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Gold-Burg football wins first district title in program history
The Gold-Burg Bears wrapped up the football program’s first district title on Friday night.
The Bears beat fellow Montague County team Forestburg 46-0 by mercy rule at halftime on senior night.
Gold-Burg came into the game confident after beating fellow district teams Trinidad and Fannindel by a combined score of 108-13.
The young Longhorns came in with a small hope of still making the playoffs if they could pull the upset and if the other district game played that night also went their way.
Forestburg’s first two drives did not go anywhere. Gold-Burg capitalized with two successful touchdown drives, one with Jayton Epperson completing a short pass to Aidan Foster and the other capped off by Jayon Grace scoring on a 14-yard run.
The Bears then recovered the onside kick. A few plays later Gold-Burg hit Kolton Whitaker on a 28-yard touchdown catch to put the Bears up 22-0.
The Longhorns next drive went backwards before turning the ball over on downs. Gold-Burg took over in Forestburg territory and capitalized as Kani Grace scored on a short run to start the second quarter and make the score 28-0.
The Longhorns had their most successful offensive drive of the game next as quarterback Jesus Sanchez completed some passes and Jeremiah Perez ran the ball hard. Forestburg got down inside the Bear’s five-yard line and had several shots at scoring a touchdown.
Unfortunately for the Longhorns, they just could not punch it in as they turned the ball over on down at the four-yard line.
Gold-Burg then took all of that momentum Forestburg had gotten and stomped on it as Jayon scored on the Bears next play on a 76-yard run to go up 34-0.
The Longhorn offense could not get that same magic going on their next possession, turning the ball over near midfield.
Gold-Burg then scored a few plays later as Epperson connected with Whitaker on a 31-yard touchdown to make the score 40-0.
With less than three minutes to play, the question for the Bears became if they would be able to score once more before halftime to end the game.
Forestburg was trying to move the ball through throwing the ball, but an errant pass went into the hands of Gold-Burg’s Jack Henry. He returned it 60-yards up his sideline for a touchdown, having to leap over a fallen Longhorn to get there.
The touchdown made the score 46-0 with only 41 seconds left. The Longhorns tried the desperately move the ball fast by throwing the ball, handing the ball over to their only senior Braxton Osteen who could throw it deep.
Gold-Burg’s defense did not allow Forestburg to go far as time expired and the game ended due to the 45-point mercy rule kicking in.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Forestburg Lady Horns season came to an end on Monday night in their bi-district match against Crowell.
The Lady Cats won 3-1 against the Lady Horns to end their season.
Forestburg came into the match as the lower seed and likely underdog. It did not stop the Lady Horns from winning their playoff match last year, but Crowell was a 26 win team that just so happened to have the misfortune of being in a district with top-ranked team Harrold.
Thankfully for Forestburg, one of the Lady Cats top hitters was out with an injury. While Crowell had a bit more size all over the court and brought the much bigger crowd, there was still a chance for the Lady Horns.
The match started and set one saw Forestburg slowly whittle away the Lady Cats hitting confidence. The Lady Horns only have a few players that can hit the ball at the net and Crowell had some tough blockers to deter them. So Forestburg was content to play conservative and tip the ball over for most of the night.
In the first set it worked. The Lady Cats would made a ball control error or eventually make a hitting error out of bounds or into the net while the Lady Horns tried to play clean and scrappy.
Also, Forestburg got a big boost from middle blocker Taylor Griggs who got her hands on several balls which exasperated Crowell’s hitting woes.
The Lady Horns won set one commandingly 25-18 to give them some confidence heading forward. Unfortunately, the conservative style of play came back to bite them.
Set two saw the Lady Cats finally put things together stopped making so many hitting errors.
Outside of Griggs, Forestburg did not offer a lot of resistance at the net during some rotations which meant its back row had to sometimes suffer full force hits which was hard to deal with.
Also, the Lady Horns back row was playing up to take away any tipping Crowell might pull, so the Lady Cats started aiming for the deep back row where no one was. It was a high risk shot since it was so close to going out, but as the match wore on more of them started to go in much to Forestburg’s dismay.
While the Lady Horns were content to play scrappy and tip the ball over until Crowell made a mistake, the Lady Cats were cleaning up the errors and making Forestburg pay for not being aggressive.
The next two sets saw Crowell win easily 25-11 and 25-14 as Forestburg could not find an answer. Even as the Lady Horns tried to mix in more aggressive hits at the net, the results were up and down and frustrated their players.
The fourth set looked like it was heading the same way as the Lady Cats were up 17-8.
Forestburg made one last mighty push, going on an 8-2 run to cut the lead to three points 19-16. Unfortunately, that would be as close as the Lady Horns would get.
Crowell closed the match on 6-3 run to win 25-19 and 3-1 overall.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For more pictures from the game, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870328&T=1
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