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New head coaches on both sides of the ball.
Who wins?
This homer goes with Abilene, 21-14
Who wins?
This homer goes with Abilene, 21-14
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15Abilene Wins73.33%11Colleyville H Wins26.67%4The poll is expired.
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Booster Club has tailgate before the game, stop by and ask for Dean. He is the Booster Club President. He knows of the board and the chhspantherfanComment
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Go Panthers!Super BComment
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Abilene is going to be very good, we are very young. I like our chances.Comment
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Good opening game between two good schools. Both have new coaches, but Abilene's staff stay intact and that's why I will go with Abilene in week one.Comment
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Should be good 1st game for both coaches. Abilene has some question marks at D line but hopefully can plug some kids in. Also, talented Jr. QB but unproven at varsity level other than Cove scrimmage. Should be very good at RB and offensive line is biggest we've had in several years....we'll see how well they can move and block.Comment
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I think we will be just fine..............I see a slow start with the game close at half but Abilene pulls away in the 4th.................38-10 AbileneComment
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The great thing about this game is the unknowns as mention above. Should be a great atmosphere, should give the fans their moneys worth. CHS has home advantage, AHS has a coaching staff that
has worked together for many years that their advantage. First game of the season, a lot of unknowns for both teams. My opinion which team can stay composed the best wins, so my nod is to AHSComment
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Well said.............composer will be a factor when the lights come on! I fully expect our QB to freak out a little in the 1st quarter then settle down. By freak out I mean he will tuck and run quickly which is not a terrible thing. But I think he will get better and more comfortable as the game progresses. He grew alot against a fast Cove defense. Surprisingly and quietly it was mentioned at booster club that he was like 5 of 6 passes for 65yards. He did protect the ball all day which is important!Comment
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I missed that stat but noted Coach Cox saying we anticipate heavily relying on the two great RB's we have and our BIG (for our area) offensive line. Now seeing that stat as you mentioned, sounds like to me the running game really opens up the passing, which we all know is common.Comment
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Shameless copy pasteOriginally posted by mike03carComment
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GAMEDAY !!!
GATA Panthers !!
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Congrats to the Abilene Eagles for a well deserved victory. You were too much for our young pups. We will be much better next week and although it hurts, you can look at three big events in the game that made the difference. One, the incredible gaffe in not getting points at the end of the half. Strategically use our timeouts on defense, get the ball back with a minute+ and get it first and goal with a minute to go. Run the ball 4 times and get nothing. I'm so stunned that I don't even know how I feel about it. On second down, we have the matchup, on the topside for the QB, and don't take it??? Why do they have headsets? Rhetorical of course. Several illegal formation penalties caused severe consternation. But not getting points there was critical. We have one of the best kickers in the state and don't take the 3? Don't understand. However, Willis had several great halftime adjustments and we tied it up 21-21. Should have been 24-21, but I won't mention it again. The Panther defense, undermanned against the mammoth Abilene line finally got it going in the second half. Stopped Abrams (btw, he is awesome) and got the ball to midfield tied 21-21 with the momentum. Ran the bubble screen and QB wiffed the pass, resulting in a fumble and Abilene recovery. Downhill for our Panthers from there. Great job Abilene. Y'all are formidable. More thoughts later.Comment
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I wrote the following on the original forum while waiting my mother's recovery in post - op from her surgery. Please remember that no human being is omnipresent
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AHS JV Black 44. CHHS JV A 9
Our JV Black team OL, QB, and pair of receivers looked very good. Special teams ran back 2d half kick for TD. Defense was good and typical swarming, turnover causing, hard nose ballers. But it also looked like to me that CHHS JV A missed quite a few blocks, dropped several passes, and qb not real accurate. In other words, looked like me
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Good game to Heritage. Good luck the rest of the season. Opponents better be ready. I see them being pretty good in district play.Comment
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Cox, AHS Eagles pass first test against Heritage
Sam Waller 12:14 AM, Aug 29, 2015
local high school football | abilene high | sports | gofridaynight
http://www.reporternews.com/sports/gofridaynight/cox-ahs-eagles-pass-first-test-against-heritage_60731981
GRAPEVINE — All in all, things went about as well as the Abilene High Eagles could have hoped Friday in their season opener against Colleyville Heritage.
With a new head coach, a new quarterback, an almost entirely new cast of receivers and a running back with a surgically repaired knee, the Eagles had plenty of questions to answer.
Among the answers from the Eagles' 35-25 victory at Mustang-Panther Stadium:
n Coach Del Van Cox and staff came up with a game plan that helped AHS jump out to a big early lead, then provided the motivation to regain control after Heritage rallied to tie;
n Quarterback Peyton Killam completed 77.8 percent of his passes (14 of 18) for 142 yards and a touchdown;
n Wide receivers Qua'Shawn Washington (7-82, 1 TD) and Raekwon Millsap (4-30) gave Killam reliable targets, and;
n Running back Abram Smith, rebuilt knee and all, picked up pretty much where he left off with 177 yards and three touchdowns.
"When you go into somebody's back yard, you've got to overcome a lot of things," Cox said. "Our kids did great today. They jumped and got on top, then kind of relaxed and let them back in it.
"(Heritage) fought hard. They played great in the middle quarters and it was a fight to the end, but our defense played great. Our coaches had a great defensive plan. And in the end, our offense kicked in and did a great job."
Washington, who provided the final exclamation point with an interception that allowed AHS to run out the clock in the fourth quarter, said the Eagles wanted to prove there has been no dropoff in a program that has reached the playoffs 14 times in 15 years.
"We knew we had to come out strong," he said. "We ended up finishing the game. We got up early and they came back on us. We had to close the door."
Abilene High jumped out to a 21-0 lead just 14 minutes into the contest as Smith sandwiched touchdown runs of 6 and 48 yards around Washington's 27-yard scoring reception from Killam. The Eagles opened the game with a pair of 10-play drives, then needed just two plays to get Smith's second TD.
"I was a little hesitant, but I came out with the boys and the boys put their confidence in me, their belief in me," said Smith, who carried 23 times in his first outing since being injured against Odessa Permian last season. "I just had to show that they didn't put it in the wrong person.
"(The strong start) gets everybody going. It gets the defense going. If we get that going, the offense can't be stopped. It's just about execution."
Herritage, playing its first game under new coach Joe Willis, struggled Early on. The Panthers had just 11 total yards and one first down on their first three possessions before the offense started clicking behind quarterback Cam Roane and wide receiver Ke'Von Ahmad.
Roane, who finished 11 of 22 passing for 255 yards and two TDs, connected with Ahmad for a 52-yard score with 3:57 left in the half and Heritage pulled even in the third quarter. Ahmad, who had three receptions for 126 yards and rushed for 18 yards, had a 4-yard TD run and pulled in a 26-yard TD reception to knot the score at 21.
The Abilene High defense, while victimized by big plays in the passing game, came up with the plays it needed to make when it counted. Coy McMillon recovered a fumble late in the first half after Heritage drove to the Eagle 3-yard line.
Washington gave one reason for the Eagles' ability to stop the bleeding.
"A good speech by Coach Cox," he said. "It's his first year, but he has some good leadership skills. He gave us a pump-up speech and we all knew what we had to do."
After Ahmad's third score, AHS regained the lead on a 16-yard run by Immanuel Brown, who had 63 yards on 15 carries, with 9:35 left in the game. The Eagle defense came through with a Noah Gonzalez fumble recovery, a fourth-down stop and Washington's pick on the Panthers' final three possessions.
Gonzalez's takeaway resulted in Smith Scoring from a yard out with 4:54 to go, then AHS stopped Heritage on downs at the Eagle 28 as the secondary stepped up with four pass breakups.
"Our coaches prepared us for that moment exactly," safety Ray Velasquez said. "We knew exactly what we were doing and came out there and executed it perfectly."
Cox said while it was a successful start, there's still plenty of work to be done over the next nine games.
"We've got a lot of things to work on, no doubt about that," he said. "We've got to get better. This team, if they fix the little things, they can do some things later on. But we've got to get better. If we continue to get better, we'll be all right."
NONDISTRICT
ABILLENE HIGH 335, COLLEYVILLE HERITAGE 21
Abilene High 7 14 0 14 — 35
Heritage 0 7 14 0 — 0
FIRST QUARTER
AHS — Abram Smith 6 run (Oscar Hernandez kick), 7:21
SECOND QUARTER
AHS — Qua'Shawn Washington 27 pass from Peyton Killam (Hernandez kick), 11:53
AHS — Smith 48 run (Hernandez kick), 10:00
HER — Ke'Von Ahmad 52 pass from Cam Roane (Max Allan kick), 3:57
THIRD QUARTER
HER — Ahmad 4 run (Allan kick), 10:36
HER — Ahmad 26 pass from Roane (Allan
kick), 3:38
FOURTH QUARTER
AHS — Immanuel Brown 16 run (Hernandez kick), 9:35 AHS — Smith 1 run (Hernandez kick), 4:54
AHS Her
First downs 23 13
Rushes-Yards 47-251 28-53
Passing 142 255
Comp-Att-Int 14-18-0 11-22-1
Punts 4-32.3 3-39.0
Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-2
Penalties-Yards 12-109 5-40
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — Abilene High, Abram Smith 23-177, Immanuel Brown 15-63, Peyton Killam 5-25, Team 4-(minus 14). Colleyville Heritage, Mario Ortiz 4-23, Ke'Von Ahmad 3-18, Jamarie Williams 8-11, Isaiah Diggs 3-7, Cam Roane 10-(minus 6).
PASSING — Abilene High, Peyton Killam 14-18-0—142. Colleyville Heritage, Cam Roane 11-22-1—255.
RECEIVING — Abilene High, Qua'Shawn Washington 7-82, Raekwon Millsap 4-30, David Russell 2-29, Coy McMillon 1-1. Colleyville Heritage, Ke'Von Ahmad 3-126, Tommy Hall 2-24, Gervon Thorthion 2-20, Reid Harrison-Ducros 1-55, Martio Ortiz 1-21, Connor Cole 1-9.
RECORDS — Abilene High 1-0; Colleyville Heritage 0-1.Comment
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