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Sweetwater vs Decatur Photos

By Lew
September 17, 2007

Congrats to the Sweetwater Mustangs on their huge win over Decatur Saturday at the Mustang Bowl!

I wasn't able to find any new articles about the game and since it's Sunday night, I thought with the help of some of the members at the PONY EXPRESS that we could at least put something together to show our appreciation!

Thanks to Spinnr for some awesome photos!

From RBirdwell..::
You're right on LewP. There was some good passing - several to Keke Wallace and two beauties to tight end Keifer Adames that went for TD's!! (New plays put on this week!!) Zach Birdwell got the call to start at QB again this week with Holsey still out with the injured back. But, offense works best when it's balanced and that was the case for the Mustangs Saturday as numerous players were able to carry the ball for plus yardage. Auston Davis had one huge gain and several other shorter ones to be the leading rusher. But many others got in on the act, like Martin Williams, rushing so hard he even lost his helmet but kept on going!! Steven Fields had one of the best moves running the ball I've seen from him ever and newly brought up Junior Daniel Jackson had his first taste of varsity action and will be adding to the excitement in games to come!! It was great to be home and get that first win in front of our "sea of red"!! Looking forward to more of the same AND better next week against Canyon! WAY TO GO RED!!!

And this from Abigail Montana::
The early part of the game started pretty shaky. Mustangs kicked off and immediately recovered a fumble and 2 plays later scored on a great run. Missed the extra point. I'm thinking this could be good. Next kickoff, first play McCann picks off the pass and the Mustangs back in business. But then the bad luck started and the Mustangs fumbled as well. This can't be good and sure enough Decatur goes down and immediately scores and then holds the Mustangs and score again. 14-6 Eagles, not looking good at all and the as the title of my post shows, Sweetwater went to the air in the 2nd quarter and turned the entire game around. I don't think that Decatur had prepared for Air-Mustang and were put on their heels for the rest of the game. As Spinnr said 2 great passes to Amadez and a great leaping catch by Wallace were highlights of the passing game. I think it would be hard to said anything bad about the passing game since it was really strange coming from a run bound offense. Great things happen if you can run and throw the ball. After that the running game came back into play and the Mustangs controlled the rest of the game and the defense played great the last 3 quarters. The one big negative to the game is the point after touchdown, I know at least 2 if not 3 were blocked. This should be automatic but more and more I am seeing that high school football teams as a whole are struggling with a simple point after touchdown kick. Just not sure what the problem is. Great job, Mustangs. Now they just have to step up and beat Canyon and Big Spring to continue on with the drive to the playoffs.

And this from Twilight::
Thanks to everyone for those reports. LewP, rBirdwell, Abigail and Spinnter. Hope I didn't miss anybody. All of you are right. A balanced attack makes the opponent have to play honest "D". Just don't want to get overbalanced either way. Of course you have to play with the cards you have. IF...you can run block....AND you have a great runner or two, you ought to use a running atack. But balance is always good. You have to spend some coaching time developing a pass offense. Of course the same can be said for a running offense. Anyway great job Mustangs.

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