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Is it to late to take the point spread on this game? I bet Thomas played past the half. Congrats to the Buc's and the Buc fans, they are  a class act. My comments are to the people who doubted the Orangefield kids.

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Nope, Not when some of you predicted a win in a land slide, DUDE. This is not directed at the EC faithful but the people who did not give us a chance.

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hey dude...don't u know that on any given Friday, a team could struggle against another team????

East Chambers didn't struggle...they have a good football team, but so does Orangefield. Orangefield just wore them out by running right at them. If Orangefield has a little bit more time, they might have even tied the game, just ran out of time. Give East Chambers credit, they found a way to hang on and win the game...but it wasn't because they struggled tonight...they were in a war, so give some credit to Orangefield here too. We're young and it showed at times tonight with a costly holding penalty in the red zone and a costly fumble in the red zone too. Orangefield played good enough tonight to win, but came up short. And even though we didn't win, the Bucs know they were in a war tonight...both teams left it all on the field and both teams were wore out. Great game tonight between two good football teams!!!

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ECBuc08

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Very good game... Orangefield came out there and looked like they were ready and kind of shocked EC at first.  EC then slowly got a 21-0 lead... and even I thought it was done. OF didn't... OF scored and made it 21-7 and then they played some tough ball and cut the lead to 21-14. Then they held EC on 4th down and got another try... But just ran out of time... EC didn't play bad, they just underestimated OF. Good job by both teams.

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Boxscore

Friday September 7, 2007 7:30pm

                      1 2 3  4  OT Total

East Chambers  6 8 7  0  0  21

Orangefield        0 0 0 14  0  14

Scoring summary

EC -- Tramain Thomas 6-yard run. PAT Failed kick ( ), 01:58, 1st.

EC -- Donte Raymond 9-yard run. PAT 2 Pt Run ( Tramain Thomas ), 01:04, 2nd.

EC -- Tramain Thomas 2-yard run. PAT Kick ( Colton Dryden ), 08:25, 3rd.

OF -- Ryan Granger 10-yard run. PAT Kick ( Derrick Evans ), 06:26, 4th.

OF -- Jeremy Granger 5-yard run. PAT Kick ( Derrick Evans ), 02:40, 4th.

Team Stats

                      East Chambers    Orangefield

Total yards            267                  265

First downs            17                    14

Rushes/Yds          46/255            44/225

Average rush        5.54                5.11

Comp/Atts            1/2                  1/10

Pass yards            12                    40

Comp pct              50                    10

Punts                    2                      2

Punting Yards        72                    50

Punting Average      36                    25

Fumbles/Lost        1/0                    3/1

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KFDM COOP

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'Cats put scare into Bucs

ORANGEFIELD — Like everyone expected it was the Tramain Thomas show in Orangefield Friday night. The only problem for the East Chambers quarterback was the Orangefield Bobcats almost wrote a painful ending for the Buccaneers.

East Chambers jumped out to a 21-0 lead early in the third quarter only to see Orangefield battle back in the second half before falling 21-14.

The Bobcats actually out-gained the Buccaneers on the night with 274 yards compared to 268 for East Chambers.

Thomas played the part of Superman all night with 132 yards and two scores, one a dazzling burst from three yards out worthy of an Oscar nomination for Best Moves.

Orangefield (0-2) did its part to ruin East Chambers’ script in the fourth quarter with two touchdowns after the Bucs were seeming to roll.

The Bobcats’ Ryan Granger was certainly the Juggernaut from X-Men on this night by bruising his way for 95 yards on 14 carries and the first Orangefield touchdown from 10 yards out.

“If we started the game how we ended, it would have been a different story,†Ryan Granger said. “It certainly would have been closer. We have a lot of inexperience on defense but I will go to battle with those guys any day of the week.â€

And battle the Bobcats did at F.L. McClain Stadium against the Bucs (2-0).

It was not always easy for Orangefield as East Chambers looked to take control of the contest early with a powerful running attack.

After a speech to his troops, Orangefield Coach Blake Morrison was more than pleased with his teams effort against a quality opponent like East Chambers. “Our players are never going to quit and I will never quit on them,†Morrison said. “Something clicked in the second half. I am not sure what it was but I hope it keeps going into next week’s game at Splendora.â€

The Buccaneers started the night off with a marathon, 14-play and 80-yard drive which resulted in a Thomas 6-yard score.

Thomas teamed up with fullback Donte Raymond for quite the running duo as the two accounted for 65 of the rushing yards in the drive.

A failed extra point gave East Chambers a 6-0 lead with 1:58 left on the clock.

It took a while for Thomas and the Bucs to make an encore of the scoring drive.

Orangefield went on a long drive of its own with 1:57 left in the first.

The drive did not result in a score but what it did do was keep the Buccaneers offense on the sideline.

Ryan Granger had a 20 yard run in the drive which stalled out on the Bucs’ 30 yard line when Thomas tipped a pass away from Orangefield quarterback Jared Helton.

The teams then traded punts before Thomas went back to work against the Orangefield defense, which allowed 268 yards of offense Friday.

After Raymond, who had 15 carries for 80 yards, started things off with a 6-yard scamper Thomas added a quick 16 yards on the ground.

Bobcats defender Zach Shores came up with his first of two sacks against Thomas before the shifty quarterback showed off his moves.

Thomas rumbled for 33 yards down to the Orangefield 14 after breaking out of an Orangefield gang-tackle.

Raymond scored from 10 yards out two players later and Thomas added a two-point conversion giving East Chambers a 14-0 half-time lead.

After Thomas scored on the Bucs’ initial drive of the second half, the Bobcats were all business and had several chances to make things interesting.

Orangefield drove all the way down to the Bucs 9 yard line before losing a fumble to East Chambers’ Justin Devillier after Raymond played a great supporting cast member with the strip.

All East Chambers could do with the extra possession was chew up the important clock before punting back to Orangefield.

Orangefield wasted no time by scoring in just over three minutes’ time on Grangers’ 10-yard plunge.

Derrick Evans’ PAT made it 21-7 with 6:26 left in the first.

The score was set up by Helton’s first and only completion of the night, which turned out to be a big one. Helton hit receiver Devin Green in stride for 41 yards bringing Orangefield down to the East Chambers 10 yard line.

East Chambers then had one for the gag reel by passing after getting the ball back on its 44 yard line with 6:21 to go and leading by 14.

Thomas showed he was human and threw an interception into the waiting hands of Caleb Worthy.

Jeremy Granger, who had 57 yards on 18 carries, got the Orangefield fans on their feet with a 34-yard gallop on the drive’s first play. Sophomore Jace Statum sprung Jeremy Granger with a vicious block.

The Bobcats then churned up the rest of the yardage before Jeremy Granger went up the middle for his lone touchdown of the night. Evans’ kick made it 21-14 with 2:40 left.

Orangefield’s defense then held its own again bye holding East Chambers to a turnover on downs when Possum LaFleur came up with the big stop on fourth down on Quentin Joseph.

Orangefield could not close the deal on the comeback after Helton scrambled for 20 yards to start the drive.

The next four Helton pass attempts fell incomplete, preserving East Chambers’ escape win.

“We need to learn from this, take what we did tonight and forget about it,†Morrison said. “We want that first win tonight.â€

Ryan Granger knows if Friday’s second-half Bobcat team shows up in Splendora, the Wildcats are in trouble.

“We definitely took a step forward,†Ryan Granger said. “We fought until the very end. We do that again next Friday, Splendora will not know what hit them.â€

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Bucster

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Kudos to the Bobcats. They played a hard game and showed a lot of heart by not giving up when they were down by 21 points.

EC had a touchdown called back in the fourth quarter that would have made the score 28-0 in the 4th.

Strange the reporter for the Orange Leader failed to mention that specific "lost opportunity".  :o

Again, congrats to the Bobcats! Looks like they might be on the road to having a successful season.

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Strange the reporter for the Orange Leader failed to mention that specific "lost opportunity".  :o

I noticed that too. Flag or not, that was the best play of the game!  ;D

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