Sweetwater 2014

[Phantom Stang]

SW hosts Clyde in final tuneup today
August 21, 2014
By
Ron Howell
sweetwatersports1@yahoo.com

Sweetwater High School fans who missed last week’s opening scrimmage will get a chance to meet the Mus-tangs today — and not just the ones who participate in a final preseason scrimmage vs. Clyde at the Bowl.
“Meet the Mustangs” will begin with the freshman and JV football teams skirmishing Clyde at 6 p.m.
After they play, the SHS band as well as the school’s cross country, tennis and volleyball teams will be introduced at around 7 p.m.
The varsity scrimmage will begin around 7:30, and when it concludes at around 9 p.m., all football players will be introduced along with the cheerleaders and student athletic trainers.
SHS coach Shane Mobley said the varsity scrimmage will start with a 15-play series (offense and defense) by the No. 1 units, followed by the No. 2s running a 10-play series, and concluding with a “live” 12-minute quarter that closely resembles what fans will see next week when the Mustangs kick off the 2014 season by hosting Lubbock High.
Mobley said among his priorities is that his players react properly to the various sets they will be facing tonight against Clyde’s spread-based attack.
“I think that Clyde will show us some pass sets and then run the ball,” he said. “We have to watch the run game, and also recognize if it’s a pass set and make the transition to a pass rush. We will see a lot more play action out of the run and the linebackers will have to recognize that.
“Offensively, we will face more of a 3-4 (defensive) setup and not the 3-3 stack. It will be a good look for us going into the first game with Lubbock High.”
Sweetwater had six scores this past week at San Angelo Lake View, with three TDs from both units, while giving up just three in all. QBs Kaegan Jeffrey and Max Gomez each threw for two TDs and totalled 370 yards passing, and six Mustangs scored — Bray Amos, Michael Lawrence, Hunter Mobley and Michael Green through the air and both Gomez and Jacoby Hunt on touchdown runs.
Tonight will also be “Our Day To Shine,” a chance for fans at the scrimmage to make a donation that will be used for the Texas High School Coaches Education Foundation’s Benevolence Fund to assist athletes and coaches with special needs and hardships.
Meanwhile, Friday will mark the final tuneups for the other Nolan County high school teams — Roscoe, Blackwell and Highland.
Blackwell will be hosting Aspermont and Paint Rock in a two-way scrimmage at 10 a.m.; Highland will be entertaining Jayton starting at 6 p.m.; and Roscoe will send its teams to Munday for a JV-varsity scrimmage that starts at 5 p.m.

[Sweetwater Red]

Sweetwater's first team offense had three possessions and two scores.

Clyde's had three possessions and no scores.

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Sweetwater first team offense with five possessions and four scores
including a 70 yard TD pass Jeffrey to Amos

Clyde's first team offense had five possessions and no scores.

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Sweetwater 'wins' live quarter 12-7.

Kicking XPs just MIGHT be a problem for the Mustangs.

[Sweetwater Red]

Mustangs score big again in last tuneup

August 22, 2014

By
Ron Howell

sweetwatersports1@yahoo.com

The Sweetwater offense continued to fly high in Thursday’s final scrimmage against Clyde at Mustang Bowl as it matched the number of touchdowns (6) it had in its first scrimmage at San Angelo Lake View a week earlier.
This time the format was a bit different, but Sweet-water’s resounding 6-2 edge in touchdowns was similar to its previous week’s 6-3 “win” over the Chiefs.
Against Lake View, the Mustangs — who will open the regular season a week from today against Lubbock High when they play at the Bowl again at their 10th annual Sammy Baugh Classic — scored four times through the air and twice on the ground.
On Thursday, Sweetwater was more balanced — three TDs passing, two rushing and one score by the defense — a 45-yard fumble return by J’Corey Amos — that came during the “live” 12-minute quarter which the Mustangs won 12-7. The defense also came up with interceptions by Amos and Adrian Vizzerra during that portion of the scrimmage, after about 40 plays offen-sively and defensively in the “controlled” scrimmage when Sweetwater outscored Clyde by a 4-1 touchdown count (4-0 by the No. 1 unit) at the Bowl.
In the controlled scrim-mage, Bray Amos came up with two TD catches from QB Kaegan Jeffrey which measured 70 and 7 yards. Before that, Jeffrey hooked up with Michael Lawrence on a 22-yard TD pass and in the quarter, Jeffrey scored for the Mustangs on a 1-yard run with 5:42 left to play after Sweetwater had found itself trailing 7-6 after the previous series. After that, the Mustangs sealed the victory by coming up with the two interceptions.
Also, Jacoby Hunt had a 1-yard touchdown run for the first Sweetwater score of the night.
“Our offensive line looked very good,” said Mustang coach Shane Mobley. “We made some mistakes, but we knew that Clyde would be big and physical. (Tonight) was a great test for us. They were very fast paced (on offense) and we’re so young on defense.”
Sweetwater almost pro-duced a seventh score after Vizzerra’s interception, get-ting a first-and-goal at the 8 but getting just one more yard as the Clyde defense stopped a fourth-down pass to the end zone.
In addition to his two TD catches, Bray Amos had a 37-yard catch that set up Hunt’s 1-yard score. Jeffrey also completed a 51-yard pass to Isaian McGee on the next series that led to the 22-yard touchdown catch by Lawrence

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