82 5A State Champs

West Brook's defense is pretty tough as well. The Bruins, who have been known in recent years to have lots of offensive firepower, are relying more on defense to win games thus far in 2009. In 8 quarters of play, we have given up only 8 points. Brook's defense has to be right there at the top.

WB defense holds Mustangs to season low 125 yards in 7-6 Bruin win!

I don't see too many things changing...personnel wise. However I do remember, Jordan Garrett, moving to Corner/safety last year, and still playing Wide out/ RB...so it's not out of the question. I think we have everything in place...I do feel that we will measure the 1st qtr of our season this Friday...but then again, your asking a Former Marine....we're a bit on the 'we don't know how to loose' side...it rubs off on my boy too...so I have to say, we'll be ok.. ;D ;D Man, I sure hope you're right about that. However, I've seen Westfield play before. The coaches over there are top notch, and they've got great talent and speed. I really would like to see us beat them, however, we have yet to do that. We should have a better idea where we eare at as a team after this Friday, but, not to be negative, I just dont see us having the tools to beat a top teir 5A team like them right now. Maybe I'll be wrong......

Yeah, but if they key in on Reyes, then whose gonna pick up the slack on the ground? Cooper? Prolly not.

In 1978, Vidor finished the season 8-3, with a 7-1 district record. Their only district loss that year was to Beaumont French 20-17. So, I believe they won the district title that year. They lost to Aldine 40-13 in the Bi-District (first round) Round of the playoffs that year. 31 years is a long time betwen potential district titles.

I dont think so......of our 52 player roster, only 22 are seniors, and 5 are sophs. The majority of our team is juniors. We only had like six returning starters on both sides of the ball. We are very young.

You might be right about that..........my usual source of information seems to be missing. I'll try to confirm it either way.

West Brook will surely drop from those rankings after our game against Spring Westfield this week.

1968...I believe.

Not true.....Lumberton got the same treatment three years ago. When a new face appears at the top of the rankings, people will question it. Vidor needs to be as good as the Pirate faithful are predicting they are, or the crow-eating will commence. ;D

Silsbee @ Lumberton Kirbyville @ WOS Anahuac @ Tomball Concordia Beaumont Central @ Galveston Ball West Brook @ Spring Westfield Bridge City @ LCM Buna @ Tarkington Conroe Caney Creek @ LivingstonDiboll @ Newton East Chambers @ Hamshire Fannett Hardin @ Shepard Hardin Jefferson @ Vidor Hemphill @ Deweyville Houston Worthing @ Beaumont Ozen Kountze @ Evadale Liberty @ Orangefield Port Arthur Memorial @ Aldine Nimitz Texas City @ PNG Waller @ Nederland Warren @ Woodville

I believe Stumps strategy this year is to hold the opposition to just 14 points, and find a way to score 17 or so. I believe we can do that. Lets be realistic, we dont have the offense this year that we've had in years past. However, we've got a defense that, so far, has been able to make up for the lack of offensive production. I dont know much about Westfield, other than they've dominated us in the past, and they will more than likely beat us again this year. BUT, if our offense starts to come around, we could make things very tough on the Mustangs. Maybe it's time Stump started playing some kids both ways. We've got a ton of athletes on the defensive side of the ball. I'm sure some of that speed and quickness could be utilized to help put more points on the board. Just my .02 worth. What do you think, Sarge?

I sure hope the offense comes around soon.....it's sad when you're leading rusher on the team is the QB! I knew following after a great RB like C-Mike was gonna be tough, but I really expected a little more from #30 Cooper. We've got a D-Lineman thats like 5'11" @ 215 and runs a 4.45 40! I was kinda hopin Stump would have used him a little bit at the RB position, because he can run! But I guess he's a little too valuable at his defensive position.

X2....the kids a beast, and only a junior!

I dont know much of the statistics of Ball right now. But judging on what I saw from Central's defense last Friday night, I'd say that Ball is gonna have a hard time scoring any points on Central. Imma say Central by 3 TD's.

Thats funny....unlike last season when our offense averaged 36 PPG, this season our defense is whats keeping us in games....just ask Central. I dont believe that Wing-T offense would be much of a problem keeping contained, because our defense is THAT GOOD! But how Vidor would do against West Brook is something that we'll never see. Something else to ponder......Vidor is winless lifetime against West Brook. I dont expect that would change.

Katy?

I saw him on the sidelines in the third quarter after he came out. He was obviously in pain. THe WB trainer had a huge ice pack on his left knee. I'm not sure what the prognosis is, but I hope he's not too seriously hurt.

Bruins Offense- C We have trouble moving the ball on the ground in short yard situations, but the passing game is decent. I guess we miss C Mike a little more than I expected. Defense- A-, B+ This has definitely been our strong point this year. There are some areas to improve on, like making defensive adjustments at the line, but overall pretty good. Nice, hard hitting defensive players. Special Teams- B- Kicker is decent on kickoffs, but needs to work on FG's. I like our coverage on kickoffs......we didn't let Central have a return for a TD last night. Overall B

Absolutely....that was a phenominal catch, but it was out of bounds. We too, had some problems on special teams with the two missed FG attempts. But again, the Jaguar defense managed to hold us to just 32 yards rushing.....great defensive effort Jags. Man I got to tell ya, if we had last years offense with this years defense, we'd be pretty dang good.

.....and #1 ranked Katy lost to The Woodlands!!!!!! What a happy day, what a happy day!!!!

Maybe, but they didn't win that game against Permian....they tied 21-21. At least West Brook won their title outright, in a 21-10 win over the unbeaten Hurst LD Bell Raiders.

Not suprising.....upsets all over Texas tonight! Happy to see Lufkin brought back to earth!

Come on Kerry, give us a little bit of credit......we're young, but we'll be OK come district play!

Impressive win tonight, Pirates! Good luck on a LONG season ahead.......playoffs, I mean! ;D