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Bellville is prone to giving up points against good offenses. If HF can hold them to 3 scores we should win. We’ve performed extremely well defensively against the two teams that run offenses similar to what Bellville runs, but I’m under no illusion that slowing them down will be nearly as easy. The horns have to be ready to come out and grind it out on defense.

How’s that? I don’t put much stock in it, but we’ve definitely outperformed Bellville against common opponents?

We’ve been excellent against the slot-T in two games this year, with our first team D allowing 9 points over those two games. But Bellville will be a different animal. We had a linebacker out this week that will hopefully be back for the game next week. He’s a difference maker against the run. This’ll be an interesting matchup.

Thoughts?

I’ll see what I can do 😃. Just glad we won’t have another 2 hr 45 min bus ride next week!

Weird night for our district. WOS fortunate to advance against a mediocre Van squad, Silsbee knocked out by a mediocre Madisonville squad, HF dang near dominated 9-1 Athens and Shepherd almost pulled the upset on 10-0 Canton.

We’ve been called for maybe 6 or 7 defensive secondary penalties all season and were called for 6 or 7 tonight. I’m not saying none of them were legit, but I AM saying that’s the only reason this wasn’t a blowout. Every drive they scored on was kept alive by one or two of them, including a super soft PI on a 3rd and FORTY on their first drive of the 3rd. That said, the defense held tough, and our O-line was fantastic. We did really well on the ground, and Athens only stopped us twice all night on defense.

Athens QB can spin it, even when he can’t run

Brown at least warmed up like he’s going to play. Throws a pretty ball but is being very careful with that ankle

I was gonna say 4 touchdowns. BC isn't very good, and while stafford isn't polished, they have size and speed all over the field.

I'm glad there's at least 3 teams this year considering how our district turned out. Missing the playoffs completely because of a 1-point away loss in a game with some really bad officiating would be brutal. It's rough enough we got Athens first round. I definitely get not having a 4th team make it. At the same time, there are some good things that come out of it. Every now and then we'll see a deep run from a 4th seed, and that 4th spot gives a lot of teams a chance to make the playoffs who'd never have a chance otherwise. Most of those teams get blown out several times throughout a normal year anyway, so it's not like it puts much of a damper on their playoff excitement.

Been watching. Worthing is pretty rough, but Bellville has looked good

Not sure. I think best case scenario for them he’s hobbled a bit, but we’ll find out tomorrow. They’re not gonna advertise it. Unless @Matthew328 knows something I don’t. He’s got a lot more connections than I do.

If everyone is healthy it seems like a toss-up. Athens QB is a run-first dual threat QB (decent passer) who went out with an ankle last week. Tried to come back in twice and couldn't go. Not sure if he's playing this week, and if he is I'm not sure what % he'll be at. If he's not playing or can't run well that's going to severely limit their offense. I've also heard one of Athens' running backs has a broken hand, and their best D-lineman was out last week with injury. Not sure of his status for this week. So I guess we'll see. We have one key linebacker with an ankle injury, and that's pretty much it apart from our O-lineman who's arm was broken against WOS several weeks ago. Regardless of who is on the field hopefully we take care of business and advance.

That sort of shift adds up in a big way across the state when you have all of the big cities showing up and overwhelmingly voting blue.

our region is the only one without an obvious favorite, and more than a couple of teams capable of winning the region.

Matt Stepp picked HF by a touchdown.

I think it's a toss-up if Athens is healthy. They're perhaps a small favorite. But if their QB can't go, or if he's hobbled, HF is the clear favorite. It's worth noting that Athens, while clearly a good team, only has 1 win this year against a team with a winning record (an impressive 2-point win over Longview Pine Tree).

Athens’ stud qb went out with an ankle injury Friday night in the second quarter with them leading 14-6, and they scored one more touchdown the rest of the game. If he’s healthy it’s a tossup, but if he’s out or limited (major threat with his legs) I like my horns.

Who ya got?

The horns will face Athens in the first round. I was a little surprised by the Athens/Canton score, but Athens’ stud qb went down with an ankle injury in the 2nd quarter. Came in and tried to play in the second half but couldn’t go. Not sure if he’ll be able to go next week or not.

My kicker tonight was 6/6 on touchbacks, 4/4 on XPs, and 1/1 on FGs.

Jasper took the air out of the ball most of the game. A heavy dose of backups and both teams running the ball and letting the play clock run down in the second half kept the score low. On a positive note, the game was 1/3 of the way to the deer lease, and because the second half only took about 45 minutes I got here at 12:30 instead of 2:00 like I was worried about.

2morehourslol might've been a better choice of name.