Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 83, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 17, 1993 Page: 9 of 52
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SUNDAY OCTOBER 17,1993
SPORTS
PAGE 9A
Inspired Jasper Bulldogs surprise Lions
By VAN THOMAS
Sports Editor
LIVINGSTON—All Jasper
wanted was a little attention.
After being ignored for several
weeks, the Bulldogs Anally got the
attention of the Livingston football
team here Friday night in Lion
Stadium.
October is the time of year for
football teams to start showing im-|
provement.
The Jasper Bulldogs graded A
plus against the Lions of Coach
Don Clayton with a 41 to 7 win in a
District 23-AAAA game before a
small crowd in Lion Stadium.
Jasper Bulldogs, who won the
District 23-AAAA title last year,
headed East late Friday night with
big smiles. The 1993 season has
been a little hard on the players and
coaches.
Head football Coach Gene
Walkoviak, who is in his 17lh
season as boss of the Bulldogs,
missed his second straight school-
boy football game Friday night.
Daughter
. Coach and Mrs. Walkoviak’s
daughter is in a San Antoniohospi-
tal. Ms Walkoviak, a college stu-
dent, was injured in an 18-
whcclcr/car accident on Tuesday
night, Oct. 5.
Coach Walkoviak was unable to
attend the Cleveland game on
Friday night, Oct. 8. His Bulldogs
lost a heart breaker to the
Cleveland Indians, 14 to 13.
The Bulldogs arc now 2-5-0
overall and 1-1-0 in district play.
Jasper will play host to Lumber-
ton Raiders on Friday night, Oct.
22 at 7:30 p.m.
Jasper will be at Dayton on Oct.
29 and will close out league play
hosting Silsbec on Friday night,
Nov. 5.
Livingston Lions
Coach Clayton’s Lions arc now
2-5-0 overall and 0-2-0 in district
play.
The Lions will be in Silsbec on
Friday night, Oct. 22 to battle the
mighty Tigers in a district game at
7:30 p.m.
• Livingston will be at home on
Friday night, Oct. 29 for the
school’s homecoming game against
Lumberton Raiders.
Lions will close out district play
at Cleveland on Friday night, Nov.
Football series
Friday night was the I7lh meet-
ing of these two schools since 1948
and Jasper leads the series, 16-1-0.
It was in 1951 the last time a
Lion football team beat Jasper. The
Lions that year in Bulldog Stadium
posted a 32 to 7 victory. The Lions
also won the District 18-A title that
season.
Jasper’s record
Tyler Chapel Hill 10, Jasper 0.
Lulkin 36, Jasper 18.
Houston Smiley 27, Jasper 24.
Corrigan-Camden trips Lumberjacks
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Jasper 31, Port Arthur Lincoln 6.
West Orange-Stark 42, Jasper 7.
Cleveland 14, Jasper 13.
Jasper 41, Livingston 7.
Livingston’s record
Livingston 38, Diboll 6.
New Cancy 20, Livingston 14.
Livingston 13, Nederland 7.
Port Ncchcs-Groves 3,
Livingston 0.
Tomball 28, Livingston 7.
Dayton 17, Livingston 14.
Jasper 41, Livingston 7.
See LIONS P 12-A.
By LINDA JACOBS
Sports Writer
CORRIGAN-After an ex-
plosive start that manufactured 14
points in the First 27 seconds of
Friday’s Corrigan-Camden/Diboll
football game, the classic battle of
the neighboring schools ended in
another hard fought win for the
Bulldogs as they defeated the Lum-
berjacks 20-15 before a large
Homecoming crowd at Bulldog
Stadium.
A wham-bam, start ’em up game
had the score tied 7-all and the fans
on both sides in an early frenzy
with 11:33 still left in the opening
period.
Diboil struck first on the opening
kickoff with an 85 yard touchdown
return that ignited the visiting team.
Fans had barely quieted down
when Corrigan connected on a 62
yard bomb that quickly swapped
the noise volume to the Corrigan
side.
In the end, the Corrigan defense
stood tall against the pressure and
tucked away their second straight
District 20-3A win. *‘I knew it was
going to be a tough, close bal-
lgame,” said Corrigan Head Coach
Jim Skinner. “They’ve got some
big kids and they play hard. I’m
just proud of our defense.”
The defense did an exceptional
job holding the Lumberjacks to just
114 yards total offense, yet had to
stymie the ’Jacks late in the fourth
quarter when they edged back into
the game at 20-15 with 6:55 left to
play.
Following the lightning quick 7-
7 start, the ’Dogs added two rush-
ing touchdowns by Shawn Jackson
and David Mitchell to take a 20-7
halftime lead.
Jackson was the game’s leading
ball carrier with 94 yards on 22
carries and Mitchell had 44 yards
OH n rnrripe “fhir Offensive-line
did a good job tonight,” said
Coach Skinner. “They came off the
football and blocked gaps well.
You can’t say enough about
Mitchell and Jackson, especially
blocking for one another. Both
plays fullback and both plays tail-
back and they did an excellent job
of blocking for one another and
running tough with the football.
“Richard (Rowe) had a good
night throwing the football,” added
Skinner. “He hit the fullback out in
the flats several times and made big
plays for us.”
Rowe was quick to equalize the
85 yard kickoff return by Malcolm
Starghill which put Diboll up 7-0 in
the opening seconds when he con-
nected on a 62 yard strike to Ricard
Hulcu on the ’Dogs first play from
scrimmage.
“Coach Skinner asked me if I
could hit him early and I said yes,
so he called it and we went out and
ran it,” said Rowe, “and Ricard
was wide open.”
Rowe turned in a 130-yard per-
formance by completing 9-of-13 at-
tempts. For the year, Rowe has
completed 51-of-109 passes for 672
yards and nine touchdowns.
Following the Rowe to Hulett
touchdown, Michael Murphy came
on and booted the extra point to tie
the game at 7-all with 11:33 left in
the Fust
With the exception of one Cor-
rigan fumble, the offense continued
to click in the First half, registering
touchdowns on their final two
drives.
The first was an 18-play, 71 yard
drive that was capped by a three
yard touchdown run by Shawn
Jackson with 8:40 left in the second
quarter.
Jackson racked up 39 yards on
10 carries during the drive and
Rowe completed two passes to
David Mitchell for 11 and 19 yard
gains. Michael Murphy kicked the
extra point to give the ’Dogs a 14-7
lead.
The ’Dogs defense forced the
Lumberjacks to punt on the next
series and Corrigan took over at
their own 33 with 4:10 left before
halftime.
David Mitchell carried twice for
two and four yard gains to the 39,
then Jackson picked up eight to the
47 for a Fust down. Mitchell
scooted 11 yards to the Diboll 42,
then Rowe hit Joe Cooper with a 22
yard toss that moved the ball down
to the Diboll 20 yard line.
Following a one yard gain by
Mitchell, Jackson broke away on a
14 yard pickup to the Diboll five.
Mitchell took the next handoff
from Rowe and scored at the 1:20
mark. The ’Dogs settled for a 20-7
lead when a fumbled snap voided
the extra point attempt by Murphy.
The ’Dogs put themselves in a
precarious position early in the
second half when a fumbled punt
attempt gave the ’Jacks excellent
Field position at the Corrigan 32.
The defense, however, stopped
Diboll on fourth down at the Cor-
rigan 19. Leading the defensive
charge for the ’Dogs were David
Mitchell, J.C. Phillips, Adrian
Whitaker, Paul Sanchez, Brian
Cooper, Ricard Hulett, Shawn
Jackson, Michael Knight, Stewart
Posuk and Joe Barringer.
Cooper sidelined
The Bulldog defense suffered a
big blow last week against Rusk
when Derrick Cooper went out
with a knee injury. Cooper, a
sophomore, was a 2-way player for
the ’Dogs. The bad news is a frac-
tured bone in his knee and he will
be out 6-8 weeks.
Defensively, Cooper ranked
among the best. “Derrick is a
leader, a motivator, and very ag-
gressive kid. He was an excellent
linebacker for us,” said Skinner.
"It’s obvious that we’re going to
miss him, but I’m real proud of the
way Brian Cooper played tonight
He came in and did a tremendous
job for us.”
Up and coming
Diboll, 1-6-0 for the year and 0-2
in district, looks and plays much
better than their record indicates.
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Diboll
„ Fir* Dowm Rushing *
S Fir* Downs Passing 2
1 Fir* Downs PenalUes 1
M TOTAL FIRST DOWNS 9
143 Yards Gained Rushing ltd
21 Yards Lost Rushing 14
41422 NET YARDS 31-96
13S Yards Gained Passing 23
5 Yards Lost Passing 5
130 NET YARDS l*
257 NET YARDS GAINED 114
13 Passes Attempted 10
9 Passes Completed 3
• fames Intercepted »j 0
0 Yards Iat. Passes Return 0
1 No. of Punts 3
26 Total Yards Punted M
260 Punting Average 2*0
• Yards Punted Returned 2
4 No. ef Kickoff. 3
46 Yards Kkfcofh Returned 104
4 No. of Penalties
36 Yards Penalised 25
| Nn. af Fumbles •
4 Own Fumbles Recovered •
6 Opponents Fumbles Rccov. 1
SCORE BY QUARTERS
Cerrigaa-Camden 7 13 0 9 20
Dibull 2 0 6 0 IS
Head Coach Finis Vanover, in his
first year at Diboll, has the program
headed toward the top. All of their
sub-varsity teams have winning
records this year, including a 6-1
mark at the junior varsity, a 5-0-2
mark at the freshman level and a 4-
2 record at the junior high.
“They’re an up and coming
football team,” stated Skinner.
“They’re a much improved foot-
ball team from the first of the year,
very much improved. Coach
Vanover does a good job with
them. He’s got good discipline with
those kids, they played hard and
didn’t quit. I’m just happy with a
victory.”
Coach Vanover
“It was an outstanding high
school football game,” said Coach
Vanover. “That's what makes it
such a special thing in this state.
You saw tremendous highs out of
both teams in the opening plays and
then tremendous lows. Their team
got up big and our kids were down
but we came back, that’s the fight-
ing spirit inside a teenager. Those
lessons in life that you learn about
crawling back up after geuing
knocked down were displayed out
there tonight.
“We’re just not quite good
enough to win big games but we're
getting closer and closer every
game. We’re turning some comers,
it’s not showing up on the
scoreboad yet, but there’s been a
ton of improvement. The kids are
playing like crazy and trying and
doing it with great class and
character and great pride.
“These are things that weren’t
exhibited the last two years and so
we’te had to fight a bunch of
battles. There’s a lot more to it than
X’s and O’s at our place right now,
but we’re getting closer and closer
to where we need to be.”
Scoreless third
Following a scoreless third quar-
ter, the Lumberjacks made it a fight
to the finish when they scored with
6:55 left in the game. Their touch-
down drive covered 72 yards in 12
plays. Dcttrick Criswell, who led
the ’Jacks with 58 yards rushing,
scored on a six yard run, plus ran
the 2-point conversion in.
Corrigan’s next series ended in a
punting situation at their own 46
and the ’Jacks took over at their 20
with over five minutes left to play
in the game.
The defensive unit held the
’Jacks to just one first down on the
drive and Finally put the clamps on
when they stopped Diboll on fourth
down at the ’Jacks 34 yard line.
They took over with 1:24 remain-
ing and ran the clock out for the 20-
15 victory.
Roughriders
The Bulldogs, 4-2-1 overall and
2-0 in district will battle the Center
Roughriders next Friday. Senior
Joe Barringer will be one Bulldog
ready to keep their district mark
perfect Barringer believes that
everything is clicking and coming
together for the 'Dogs right now.
“We’re going to practice hard all
next week and be ready for Center.
If we go at them with all we’ve got
and hit them hard in the first half
we’ll come out with a big win next
Friday."
The Roughriders are 4-3 for the
year and 1-1 in district. They were
defeated by Crockett Friday night
by a 20-15 margin.
“Center has got a bunch of
kids,” said Coach Skinner. “We’re
going to have to be in shape and do
the best we can. We’ve got 23
players left right now. U’s a num-
bers game, bul sometimes heart
overcomes numbers. Like I tell the
kids, if we get beat, let’s get beat
by a better football team. Let’s get
beat playing our hearts out and
never look back. You should never
ever look back after a ballgame.
Win or lose. I’m proud of these
kids.”
FOOTBALL
SERIES
CORRIGAN-
CAMDEN
Vs.
DIBOLL
Corrigan-Camden and Diball have met 44
times since 1948. Diboll leads the series 24-19-1.
Diboll has scored 774 points and Corrigan-
Camden 719.
194S -Corrigan 14, Diboll 9.
1949—Diboll 19, Corrigan 4.
1959— Diboll 14, Corrigan 12.
1951— Corrigan 54, DiboH 13.
1952— Corrigan 24, Diboll 13.
1953— Corrigan 54, Dlboll 13.
1954— Corrigan 41, Diboll 9.
1955 -Diboil 39, Corrigan 8.
1954—Corrigan 15, Diboll 9.
1957—Corrigan 33, Diboll 9.
1951 -Diboll 4, Corrigan 9.
1959—Diboll 39, Corrigan 4.
1949- DiboM 4, Corrigan 4 (lie).
1941 -DiboH 24, Corrigan 9.
1942—Corrigan 29, Diboll 12.
1943 - DiboH 35, Corrigan 14.
1944—Corrigan 33, Diboll 9.
1945 -Corrigan 24, Diboll IS.
1944—DiboU 21, Corrigan 9.
1947—DiboH 49, Corrigan 9.
1949- DiboH 21, Corrigan-Camden 9i (Coo-
rigan and Camden con solid.led in 1947 and
played as < orrtgan-Camdeai in 1941.
1949 -DiboH 74. Corrigan-Camden 7.
1979 - Corrigan Camden 29. DiboH 4.
1971 DiboH 14, Corrigan Cdfedto 7.
1972 DiboH 24, Corrigan-Camden 9.
1973 -DiboH 25, Corrigan-Camden 7
1974- -DiboH 2*. Corrigan Camden 9.
1975—Diboll 25, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1974—Diboll 22, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1977—Corrigan-Camden 34, DiboU 9.
197K—Corrigan-Camden 7, Diball 4.
1979—DiboH 29, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1989— DiboH 14, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1981— DiboU 9, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1982— Diboll 24, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1983 -Diboll 13, Corrigan-Camden 7.
1984 -Diboll 21, Corrigan-Camden 4.
1985—Diboll 19, Corrigan-Camden 7.
1984—Diboll 21, Corrigan-Camden 7.
1987— Corrigan-Camden 17, Diboll 13.
1988— Corrigan-Camden 44, Diboll 9.
1989— Corrigan-Camden 24, Diboll 9.
1999—Corrigan-Camden 39, Diboll 14.
1991— Diboll 29, Corrigan-Camden 12.
1992— Corrigan-Camden 12, DiboU 4.
1993— -Corrigan-Camden 29, DiboU 15.
Football games in East Team on Friday
night, October 22.
Livingston at Silsbec, 7:39 pm.
Lumberton at Jasper, 709 p-m.
Dayton at Cleveland, 7:39 p-m.
Shepherd at Madisonville, 709 pm.
Splcndora * Cotdapring Jones, 709 p.m.
Trinity at Montgomery, 709 pm.
Meaia at Elkhart, 7:39 p-m.
Fairfield at Groesbeck, 709 pan.
Teague at Palestine Westwood, 7:39 pm.
Corrigan-Camden at Canter, 7:39 pm.
Crockett at Huntington, 709 pm.
Rusk at DiboH, 709 pm.
Liberty at Anahoac, 7:39 p.m.
Ilamahire-Fannctt alTarkington,7:39p-m.
Huffman Hargrave at Barbers I HR, 709 pm.
Newton at Buna, 7:39 pm.
Kirby ville at Kountze, 709 pm.
Hardin-JeHerson at Orangefleld. 709 pm.
Woodviltr at Port Arthur Austin, 1:39 pm.
(Sat)
BeckviUe at Garrison, 7:39 pm.
Joaquin at Flysian Fields. 709 pm.
BeckviUe at Garrlaon, 709 pm
Waskom at Thnpson. 7:39 pm.
San Augustine at AKp 709 pm.
Hemphill at Cushing, 7:39 pm.
West Sabine at ShetbyvUle, 7:39 pm.
Buffalo * CenterviUe, 709 pm.
loon * Grapeland. 7:39 pm.
Groveton at Lnvcindy, 709 pm.
HuH-Daisetta at Dewe) viile, 709 pm.
Hardin * Warren, 7:39 pm.
New W'averty Is open.
West Hardin * Fast Chambers. 709 pm.
ML Enterprise * Carlisle, 709 pm.
K a mask at Overtop 709 pm
1 aion I Mil at Tenaba, 709 pm.
Api-fte Springs at t nhnmneB. 709 pm
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