Author: Mark

On Saturday night at The Alamodome, the top two teams in the San Antonio area will play each other in the 2nd Round of the 2014 Texas High School football playoffs.  It will also be the first ever meeting between them.  If you don’t have any plans, come out and see a great game…you won’t…

On Friday, I was at Gustafson stadium for a first round Playoff match-up between the O’Connor Panthers and the Southwest Dragons, I have been a stat man for High School football games since 1997 and I have seen some crazy numbers, but never have I ever seen a team with 8 turnovers (5 of them…

On Saturday, I worked 2 first round playoff games…the first was the Reagan Rattlers and Smithson Valley Rangers at Farris stadium and the other one was the Stevens Falcons and the East Central Hornets at Gustafson stadium.   The winners of both games will play each other next week. Man, I couldn’t have been more…

On Saturday, I will be working Reagan vs Smithson Valley at Farris stadium AND East Central vs Stevens at Gustafson stadium.  Yeah, it will be a fun and busy double-header for me and I can’t wait. I always write BLOG’s after I work each game but since I have time, I decided to write a…

On Thursday, I was at Heroes stadium for the last Thursday Night Lights TV game of this season (well, actually, we got 1 more TV game and that will be the San Antonio Sports All-Star Football game on January 3rd at the Alamodome after the US Army All American Bowl).  Man, I can’t wait for…

On Thursday and Friday, I was at Gustafson stadium for 2 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT District 27-6A Zone A games.  Coming into Week 10, these were the standings in that particular zone: Brennan (8-0, 3-0), Stevens (6-2, 3-0), Taft (3-5, 1-2), Warren (3-5, 1-2), and Jay  (2-6, 0-4).  The Thursday game was Warren and Taft (which so…

Last year when these two teams played, it was MY GAME OF THE YEAR!!!   It featured 2 touchdowns, 3 field goals, 22 points, and by far the best finish I have seen.  Quite a contrast to my 2012 game of the year which had 5 players over 100 yards, 14 touchdowns, 45 first downs,…

On Thursday, I was at Gustafson stadium as the Marshall Rams played the Holmes Huskies.  Coming into the game, the Rams had 2 wins and Holmes was winless.  Now, if I could jump in my TIME MACHINE and go back about 20 or 25 years ago, this match-up would’ve easily been the MARQUEE game of…

My Thursday and Friday games had some incredible individual stats.  Antonio Lopez, the Brackenridge Eagle quarterback, was 16 of 27 passing for 299 yards with 1 touchdown and 1 interception.  Receiver, Lee Terrell, had 6 receptions for 174 yards.  Terrell is now number 1 and Lopez is still number 2 (about 300 yards behind Kyle…

On Wednesday night, I was glancing at the leading High School football stat leaders for passing yards, receiving yards, and rushing yards. The Brackenridge Eagles (who I saw play on Thursday night) have a quarterback/receiver combination who coming into the Thursday game were both 2nd in their respective categories.  The quarterback is Antonio Lopez and…

On Thursday night, I was at Alamo stadium as the Highlands Owls played the Sam Houston Hurricanes. Even though I got to see and photograph the Alamo stadium renovations basically from start to finish, this was my first time to see a football game there and I must say, it was pretty awesome!!!  I hope…

The Steele Knights and Clemens Buffaloes played at Lehnoff stadium on Friday night.  This game was big brother (Clemens) VS little brother (Steele)!!  They are also neighborhood rivals and are finally together in the same district (25-6A). My radio boss, Bobby, kept referring this game as “the battle of 3009″, but their has to be…

On Friday night, I was at Ranger stadium as the Smithson Valley Rangers hosted the Cibolo Steele Knights.  After several years of hoping and wishing for this match-up, we finally get it and it just happened to be the first 25-6A district game for both teams. Before I dive into the game and provide a…

On Thursday night, I was at Farris stadium as the O’Connor Panthers hosted the Jay Mustangs.  The Mustangs have a quarterback, Moses Reynolds, who is on my list of players to watch.  Last year as a sophomore, Reynolds had 1,416 yards passing and 796 rushing yards with 23 total touchdowns.  In 5 games this season,…

On Thursday night, I was at Boerne stadium as the Boerne Greyhounds hosted the Antonian Apaches. When the CW35 Thursday Night Lights schedule was released, I was very excited to see this particular game. Mainly because Antonian is a small private Catholic school (this was also the first time a TAPPS school has been on…

Last night, I was at Rutledge stadium as the Judson Rockets hosted the Brennan Bears.  For those of you who were in a bubble last year, the Bears only loss last season came in the state championship game!!! Brennan’s first year of football was 2010 and they went winless.  In 2011, they had 7 wins…

On Thursday, I was at Gustafson stadium as the Stevens Falcons hosted the Clemens Buffaloes. Gustafson is one of my favorite stadiums…primarily because when they renovated the press-box, they kept the same vantage point (close to the field).  The press-box at Rutledge, Farris, Comalander, and Heroes are so high up you can touch the clouds….

On Friday night, I was at Farris stadium as the Pflugerville Hendrickson Hawks played the Brandeis Broncos.  Throughout the game, it rained and we even had a 10 minute lightening delay in the 3rd quarter.  They didn’t even do a quick warm-up when play resumed.   You know it’s raining when you see the umbrellas…

On Thursday, I was at Farris stadium as the Smithson Valley Rangers played the Brennan Bears. When I saw this game on the TNL TV schedule, I was excited and couldn’t wait to see it first-hand because both teams are power-houses (1 old and 1 new)!!! The Rangers since 1997 have 191 wins and 36…

On Friday night, I was at DW Rutledge stadium as the Judson Rockets hosted the Brandeis Broncos. Last week, the Judson Rockets had 0 points, 30 plays for 40 yards, and 43 yards in penalties…in the first half.  Yeah, pretty bad!!!  In the 4th quarter, they scored 4 touchdowns and even a had a brief…