Mountain Valley Seventh Grade Sweep the ‘Dogs, 34-2 & 16-12
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Mountain Valley Seventh 'B' Squad Talk about Win over Bandera
Mountain Valley 7th ‘B’ squad could of beaten Bandera’s ‘A’ team but instead had a chance to play the ‘B’ squad.
After spotting their opponent 12 points, then MV started dominating the rest of this contest.
The Hawk defense allowed 60 yards for Bandera’s first two scores and then clamped down for negative 21 yards for the rest of the game.
With an interception return, when MV was on the Bulldogs eight yard line the return covered 100 yards and what seemed at the time an avalanche against this Hawk team.
Then it happened: QB Triston McPhee went back for a pass and another interception was going to bury them, until Matthew Rhodes had other plans.
While the Bullpup was returning the int. Rhodes not only stopped the run but stole the ball from his arms and promptly ran 65 yards for the Hawks first score.
“I just wanted to get the tackle and got mad and stripped the ball,” Rhodes stole the show. “We don’t like to lose and winning and turning the game around…we won 20-6 last week and we are 2-0 so far this year.”
So two turnovers on the same play that resulted in a MV score.
MV defense then took over when Bandera’s next offensive series was literally in the wrong direction.
First Play: A run for negative three yards.
Second Play: A run for negative six yards.
Third Play: A run for negative 11 yards.
Fourth Play: A bad snap allowed another negative nine yards and almost all of the yards gained were lost on that one series.
The 29 yards negative drive helped MV to set up shop on the Bullpups 17 yard line.
Five plays later, Mountain Valley had a lead that would never be relinquished after a Parker Reno five yard run.
Another problem Bandera was having would be holding onto the ball. Six fumbles and losing all but two of them made almost all of their drives a turnover and no need for punting.
Defensively MV took care of business. The defense had 13 plays made in Bandera’s backfield.
Bandera started one of their drives in the second half on their seven yard line. Two plays with one run for negative six yards and then the whole defensive line getting credit for their safety one play later.
Bryce Pearson even added an interception for MV to add to their four fumbles that were taken on this evening.
“We were getting mad,” Pearson said after being behind by 12 points to start the game. “Matthew (Rhodes) started yelling to get us fired up and in their backfield, so we just motivated the team.”
If your Defense spends this much time in the opposing backfield next week, then the District will have to petition for your team to have both color uniforms on next week (yours and the opponents).
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MOUNTAIN VALLEY SEVENTH ‘A’ WIN
Mountain Valley continued their dominance over Bandera Bullpups, when the ‘A’ team continued their impressive defensive night.
Between the two Seventh Grade teams, Bandera had 121 total yards by adding both Bullpups teams together.
“I just wanted to hit somebody,” Defensive Linebacker Ross Snowden said in a response of how hard the defense played. “We are just good at it…we just have to focus and then hit them behind the line.”
The ‘A’ team added a lethal offense to this formula and 34 points later had the game well in control.
Over 400 yards of offense in short quarters is another way of saying ‘domination’…which was the case as Mountain Valley scored on their five final drives of the evening.
The game started with two MV fumbles stopping those drives.
First drive: Lost Fumble after gaining 80 yards and threatening at Bandera’s one yard line.
Second drive: Lost Fumble after two play drive and nine yards at Bandera’s 31 yard line.
Those two drives were the last time this Hawk team was stopped.
It did not matter what type of play was called, positive yardage was usually the result. There was only two plays that did not gain yardage for the evening.
Luke Justice and Will Joyner both finished with breaking the 100 yard barrier. Even Micah St John had 60 yards rushing as the run game averaged 10.4 yards per snap.
“I trusted my lineman, quarterback, and the team,” Running back Justice justified. “The word ‘Team’, is big for us…and we play as a family and that is what is important…’Team’….Without them then I could not do any of this.”
Pretty impressive. Good win…Good kids…
Just five yards of offense during the middle four drives for Bandera.
The only other runner that was close to the over 300 yards rushing stat for Mountain Valley, was the running clock that started at the four minute mark.
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1 2 3 4 Final Bandera MS 'A' 0 0 0 2 02 Mtn. Valley 7th 'A' 0 14 14 6 34 Scoring Summary: MV7A-Will Joyner 34 yard run (Luke Justice kick), 1:52, 2nd MV7A-Sean Patterson 28 yard pass from Joyner (Justice kick), MV7A-Will Joyner 3 yard run (Luke Justice kick), 4:48, 3rd MV7A-Luke Justice 48 yard run (Luke Justice kick), 0:14, 3rd MV7A-Micah St John 4 yard run (pat blocked), 3:30, 4th BMS7-Jared Newhill ran blocked pat for 88 yards, 3:30, 4th
Game Stats: BMS7A MV7A Total Yards 82 402 First Downs 4 15 Rushes/Yards 9/-6 31/323 Comp/Att/Int 8/18/1 6/8/0 Passing Yards 88 79 Punts/Average 3/26.0 0/0 Fumbles/Lost 3/2 0/0 Penalties-Yards 4-18 0-0
Passing Comp Att Pct Yds TD Int Will Joyner 6 8 .750 79 1 0
Rushing Att Yds Ave Lg TD Luke Justice 11 140 12.7 48 1 Will Joyner 8 113 14.1 40 2 Micah St John 7 60 8.6 17 1 Cruz Flores 1 12 12.0 12 0 Ross Snowden 2 -2 00.0 0 0
Receiving No Yds Ave Lg TD Sean Patterson 2 42 21.0 28 1 Cruz Flores 1 24 24.0 24 0 Luke Justice 2 7 3.5 5 0 Micah St John 1 6 6.0 6 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 2 3 4 Final Bandera MS 'B' 12 0 0 0 12 Mtn. Valley 7th 'B' 8 6 2 0 16 Scoring Summary: BMSB-Alex Jannell 42 yard run (run failed), 7:12, 1st BMSB-Triston Nino 100 yard interception return (run failed), 0:55, 1st MV7B-Matthew Rhodes 65 yard fumble return (Parker Reno run), 0:31, 1st MV7B-Jonathan Rico 5 yard run (run failed), 2:55, 2nd MV7B-Safety by a whole host of Hawks, 1:50, 3rd
Game Stats: BMS7B MV7B Total Yards 39 163 First Downs 5 8 Rushes/Yards 17/10 25/130 Comp/Att/Int 3/6/1 1/5/3 Passing Yards 29 33 Punts/Average 0/0 0/0 Fumbles/Lost 6/4 5/3 Penalties-Yards 5-32 3-25
Passing Comp Att Pct Yds TD Int Triston McPhee 1 5 .200 33 0 3
Rushing Att Yds Ave Lg TD Reno Parker 14 80 5.5 18 0 Jonathon Rico 7 48 6.9 13 1 Triston McPhee 4 2 0.5 10 0
Receiving No Yds Ave Lg TD Matthew Rhodes 1 33 33.0 33 0
