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| KILGORE - Establishing themselves as a team to be reckoned with in the District 11-AA title race, coach Pete Shotwell's alert, spirited, hard tackling youngsters, upset the highly touted Kilgore Bulldogs, Friday night, on the latter field, before a sell out crowd of over 5,000, by the score of 20 to 6 to ring up their third straight conference win.
The first period was scoreless, Kilgore having a little better of the going with three first downs to one for the Lobos. In the second the Lobos were out gained four first downs to two, but rang up a well earned touchdown. After Joe Young's 55 yard quick set the Bulldogs back on their 12 yard line and Bass fumbled the pass from center on fourth down, the Lobos reached the 4 where they failed on a first down by inches. Abie Aycock then returned Bass's punt to the 45 back to the 30, Abie, playing with a painful accessed tooth, clicked with three out of three passes to Brown, Poe and Dill, putting the ball on the three from where Joe Young plunged over left tackle for the score. Gooding kicked goal with Rowland holding, the Lobos leading 7 to 0. A sustained drive after the kickoff from the 5 yard stripe, featured by the passing of Henderson finally paid off. On fourth down from the Lobo 15, the so called "flying trapeze" play was worked, with Mercer reversing to Leach all alone in the end zone. Bass failed to kick goal, leaving the score at halftime 7 to 6 in favor of the Lobos. Buddy Attaway stopped another scoring threat late in the second period by intercepting a Henderson pass on the 33. At the start of the third quarter, Kilgore reached the Lobo 42, after which the Lobos took complete command of the situation, fully outplaying their rivals by clicking both in running and passing to tally once on a beautiful elusive run by Joe Young from 20 yards out and added a point on Gooding's second placekick. Abie Aycock's brilliant run of 48 yards to the Kilgore five on a pass interception, set the stage for the final score when Abie passed to Jerry Mullikin in the end zone from that point. Gooding's kick was wide. A study of the statistics will show that the teams were pretty evenly matched, though Kilgore was added on four first downs by over anxious Lobos, who lost a total of 35 yards on offside penalties. One important feature of the game was the charging of the Lobo line from end to end, as they threw Kilgore backs for losses on 10 separate occasions fro an average of over 5 yards per loss. The Lobo backfield of Aycock, Rowland, Dill and Young played the full game and except for the one well executed Bulldog scoring play, backed up the lien in great fashion, besides playing individual starring roles offensively. Mullikin, Broussard and Numsen, the only substitutes used by Coach Shotwell, were used judiciously as they filled in creditably in periodically relieving Brown, Chrietzberg and Hibbing who all played a swell game. Poe, Attaway, McGraw and Gooding were all in there for the full 48 minutes, playing exceptionally well in all departments. The Lobos showed da will to win that was not to be denied, once reaching, besides the times already mentioned, the 1 foot line, where they failed to score but came through later, battling every minute. Aycock completed six out of eight passes for a nine yard average. One Lobo fan remarked he hoped Aycock has another accessed tooth for the expected thrillers with Tyler and Marshall, since hew as more accurate in this game than any other this season. Now Coach Shotwell must prepare against a letdown as the boys face Jacksonville here next Friday night. Nacogdoches fell before them 31 to 0, to give them an undefeated season so far. |