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bhs06
09-09-2005, 11:43 PM
North Mesquite - 29
Hurst LD Bell - 7

This game proved that a team that is inferior in talent, size, speed, and experience can come in and embarrass a team in their home opener by a well executed game plan.

By watching our game film from Bowie, they knew our teams strengths. They knew we could throw the ball downfield. They knew our secondary is a 4 man interception machine. They knew that our team was suspectible to the outside run. So what do they do?

-They ran a dime package all game defensively. 6 DBs, 2 LBs and 3 DL. The whole game.
-They did not throw a pass all game long.
-They ran the same exact play the whole game. Power toss to the strong side. Every play. The whole game. Nothing else.

The North Mesquite coaching staff decided to take their chances and execute the game plan above, and capitalize on our mistakes. They waited for us to make mistakes, and when we did, they would take advantage of it.

Opening drive of the game, they power tossed their way all the way down to our red zone. Then, a fumble.

We get the ball, but Joe Mauro fumbles it right back to them on the 2nd play from scrimmage, after an unsuccessful pass play.

They score. We get the ball back, and go 3 and out. They return our punt for a touchdown.

We get the ball back, and they pick off Joe's first pass and run it in for a touchdown or to the goal line(can't remember). It was 20-0 with about 8 minutes to go in the first quarter.

Our defense caught onto their offensive game plan and held them for the rest of the game. Power toss just didn't work for them. But they didn't need to change it, they were up 20-0.

Our offense moved the ball well. But we would end up making a drive killing mistake. 8 dropped passes, at least 10 poor snaps, and blown plays. A real confidence killer all together and being down big early didn't help. Too many interceptions thrown because our recievers not picking up the audible call.

However, we can use this loss to our advantage. We came in big headed because of last week and it showed. Now we know we aren't invincible and are going to have to work harder for a win. Just letting people know that the Blue Raiders aren't done yet! 8 more games left and mistakes that can be fixed and worked on. And although opposing teams might use North Mesquite's defensive game plan against us, will they actually try their offensive one?

TrueBlue
09-10-2005, 12:34 AM
I was at the game -- not pretty -- NM converted 6 Bell turnovers into 4 tds -- all the turnovers that were converted into TD's were fumbles -- there were two interceptions -- but neither close to being run back for a TD -- DMN reported Mauro's stats as 20-37-2-210 --

bhs06
09-10-2005, 12:42 AM
Hey TrueBlue... I think another part of their gameplan was to annoy us. Watching power toss after power toss was annoying. I think they sat down after watching our game film and said "What is the lamest way we can win" and came up with it. But you have to admit it was clever and pure genius.

I don't know if you were paying attention, but after each offensive series our offensive coaches make us sit on the bench and talk over the past and upcoming series. Each time we headed towards that bench our heads were low, tempers flared, and people were mad at theirselves and others. That is pretty much how our game went.

I think our chance for a comeback ended when we fumbled the ball away on 2nd and goal from the 1 yard line early in the 3rd quarter.

Also, the sophomore quarter back, Tate Holbert, who threw the touch down pass with 14 seconds left deserves a lot of credit. At the beginning of the season, he was the back up quarter back on our sophomore team. He worked his way up to the back up JV quarterback, and recieved the nod to back up Joe this week because our normal backup, Larry Mayhan, missed two practices. He was chosen over the starting JV quarterback because of his attitude and hard work. Playing his first varsity game late in the 4th quarter, he guided the 2nd team offense 50 or so yards downfield and eventually scoring to keep us from being shut out.

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North Mesquite - 29

Hurst Bell - 7
BEDFORD – North Mesquite (1-2) converted six Hurst Bell (1-1) turnovers into four touchdowns enroute to a 29-7 victory at Pennington Field.
North Mesquite scored three times in the first 8:08 off of two fumbles and an interception. Al' Darius Thompson rushed for 126 yards in the first quarter and finished with 198 yards on 36 carries.
Larry Rosebud picked up a bad snap on a Bell punt and raced 25 yards for the second touchdown. Turnovers allowed North Mesquite to drive only 32,40 and 22 yards for the other three touchdowns, two by Thompson and one by Ashton Smith.
Bell, which scored 48 points a week earlier at Arlington Bowie, prevented the shutout with fourteen seconds remaining on a pass from reserve quarterback Tate Holbert to Keith Jesmain.
North Mesquite 20 0 6 3 -- 29
Hurst Bell 0 0 0 7 -- 7
NMES - Ashton Smith 20 run (Sterling Turner kick)
NMES - Larry Rosebud 25 fumble return (Turner kick)
NMES - Al' Darius Thompson 37 run (kick failed)
NMES - Thompson 8 run (run failed)
NMES - Turner 41 FG
BELL - Keith Jesmain 12 pass from Tate Holbert (Andrew Dolph kick)
Statistic NMES BELL
First downs 11 19
Rushing yards 44-231 30-65
Passing yards 0 233
Comp-att-int 0-0-0 22-40-2
Punts-avg 4-46.5 4-31.8
Penalties-yards 4-24 6-49
Fumbles-lost 3-2 8-4
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing – NMES: Al' Darius Thompson 36-198, Ashton Smith 4-34, Eric Herrera 4-(-1). BELL: Joe Mauro 9-25, Tate Holbert 6-24, Terrance Lavine 8-22, Anthony Owuso 3-7, Alex Miller 3-5, Team Stats 1-(-18).
Passing – BELL: Joe Mauro 20-37-2-210, Tate Holbert 2-3-0-23.
Receiving – BELL: Blake Cantu 6-63, Andre Lampkin 5-61, Deandre English 5-48, Ryan Stankus 1-22, Keith Jesmain 1-12, Kevon Bradford 1-12, Chris Jones 1-11, Terrance Lavine 2-4.

Stallion Fan
09-10-2005, 08:14 AM
Way To Go Stallions!!!!!!!!!

NMHS fan
09-10-2005, 08:18 AM
I think that may be the only play that we can execute efficiently so far. :o Heck, maybe we put in one more for Grand Prairie next week. :eek: We had a similar game plan against GP a couple of years ago, and it worked but was hard to watch. I wanted to see Rhett Bomar more, but he was on the sidelines for much of that game.

We have made way too many mistakes in the first two games. It's nice to be on the receiving end of the turnover game occasionally.

NMHS fan
09-10-2005, 08:21 AM
Way To Go Stallions!!!!!!!!!

You got that right! At least we were able to convert the mistakes into points.

bhs06
09-10-2005, 12:06 PM
But NMHS fan, did you not get bored watching the power toss for the whole game? Our secondary and linebackers are really good and that is why they did that.

NMHS fan
09-10-2005, 12:14 PM
I didn't get bored because I didn't get to go to this one. The game against GP that I referenced was boring for sure, but I guess a win is a win even if it isn't pretty or flashy. How did Joe Mauro look? I saw that he threw for 200+ yds.

bhs06
09-10-2005, 02:06 PM
20 of 37 for 202 yards I believe, plus a costly fumble. He ran and scrambled well, and threw the ball well. He just had bad blocking, bad snaps all night long, and too many blown plays. Joe himself did a great job however, nothing was his fault. Our recievers dropping 8 passes didn't help. Our Wide Reciever's coach makes us run 100 yard sprint for each pass our recievers drop, so they will be having to run 8 100 yard sprints Monday. Against Bowie, we had one drop only.