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| LONGVIEW - Longview's power-laden Lobos, who fell from undefeated grace last week, carved themselves a niche in the winning column against Orange's Stark High Tigers in Lobo Stadium Friday night with a 33-6 grubbing of the visitors.
And the old ball stadium has seen few one man shows like the sparkling one halfback Douglas Bruner put on throughout the game. The gifted halfback, gifted with a nose eternally pointing goal ward, rolled out four of Longview's five touchdowns and played a first-rate game between the paying dashes. Lobo fullback Ray Chancelor, substituting for regular fullback Larry Shoemaker, who was out with a back injury, proved his value with a four-yard scamper for the fifth touchdown. He also added two points-after on a line plunges during the game. The victory, last non-district game of the season for the Lobos, gave Longview a threatening five wins and one loss as they look down the loaded District 8-AAAA barrel which gets underway week after next for them. The string of wins, all in a row, were over Sunset of Dallas, Fort Worth's North Side and Arlington Heights, and Grand Prairie. They lost, to pick up that one black mark this season, when West Monroe, La., left them lagging 13-7 last week. Quarterback Don Petty put himself in the point gaining business for the first time this year when he got a toe into a conversion try and sent it sailing smack through center of the uprights. Bruner's four touchdowns broke the first-half monotony of the game, which was even more lopsided than the tilt with North Side. Bruner also gained first place as Lobo touchdown maker, with a season record of nine, while Shoemaker and halfback Pete Mobbs have picked up four each. The Lobos started the ball rolling on opening kickoff, punching downfield 84 yards on a series for the first of four Longview touchdowns during the first half. Mobbs and Bruner took turns at the controls to pick up two first downs, followed by a brilliant pice of quarterbacking strategy by Flint. Flint followed up repeated scampers by the two halfbacks with a switch around right end which left him almost alone on that side of the field. The play netted 26 yards and pushed play into enemy territory. Then, Bruner hit Mobbs with a 13-yard gaining pitch. Bruner opened full throttle and blasted off tackle over a broken field for 41 yards and the first score just over three minutes after the opening kickoff. Flint's point-try kick was low. Exactly five minutes and 53 seconds later, after a fruitless Orange series, Bruner took a pitchout from Flint on first down and rolled 37 yards downfield for the second touchdown. Quarterback Don Petty's conversion try went wide. Still fired up dropping that 13-7 disappointment to West Monroe last week, the Lobos pushed at will through a weak Orange defense. Bruner took the ball over from the 1 for his third touchdown and Longview's third score of the game 54 seconds into the second quarter. A pass try for points from Mobbs to Bruner was knocked down, setting the score at 18-0 with Longview holding the long end of the stick. The Lobos made two more touchdowns threats in the second quarter with the final one paying off with two seconds left in the half. Chancelor scampered 18 yards on a handoff on a two first down series. Chancelor rammed 18, followed by two by Bruner and 10 by Mobbs to set play on the Orange 8 yard line. Bruner kept his ball game going with a sprint over for the fourth score, leaving it 26-0 at the half. Orange's Tigers, evidentially brow-beaten into a comeback mood in the dressing, did just that. They took the opening kickoff of the second half and drove 78 yards without a stop to Longview's goal line picking up four first downs on the way. Quarterback Tommy Edwards and fullback Mike Conn did the chores, with one aerial from Edwards to halfback Joe Cannon accounting for 20 yards. Edwards skipped through center for the final four yards and the lonely Tiger score seven minutes deep in the third period. The Lobos dallied not a single second, with Bruner taking the kickoff and breezing 45 yards to Orange's 43. Chancelor did a repeat of Bruner's thriller on a 22-yard scamper to the 21 to pick up a first down. A penalty against Orange moved the ball to the 10, and Mobbs and Bruner kept up the attack with three-yard gainers each. Chancelor's turn came to do the honors and he dashed four yards to pay dirt as the only Lobo besides Bruner getting to that hallowed ground during the game. Quarterback Don Petty put a firm toe on the ball for the point, rolling up a 33-6 victory for the Lobos. The final Lobo rally came just a minute and a half after the Tiger touchdown in the third period. The fourth period went scoreless with Tiger Edwards threatening Longview's big margin twice on pass flurries. |