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After spending the first few weeks of the season pulling out thrillers and squeakers, the Diboll Lumberjacks have put together back-to-back wins in dominant fashion. Friday night, the 'Jacks made short work of an old foe, knocking off Jasper 31-14 in the district opener for both teams.

Diboll capitalized on contributions from a little bit of everyone wearing red and black: Quarterback Jacolby Spencer tossed a pair of scoring passes, a 35-yarder to William Tudmon and a 15-yarder to big Antonio Johnson; Kendal Jackson followed his line for 105 yards and a score on 22 carries; Adrian Vasquez blocked and recovered a Jasper punt for yet another Diboll TD; and Alex Castillo booted a 31-yard field goal.

In all, the Lumberjacks rolled up more than 400 yards of total offense, with Spencer completing 15 of 26 passing attempts for 239 yards and the two scores. During one second-quarter streak, the senior QB connected on seven straight passes, allowing the 'Jacks to put together a beauty of a 91-yard drive that consumed more than five minutes.

Jasper's Ben Armstrong scored both the 'Dogs' touchdowns on runs of 22 and 23 yards. Armstrong would have notched a third score, a scintillating 28-yard fourth-quarter jaunt; but the Bulldogs were flagged for holding on the play, negating the run.

Bulldog receiver Kwame' Spikes caught six balls for 98 yards, but quarterback Dominique Bailey struggled to hit receivers all night, completing just 10 of his 27 attempts, and with most of those coming too late in the game to help.

Jasper got off to a quick start, scoring on its first possession with the aid of a Bailey 74-yard run. That set up Armstrong's first score, a 22-yarder at the 8:18 mark.

Diboll took exactly two minutes to answer, with Spencer hitting Tudmon on a crossing route from 35 yards out to tie the game at 7-7.

The 'Jacks took their first lead midway through the second quarter, with Johnson taking a pass in the flat and breaking tackles on his way to a 15-yard score. Later in the same period, following a pin-'em-down punt from Jasper's Alex Guadian that left the Lumberjacks on their own nine-yard line, Diboll moved 91 yards in 15 plays, capped by Jackson's three-yard plunge with just 29 ticks remaining in the half to go up 21-7.

Diboll extended the lead with just under 10 minutes left in the third quarter. Standing in his own end zone, punter Guadian couldn't handle a high snap and attempted to kick his way out of trouble. Vasquez blocked the kick and was credited with the touchdown recovery, putting the game out of reach for the Bulldogs. Castillo's 31-yard boot iced the 'Jacks' fourth straight win.

The Lumberjacks will host Center Friday and will honor new members of the Diboll Wall of Honor. The late Gary Willmon of The Lufkin Daily News will be one of the honorees.

Game time is 7:30 p.m.

I remember a few Jasper penalties.

Offsides on defense, on a 3rd down for Diboll. Late hit out of bounds, holding on the would-be 3rd rushing TD for Armstrong, and followed with dead ball penalty by Jasper lineman for running his mouth to ref.  Had penalty on Kickoff for ball going out of bounds. 

Anyone have any stats on this game?  I would especially like to know the number of penalties called against Jasper versus the number of penalties called against Diboll.  Diboll flat out beat Jasper, but the penalties were very one sided. IMO

I don't have the stats yet, waiting for lufkin daily news to post write up.  Diboll had 4 penalties, official stat.  One was a holding call. had defensive off sides, and don't know other 2. 

Wasn't as close as I expected it to be.  Diboll shut Jasper out in the 2nd half, and played bend but not break Defense.  I wonder why Jasper didn't stick with Armstrong running the rock, he was effective, more than Jasper's mediocre passing game.  Overall, I think Diboll kept the same intensity from last week's game against Nac.  Great win for the Jacks, I don't think Diboll has ever beaten Jasper before. 

Crockett continues to go downhill.... but how is Diboll considered a "so-so" team? They just beat Nacogdoches pretty easily.

They are giving up an average of 28 points a game to teams who are a combined 9-7. I didn't say they were a bad team, but they aren't a good team either. They are so-so.

Umm 9-7? Where did you get your info.? Here are all the records.

kville 4-0

silsbee 1-3

coldspring 3-2

Newton 2-2

Nacogdoches 4-1

to me the opponents records would look like -  - 14-8.  Now take away those losses that Diboll handed to those teams and the record is 14-4. Want to get really technical, take away Kirbyville's win over Diboll and it's 13-4.  Just trying to clear things up.

Where is the Jasper faithful?

If Diboll continues improving, and play with intensity shown in the game against Nacogdoches, they will be tough to beat.  Even as a Diboll fan, I went into the Nac game thinking we had a very slim chance of beating a Nac team that had beaten 18-3a District favorites Jasper & Carthage.  I knew Diboll would be greatly outsized by the 4a team, and during the pre game warm ups, that size difference was very noticeable as was the depth of the Nac team.  But just goes to show you that size doesn't make too much of difference if you have a team with speed along with well coached players, that go into a game with a good game plan, and not only having that plan, but executing it.  Diboll didn't suffer from the many penalties of previous games, and had only one turnover.  Nac had 2 turnovers, one that came on the last play of the game which resulted in a int. return for a Diboll TD.

Diboll still has a good Jasper team coming to town, that only lost to Nac by 7 points, 14-21.  Here are the common oppenents of both teams.

Jasper Kville - Loss 43-44

Diboll Kville  - Loss 28-36

Jasper Silsbee - Win 14-0

Diboll Silsbee - Win 27-24

Jasper Nac - loss 14-21

Diboll Nac  - Win  30-14

Now I know it doesn't matter much  which teams these 2 have played; much more with how they matchup.  But it does show that Jasper has lost 2 of those contests by slim margins.  Both teams have great qbs, that are very mobile and make something happen when out of the pocket.  The team that can limit their errors, penalties, TO's will have best chance.  Diboll definitley has to work on their Kickoff coverage, as they have allowed 2 TD's in the last 2 games.  

I give the edge to Diboll, and reason being is kicking game, specifically FG kicker.  Diboll kicker has proven he can make those FG's. Against Silsbee, he made a 40 yarder and 44 yarder with ease along with other FG's in other games.  Jasper hasn't had much of kicking game in previous years, but maybe they've found one.  Fill me in Jasper Fans.

Nac couldn't get anything going offensivley and Diboll was able to hang on for the win. 

here you go newton fans 

When the defense gets a delay of game call you know the officials are bad.

haha no joke

this really happend?

Did you know the signal for "disconcerting signals" is the same as delay of game? If a defensive player is saying "hut,hut" or something sounding like that, they are flagged for disconcerting signals and the delay signal is used. Not saying that's what happened but it may have. Also let it be known that the chapter in question is not ours (Bmt).

Thanks for your info.

OK so for every1 i was on the field and it was horrible.. and for the onside kick i was right up front.. he touch the ball b4 it crossed the 10 yrd mark..it was a slow roller n it never crossed until he touched it.... all diboll could do to our D is try and cut them and hold their feet.. our ends couldnt move cuz of all the holdin.. its sad 2 have more yard in penalties then diboll had in total yards.. now i give it to the Qb he is all they really have.. we couldnt keep him from the sidelines... but cum on down to newton n we get officals tht are good at wat they do and not sum retards tht need to be turned into the uil and well beat them 35-10 easily..

You've got to be kidding, Newton had around 100 yards in penalties, while Diboll had around 300+ yards in total offense.  I don't know what stats you're looking at.  It's not like Newton had 30 penalties.  Diboll went to kville and lost to a good team, and had about 20 penalties, and lost by 8.  No excuses from Diboll either, they accepted the loss and moved on. 

Congratulations Nac.  You have swept your games with 18-3a. 

Have one more with 18-3a.  Diboll's homecoming game vs Nac!

Hey Wildcat fan if you were at the game you would have seen that it wasn't our defense giving diboll Td's it was the official's giving them TD's everytime Diboll got the ball they were walked down the field by the refs. I don't complain or make excuses when Newton loses but I will have to say on this one the officiating was horrible some of the worse I have ever seen. Newton did not deserve to lose this game, the officials made it real clear they were not going to let Newton leave Diboll with a win and they were going to do everything in there power to keep the eagles from doing this. Newton was the better team and they would be the better team if they were to play ten games against diboll they would win all ten with a good set of officials.

And it was the officials giving Diboll the TD when the Diboll QB was able to escape from two Newton defenders and throw the 49 yard TD pass to gain the lead?  That was just great elusiveness by the Diboll QB.

Hey Wildcat fan if you were at the game you would have seen that it wasn't our defense giving diboll Td's it was the official's giving them TD's everytime Diboll got the ball they were walked down the field by the refs. I don't complain or make excuses when Newton loses but I will have to say on this one the officiating was horrible some of the worse I have ever seen. Newton did not deserve to lose this game, the officials made it real clear they were not going to let Newton leave Diboll with a win and they were going to do everything in there power to keep the eagles from doing this. Newton was the better team and they would be the better team if they were to play ten games against diboll they would win all ten with a good set of officials.

I was at the game, and I do admit there were some questionable calls, but it went both ways.  Newton did have more penalties than diboll, think it was 13-14 for newton and 7-8 for Diboll.  Officials were inconsistent with their pass interference calls all night.  There were no calls on plays that were noticeably pass interf. and call penalties on good defensive plays by the DB's.  The worst call of the night was when Diboll attempted an onside kick and the refs claimed it was touched before it went ten yards.  The ball clearly wasn't touched by any Diboll player until the kicker touched it after going 10 yards.  Both teams had opportunities to put the game away.  I don't see how you think Newton would win all ten games with good officials.  Diboll ran and passed the ball with efficiency, had more total yards than the eagles.  Newton had 2-3 big plays they scored on, but couldn't consistently run the ball, especially in the 2nd half.  They were able to convert on many 3rd downs, and a few 4th downs.  Either way, Diboll downed Father & Son back to back weeks. 

will be @ Diboll.  This is where the initial scheduled game was to be played. 

Correction

The 26th is actually a Friday, and will be played at 7:30pm.  ;D

I havent seen if it has. Thanks for the info

Yes, the game has been canceled.  per the Diboll ISD website.  www.dibollisd.com

heard this one was canceled

This one still going to be played?  I see other games being canceled?

Diboll is still committing too many penalties that are proving costly.  I lost count how many TD's called back, or helping other teams gain first downs after committing a penalty.  Week 0 they had 14 penalties for over 100 yards.  Maybe they will gather themselves, as they will play home for the first time this season. 

Diboll hasn't beaten Newton for as long as I can remember, will this year be different?

In their Week 1 loss at Kirbyville, the Diboll Lumberjacks suffered a slow start that ultimately spelled a 36-28 loss to the Wildcats. Penalties, dropped passes and missed tackles were the primary culprits, some of which Diboll head coach Tom Sheppard described as "first-game jitters."

Still, despite spotting Kirbyville a 28-7 lead, the Lumberjacks came within a touchdown and two-point conversion of tying the game late, testament to their ability to fight back and put points on the board. Two touchdowns in a four-minute, fourth-quarter span very nearly allowed Diboll to pull off the big rally.

Tonight, the 'Jacks will travel to Silsbee, which dropped a 38-34 decision to Houston Davis in the Tigers' season opener. To avoid a repeat of last week's disappointment, the Lumberjacks will have to focus on the following areas:

* Penalties — Diboll committed a total of 14 penalties for a whopping 111 yards, including eight flags in the first quarter alone. While the overall penalty discrepancy may have suggested a little Kirbyville home cooking — the Wildcats drew just five penalties the entire night — the Lumberjacks know they'll have to stay disciplined enough to prevent giving up the free yardage.

* Wrap up — There was no doubt the Diboll defensive unit could lay some serious licks on ball carriers. On numerous occasions, 'Jack tacklers hit with such force that Wildcat runners were propelled several yards back. However, those runners went back but not down, and Kirbyville managed to amass 280 yards on the ground. Sheppard acknowledged that "we have to tackle better."

* Catch the ball — 'Jack quarterback Jacolby Spencer threw for more than 300 yards and connected on 15 of his 28 pass attempts for an impressive 53 percent completion rate. Unfortunately, he should have notched at least six more completions and another 50 yards had it not been for a plague of dropped passes by Diboll receivers. Four of those drops would have picked up first downs, possibly allowing the Lumberjacks to sustain several much-needed scoring drives.

* Gain some ground — Diboll gained less than 100 yards on the ground, with three runners — Spencer (10 carries for 29 yards), Kenneth Curry (7 for 31) and Kendal Jackson (9 for 29) accounting for all the ground gains. The highly mobile Spencer has proven he can put the ball on the money; but without a rushing attack, defenses will eventually shut him down. The Lumberjacks will need far more than 99 yards to beat Silsbee.

Despite their first-game frustrations, the Lumberjacks looked like a team that will move the ball and roll up points — and it's obvious they won't quit in any situation.

If the 'Jacks can manage to get off to a quicker start — and negate some of last week's mistakes — they won't need to play from behind against the Tigers.

Kickoff for tonight's game in Silsbee is 6 p.m.

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lol if you pay attention, 21-23 seconds into the video, you'll notice a kville player wrap a Diboll's player legs and tackle him, while kville's Ervine runs for 69 yards, is that legal?

anyone see what i'm talking about?

Will Diboll bounce back from a poor showing in week 0 and get their 1st win?