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[Guest A-TOWN]

Congrats Kountze

[WTB]

Coach Pratt scared the Talent out of BC when he left

[92]

Coach Pratt scared the Talent out of BC when he left

sorry but thats gotta be the most retarded statement anyone could possibly make...

[Guest tigersvoice]

Refs need to swallow their whistles on both sides of the ball. 7 penalties in first quarter so far. its ridiculous

Know what you mean!  At Silsbee vs. Diboll we had two penalties before ANY TIME WAS OFF OF THE CLOCK.  Must have had 20 plus penalties for the game.

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Lions slip past Cardinals, 28-26

Gabriel Pruett

The Orange Leader

BRIDGE CITY — Bridge City Coach Cris Stump kept telling everyone if the Cardinals were to go to 2-0, it would take everything they had.

Stump was dead on as a very talented Kountze squad who grounded up 360 yards, all of the yardage the Lions had on the night in a 28-26 victory.

Bridge City (1-1) allowed just 98 yards in the second half after allowing Kountze (1-1) to rush for 262 in the first half to take a 28-6 lead into the break.

The Cardinals came out with a passion in the second half yet ran out of time to overtake the Lions.

“We had some stupid penalties in the first half,†Stump said. “It seemed like every time we would get something going, it would get called back. We have to correct all that.â€

Bridge City ended the night with nine penalties for 75 yards.

The Cardinals were not the only ones getting penalties called on them. The refs never seemed to swallow their whistles as the Lions were called for six penalties leading to 60 yards.

“I don’t want to take anything away at all from Kountze,†Stump said. “I said to everyone all week they are a good football team. There is a reason they are picked to win that district with East Chambers and that group.â€

Milton Williams was the leading rusher in the game with 106 yards on 15 carries while teammate Jared Howard added 95 yards on 24 totes.

Kountze quarterback Domingo Smith only threw two passes in the entire game, both were incomplete.

On the other side, Josh Lemoine for Bridge City was 7-for-15 passing for 146 yards with one interception and two interceptions. Lemoine added 37 yards rushing on 13 carries with one score.

Lemoine’s most exciting touchdown came late in the fourth quarter on a strike to Jerry Landry.

Landry was defended well by a Kountze defender and seemed to grab the football off the Lion players helmet.

Landry ended up with a 51-yard touchdown reception to make the score 28-26 with 4:27 left in the game.

The only problem was the Cardinals could then not get the Lions off the field as Kountze was able to take the rest of the time off the clock with their rushing attack.

“Both the coaches and players did a great job in the second half making adjustments,†Stump said. “We just never showed up in that first half.â€

The Lions proved Stump’s point on the initial drive of the evening with a 58-yard, 11-play scoring drive. All 11 plays came on the ground.

Williams had 53 of the yards which did back up a few times with penalties.

Howard capped the drive with 1-yard scoring run. Williams ran in a two-point conversion to make it 8-0.

After punting the first time with the ball, Bridge City went to work on its second series of the game.

Lemoine started the drive off with a 22-yard scamper and Robertson later picked up another 16 yards to take the Cardinals down to the Lions 24 yard line.

Four plays later, Robertson found paydirt for his third touchdown of the night. Robertson had 80 yards on 11 carries on the night bringing his total to 191 on the season.

The kick failed making it 8-6 Lions with 11:15 left in the first half.

Kountze then scored the game’s next 20 points as Devon Wise scored three touchdowns to close out the second quarter.

Wise first scored from 36 yards out then picked up a 24-yard touchdown run with 4:07 left in the first half to make it 20-6. Another two-point conversion made it 22-6.

Wise was not done scoring on a 7-yard touchdown rush with 43 seconds left in the first half.

The Lions started that drive at their own 31-yard line.

Smith went for 51 yards on the second play of the drive.

Two plays later is when Wise scored to make it 28-6 at the break.

The Cardinals were forced to punt after their first drive of the second half and once again scored on the second.

Bridge City started with great field position after Colton Gereau picked up a fumble forced by Cardinals’ defensive back Cody Eldridge.

Lemoine found Cory Moseley on the fourth play of the drive for 15 yards bringing the Cardinals down to the Lions 9-yard line.

Lemoine did the rest of the work with all nine yards rushing, the final yard coming on a scoring scamper.

A Devin Bertrand PAT made it 28-13 with 4:19 left in the third.

The Cardinals did a nice job keeping the Lions off the scoreboard the rest of the way and picked up another score with 8:19 remaining in the game.

Lemoine and Robertson hooked up on a nice screen pass in which Lemoine got real close to being taken down for a sack.

Instead the junior signal caller found Robertson and Robertson did the rest to score from 53 yards out.

A failed two point conversion made it 28-20.

Luke Rhodes had three receptions for 19 yards for the Cardinals.

The Redbirds return to action this Friday when they play host to the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Battlin’ Bears.

Kountze 28

Bridge City 26

Ktze 8 20 0 0 — 28

BC0 6 7 13 — 20

Scoring summary

KOUNTZE — Jared Howard 1 run. Milton Williams run.

BC — Joe Robertson 6 run. Kick fail.

KOUNTZE — Devon Wise 36 run. Kick fail.

KOUNTZE — Wise 24 run. Williams run.

KOUNTZE — Wise 7 run. Pass fail.

BC — Josh Lemoine 1 run. Devin Bertrand kick.

BC — Robertson 53 pass from Lemoine. Pass fail.

BC — Jerry Landry 51 pass from Lemoine. Bertrand kick.

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BC Ktz

First downs 13 19

Rushes-yards 24-117 56-360

Passing 146 0

Comp-Att-Int 7-15-1 0-2-1

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-2

Penalties-Yards 9-78 6-60

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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING—Bridge City, Joe Robertson 11-80; Josh Lemoine 13-37. Kountze, Milton Williams 15-106; Jared Howard 24-95; Devin Wise 8-86; Domingo Smith 6-53’ Aubrey Walker 3-10.

PASSING— Bridge City, Lemoine 7-15-1-146. Kountze, Smith 0-2-1 0.

RECEIVING—Bridge City, Luke Rhodes 3-19; Cory Moseley 2-23; Jerry Landry 1-53; Robertson 1-51.

[BUNA95]

congrats

[Guest BCNatureBoy]

Have to eat my words on this game. Thought my Cards would take care of business. Congrats to Kountze on the win. Good luck to both teams next week. Can't wait to see the longtime OC rivals go at it next Friday.

[24 over par]

kountze better than i thought congrats

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[BCcardbacker]

I have a question on the 2 point conversion call for Bridge City.  Receiver catches the pass, both feet planted in the end zone, then is hit by defender from behind and tackled back toward the field.  Ref says no score.  When asked by the player, the ref says, your feet were in the end zone when you

caught the pass, but the ball did not cross the plane (sp) so therefore you do not make the two point conversion.  Is that the right call? 

[92]

I have a question on the 2 point conversion call for Bridge City.  Receiver catches the pass, both feet planted in the end zone, then is hit by defender from behind and tackled back toward the field.  Ref says no score.  When asked by the player, the ref says, your feet were in the end zone when you

caught the pass, but the ball did not cross the plane (sp) so therefore you do not make the two point conversion.  Is that the right call? 

if the ball doesn't cross the plain then it doesn't count...

but it sure as heck looked like he was across an everthing...

dont understand the ref's call on that, he caught it and then was hit back across the plain to the field... (the way im understanding what the ref said) so whatever, thats the past, cant change it now...

BC had many chances in the first half to score and didn't, cant blame the loss on this...

[BCcardbacker]

I have a question on the 2 point conversion call for Bridge City.  Receiver catches the pass, both feet planted in the end zone, then is hit by defender from behind and tackled back toward the field.  Ref says no score.  When asked by the player, the ref says, your feet were in the end zone when you

caught the pass, but the ball did not cross the plane (sp) so therefore you do not make the two point conversion.  Is that the right call? 

if the ball doesn't cross the plain then it doesn't count...

but it sure as heck looked like he was across an everthing...

dont understand the ref's call on that, he caught it and then was hit back across the plain to the field... (the way im understanding what the ref said) so whatever, thats the past, cant change it now...

BC had many chances in the first half to score and didn't, cant blame the loss on this...

No, not blaming the loss on this one call.  I just did not know the correct ruling on that play.  I thought as long as he caught the ball in the end zone and had possession before he was tackled that it would have been good. 

It was just a strange ruling and I wanted to get it right from someone who knows for sure that call.  Thanks!

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