The Corning 7th Grade football players and Jr. “B” Bobcats played in a scrimmage against the Brinkley Tigers on Monday, Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. at Bobcat Stadium. Coach Farrell Shelton called the number of plays while Coach Trevor Barajas served as referee. Corning hosted Brinkley players and coaches serving refreshments after the scrimmage with Coaches Trevor Poe and Kyle George manning the grill.
We traveled to Cedar Ridge and picked up our 4th win of the season on Friday, September 29th by a score of 54-6. Our defense was a strong presence with multiple sacks led by Peyton Cartwright. The defense had two forced fumbles, and a defensive touchdown. They only allowed one score on the very first drive of the game and the defensive line then, shut them out. We had a diverse offensive attack with 167 yards of rushing behind our offensive line with 134 yards through the air, two rushing and four passing touchdowns. Seth Smith threw 3 touchdowns. Colben Pettus threw one and Jakob Cox accounted for 4 touchdowns total.
Friday, Sept. 22 our Senior High team picked up a Homecoming game victory over the Marshall Bobcats by the score of 58-14. Our offense capitalized on 3 turnovers in the first half and converted all of them into touchdowns which allowed us to build momentum late in the first quarter. The offensive line: Rodney Rapert, Seth Green, Carter Williams, Casey Jones, Ethan Guthrie and Peyton Cartwright led the rushing attack to 198 yards on 20 carries. Jakob Cox had 6 carries for 71 yards and 2 touchdowns, Hayden Cox had 60 yards on 5 carries and 3 touchdowns and Colben Pettus had 5 carries for 58 yards. Through the air, Seth Smith was 5/9 for 185 yards and 2 touchdowns. Jakob Cox hauled in 3 catches for 143 yards with 2 touchdowns and Seth Green had 1 catch for 40 yards.
Friday night, Sept. 15, our Senior High team fell to Rector again, 3418.
Coach Farrell Shelton Last Friday night the Senior High Bobcats improved to 2-1 on the year beating Cutter- Morning Star, 32-22. The defense was able to control a very explosive offense that passed the ball over 85% of the time.