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Brazoswood blows out Clear Lake, 61-0
Published October 30, 2009
LEAGUE CITY — Playing on television for the first time ever, the Brazoswood Buccaneers exploded to a 61-0 shutout of Clear Lake on Thursday night in District 24-5A play at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
Is this what happens when the Bucs are on TV?
“I don’t know about that, but this is what happens when our kids are clicking,” a smiling Brazoswood head coach Dean DeAtley said. “I thought we played pretty well in all facets of the game. The score might not have been indicative of it, but I guarantee you that Clear Lake and Troy Aduddell’s teams are well coached and that is going to happen one out of 100 times.”
The Bucs (4-2 district, 6-3 overall) earned an important win in a district where no one has clinched a playoff spot yet. Brazoswood will host Galveston Ball in the regular season finale at Hopper Field next week.
It was Brazoswood’s fourth game at Veterans Memorial Stadium and the Bucs made themselves right at home on the second play from scrimmage.
Quarterback Chase Matzke tucked the ball into Marqualle Davis’ breadbasket, but at the last second took it out and scampered 54 yards for a touchdown.
“I didn’t know what to think, I was just gasping for air,” Matzke said. “I don’t’ think I’ve ever run that far in a football field in my life.”
The Bucs got the ball five more times in the first half and scored a touchdown on every possession.
Matzke was part of the second touchdown when he threw a 9-yard score to a wide-open Bradley Peters. After the two-point conversion by Davis, the Bucs were up 14-0.
Brazoswood scored on the first play of their third drive when junior Ricky Lunford bolted from 44 yards out. With 1:39 left in the first period, the Bucs led 21-0.
Senior Matt Buegeler took a short dump off from Matzke and turned it into a 49 yard score for a 27-0 lead.
After an interception from Julian King, the Bucs took over at the Clear Lake 21 and Kristian Blaylock scored from there.
On their final drive of the first half, the Bucs went on a nine-play, 59-yard drive and Peters scored his second touchdown of the first half after on a 17-yard pass from Matzke.
“Even since seventh grade, I don’t think I’ve ever been a part of a game that we did as well as we did,” Matzke said.
While the offense was scoring, the Buccaneer defense was more than stout in the first half. It held the wishbone attack by the Falcons to 48 total yards in the first 24 minutes.
The longest run from scrimmage by Clear Lake in the first half was an 11-yarder by the district’s fourth-leading rusher, Sean McCraney.
Brazoswood got sacks from Dartwan Bush and Clarence Green in that first half. Green also help setup the second touchdown for the Bucs when punter Edgar Gonzalez dropped the snap and Green was right there to make him pay.
“They were on the verge of playoff elimination and I think when things kept going well for us, we just kept getting stronger,” DeAtley said. “I think they might just have dropped down a notch.”
Davis, who didn’t get in on the scoring in the first half, took care of that with an exclamation point in the third period. The 5-foot-8, 160-pound junior scored on a 20-yard run and then added an electrifying 62-yarder as the Bucs reached a 55-0 lead.
Junior fullback Jacob Keith put the final candle on the cake with a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter.
Lunford ran for 155 yards and Davis had 120 yards on the ground.
Brazoswood scored on nine of its 10 drives. The Bucs ran the clock out on the final one.
The Falcons made two visits to the Brazoswood side of the field all night and totaled 102 offensive yards.
Joel Luna is the sports editor for The Facts. Contact him at 979-237-0160.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing: (BW) Ricky Lunford 14-155, TD; Marqualle Davis 9-120, 2 TDs; (CL) Sean McCraney 9-36.
Passing: (BW) Chase Matzke 4-5-0, 71 yards, 3 TDs; (CL) Adrian Chapa 2-4-1, 19 yards.
Receiving: BW) Matt Buegeler 1-49, TD; Bradley Peters 2-26, 2 TDs; (CL) Tyler Kubena 1-16.
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