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Every year it seems some school is add-ing something to its athletic departments, whether it be indoor workout facilities, new turf at the stadium, a new video scoreboard or a complete renovation of the stadium altogether.

When it comes to putting out a yearly special foot-ball section, its basically the same thing what can you do to top the other guy, or sometimes, yourself.

This year, the improve-ment we at the Avalanche-Journal hope to bring you isnt necessarily going to be seen in print, but rather online with our high school sports web-site, www.lonestarvarsity.com.

For the last few years weve put all our high school sports content on this site. Anything that was put in the print prod-uct was also put online, in most cases before it went to print the next day.

But we realized that sometimes it wasnt al-ways easy to find certain articles, statistics, stand-ings, etc. It could take some searching to find the information you wanted specificially.

Now were finally able to bring to you pages on our website, under the Lone Star Varsity banner, for each high school in our coverage area.

There you will find arti-cles, stats and other useful information related to just the school youre looking for, from 5A to six-man, large to small, city, county or outlying area.

Stacy Besco, worked this summer to bring these pages to you and make them as easy as possible to access. Readers will be able to click on a Lone Star Varsity banner at the main website, and that will take you to what we call a

landing page.There, you will find all the updated

news and notes on high school sports on the South Plains, divided by class. But

you will also find a list of schools in our coverage area.

Clicking on a specific school will take you to a page with articles specifi-cally on that school. Say you want to read about Montereys preparation for the Silver Spurs game against Lubbock High. Well, click on the Monterey tag and you will be taken to Montereys home page where you can digest all information on the Plainsmen up to that point in the season.

We are also hoping that these pages allow us to bring additional elements from our print product to online, specifically our weekly statistics and standings packages. By placing them online, this provides an online deliv-ery of a product through-out the whole week that can be updated in real time.

Also on these online team pages, you will find room to upload band, cheerleader and team pictures from your school. We highly encourage schools to take advantage of this feature to give your school the most complete online information page possible.

Not to worry, print fans. We havent forgot-ten about you, either. We have simultaneously been improving the presenta-tion of our print product,

and have a new design we will debut on Friday to preview all of that weeks games in quick easy-to-read formats.

This way, we can keep Football Fever going all season long.

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ON THECOVEROver the years,

the number of area high school football players who sign with Division I colleges has been inconsistent at best, and lately its been almost non-existent.

There are several factors that go into that drought of Divi-sion I talent geogra-phy, talent and facili-ties are just a few.

Plus, with a reputa-tion of producing only the occasional cant-miss prospect, colleges arent going to spend much time or resources looking for players west of Interstate 35.

But this is a year that could change all that with four, and possibly more, legitimate Division I recruits on the South Plains.

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Left, Shallowaters Jarek Black (35) holds a pair of college football offers from Air Force and UTEP.

Right (opposite page), Shallowaters Cameron Knight(11) has committed to play football at

Texas State.

Finding cant-miss Division I foot-ball talent on the South Plains can sometimes seem as fruit-

less as beating the summer heat. Whether its geography, com-

mitment, facilities or just plain gaps in the amount of talent

produced on a yearly basis, West Texas seems to almost be forgot-ten when it comes to signing day,

compared to the wealth of tal-ent in the other half of the state.

This year, however, could signal a change, and possibly for good.

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Division I-caliber talent on South Plains tough to find

Danny Servance was still just a young coach trying to learn all he could dur-ing the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was coaching at his alma mater, Odessa Perm-ian, and was fortunate to watch some of the best football players ever produced west of Fort Worth.

Sneezy Beltran at Abilene, Cedric Ben-son and Eric Winston at Midland Lee, Roy Williams and John Norman at Odessa Permian.

Farther north there was the likes of Kendal Briles and David Thomas at Frenship, Cody Hodges at Hereford and Kevin Curtis and Mike Smith at Coronado. All of them went on to play major Division I college football.

Servance remembers what it was like back then, with college coaches doing ev-erything within their power to get these prized recruits on campus. He remembers when former Miami coach Larry Coker, now at UT-San Antonio, came down to take a look at Williams, a standout receiver for the Panthers.

He pulled me aside and asked me, be-cause he knew I had a relationship with Roy, that what he needed to know is would (Williams) leave Texas, Servance said. Because to be honest, theyve got five or six guys just like him in Florida. I said, Coach, I dont see it happening. Hes a mamas boy and his mother wants a chance to see him play. I think hes staying in Texas.

Servance said Coker told him thats all he needed to know, hit the door and was never seen again.

Its a typical scene that plays out hun-dreds of times across the state every sea-son, coaches trying to gauge the interests of 17- and 18-year-olds who are busy trying to simultaneously gauge the interest from each school. But it also illustrates how precious the time is for college recruiters, who these days can ill-afford to miss on a player.

Thats a big reason why most high-profile Division I college football players from the state of Texas come from the Interstate 35 Corridor between Dallas-Fort Worth, Aus-tin, San Antonio and down to Houston.

And its why, by comparison, few Division

I athletes seem to be signed out of the West Texas area from west of Abilene and north of Interstate 20.

I think that the mentality of coaches is that youve got to have a no-brainer like a Briles or a Thomas or a Mason Walters (Frenship offensive lineman currently a three-year starter at Texas), Frenship head coach Brad Davis said. Theyre not going to come out here and find sleepers like they do in the more populated areas. If (top recruits) are here, everybody knows about them. Thats just the nature of where we live, I guess.

Drought-bustersPerhaps for the first time since the era

that produced Briles, Thomas, Smith, Cur-tis and others, the South Plains might have its best crop of potential Division I talent.

Four players running back Robert Johnson of Estacado, defensive end De-vondric Meadows of Coronado and running back Jarek Black and tight end Cameron Knight of Shallowater, have either drawn interest from or committed to Division I colleges.

Knight has committed to Texas State. Black enters the season with offers from Air Force and UT-El Paso, both of whom also offered Knight. Meadows has an offer from SMU, according to 247 Sports.

The recruitment of Johnson slowed down some after he missed most of the 2012 sea-son with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. But he is expected to be 100 percent going into his senior season and is listed as a three-star recruit by 247 Sports. He rushed for 2,230 yards and 30 touchdowns as a sophomore in 2011.

Black burst onto the scene last season, averaging well over 280 yards per game and was well on his way to a 3,000-yard season before suffering a broken hand against the Matadors. He returned for the playoffs but injured a shoulder, finishing his season with 2,326 yards and 29 touchdowns. Hes a three-star recruit by 247 Sports.

Knight is an effective pass-catcher, with 17 for 303 yards and four touchdowns a year ago. Hes been known as much for his blocking on the edge, but could be more of

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a factor in the passing game this season.

Then theres Meadows, the in-triguing newcomer to the bunch. Hes 6-foot-5 and 240 pounds, but sat out his junior year to concen-trate on basketball. Hes back as a senior, giving the Mustangs a boost on the end, and automatically be-coming one of the top recruits in the area.

Everything runs in cycles, said Monterey coach Todd Pearson, who himself has one of the top running backs in the area in senior Travon Benton. You look around the area

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DIVISION I: Area talent abounds for 2013and you see (Black) getting some in-terest, Dannys got some good inter-est in his kids over at Estacado. Id like to think theres enough talent here to pull one or two kids from the area. I think the biggest thing is for us to get more exposure into Lubbock and some of the small towns surrounding Lubbock.

Others are starting to emerge. Frenship offensive lineman Mat-thew Robinson has an offer from UTEP, and the Tigers got a big transfer over the summer when left-handed quarterback Trevor Eulen-bach joined the program after mov-ing from Artesia, N.M., where he threw for almost 2,900 yards and 29 touchdowns as a junior.

Slaton quarterback Bryce Wha-ley, listed in Texas Footballs Top 300 as an athlete, was the Offen-sive MVP of the NFL Developmen-tal Camp held at Coronado this summer. Brownfield quarterback ShaColby Hill is listed as one of the top juniors in the state, and Es-tacado receiver Veshondrick Hast-ings is one of the top sophomores.

For me, these types of players dont come along very often, said Shallowater coach Kyle Maxfield, who came out of Sudan to play at Texas A&M. When they do, we re-ally look forward to them playing. Thats something I know me and my staff dont take for granted.

Geographic disadvantageThere are currently 495 schools

in the state in Classes 5A and 4A competing in varsity athletics. Of that number, only 45 are situated west of Abilene and north of or right on Interstate 20. Of that 45, more than half (24) are located in the El Paso area.

The number of high school foot-ball players from this area sign-ing with major Division I colleges the last five years has been almost non-existent. Walters and former Frenship quarterback Seth Doege (Texas Tech), who actually never played a down for the Tigers after tearing the ACLs in both his knees in successive seasons after trans-ferring from Crane after his sopho-

more season, are the last two area players to make impacts at a BCS school.

Former Monterey receiver Arri-us Holleman (class of 2010) has had two unproductive years at SMU, missing all but two games last sea-son due to an injury. New Deals Stephen Bryant (class of 2009), a ju-nior tight end at TCU, was slated to be the Horned Frogs starter until suffering a season-ending injury in a preseason scrimmage. He played in 12 games as a redshirt freshman in 2011, returning one kickoff for 22 yards.

Other area athletes have signed with Division I schools, but most have since transferred. Most area football players wind up signing with local colleges like West Texas A&M in Canyon, Eastern New Mex-ico in Portales or Wayland Baptist in Plainview.

The opportunities to sign with major Division I colleges come few and far between for players on the South Plains.

(East of I-35) just has so much to choose from, so much great tal-ent to choose from that West Texas just doesnt have, said Davis, who has produced as much top talent as any school on the South Plains in recent years. I dont know why that is other than theyre just more populated than we are. We get Divi-sion I-quality athletes out here, but we get them once in awhile. They put them out every year, over and over and over. I guess its the geo-graphic makeup of the state. I dont know how else to explain it.

Along with geography comes an-other factor facilities.

Growing athletesIts not facilities in the tradition-

al sense as in what colleges have to offer. Rather, its the high school facilities.

Lubbock Independent School District athletic director Mark Ball was the head coach at Wylie High School before arriving in Lubbock. Wylie is a community situated on the outer northeast edge of the Dallas suburbs. It is surrounded by

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Id like to think theres enough talent here to pull one or two kids

from the area. I think the biggest thing is for

us to get more exposure into Lubbock and some

of the small towns surrounding Lubbock.

Todd PearsonMonterey coach

We want to get every kid that comes out of West Texas. We have to.Kliff KingsburyTexas Tech head football coach

Division I football factories.You take off from Wylie, with a

90-yard indoor practice facility, a 5,000-square foot weight room with $250,000 worth of equipment in it, Ball said. Five miles down the road you get to Lovejoy, a 3A school with a 90-yard indoor practice facil-ity and weight room. Go five miles to Allen, and we all know what theyve got. Then you go up the road to McK-inney.

All of them have indoor workout buildings. All of them have unbe-lievable weight rooms. Its every-where you go.

Except in West Texas.In the Lubbock area only three

schools, Frenship, Cooper and Shallowater, have true indoor turf-field practice facilities. Several 5A schools in West Texas have them as well, including Odessa Permian and both San Angelo schools. Class 2A Bushland is the only school in the Amarillo-Canyon area with an indoor facility.

LISD schools each have what is called a turf room, but is basical-ly a gymnasium with carpet on the floor that isnt big enough to work on the kicking game or the passing game very effectively.

Ball said there have been conver-sations about constructing indoor practice facilities for the four LISD schools and that there is interest in making that happen.

But he added that producing Divi-sion I talent goes beyond just having the nicest facilities. Part of it is hav-ing the basic facilities at the middle school level.

Thats why one of the improve-ment projects for LISD in the near future is to construct tracks at all middle school football fields in or-der to begin building speed at as early an age as possible.

You look at the game today ... all everybody talks about is speed, Ball said.

Then theres the culture, Ball said, that needs to change. More specifically, a dedication to doing things in the offseason, such as 7-on-7, lineman challenges and, more importantly, weight training, in or-der to produce Division I-caliber athletes.

He mentioned schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that

have turned their strength and conditioning programs over to Per-formance Course, a company that, according to its website, combines proven strength and conditioning principles with the latest method-ologies to give the participant the top athletic performance program in the nation. Not any one single factor will help create more Divi-sion I athletes in West Texas. But a commitment to all of them com-bined could close the gap between east and west of I-35.

Because right now, its got to be absolutely worthwhile for college coaches to step foot in West Texas.

Finding talentEven large schools like the Uni-

versity of Texas which has all the money it needs to spend on whatev-er it needs within its athletic bud-get have to be frugal sometimes.

Longhorns head coach Mack Brown said recently he has six coaches who recruit West Texas, which is actually up significantly from what it was in the past. But those coaches arent just going to come this way looking at every pos-sible athlete they hear about.

Were going to go through and check, and if theres not any players there, then were not going to come back until the next year, Brown said. We dont have time for social visits. But we will do it at least one time a year to make sure that, num-ber one, the University of Texas has a presence in every school and, number two, that we dont miss a player.

By contrast, the University of North Texas in Denton, which in terms of student population is actu-ally the fourth largest university in the state behind Texas, Texas A&M and Houston but just this year

moves up from the Sun Belt to Con-ference USA, can dedicate just one full-time assistant coach to recruit West Texas, leaving the area south of I-20 to graduate assistants.

Its just sparsely populated in terms of number of players out there, said UNT Director of Foot-ball Operations and Recruiting Coordinator Scotty Conley. But as long as I can remember there have been some really good players to come out of West Texas. You can find them, but youve got to make sure youre out there looking.

Some of the larger universities such as Texas have been able in recent months to create new staff positions related to finding high school talent. Brown recently hired Patrick Suddes away from Alabama to serve as his Director of Player Personnel, and along with that hired former high school coach Ken Rucker as his Director of High School Relations and Player De-velopment and former Brownwood coach Bob Shipley, father of UT re-ceivers Jordan and Jaxon Shipley, as a football analyst.

Suddes, Rucker and Shipley cant recruit, but they can hit the phones, mercilessly turning over every stone for Division I talent. Bob Shipley is responsible for West Texas.

Of course, there is the BCS school right in Lubbock, buzzing with ex-citement over the beginning of the Kliff Kingsbury era. He and his as-sistants have been able to make an impact in recruiting because most of the assistants arent that far re-moved from their playing days, and many of them like Smith (Cor-onado), Curtis (Coronado), Sonny Cumbie (Snyder) and Eric Morris (Shallowater) played locally.

We want to get every kid that comes out of West Texas, Kings-

bury said. We have to. With whats going on in the Midland-Odessa area, thats a boom out there and these communities keep growing and getting larger, and we expect there to be more players out this way.

Having college coaches show up on their doorsteps always has and still does make an impact on high school coaches and players.

When we were at Sweetwater and (Dick Winder) was at TCU, he never gave up on West Texas, Coronado coach Kent Jackson said of the former Texas Tech assistant. He was still out here looking and would always stop and check to see if we had a couple of kids. People have to understand its a big deal. The numbers are stacked against you geographically and population-wise. Naturally a majority of the players are going to continue to come from more densely populated areas.

Maybe technology can change that.

Hudl upIt started out as a way for coaches

to be able to scout opponents with-out having to travel long distances, an answered prayer in West Texas. Hudl, based in Lincoln, Neb., takes a teams game film and puts it onto an online server, and schools can subscribe to Hudl to view an op-ponents game film, much the same way they would by trading film af-ter games or during the week.

But it goes beyond that. Brandon Gries, an event coordinator and public relations representative with Hudl, said players can go in and pull individual clips that they can then use to make their own online highlight videos that can be sent out or access granted to col-

lege coaches to view.Two years ago, Hudl acquired

Digital Sports Video, which had film on schools nationwide, and that led to the creation of Hudl Recruit with the specific intent of increasing ex-posure for potential Division I ath-letes. Colleges can now purchase packages to watch video highlights of thousands of recruits across the country.

It makes it easier on both the high school and the (college) coach, Gries said. Theyre not having to get out and drive all over. Theyre able to get on their computer ... and access films from high schools, or if youre a high school coach you dont have to send out a bunch of DVDs. You can just send a link to the game.

Gries said roughly 70 colleges, in-cluding most schools in the four ma-jor conferences (Big 12, SEC, ACC, Pac 12), subscribe to Hudl Recruit.

But that has also taken away some of the face-to-face recruiting that high school coaches say makes a difference.

Jason Strunk has been on pretty much all sides of the debate. As a head coach near Tampa, Fla., Strunk was at one of those schools where college coaches were con-stantly coming through the door the I-4 Corridor in Florida. Hes also been on a college staff at Pur-due that preferred Texas athletes because they were the most ready to play as freshmen due to how they were coached and developed in high school.

Now, however, the occasion is rare for a college coach to walk through the door at Chapman Fieldhouse, a change hes getting used to.

With technology and Hudl, sending video and all that, its a weird dynamic, Strunk said. I re-ally thought Id see more Division I coaches, see their presence out here. Maybe its the talent pool. Maybe its where were located. I know college coaches that look un-der every nook and cranny search-ing for talent.

Perhaps this year, they might not have to look that hard in West Tex-as.

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TaLenT: Geography, reputation play big part in recruiting area

Local coaches see bright future for six-man football

Six-man football season in West Texas is almost like mag-

ic. But is the small-town sport pulling a disappearing act?

Local coaches say no. In fact, they say the game is healthier

than ever.As populations in rural towns

dwindle nationwide, some small schools have difficulty fielding teams year-to-year. Because of lower populations, some 11-man schools have been forced to be-come six-man teams. This, com-bined with the states continued attention to enrollment numbers

in rural areas and the widespread popularity of football in Texas, has coaches on the South Plains see-ing a promising future for six-man football.

Six-man is getting bigger, and heres why, said Clint Linman, head coach of the Anton Bulldogs. Its kind of a sad deal. Rural Amer-ica as a whole is getting smaller, and our urban areas are getting bigger. When we talk about rural America, were not just talking about six-man. Theres been a lot of 1A, 11-man schools that are drop-ping down to six-man...when you look back 10 years ago, all of these schools were playing six-man.

Linman should know. This will be

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right, Borden county and other six-man

schools have walked the balance of large

numbers down to can-celing seasons due to

lack of numbers.

Below, matthew ham and Borden county

look to continue their strong six-man football

tradition.

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be only his third year coaching at Anton, but in 2010, the Bulldogs played one final season of 1A football before dropping down to the six-man game.

As long as theres a top end to feed us, there will always be six-man football, he added.

Texas will introduce a 6A classification in 2014 for larger 5A schools. Six-man foot-ball will become 1A football, while still being played the same way. More impor-tant than the new classification, however, is the likelihood that the change will allow for slightly larger schools to play six-man.

Right now, the top of the (six-man) enroll-ment is 99.9 or 99.5, said Chad Fouts, head coach at Klondike. The UIL is going to that six-class league next year, and were hear-ing theyre going to raise our enrollment to 104.9, so theres a possibility of bringing more schools into six-man. There are sever-al schools that fall in that mix. Some of them will still choose to play 11-man, but I think some will play six-man.

Lane Jackson, who has been the head coach at Ropes for 17 years, says the state is doing the right thing by adjusting en-rollment criteria to keep the six-man game healthy.

The state has done a good job to make sure six-man keeps enough people in there, he said. I think the state has tried to keep six-man going, and so theyve ad-justed the numbers. If you look at the Division II schools in six-man, they were probably traditionally six-man schools, but some of the Division I schools used to be 11-man.

Some schools are wary of dropping down a classification because of the effects the change could have on local communities,

but Whiteface coach Chris Mendez said those fears are unfounded.

Theres a stigma that if you go to six-man, it kills your whole town, but thats not the case, he said. If we were to go to 11-man, I guarantee that the number of kids participating would drop.

Many of the Division I six-man schools in West Texas started out as 11-man programs, but transferred to the six-man ranks when enrollment figures fell. With the enrollment limit possibly rising by over five students next year, its likely that more schools will make the change to six-man.

There have been schools in the past that said they wouldnt go to six-man, said Fouts. When its all said and done, and you know you dont have the kids, you just have to bite that bullet. I think six-man is in a growth spurt right now.

Six-man football is not without its dan-gers, expecially for the Division II pro-grams. Ed Robison has been the head

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Though sometimes the numbers might say differently, six-man coaches insist the game is as strong as ever in the communities that have embraced the game over the years.

Theres a stigma that if you go to six-man, it kills your whole town, but thats not

the case.

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coach at Dawson for six years. The Dragons are ranked eighth in Texas this preseason in Division II six-man, and Robison counts himself lucky to have 13 players this year.

(Other schools) have sometimes had to can-cel the season, he said. Somebody gets hurt, they have to cancel the season. Were kind of fortunate, be-ing at the top of Division II, kind of at the bottom of Di-vision I. We havent been in that place where weve had to cancel because we dont have enough kids, but you hear about it in Division II quite a bit.

Robison is grateful for his schools relatively safe enrollment of about 45 students this year, but he understands that with so few kids, fluctuations in en-rollment figures can come swiftly and have a major impact on the football pro-gram.

Weve been pretty fortu-nate since Ive been here, he said. We havent been below 10. Last year was the lowest year that Ive been here, and next year well be right about that again. I think enrollment next year, were probably going to turn in less than 45.

In the six-man world, a few students can make the difference between having a quality team and forfeit-ing a season. Loop, which has an enrollment of just 32 students, has the small-est enrollment of all the schools in the Avalanche-Journals coverage area. Robison knows what thats like, and says it does affect the way he prepares his team for the season.

We dont do a lot of full contact in practice, try to

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Despite all the risks of enrollment figures and in-jury uncertainty, coaches say that given the choice, their players would rather play six-man football.

My kids prefer playing six-man over 11-man, said Linman.

Antons seniors this year were freshmen in 2010, the schools last year in the 1A ranks, and remember being on an 11-man team. Linman says that in todays modern world, his students prefer the fast-paced excitement that is six-man football.

Its faster, theres more scoring, theres more open-field stuff, he said. Its ex-citing and its fast, and you know what kids want these days. Everything fast.


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The game actually thrives in many of the communities, like Borden County, which is one of the traditional state-wide powerhouses.

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RADIO SCHEDULEThursday, aug. 29

Time event Station7:30 p.m. Coronado at Monterey 950 AM, 92.7 FM

Friday, aug. 30Time event Station4 p.m. Frenship vs. Canutillo 104.3 FM7 p.m. Lubbock High vs. Canyon 1340 AM7:30 p.m. Randall at Plainview 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Estacado vs. Hereford 790 AM7:30 p.m. Shallowater at Muleshoe 105.3 FM, 1380 AM7:30 p.m. Roosevelt at Levelland 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Caprock at Snyder 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Seminole at Merkel 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Floydada at Brownfield 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Lamesa at Littlefield 690 AM, 1490 AM

Friday, Sept. 6Time event Station7:30 p.m. Lub. High at Coronado 950 AM, 1340 AM7:30 p.m. Monterey at Odessa 92.7 FM7:30 p.m. Odessa Permian at Frenship 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Palo Duro at Plainview 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Snyder at Cooper 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Littlefield at Shallowater 105.3 FM, 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Levelland at Denver City 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Seminole at Idalou 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Brownfield at Mid. Greenwood 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Post at Lamesa 690 AM7 p.m. Midland JV at Muleshoe 1380 AM

Thursday, Sept. 12Time event Station7 p.m. Estacado at Caprock 790 AM7 p.m. Plainview at Canyon 106.9 FM

Friday, Sept. 13Time event Station7:30 p.m. San Angelo Central at Coronado 950 AM7:30 p.m. Monterey at El Paso Americas 92.7 FM7:30 p.m. Lubbock High at Cooper 1340 AM7:30 p.m. Frenship at El Paso El Dorado 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Mid. Greenwood at Shallowater 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Muleshoe at Levelland 1230 AM, 1380 AM7:30 p.m. Snyder at Brownwood 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Andrews at Brownfield 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Fort Stockton at Seminole 106.3 FM

7:30 p.m. New Deal at Lamesa 690 AM7:30 p.m. Idalou at Littlefield 1490 AM

Friday, Sept. 20Time event Station7:30 p.m. Coronado at Abilene Cooper 950 AM7:30 p.m. Randall at Monterey 92.7 FM7:30 p.m. Amarillo at Frenship 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Plainview at Caprock 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Estacado at Snyder 790 AM, 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Shallowater at Dalhart 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Seminole at Mid. Christian 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Brownfield at Levelland 1230 AM, 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Lamesa at Clyde 690 AM7:30 p.m. Littlefield at Stratford 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Roosevelt at Muleshoe 1380 AM

Thursday, Sept. 26Time event Station7:30 p.m. Caprock at Monterey 92.7 FM

Friday, Sept. 27Time event Station4 p.m. Abilene Wylie at Estacado 790 AM7:30 p.m. Frenship at Palo Duro 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Dumas at Plainview 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Shallowater at Idalou 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Levelland at Fort Stockton 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Snyder at SA Lake View 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Big Spring at Seminole 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Brownfield at Pecos 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Mid. Greenwood at Lamesa 690 AM7:30 p.m. Dalhart at Littlefield 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Muleshoe vs. Alpine 1380 AM8 p.m. Midland Lee at Coronado 950 AM

Saturday, Sept. 28Time event Station2 p.m. Andrews at Lubbock High 1340 AM

Friday, Oct. 4Time event Station7:30 p.m. Perryton at Lubbock High 1340 AM

Saturday, Oct. 5Time event Station2 p.m. Melissa vs. Estacado 790 AM

Thursday, Oct. 10Time event Station

7 p.m. Hereford at Monterey 92.7 FMFriday, Oct. 11

Time event Station7:30 p.m. Coronado at Odessa 950 AM7:30 p.m. Lub. High at Plainview 1340 AM, 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Frenship at SA Lake View 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Levelland at Estacado 790 AM, 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Seminole at Shallowater 105.3 FM, 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Sweetwater at Snyder 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Idalou at Brownfield 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Slaton at Lamesa 690 AM7:30 p.m. Littlefield at Bushland 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Friona at Muleshoe 1380 AM

Thursday, Oct. 17Time event Station7 p.m. Abilene at Coronado 950 AM

Friday, Oct. 18Time event Station7:30 p.m. Monterey at Frenship 92.7 FM, 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Hereford at Lubbock High 1340 AM7:30 p.m. SA Lake View at Plainview 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Estacado at Shallowater 790 AM, 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Cooper at Seminole 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Andrews at Levelland 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Snyder at Big Spring 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Brownfield at Slaton 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Lamesa at Kermit 690 AM7:30 p.m. Dimmitt at Littlefield 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Bushland at Muleshoe 1380 AM

Thursday, Oct. 24Time event Station7 p.m. Seminole at Estacado 790 AM, 106.3 FM

Friday, Oct. 25Time event Station7:30 p.m. Coronado at Midland 950 AM7:30 p.m. Plainview at Monterey 92.7 FM, 106.9 FM

7:30 p.m. Lubbock High at SA Lake View 1340 AM7:30 p.m. Frenship at Hereford 104.3 FM7:30 p.m. Shallowater at Andrews 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Levelland at Cooper 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Monahans at Snyder 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Kermit at Brownfield 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Littlefield at Childress 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Denver City at Lamesa 690 AM7:30 p.m. Muleshoe at Dimmitt 1380 AM

Thursday, Oct. 31Time event Station7 p.m. Frenship at Lub. High 104.3 FM, 1340 AM

Friday, Nov. 1Time event Station4 p.m. Andrews at Estacado 790 AM7:30 p.m. Monterey at SA Lake View 92.7 FM7:30 p.m. Hereford at Plainview 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Cooper at Shallowater 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Levelland at Seminole 1230 AM, 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Snyder at Abilene Wylie 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Brownfield at Lamesa 1300 AM, 690 AM7:30 p.m. Littlefield at Friona 1490 AM7:30 p.m. Childress at Muleshoe 1380 AM8 p.m. Tascosa at Coronado 950 AM

Friday, Nov. 8Time event Station7:30 p.m. Coronado at Odessa Permian 950 AM7:30 p.m. Lubbock at Monterey 1340 AM, 92.7 FM7:30 p.m. Plainview at Frenship 104.3 FM, 106.9 FM7:30 p.m. Estacado at Cooper 790 AM7:30 p.m. Shallowater at Levelland 105.3 FM, 1230 AM7:30 p.m. Mid. Greenwood at Snyder 105.3 FM7:30 p.m. Seminole at Andrews 106.3 FM7:30 p.m. Denver City at Brownfield 1300 AM7:30 p.m. Lamesa at Idalou 690 AM7:30 p.m. Muleshoe at Littlefield 1490 AM, 1380 AM

STaTION FreQUeNCY LubbockKJAK 92.7 FMKTTU 104.3 FMKJTV 950 AMKFYO 790 AMKKAM 1340 AMKJDL 105.3 FMareaKKYN (Plainview) 106.9 FMKLVT (Levelland) 1230 AMKSNY (Snyder) 105.3 FMKKUB (Brownfield) 1300 AMKBXT (Lamesa) 690 AMKSEM (Seminole) 106.3 FMKZZN (Littlefield) 1490 AMKMUL (Muleshoe) 1380 AM

Note: The Avalanche-Journal/KJAK High School Football Score-board Show will broadcast on KJAK 92.7 FM at 10 p.m.

Note: The Friday Night Live Score-board Show will broadcast live on KTTU 104.3 FM.

Note: Not all schools radio broadcast information was available by time Football Fever 2013 went to press.

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district 2-5a1. abilene Cooper: QB Joe leads talented offense

that should knock off inexperienced Eagles2. San angelo Central: Stellar offense should

help Bobcats challenge Cougars for 2-5A crown3. abilene: With loss of so many players from

2012, Abilene will lean on tradition4. Midland Lee: Rebels fans may grow a little

restless with Morton if struggles continue5. Midland: Bulldogs will have to solve inexperi-

ence problems along both fronts to compete6. Odessa Permian: New coach, lack of experi-

ence could keep Panthers out of postseason7. Coronado: After two sub-par seasons,

Mustangs need to show improvement under Jackson

8. Odessa: Bronchos have benefit of several returning players who took lumps in 2012

9. Tascosa: Rebels will be led by strong defense, need offense to mature quickly

district 4-4a1. Frenship: Tigers will lean on defense while

developing offensive consistency2. Monterey: Bruising running game will allow

Plainsmen to control tempo of game3. Lubbock high: Westerners now must take next

step after breaking playoff drought4. hereford: Herd surged at end of last season,

could do more this coming year5. Plainview: Late coaching change could keep

Bulldogs out of postseason again6. San angelo Lake View: Chiefs simply dont

have enough offense to challenge for playoffs.

PredICTed Order OF FINISh

Peyton elliott, S, FrenshipNot often does Frenship put younger

players in key positions, unless the coaches are confident that player can produce results. Elliott certainly did that and will have to do it again this year after recording 127 tackles and three sacks as a sophomorea year ago.

TOP deFeNSIVe PLaYer

Elliott

Travon Benton, rB, MontereyBenton didnt even start the 2012

season as the No. 1 running back for the Plainsmen, but as the season progressed it was easy to see he was the top ball-carri-er on the team, rushing for 1,494 yards and 15 touchdowns.

TOP OFFeNSIVe PLaYer

Benton

Realignment could finally pit Frenship, LISDs largest schools all in one district

Maybe its because he was an outsider to Texas high school football until three years ago. But, more than likely, its because he doesnt care what successful team he can point to as an example of how to do it.

Lubbock High football coach Jason Strunk makes no qualms about the fact the Westerners want to be the next Fren-ship, the program he views as the flagship for success on the South Plains. He still maintains that stance even after LHS was waxed by the Tigers, 51-6, in their first meeting as district opponents in 2012.

But the way things are going, there might not be too many of those moments, at least with district implications upon them.

The 2013-14 school year is also a realign-ment announcement year for the Univer-sity Interscholastic League, the governing body for high school athletics in Texas. Every two years teams are reclassified ac-cording to their enrollment.

For years, fans have wondered when Frenship would join the three larger Lub-bock Independent School District pro-grams of LHS, Monterey and Coronado in the same league. It might be this year.

Us, Lubbock High, Monterey and Coro-nado, all four of us could go either way, Frenship head coach and athletic direc-tor Brad Davis said.

In a way, however, Frenship and LISD are trending in opposite directions, and they might not be district opponents for long if it does happen in February.

West side growthIts no secret the growth in terms of

housing and businesses in Lubbock is on the south and west sides of town, right squarely in the heart of the Frenship school district boundaries.

Frenships boundary on the east stops at Frankford Avenue, which 15 years ago was an outlying street on the edge of Lubbocks city limits. Now, its home or near some of Lubbocks most popular and prosperous businesses and housing developments.

That has forced the Frenship school dis-trict to grow almost exponentially. Where-as the town of Wolfforth, where Frenship High School is located, has a population of 3,670 according to the 2010 census, the school district has more than 6,500 stu-dents at one high school, three middle

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Frenship could become the biggest school in Lubbock County when district alignments are announced in 2014.

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aug. 29: Coronado at MontereyThis game will provide both teams a key early test.

The opener at the renovated PlainsCapital Park at Lowrey Field will pit strength vs. strength as Montereys running game tries to pierce a tough Coronado defense.

Oct. 11: Lubbock high at PlainviewThe Westerners got into a shootout in this one

last year and survived, setting up their ability late in the season to clinch a playoff spot. The Bulldogs will be five games into a new coach and looking to take a big leap in 4-4A.

Oct. 16: abilene at CoronadoIf the Mustangs are going to show improvement

for this season and give fans hope into the future, they need to at least be competitive. Beating a rebuilding Abilene team could provide a huge boost of confidence in that regard.

Oct. 18: Monterey at FrenshipAn early-season loss to Hereford by Monterey kept

this game from having as big an impact on the 4-4A title as anticipated. That shouldnt be a problem this year as the Plainsmen are looking to knock the Tigers off the top of the mountain.

Nov. 8: Lubbock high at MontereyLHS coach Jason Strunk was fuming after this

game last year, so look for some intensity for the 2013 meeting as he feels his Westerners are primed to take the next step. It could have big implications on playoff seeding.

FIVe GaMeS TO WaTCh

Matthew Robinson, OL, Frenship Erin Lopez, DB, Lubbock High Davis Williamson, K, Monterey Robert Lee, RB, Coronado Desmond Vera, TE, Plainview

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Brad Davis, Frenship Todd Pearson, Monterey Jason Strunk, Lubbock High Kent Jackson, Coronado Ryan Rhoades, Plainview

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Coronado.......................................................................14-15Monterey........................................................................16-17Frenship.........................................................................18-19Lubbock High..............................................................20-21Plainview.............................................................................22

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schools and six elementaries.That growth has taken the Tigers athlet-

ic program from a Class 2A school in 1982 to a Class 4A school 30 years later, and the trend is for Frenship to keep growing.

Frenships registered high school en-rollment number, the figure the UIL uses to determine school classifications, was 1,963 for the 2011 school year. But it was well over 2,000 by the beginning of the 2012 school year.

When the UIL announces its new clas-sifications in February, a new Class 6A will be released, representing the largest schools statewide.

I think Frenship will be on the border-line, Davis said. We could go either way, 6A or 5A, which is now 4A. The realign-ment after that, were definitely going to be 6A. The growth of our middle schools and elementary schools is to a point where weve got one more realignment of 5A and then well be 6A.

Keeping LISd viableWhile Frenships enrollment has steadi-

ly increased, the enrollment at Lubbock ISDs three largest schools has been on a gradual slope in the other direction.

Many reasons factored into that an open transfer policy within the district and lagging facilities just to name a couple. But since his arrival 31/2 years ago, LISD ath-letic director Mark Ball has worked to turn those factors in the opposite direction.

Now, students wishing to compete in athletics in LISD must choose which high school they will attend by which middle school they will attend, and there is no transferring. LISD is also addressing the facilities issues both on campus and at Lowrey Field through the $198 million bond package passed in 2010.

But there are some glaring differences between LISD and Frenship, and even Cooper for that matter. The biggest is the lack of indoor practice facilities on the LISD high-school campuses, while both Frenship and Cooper have massive in-door facilities.

There are some smaller moves that have been made as well in an effort to make Coronado, Monterey and Lubbock High competitive. One of those is creating a middle school athletic district where Lubbock ISD, Frenship and Cooper all compete against each other at the middle-school level.

The reason we got Frenship and Coo-per in that middle school district that was created ... was to compete against somebody beside ourselves and compete against some good programs, Ball said.

I know people may not believe this but

we actually get kids from Frenship and Cooper. Look at our facilities now. Granted we dont have the 50-yard indoor practice facility, but dont think were not work-ing on that, that its not on a backburner somewhere. Our school board and our ad-ministration have made a great commit-ment to us and our facilities. There are a lot of positive things.

Ball said hes been so focused on im-proving the quality of athletics within LISD that he hasnt really paid attention to enrollment figures or trends. And while LISD may have gotten some students, the trend is not looking good.

In the last five realignment periods, dating back to the 2004-06 period and culminating with the 2012-14 period, Coronado, Lubbock High and Monterey have each lost almost 1,000 students. That drop has taken Lubbock High and Monterey from 5A to 4A status and put Coronado dangerously on that line (the 5A minimum number was 2,090, Coronado had an enrollment of 2,187).

Frenship, meanwhile, has gained more than 550 students in that same span. The Tigers were within 130 students of becom-ing a 5A team in February of 2011.

If trends hold, all four schools could find themselves in the same district for the first time ever.

I still anticipate Lubbock High and Monterey staying 4A (what will be known as 5A) and I think theres a greater than 50-percent chance that Coronado will be 4A, Ball said. The 6A deal I dont think is going to have any effect on it. The per-ception of 6A is the same thing we did in 1982 when we created 5A.

Preparing for the futureStill, theres a positive stigma that goes

with knowing you compete in the highest classification in the state.

While Coronado has struggled to do so as of late, Frenship is embracing the idea through its scheduling, which includes Odessa Permian and El Paso Eldorado.

I think we already are prepared, Da-vis said. Were at the point where we can play with any team in the state and we al-ready have been for years. The issue we have is when you get to the third round (of the playoffs), thats when you run into Southlake Carroll, Euless Trinity, Coppell, Arlington Martin, Denton Ryan. All those schools have phenomenal talent and have every year. Its when you run into those teams that have you out-talented.

Which is why staying a classification lower might not be such a bad thing.

While Coronado has struggled at the 5A level, Monterey has found a resurgence since dropping to 4A, going three rounds deep this past season, its deepest postsea-son run since 2006.

I think the drop to 4A, mentally, was a big part of it, Monterey head coach Todd Pearson said. Im not sure that physical-ly it was any different than it was at the 5A level but mentally the kids might have thought that. I think it needs to continue to be our mindset with our kids. We had expectations and we needed to be suc-cessful.

The drop was also hugely beneficial to the Westerners, who broke a 36-year playoff drought with a fourth-place finish in Dis-trict 4-4A, despite an overall record of 3-7.

While winning league titles is nice, Strunk doesnt necessarily put much em-phasis on it.

I think Im more in line with coach Ball and what his thinking is, Strunk said. A district championship is great, but we just have to find a way to get into the playoffs. That will always be our mentality. You get in the playoffs its a clean slate.

Just making the playoffs is obviously the easier goal (four teams in 5A and 4A qualify for the postseason).

Having all four LISD teams in the same district with Frenship makes the goal of earning the district title much tougher for everyone involved.

At least, however, it would provide some entertaining football.

Itd be nice to do that at least one more time, Ball said. I dont think Brad would be opposed to that, either.



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For programs that are re-building, typically the third season is when they begin to show progress.

Coronado enters 2013 in its third season under head coach Kent Jackson, and to say the first two seasons were a struggle would be an understatement. The Mustangs are just 3-17 the past two years two of the wins coming against similarly re-building Lubbock High and have won just two district games combined.

So entering the third year, log-

ic would dictate the Mustangs to make a marked leap in improve-ment, whether or not that results in a higher finish or more wins in a very tough District 2-5A. But Jackson sees improvement al-ready that might not always show on a scoreboard or in a boxscore.

Thats leader-ship and competi-tiveness and the in-tangible things that you know youve got to have to get where you want to go, Jackson said. We all know that at some point when youre turning a program around that you have to get that win over somebody that youre ... not fa-vored or supposed to beat on paper. Once that happens, you feel like the tide is starting to turn. Weve been in that situ-ation with those teams where were in the game and not able

to finish, and thats what weve got to be able to do.

The Mustangs had a handful of such games last year, playing San Angelo Central close on the road before falling 28-17 in the 2-5A opener, dropping a two-touchdown game at Tascosa and moving the ball up and down the field against Odessa Permian but never consis-tently finding the end zone.

Coronado will have a chance early to get one of those signa-ture wins. After non-district games against crosstown rivals Monterey and Lubbock High, the Mustangs open district with two of the leagues title favorites in Central and Abilene Cooper be-fore a tough Midland Lee team comes to Lubbock.

Its in that five-game stretch, Jackson said, Coronado has to find a way to steal a win, or two, in order to harbor hopes late in the season of garnering one of four postseason berths.

Mustangs hope experience, attitude make difference

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Coronado/mustangs could start to show improvement in third season under Jackson

Jackson

CORONADO MUSTANGS

Head coachKent Jackson (Lubbock Christian), third sea-

son; 3-17 at Coronado, 129-80 overallAssistant coaches

Brad Bibb, C Gray Gregory, Shawn Hensley, Gary Hix, Michael Mann, Ted Maple, Jeff

Marrs, Michael Northupp, Ty Palmer, Jason Shahan, Rick Smith, James Vint, Sylas

Politte, Tyrone Labad

Player Ht. Wt. Yr. Pos.Joel Alvarado 5-10 160 Sr. WR/DBConner Astwood 6-1 190 Sr. WR/LBJackson Bailey 5-11 180 Sr. OL/DLNick Bartley 6-1 190 Jr. RB/LBCollin Burns 5-9 195 Sr. OL/DLCody Castillo 6-0 195 Sr. OL/DLMatthew Cavazos 5-8 185 Sr. OL/DLAndrew Ellison 5-9 170 Sr. RB/LBJerrek Esparza 5-10 160 Jr. WR/DBJaden Garcia 5-10 175 Sr. QB/DBRene Garcia 6-3 240 Sr. OL/DLLouis Gonzales 5-9 160 Sr. WR/DBKeandre Hall 6-2 260 Jr. OL/DLColeman Hendershot 6-1 190 Jr. TE/LBBrandon Hershman 5-11 190 Sr. WR/LBJames Horton 6-0 300 Sr. OL/DLRandall Jackson 6-1 275 Sr. OL/DLDalexae Johnson 5-9 165 Sr. WR/DBJonathan Juarez 5-10 175 Sr. WR/DBJoel Leal 5-8 145 Sr. WR/DBRobert Lee 5-10 185 Sr. RB/LBGarrett Lord 6-1 150 Sr. WR/DBKeishon Lott 6-1 185 Sr. RB/LBLorenzo Lovato 5-10 155 Sr. WR/DBAaron Mactal 6-1 200 Sr. WR/DBBranson McCowan 6-1 190 Sr. OL/DLDevondric Meadows 6-5 250 Sr. TE/DLCarl Moyers 5-9 175 Sr. RB/LBDavid Munoz 6-0 170 Jr. QB/SJoey Ortiz 5-10 205 Sr. OL/LBBrandon Sherlin 6-1 175 Jr. WR/DBTerry Smith 5-9 240 Sr. OL/DLMatthew Spieker 5-9 145 Sr. WR/DBIsaiah Tates 5-10 185 Sr. RB/DBBryan Trevino 5-10 150 Sr. WR/DBKameron Wilborn 5-10 185 Sr. QB/DBDerrick Wright 5-9 150 Sr. WR/DBCourtnee Wynn 6-1 190 Sr. RB/LBArmando Yanez 6-0 195 Sr. OL/DL

Date Opponent TimeAug. 30 at Monterey 7:30 p.m.Sept. 6 Lubbock High 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 San Angelo Central* 7:30 p.m.Sept. 20 at Abilene Cooper* 7:30 p.m.Sept. 27 Midland Lee* 8 p.m.Oct. 11 at Odessa* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 17 Abilene* 7 p.m.Oct. 25 at Midland* 7:30 p.m.Nov. 1 Tascosa* 8 p.m.Nov. 8 at Odessa Permian* 7:30 p.m.* District 2-5A game

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Team n 2012 season, district record: 2-8, 1-7

(tied seventh place District 2-5A)n District: 2-5An Basic offense: Multiple Spreadn Basic defense: 4-3n Year last won district: 2007n Year last made playoffs: 2007n Stadium: Lowrey Field (Capacity 8,000)

Players n Returnees: 16 of 47 lettermen, seven

offensive starters, four defensive startersn Returning starters: RB Robert Lee,

RB Isaiah Tates, LB Brandon Hershman, LB Conner Astwood, OL Cody Castillo, DL Terry Smith, OL/DL James Horton, RB Andrew Ellison, WR Brandon Sherlin, OL Randall Jackson

n Other lettermen: RB Nick Bartley, OL Jackson Bailey, OL Branson McCowan, DL Keandre Hall, QB Kameron Wilborn, RB Courtney Wynn, TE/LB Coleman Hendershot

n Top newcomers: DB Dalexae Johnson, DL Devondric Meadows

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Coronados Isaiah tates, shown breaking away for a touchdown last year against abilene Cooper, is half of a potentially explosive tandem of running backs, along with robert Lee.

Date Opponent ResultAug. 31 Monterey L 17-14Sept. 7 Lubbock High W 7-0Sept. 14 at San Angelo Central* L 28-17Sept. 21 Abilene Cooper* L 55-20Sept. 28 at Midland Lee* L 44-10Oct. 12 Odessa* W 21-9Oct. 19 at Abilene* L 49-0Oct. 26 Midland* L 56-6Nov. 2 at Tascosa* L 28-14Nov. 9 Odessa Permian* L 49-24* District 2-5A game

2012 reSULTS

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Coronados Keandre Hall (95) pressures odessa Permians Jack wilkins during their game last year.

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Those are huge for us in trying to find some good things that can happen for us early, Jackson said. Thats a tall order. But if were going to push for-ward for one of those (play-off) spots we have to find a way to steal one there. Our young men feel confident and have said that is their goal to be one of those four teams. The kids think they have the potential to do that and the coaches be-lieve theyre capable of playing that way and have seen them work.

It was an encouraging spring and summer for Jackson, who saw not only improvements physically from the Mustangs but also in their mentality and ma-turity.

Players began display-ing, vocally and physically, their disdain and frustra-tion with the lack of success the past two years, along with a determination to do something about it, and that permeated through-out the lockerroom, weight room and on the practice field, Jackson said.

Theyre taking the ini-tiative to encourage their teammates and try to make sure theyre all here get-ting our summer work done, and are doing things you have to do in order to be competitive at this level, Jackson said. That aspect of it seems stronger than weve seen the last two years overall and thats encouraging.

Whats also encouraging is that for the first time in three seasons the Mustangs have a good core nucleus of experience returning, plus a couple of huge additions who could make a big dif-ference on defense.

The Mustangs welcome back 16 lettermen and nine starters, including two good athletes at running

back, a pair of experienced offensive linemen and two playmaking linebackers.

Hopefully, that trans-lates into something posi-tive when the lights come on, Jackson said. We hope some of that experi-ence guys have gained will start paying dividends.

C o r o n a -dos offen-sive strength starts with its running game and the return of two talented tailbacks in

seniors Robert Lee and Isaiah Tates. The two com-bined for 863 rushing yards and seven touchdowns, and give the Mustangs break-away speed when they get into the open.

Theyll have a pair of seniors clearing the holes up front in Randall Jack-son and Cody Castillo. But size up front will still be a concern as neither Jack-son or Castillo is taller than 6-foot-1, and Castillo stands at just 5-10.

The biggest question for the Mustangs on offense is quarterback, where it was expected to come down be-tween senior Kameron Wil-born and newcomers J.T. Morris and Jaden Garcia off the junior varsity. Wil-born, with his experience on varsity last year, has a step on the other two

I think he has improved so much this spring with his throwing motion, Jackson said. Hes thrown the ball well this spring and has more confidence in that. Hes always had the ability to run the read option very well and does a good job of that. Hes re-ally reaped the rewards of what weve asked him to do this offseason.

Coronado will also have some talent on the out-

side, led by junior Bran-don Sherlin, who caught 14 passes for 100 yards last season and is expected to take on a bigger role this year. Lee and Tates will also see time out wide as will junior Nick Bartley, one of a group of talented 2012 sophomores Jackson is excited about. Morris and Wilborn could also play receiver if neither are under center.

Jackson expects the Mus-tangs to be just as strong on defense, which would be a big improvement. Corona-do ranked ninth out of 10 teams in District 2-5A last year, allowing 389.7 yards per game, and was eighth

in points al-lowed at 355.

Leading the charge will be lineback-ers Connor Astwood and Brandon Her-schmann, two

of the Mustangs leading tacklers from a year ago.

Coronado also got a boost when athlete Dal-exae Johnson, who played last season at Frenship, transferred back to Coro-nado and will help boost the secondary.

But the biggest addition came from right on campus in the form of big defen-sive end Devondric Mead-ows. The 6-5, 240-pound senior sat out last year to concentrate on basketball, but returns to play his fi-nal season and is already drawing notice from Divi-sion I schools. He had 26 tackles as a sophomore.

He is a tremendous young man and the kind of kid you would want in any program, Jackson said. What he does on the (field) is special but its who he is in the lockerroom every day that is important. Hes a team guy, unselfish and

very much a guy you want around and you want the rest of the team to be in-spired by.

Up front Meadows will have help from end Ke-andre Hall, who got some varsity playing time as a sophomore (35 tackles) and has made strides physi-cally. In the middle look for newcomers Zach Stepp and Emery Giddens to pos-sibly make an impact.

Johnson will have help in the secondary from re-turning letterman David Munoz, a junior, and Mor-ris could also work into the mix depending on his role offensively.

We have several young men who we feel can fight for those other spots, Jackson said. We feel theres potential there to

have some guys do some good things early on for us there.

If all the pieces can fall into place, and do so quickly, theres no reason the Mustangs cant at least be in position to fight for a playoff spot by the end of the year.

When youre a young-ster sitting there like all

these guys were as juniors last year going through all that, you know your only choice is to sit back and do nothing and know that its coming again, or to try to raise your level and im-prove, Jackson said.



Coronado: Mustangs hungry for success after lean years

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By winning nine games and going three rounds deep in the Class 4A playoffs, some might think the Monterey football pro-gram is back to where it used to be throughout the 2000s.

And while that may be good for the fans, its not good enough for head coach Todd Pearson, who wants the program to surpass what it was doing when it was one of the more dominant 5A pro-grams in West Texas.

Were making progress and go-ing in the right direction, Pearson said. What it boils down to is how consistent you can be as a pro-gram, and were working on that and trying to be consistent with what we do, and then get to a level and stay at that level. I wouldnt say that were there yet and we

may never be, but were definitely working toward that direction.

While Pearson wants to keep the focus on the future, its hard to ar-gue with the strides the Plainsmen (9-4, 3-2 in District 4-4A) took a season ago.

By reaching the regional quarter-finals and giving a good Birdville team a run for its money, the Plainsmen made their deepest postseason run since 2006, when they lost to Colleyville Heritage in the 5A regional semifinals.

For Pearson, success isnt nec-essarily measured in wins and losses though thats a part of it but rather by how ready his team is for the district slate and beyond.

I think its important to win the games you can in non-dis-trict, said Pearson, who as an as-sistant watched Monterey plenty of times struggle in non-district only to dominate league play.

But I also think its important that everything moves step by

step and you move up the ladder. In our program we want to be at our best going into the last game of the year, and weve been for-tunate to be able to do that and get to a certain point (in the play-offs). The non-district is impor-tant for wins and losses and for the mentality of our kids, but its not going to get us where we need to ultimately be.

Where that is, Pearson said, is playing for a state championship, something that hasnt been done in this area above the 3A level since the late 1960s.

The bad news for Monterey is the graduation of 40 seniors from the 2012 squad, many of whom were key contributors last sea-son. The good news is theres plenty of returning talent back to make another deep playoff push.

Pearson welcomes five offen-sive and eight defensive return-ing starters, including basically his entire front four, three key members of the secondary and two players who made Monterey one of the top rushing teams in the area last season.

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monTerey/program close to level pearson hopes to achieve in 4A

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MONTEREY PLAINSMEN

Head coachTodd Pearson (West Texas State), fifth sea-

son; 19-26 at Monterey and overallAssistant coaches

Taylor Cain, Michael Faherty, Tim Glover, Stephen Gonzalez, Mike Herbert, Simon Hernandez, Clay Jones, Kent Meador,

Brandon Newman, Kevin Pittman, Shannon OPry, Will Smith, Bob Stanley, Les Tomlin,

Travis Walden, Floyd White

Player Ht. Wt. Yr. Pos.Josh Aguirre 5-9 170 Jr. FBAndren Anderson 6-2 290 Sr. OLCamden Arnold 6-1 165 Sr. QBJacob Bach 6-0 170 Jr. LBSam Bartholomae 6-1 210 Jr. DLAdam Benitez 6-2 260 Jr. DLTravon Benton 5-10 200 Sr. RBJerry Bibbs 5-11 175 Sr. DBZachary Brown 5-11 175 Jr. RBChristian Cedillo 6-0 165 Sr. DBAlonzo Collins 6-2 200 Sr. DLRicardo Cortez 5-7 150 Jr. DBCaleb Delano 5-10 180 Jr. LBAustin Dorsett 6-3 185 Sr. TEAlazea Douglas 5-11 200 Jr. DLMatt Duran 5-9 200 Jr. FBDevin Esquivel 5-9 170 Jr. LBJaylin Fay 5-10 160 Jr. WRKeith Fernandez 5-10 175 Jr. RBJared Frankhouser 6-0 170 Jr. WRXavier Freeman 6-1 210 Jr. DLRoman Garica 5-9 165 Jr. LBXavier Garcia 5-10 170 Jr. WRJonathan Gaytan 6-0 245 Jr. OLTim Givens 6-0 175 Jr. DBTrevor Gooden 6-1 260 Jr. OLMagoo Grimaldo 5-9 190 Sr. LBAustin Heinrich 6-4 205 Sr. DLJake Hohenberger 6-0 180 Sr. LBMarcus Hopson 5-11 185 Sr. DBPaul Johnson 5-10 200 Jr. OLVincent Johnson 5-11 180 Jr. RBMarcos Lafargue 6-2 210 Jr. OLShahaleam Lara 5-10 175 Jr. LBDontrell Lewis 5-10 175 Sr. QBAnthony Martinez 6-0 230 Sr. OLNick Martinez 5-9 175 Sr. LBIsh Mendoza 5-9 175 Sr. DLConnor McKelvey 6-3 175 Jr. DLConnor Mitchell 6-2 175 Sr. WRDominique Patterson 6-1 180 Sr. DBBryan Payne 5-8 160 Sr. DBJoseph Peal 5-10 165 Jr. DBTyler Perez 6-1 205 Jr. DLRoy Reed 6-0 200 Jr. DLTyler Rekieta 6-0 165 Sr. WRThomas Renteria 5-8 160 Sr. WRJoseph Reyes 5-10 185 Jr. TEAndrew Rhodes 5-9 175 Jr. DLOliver Rodriguez 5-11 180 Sr. DLRyan Saldivar 5-8 165 Sr. DBZachary Sanders 6-3 180 Sr. WRJordan Silva 5-10 175 Sr. LBNat Simpson 5-9 160 Sr. WRHunter Spaeth 6-4 190 Jr. QBChris Tawney 5-9 165 Sr. WRKaeden Taylor 6-0 175 Jr. LBLandin Terry 5-8 165 Jr. WRJaron Thomas 6-0 165 Jr. DBAiden Tovar 5-9 170 Jr. DLTroy Turnipseed 6-1 260 Sr. OLRey Valdez 5-9 260 Jr. DLBlake Walden 6-2 175 Sr. WRTyler Walls 5-10 260 Sr. OLCody Weems 6-1 180 Jr. QBSemaj Williams 5-10 220 Sr. RBDavis Williamson 6-0 160 Sr. KRyan Woodham 5-11 270 Sr. OL

Date Opponent TimeAug. 29 Coronado 7:30 p.m.Sept. 6 at Odessa 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 at El Paso Americas 7:30 p.m.Sept. 20 Randall 7:30 p.m.Sept. 26 Caprock 7:30 p.m.Oct. 10 Hereford* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 18 at Frenship* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 25 Plainview* 7:30 p.m.Nov. 1 at SA Lake View* 7:30 p.m.Nov. 8 Lubbock High* 7:30 p.m.* District 4-4A game

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(third place District 4-4A)n District: 4-4An Basic offense: Multiplen Basic defense: 4-3n Year last won district: 2006n Year last made playoffs: 2012n Stadium: Lowrey Field (Capacity 8,000)

Players n Returnees: 18 of 58 lettermen, five of-

fensive starters, eight defensive startersn Returning starters: OL Andren

Anderson, OL Ryan Woodham, RB Vincent Johnson, RB Travon Benton, WR Blake Walden, DL Alazea Douglas, DL Xavier Free-man, DL Adam Benitez, DL Austin Heinrich, DL Sam Bartholomae, LB Jordan Silva, DB Dominique Patterson, DB Marcus Hopson

n Other lettermen: QB Camden Arnold, DB Christian Cedillo, K Davis Williamson, DL Ismael Mendoza

n Top newcomers: DB Christian Cedillo, DB Bryan Payne, WR Chris Tawney, RB Semaj Williaims, RB Keith Fernandez

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Date Opponent ResultAug. 31 at Coronado W 17-14Sept. 7 Odessa W 31-19Sept. 14 El Paso Americas W 27-23Sept. 21 at Randall L 35-31Sept. 28 at Caprock W 75-61Oct. 12 at Hereford* L 44-34Oct. 19 Frenship* L 10-29Oct. 26 at Plainview* W 49-26Nov. 2 SA Lake View* W 35-3Nov. 9 at Lubbock High* W 49-14Nov. 16 Amarillo Palo Duro** W 38-16Nov. 23 El Paso Andress** W 21-18Dec. 1 NRH Birdville** L 42-21** 2012 playoff game* District 4-4A game

2012 reSULTS stephen spiLLmAn A-J mediAtravon Benton is back for Monterey after rushing for 1,494 yards and 15 touchdowns last season as a junior. He will lead a bruising rushing attack that could lead the Plainsmen to a District 4-4a crown.


(Leadership) is unique to the season and unique to the team youve got, Pear-son said. We do have sev-eral seniors who got play-ing time last year or were a starter last year, and hope-fully we can get that same leadership as we did from the other group.

Leading the way will be M o n t e r e y s p o u n d i n g ground game behind senior Travon Benton and junior Vin-cent Johnson.

Benton start-ed the 2012 season as the third rushing option in Montereys attack, but quickly asserted him-self as the go-to player, fin-ishing with 1,494 yards and 15 touchdowns, displaying

a coveted blend of power (5-foot-10, 200 pounds) and speed (4.8 40-yard dash).

Johnson was a mid-sea-son call-up from the junior varsity and showed why he could be the next top run-ning back in line, finish-ing with 285 yards and six touchdowns on 41 carries.

Monterey will have to break in a new quarter-back this season, and senior southpaw Camden Arnold appears to be next in line. Though he had just one pass attempt as a junior, he could also give the Plainsmen an added air threat they didnt always have last season af-ter leading Montereys 7-on-7 team to the state tournament in July. Hell have top target Blake Walden to throw to.

The biggest question for Monterey is up front,

where graduation has left three holes to fill.

There will be some expe-rience on the offensive line with the return of senior Ryan Woodham and junior Andren Anderson, but fill-ing the other three starting spots was the focus of the spring and will be again during two-a-days.

Luckily for the Plainsmen, while those offensive holes are being filled, an experi-enced and talented defense returns to help lead the way through a tough non-district slate that includes games against El Paso Americas and Randall.

Thats the great thing from year to year, especial-ly after the season we had last year, is having all those guys coming back, Pear-son said. With us having

some juniors in the lineup last year coming back as seniors and plugging in a few new kids, that gives us a little bit of consistency and knowledge of where we need to start with.

An experienced front and secondary will be the strength of the defense.

Leading the way are se-nior end Austin Heinrich and juniors Sam Bartholo-mae at one end and Adam Benitez, Alazea Douglas and Xavier Freeman on the interior.

Backing them up in the secondary are seniors Mar-cus Hopson, Dominique Patterson and Christian Cedillo.

About the only question mark on the defense is at linebacker, where the only returner is All-South Plains

l i n e b a c k e r Jordan Sil-va, a senior. Monterey will also have the added bo-nus of a solid kicker in se-nior Davis Williamson, who hit on all 10 field-goal attempts and

43 of 45 PAT kicks.We had a lot of young

kids, several sophomores, playing on defense last year, Pearson said. I think with a year under their belt that well be really solid up front. That will be some-thing we can hang our hat on early in the year more than we have in the past.

monTerey: Benton ran for 1,494 yards, 15 TDs last season

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There have been years in the re-cent past where the Frenship foot-ball program has had to basically start over in terms of personnel due to high graduation numbers from the season before.

In those seasons, the rebuild-ing took a while not often long enough for the Tigers to not have a solid season but long enough to keep them from having the seasons theyve come to expect.

The 2013 season could be one of those times as Frenship must re-place 37 letterwinners from a team that went 12-2, finished a perfect 5-0 in District 4-4A and advanced all the way to the Division II re-gional finals.

But veteran head coach Brad Da-vis doesnt expect the rebuilding to last much past two-a-day practices and feels the Tigers have the abili-

ty in 2013 to pick up where they left off in 2012. And he feels that way for three reasons.

Expectations, talent and depth.Davis welcomes back just 14

lettermen from the team that was eliminated from the playoffs by Wichita Falls Rider for the second straight season. But of those 14, 11 are either returning starters or saw extensive play-ing time, which gives Davis a good starting point entering the season.

Im very opti-mistic about the season, said Da-vis, who enters his eighth season as head coach and 28th season at the school. Weve had a good spring with good senior leadership. We dont have a lot of seniors but we have some really great kids and some quality kids who want to continue the tradition of winning and winning big.

Thats the tradition coming through, the fact that the Tigers havent had a losing overall record since 1992. The expectations are that no matter how many players

Frenship has or doesnt have re-turning, winning district and mak-ing a deep playoff run is the norm.

Experience at playing varsity football is a big thing to me, Da-vis said. Its everything. We have some experience coming back. But we have ones who are going to have to step in and fill some holes off the JV.

Even with having to lean on so many newcomers to the varsity level and a couple of transfers Davis is confident the Tigers can have an equally successful season, if not better, than last year, which would mean advancing to the re-gional finals or beyond.

Thats also a tall task considering how much the rest of the district has improved around the Tigers. Monterey welcomes back a stout defense and strong running game, and Lubbock High looks to make another leap after ending a 36-year playoff drought last season.

Were going to continue to do what weve been doing, and we have the kids in place to do it, Da-vis said. I feel this year the thing that gives us a chance to be a bet-ter football team than we were

Frenship wont let lack of experience limit lofty goal

BY GeorGe watson


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FRENSHIP TIGERSHead coach

Brad Davis (Texas Tech), eighth season; 72-17 at Frenship and overall

Assistant coachesDavid Crume, Jimmy Curtis, Eric Eugenis, Chris Fanelli, Gery Joy, Lonnie Kuss, Keith Oldham, Chad Reynolds, Jerry Reynolds

Player Ht. Wt. Yr. Pos.Samuel Alexander 6-0 210 Sr. DEMarcus Anguiano 5-11 180 Sr. LBKyle Arp 5-11 165 Sr. CBRonald Awatt 5-11 180 So. RBMarcus Ayala 5-11 190 Sr. DLZac Backus 6-0 185 Sr. FBKyle Barthold 6-1 195 So. DEMatthew Beauregard 6-0 220 Sr. DLJonathan Beck 5-11 195 Sr. LBKorbin Beierschmitt 6-0 180 Sr. DLParker Bingham 5-11 165 Jr. QBLogan Boyd 5-9 175 Sr. LBGrant Caravelli 6-3 245 Jr. OLRyan Carman 6-2 230 Jr. OLChris Carter 5-9 145 Jr. WRChandler Casey 6-1 205 Jr. LBT.J. Clark 6-3 185 Sr. WRMarvin Clayborne 5-10 165 Sr. CBChristian Condez 5-9 160 Sr. WBChad Curtis 6-2 190 Sr. WRDonte Darty 5-9 150 Jr. RBClay Davis 5-11 145 Jr. WRRyan Delgado 5-11 185 Sr. DEColeman Dennis 6-0 245 Jr. DEPeyton Elliot 5-9 165 Jr. FSTrevor Eulenbach 6-1 180 Sr. QBTeKel Evans 5-11 165 Sr. LBZach Finley 6-1 215 Jr. NGCole Fontenot 6-0 200 Jr. LBHunter Hail 6-0 195 Sr. NGHayden Harrison 5-10 195 So. LBIsaiah Hernandez 6-2 250 Sr. OLIan Hightower 6-0 175 Jr. RBCraig Kizer 5-11 170 Sr. WBTyler Kreger 6-1 195 Sr. LBDevin Jordan 5-10 265 Jr. OLSammy Llanas 5-11 200 Sr. OLTodd Lloyd 5-10 155 Jr. WRTrevor Lloyd 5-11 185 Sr. SSTristan Lowrey 5-10 185 Jr. WBDalton Mankin 5-10 170 Sr. CBJared Mannon 6-1 175 Jr. CBJonas Marsh 5-10 165 Sr. WRMarcus Martinez 5-11 180 Sr. LBScott McIntire 6-2 210 So. DEDane Powell 5-10 165 Sr. CBTravis Rasberry 6-4 285 Sr. OLChris Reyes 5-11 185 So. LBMatthew Robinson 6-4 260 Sr. OLNick Sanchez 6-4 235 Jr. OLGrant Sandercox 6-2 190 Jr. RBJesse Shipman 5-10 170 Sr. WBMatthew Spicer 6-5 295 Jr. OLJacob Stoker 6-2 230 Sr. OLAlex Treffalls 6-0 180 Jr. LBTanner Truitt 6-1 230 Sr. DEJonathan Tulloh 6-1 215 Sr. OLJohnny Vargas 5-9 180 Sr. LBMicah Villarreal 5-11 190 Sr. OLCollin Voyles 6-1 185 Sr. WRDonald Williams 5-10 180 Sr. LBWill Wyatt 5-11 170 Sr. SSAustin York 6-0 195 Sr. DE

Date Opponent TimeAug. 30 vs. Canutillo** 4:00 p.m.Sept. 6 Odessa Permian 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 at El Paso El Dorado 6:00 p.m.Sept. 20 Amarillo 7:30 p.m.Sept. 27 at Palo Duro 7:30 p.m.Oct. 11 at SA Lake View* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 18 Monterey* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 25 at Hereford* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 31 at Lubbock* 7:00 p.m.Nov. 8 Plainview* 7:30 p.m.* District 4-4A game; ** at Midland

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(first place District 4-4A)n District: 4-4An Basic offense: Multiple-In Basic defense: 3-4n Year last won district: 2012n Year last made playoffs: 2012n Stadium: Peoples Bank Stadium

(Capacity 10,000)

players n Returnees: 14 of 47 lettermen, five of-

fensive starters, six defensive startersn Returning starters: QB/SS Trevor Lloyd,

WR Jared Mannon, WR Chad Curtis, OL Mat-thew Robinson, OL Travis Rasberry, DB Peyton Elliot, LB Tyler Kreger, WR/CB Jared Mannon, LB Chandler Casey, LB Jonathan Beck

n Other lettermen: WB Christian Condez, S Will Wyatt, WR Dane Powell, FB Zach Finley

n Top newcomers: RB Ronald Awatt, RB Grant Sandercox, LB Cole Fontenot, OL Ja-cob Stoker, DL Devin Jordan, DL Nick San-chez, DL Tanner Truitt, OL Sammy Llanas, OL Grant Caravelli, QB Trevor Eulenbach

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Date Opponent ResultAug. 31 Riverside W 23-6Sept. 7 at Odessa Permian W 23-13Sept. 14 El Paso El Dorado W 27-10Sept. 21 at Amarillo L 21-12Sept. 28 Palo Duro W 45-41Oct. 12 SA Lake View* W 49-0Oct. 19 at Monterey* W 29-10Oct. 26 Hereford* W 70-27Nov. 2 Lubbock High* W 51-6Nov. 9 at Plainview* W 37-7Nov. 16 Canyon** W 45-23Nov. 23 Clint Horizon** W 42-14 Dec. 1 Waco** W 45-28Dec. 8 Wichita Falls Rider** L 33-7** 2012 playoff game; * Dist. 4-4A game

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Despite having to replace 37 letterwinners who graduated, Frenship head coach Brad Davis will be looking for another deep playoff run this season.


last year ... is were going to be so much more balanced on offense and be able to throw the football more. And I think our defense has a chance to be as strong if not stronger with the kids we have in place.

With no experienced run-ning back returning after the graduation of DMaujeric Tucker, Davis is turning to four talented members of the 2012 JV seniors Dalton Mankin and Grant Sander-cox, junior Dante Darty and sophomore Ronald Awatt and a late move-in to fill the hole.

Senior Marvin Clayborne moved in from Plainview late in the summer, and was a part-time starter behind two seniors with the Bull-dogs last season.

Well have to see how the tailback (position) emerges,

Davis said. Were not afraid to play all four tailbacks and all of them bring something to the table. But if one comes to the forefront and that is our No. 1 on the depth chart well start him and play him more. Well wait and see how the competition goes during two-a-days.

The reason Davis is confi-dent in an improved passing game bringing more balance to the offense isnt necessar-ily because of experience.

Quarterback was also ex-pected to be a battle during preseason practice. Senior Trevor Lloyd is back in the fold after throwing for 845 yards and nine touchdowns, but inconsistency in the passing game led Frenship to lean on Tucker heavily last year despite defenses stacking up against the run.

This year, however, Lloyd

will have serious competi-tion for the starting spot. Left-hander Trevor Eulen-bach transferred from Arte-sia, N.M. where he led the

Bulldogs to an eight-win sea-son, and in nine games threw for 2,889 yards and 29 touch-downs. Davis said junior Parker Bingham will also get a shot to win the spot.

Whether its running or throwing, the Tigers will have a pair of solid offen-sive linemen back to lead the way in right guard Travis Rasberry and right tackle Matthew Robinson.

The trick will be finding replacements for the other three positions. Then again, Davis has plenty of options with senior Jacob Stoker and junior Devin Jordan battling at center, while the left side will be filled from a group that includes seniors Tanner Truitt, Sammy Lla-nas and Isaiah Hernandez and juniors Grant Caravelli,

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Trevor Eulenbach trans-ferred to Frenship after passing for 2,889 yards and 29 touchdowns last season at Artesia, N.M.


LUBBOCK HIGH WESTERNERSHead coach

Jason Strunk (East Stroudsburg University), third season; 3-17 at LHS, 20-27 overall

Assistant coachesNate Gensler, Nate Jephcott, Brandt Martin, Derek Mauldin, David Moody, Adam Rosa-les, Tyler Trout, Neal Tull, Colin White, Jinks

White, Jake Willingham

Player Ht. Wt. Yr. Pos.Tristan Alonzo 5-8 162 Sr. DBElias Alverado 5-8 160 Sr. WR/DBKaleb Arguello 5-9 200 Sr. OL/DLGavy Arredondo 5-8 166 Sr. WR/DBMichael Arrizola 5-8 176 Sr. RB/LBNathan Castillo 5-6 162 Sr. RB/LBSergio Cervantez 5-6 172 Sr. OL/LBJeremiah Conyers 5-6 167 Sr. WR/DBKyzer Del Busto 5-9 137 Sr. TE/LBFelipe DeLeon 5-7 195 Jr. OL/DLSteven Duke 5-5 171 Jr. RB/LBErik Elias 5-4 200 Sr. OL/DLEric Escobar 5-2 115 Jr. KAustin Faeth 5-8 166 Sr. WR/LBAustin Flores 5-5 128 Jr. WR/DBMark Flores 5-4 202 Sr. OL/DLJames Garcia 6-0 180 Jr. QBA.J. Garza 5-8 143 Jr. KDavid Garza 5-5 200 Sr. OL/DLIsaac Gomez 5-6 158 Sr. OL/LBSalvador Gonzalez 5-11 150 Sr. WR/DBJoel Guerrero 5-9 144 Sr. WR/DBChristian Hernandez 5-5 200 Sr. OL/DLJordan High 6-2 173 Jr. QBRyan Huber 6-0 147 Jr. KRufus Jimenez 5-9 163 Sr. WR/DBRoderick Johnson 5-8 176 Sr. RB/LBBrandon Joseph 5-8 228 Sr. OL/DLJohn Lofton 5-7 136 Sr. WR/DBNathan Longrenn 5-9 235 Sr. OL/DLChris Lopez 5-11 137 Sr. WR/DBErin Lopez 5-10 159 Sr. WR/DBAlex Loredo 5-8 154 Jr. WR/DBDelequoin Love 5-10 213 Sr. RB/DLElliot Lyford 5-10 219 Sr. OL/DLManual Martinez 5-6 162 Sr. WR/DBTommy Najera 5-8 172 Jr. OL/DLBryan Naul 6-1 212 Sr. OL/DLAlex Orsa 5-7 174 Jr. RB/LBIsaac Perales 5-8 225 Jr. OL/DLIsaiah Perales 5-8 142 Sr. WR/DBPaul Perez 5-7 188 Sr. OL/DLTyrone Porter 5-8 160 Sr. RB/LBAnthony Reyes 5-9 199 Sr. OL/DLJesse Rincones 5-9 171 Sr. RB/LBFrank Rios 5-8 174 Sr. WR/DBRyan Rodriguez 5-3 118 Sr. KMarcos Santiago 5-6 162 Sr. OL/DLQuentin Sapp 5-8 198 Sr. RB/LBCory Schovanec 5-11 164 Sr. QBMatthew Tackitt 5-10 180 Sr. WR/DBRaymond Tarango 6-0 190 Sr. TE/LBHarless Thomas 5-7 203 Jr. OL/DLRudy Vara 5-10 231 Sr. OL/DLKeyone White 5-11 219 Sr. OL/DLDequan Willard 5-8 203 Sr. OL/DLDom Zuniga 5-11 152 Sr. WR/DB

Date Opponent TimeAug. 30 Canyon 7:30 p.m.Sept. 6 at Coronado 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 at Cooper 7:30 p.m.Sept. 28 Andrews 2:00 p.m.Oct. 4 Perryton 7:30 p.m.Oct. 11 at Plainview* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 18 Hereford* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 25 at SA Lake View* 7:30 p.m.Oct. 31 Frenship* 7:00 p.m.Nov. 8 at Monterey* 7:30 p.m.* District 4-4A game

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(fourth place District 4-4A)n District: 4-4An Basic offense: Spreadn Basic defense: 3-4n Year last won district: 1976n Year last made playoffs: 2012n Stadium: Lowrey Field (Capacity 12,000)

Players n Returnees: 40 of 80 lettermen, eight

offensive starters, six defensive startersn Returning starters: K A.J. Garza, K Ryan

Huber, WR/DB Erin Lopez, WR Manual Martinez, QB Cory Schovanec, OL Thomas Harless, OL Rudy Vara, WR Dom Zuniga, DB Gavy Arre-dondo, LB Sergio Cervantez, LB Kyzer Delbusto, LB Raymond Tarango, DL Keyone White

n Other lettermen: RB/LB Michael Arrizola, OL/DL Nathan Longrenn, WR/DB Chris Lopez, RB/DL Delequoin Love, WR/DB Isaiah Perales, K Ryan Rodriguez,

n Top newcomers: QB James Garcia, RB/LB Roderick Johnson, WR/DB Alex Loredo, WR/DB Matthew Tackitt

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Date Opponent ResultAug. 31 at Canyon L 48-21Sept. 7 Coronado L 7-0Sept. 14 Cooper L 29-21Sept. 28 at Andrews W 22-7Oct. 5 at Perryton L 48-28Oct. 11 Plainview* W 47-38Oct. 19 at Hereford* L 51-24Oct. 26 SA Lake View* W 33-0Nov. 2 at Frenship* L 51-6Nov. 9 Monterey* L 49-14Nov. 15 Amarillo** L 57-14** 2012 playoff game* District 4-4A game

2012 reSULTS

Jason Strunk may have been the most popular three-win coach in Texas high school football his-tory last season.

It wasnt the amount of wins the Lubbock High program ac-cumulated in 2012 when the Westerners went 3-8. It was the quality of the wins they had, two of which came in District 4-4A and helped LHS break one of the longest playoff droughts in the states history at 36 years.

Since then, hes become highly recognizable in Lubbock, ap-pearing in at least one commer-cial and likely not having to pay for too many meals when recog-nized at local restaurants.

He could also stop right there and would have accomplished more than any of his predeces-sors in the last 31/2 decades. But anyone who also knows or has spent time around Strunk knows 2012 was just the beginning.

Getting to the playoffs was great, but by no means are we where we want to get to, Strunk said. A lot of peo-ple still dont think that we can be con-sistently successful and have a winning season, and thats what drives us, what drives me.

I didnt come here to be run-ner-up to anybody.

And it didnt take long for Strunk to begin focusing on the next set o

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