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Dayton still picked to win league

DISTRICT 22-4A FOOTBALL PREVIEW

By Tom Halliburton

The Port Arthur News

Even with quarterback Cody Green out for the season with a broken ankle, Dayton has remained the coaches' pick to defend its 22-4A district football championship.

  Dayton received 46 of a possible 49 total votes and claimed five of a possible seven first-place nods in The News' annual poll of 22-4A head coaches conducted prior to this Friday's district openers.

  Green sustained a broken ankle on the first series of the second half when Dayton visited Nacogdoches on Sept. 7. Already heavily recruited by many of the state's major college football powers, the talented junior passer has undergone season-ending surgery to repair two ankle-area fractures.

  Green led Dayton to a perfect 7-0 league mark as a sophomore. Dayton head coach Jerry Stewart certainly did not downplay the importance of losing Green before he attempted to vote in the coaches' poll Wednesday evening.

  "I'll tell you, not too many Division 1 quarterback types can be replaced that easily," the colorful 12th-year head Broncos boss said. "Before we played Friendswood, somebody said that losing Cody wouldn't hurt us that much. Well, losing a Division 1-caliber quarterback does hurt you that much.

  "I wish I could tell you that we're better than everybody but we're not. There is really not much difference in this whole bunch, between No. 1 and No. 7, but Central may be more talented than any one."

  By the most paper-thin of margins, Nederland nipped Beaumont Central for second place in total votes with 38.5 to 37.5, as one head coach preferred to divide his first-place selection between those two schools.

  That's the extent of the first-place votes, but a blanket could be heaved over the next three teams in the vote. Little Cypress-Mauriceville edged Lumberton and Port Neches-Groves with a gap of two total votes separating the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-place finishers.

  This arguably constitutes the lowest ranking in a pre-season poll for PN-G since the poll's initiation. Another surprisingly low pre-season finisher, Beaumont Ozen dipped to 1-9 last year. Even with a coaching change, the Panthers of first-year mentor Ishan Rison were pegged at the bottom of the list in this week's coaches vote.

  Friday night's league openers have Vidor at Nederland, Dayton at Lumberton, PN-G at Ozen and Central at LC-M. It's probably no coincidence, in that case, that Vidor boss Jeff Mathews liked Nederland atop the league powers. The absence of Dayton's Green at quarterback definitely could not prevent Lumberton coach Alvin Credeur from placing the Broncos in the favorite's role.

  "Dayton can be just as dangerous in some ways, by moving their receiver (junior A.J. Dugat) to quarterback because he's faster than Cody Green," the second-year Raiders mentor said. "We've got a real talented league as usual.

  "You're going to have to get some breaks and beat some good teams in this league. There's going to be some good teams staying home."

  Donald Stowers does not intend for his Beaumont Central Jaguars to be one of them. The determined Central coach just might possess the most gifted athlete in this district. He's 5-11, 200-pound senior running back Derrick Hall -- an early Texas A&M pledge. Hall missed much of last year with an ankle fracture.

  Stowers has pronounced Hall to be healthy and ready for the 22-4A wars.

  "Derrick looks good," Stowers said. "He had 180 all-purpose yards last game (143 rushing and 38 receiving yards vs. Houston Sterling)... I think the two biggest things for us are that we need to make sure that grades don't have an effect on us and to keep from turning the ball over."

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sorry.

but cody didnt actually break his ankle.

all three ligaments in his ankle are torn.

he has pins in it to keep his ankle from snapping.

but yes.

this is pretty much the most popular game in this area.

if you live in the liberty-dayton area you could listen to the game on 99.9fm.

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