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| PALESTINE - A couple of big, rangy speedsters running off a double wing formation riddled the Longview Lobo line again here Friday night as the Palestine Wildcats riddled the Wolves 20 to 6 in chilly weather.
Carroll Overton and Bobby Morgan were the guys who did the damage but they got several assists from Jack Joyce who was moved up from the second string because of an injury to the regular left wingback. The Wildcats didn't miss the first stringer in the slightest. The first Wildcat touchdown looked remarkably like the Lobos were folioing a pattern set in Corsicana. On the Lobos first offensive play from scrimmage Bobby Crawford fumbled and a big tackle named Hawthorne covered the loose ball on the Lobo six. Overton powered across just inside the Lobo left end of the score. Morgan, who had kicked 19 of his last 21 conversion attempts, missed his 22nd. But the Wolves bounced back to tie it up and it looked like a ball game. They took a Palestine punt on the Green 35 and, after gambling successfully on a fourth down and one situation on their own 46, they moved on downfield to score on two fine passes. Jack Parker flipped one to Jim Thorpe on the Palestine 24 that was good for 29 yards and a couple of plays later he hit Jerry Barnes down about the 10 and the big end barreled on across by himself. That tied it at 6-6, but the roof fell in a few minutes later. On a fourth down kick Crawford took a high pass from center - and also too much time in getting off his kick. He never did. Carl Stendebach, Wildcat end, went right down the slot, smothered the kick on the 25 and fielded it on the 10 without breaking stride to score all by himself. This time Morgan got back into the black with his conversion and the 'Cats led, 13-6. Minutes later Stendebach got back into the Wolves hair with another bit of ball-hawking. A Wildcat quick kick had died on the Lobo 15 and Thorpe moved it to the 20. Then a fumble skittered out of somebody's hands about the 15 and Stendebach pounced on it. Again, the 'Cats were equal to the occasion. Overton moved it to the 10 and from there Joyce rattled right guard for the required yardage. Morgan converted again for a 20-6 score, and there it remained. The las half saw the Lobos start strong and move the ball from their own 16, where a 46-yard quick kick had placed it, down to the Wildcat 45. But there it bogged down and thereafter it was a matter of how well the Lobos could hold the visitors. They did pretty well at that, too, stopping drives on the Lobo 23, the two and the one-yard line in the fourth quarter. Once, with fourth down and goal to go on the one, the Lobos clobbered Overton and the ball slipped from his grasp. Larry Stewart recovered for Longview on the five. The big Wildcats had a smooth bunch of blockers up front and some speedy and hard-running lads in the back. They didn't complete a pass in five attempts, but with the wings carrying on reverses inside the Lobo tackles they rolled up a tidy sum of 268 yards rushing to Longview's 74 and proved themselves general the better ball club. |