King Defeats The Hill!

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C.E. King 41

Barbers Hill 26

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Barbers Hill routed by CE King

By Dave Rogers

Published October 1, 2008

HOUSTON – In a game of big plays, Barbers Hill didn’t get enough of them Tuesday night.

The District 19-4A opener for both teams and their restart after Hurricane Ike featured four touchdown plays of 80 yards or more.

C.E. King had three of them and won the offensive shootout 41-27 at Crenshaw Stadium.

Panther quarterback Josh Williams ran for 87 yards and two touchdowns and passed for 113 and three more scored as C.E. King piled up 470 total yards and improved to 2-1 on the season.

Barbers Hill, which got four touchdowns and 371 of its 389 total yards from quarterback Tony Carmona, dropped to 0-3 for the season.

The Eagles take another shot at earning their first win when they host Kingwood Park Saturday night at 7 p.m.

Carmona completed 17 of 34 passes for 272 yards and a pair of scores and ran for 99 yards and another two.

His 86-yarder to Caleb Stork, on which Stork out-battled Panther DB Jacobe Hollins for the ball at the 40, allowed the Eagles to get within seven points at 27-20 late in the third quarter after they had trailed 27-6 early in the second half.

But the Panthers answered with an 84-yard TD pass from Williams to Deondre Waller to open the fourth quarter that was almost a carbon copy of the jump-ball situation on Stork’s score.

Then Williams scored on a five-yard run with 4:12 to give C.E. King a 41-20 lead with 4:12 left.

The final Eagle score was a 16-yard pass from Carmona to Andres Pagan with 1:27 remaining.

Stork finished with five receptions for 130 yards for Barbers Hill and running back Alvester Alexander topped a 357-yard ground game for the Panthers, rushing for 191 yards on 17 carries.

The Panthers led 14-6 at the break despite three turnovers as the Eagles missed a couple of golden opportunities to score.

C.E. King’s Terrance Guy fumbled the game’s first offensive play, giving Barbers Hill a first down at Panther 24.

But the Eagles failed to move the ball, being pushed back to the 32 when Carmona was sacked and his nine-yard pass to Stork came up nine yards shy of a first.

The Eagles started their next drive at midfield and Carmona, completing a 25-yarder to Andres Pagan, took them to a first-and-goal at the 5.

On the next play he dived toward the goal line and appeared to come up short. But the ball rolled into the end zone where C.E. King’s Byron Jones recovered for a touchback.

And the Panthers wasted no time in taking advantage of that break.

King quarterback Josh Williams scored from 80 yards out, dashing around left end, and juked past two to three defenders and left everyone else in his wake.

Kevin Johnson’s fumble recovery stopped C.E. King’s next drive at the Eagle 24, and from there Barbers Hill went 76 yards in 13 plays for the potential game-tying score.

Carmona got six points on a 17-yard keeper around right end, but the Ricardo Cavazos’ extra-point try was blocked, leaving the Panthers ahead 7-6 with 5:46 left in the first half.

King went 66 yard in six plays to up its lead to 14-6 when Williams hit receiver Patrick Johnson with a five-yard fade pass with 2:58 left in the half.

The Eagles had one last chance to score, when Williams fumbled at the King 25 with 2 seconds left at the half. After Azee Caldwell’s recovery, Cavazos tried a 42-yard field goal and was just short as the halftime buzzer sounded.

Unlike their first play of the game – a fumble – the Panthers scored to open the second half. Alexander bounced through a hole at right tackle, then raced down the right sideline 82 yards to put the hosts up 21-6.

They made it 27-6 a couple of minutes later when Williams passed 19 yards to running back Bruce Green for a score.

Barbers Hill then mounted its second double-digit play drive of the game, going 52 yards in 10 plays to score on Carmona’s one-yard sneak to cut C.E. King’s lead to 27-12 with 5:35 left in the third quarter.

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Where was District Newcomer of the Year, receiver Carter Smith of BH?

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Good Job King....Keep em rolling