss and
Darius Butler knocked down the fourth down pass attempt to get the ball back
for the Panthers. Oak went to the passing game but the guys in stripes didn’t
like the line play and called holding to negate some of the progress. A great
punt by Nicholas Bradley bounced off the return man and Keith Williams
recovered the muff for the Panthers. An option fumble gave the ball back to the
Eagles but the Defense bowed up and refused the Eagles any progress to end the
half.
Oak kicked off the second half,
Ethan Burgh on the special teams hustle play. The defense yielded
slightly before Trevor Dickerson had the TFL (tackle for loss). Sam
Porter caused a fumble but the ball bounced to the green jersey. Finally,
Ryan Emerson did find a fumble to stop the Eagle drive. It was not to be
long when the offense went three and out and the Eagles took the punt return all
the way to the Oak ten yard line. Forest scored shortly thereafter to go up 0
– 12, to end the quarter.
The fourth quarter kick-off
return was fielded by the shortstop, Ethan Burgh for good field
position. The offense stalled on the
three and out. Skyler Denny came
off injured reserve and stuffed the Eagles at the line more than once and
Trevor Dickerson joined with another TFL. The teams exchanged the ball a
few times in the middle of the field with no one gaining advantage. Both teams
played hard and Oak had plenty of opportunities, the Eagles were just able to
push the ball past the goal line while the Panthers had many, many yards but no
scoreboard lights to show for the effort. |
