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Whittington is the real deal and I am glad he's gonna be playing for my Linghorns but I think the refs had a big influence on this game. Cuero's lineman held on almost every play. PG will be a heavy favorite to win it all next year. Great season for both teams!

Cuero is averaging 50.5 points and 406.2 yards per game -- 251.7 rushing and 154.5 passing. Cuero senior Jordan Whittington has accounted for 1,417 yards of offense and 21 touchdowns. Cuero running backs Chance Albrecht and Kieran Grant have combined for 2,934 rushing yards and 55 touchdowns. The cumulative record of Cuero's opponents is 87-78 (.527). Cuero is allowing 16.7 points per game, has 19 sacks, and has forced 27 turnovers -- 17 interceptions and 10 fumbles. Pleasant Grove is averaging 38.9 points and 426 yards per game -- 294.3 rushing and 131.7 passing. Pleasant Grove quarterback Ben Harmon is averaging 22.5 yards per completion. Hawks running backs Bruce Garrett and James Wiggins have combined for 3,039 rushing yards and 27 touchdowns. The cumulative record of Pleasant Grove's opponents is 96-69 (.582). Pleasant Grove is allowing 19.3 points per game, has 29.5 sacks, and has forced 29 turnovers -- 17 interceptions and 12 fumbles

Just a bit of trivia... PG played 7 state ranked teams in the regular season and 3 state ranked teams in the playoffs. That a pretty impressive gauntlet.

Texarkana is NE Texas. Longview and Tyler are East Texas as in "the piney woods of East Texas". In my opinion, anything West of the DFW area is West Texas.

The nightmare is real... http://www.maxpreps.com/video/watch.aspx?videoid=87e768a1-d530-41e4-ae31-fb35c4fb950d

PG or Pittsburgh will kill Glen Rose ot Iowa Park. Both are too slow.

A Ninja Pirate!!!

PG wins 24-6.

PG by many points

What have both teams done in their scrimmages the past 2 weeks?

What was the outcome of PG's last 2 scrimmages?

Pleasant Grove outgained West Orange-Stark, 359-283 yards, and had a 50 percent, third down conversion rate, compared to just 18 percent for the Mustangs.

I'll say it again...Game over!!!

Game over. WOS HAS NO offense.

Boom baby!!!

I'm sorry...but real men don't use iPhones...just saying...

Hawks already winners By Bill Owney December 20, 2017 Four falls and half a summer ago, I had an epiphany. After interviews with Josh Gibson, the new coach of a team that won five games in two the two years prior, plus watching practices and talking with players, I sat down and wrote the season preview for the 2014 Pleasant Grove Hawks. Extra time and effort went into this because something had piqued my interest. Arriving home late, I explained to Beautiful Blonde Bride that I was dealing with something of consequence. “It will take a few years,” I told her, “but Josh Gibson is going to win a state championship at Pleasant Grove.” That I saw this coming does not mean I am smart; it just means I was paying attention. Prescience of this sort comes to us after we assume responsibility for managing processes and people. Enough years of burying oneself in the minutiae of things, and one begins to recognize patterns that lead to predictable results. Over the years, I’ve tried to analyze and explain a wide array of topics, including a lot of football. Mix in nearly two decades in the classroom and my theories about what makes for highly functional teams and effective teacher-leaders had begun to synthesize To be sure, the young coach’s energy, passion, and ambition were refreshing and delightful, but it was how he went about his business that virtually checked off all my boxes. If something – a business, a classroom, a sports team – is successful, it is because someone purposefully and consistently sets and enforces standards, and nurtures calculated risk-taking. In turn, a culture of mutual respect and accountability emerges. So it is with Josh Gibson and the Pleasant Grove Hawks, and it is not just on the football field. Not only have the players bought in; so, too, have the coaches, who are given the respect and freedom to reach for the top. In almost every sport, a winning culture allows youngsters to grow, to achieve and, as a result, to win. A question teachers hear in a job interview is, “What is your theory of education?” In the summer of 2014, I paraphrased that question and was immediately given a list of four core values that guide coach Gibson. Relationships: At some point during his or her first semester on the job, a teacher hears, “They won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” That’s where Gibson and his staff start work. “We’re going to develop relationships with these kids where we love them and they look at us as father figures,” he said. This is a time-intensive endeavor. I hear Gibson and his staff talk to their players about girlfriends, study habits, core moral beliefs, and the coaches listen to the kids. I studiously avoid eavesdropping private communications, but I see many a conversation between an animated youngster and a coach nodding his head and making eye contact. Discipline: This isn’t about putting a bunch of rules on the wall, though Hawk athletics has some clear, non-negotiable ones. Rather, this is about creating a highly structured environment, which kids – even adolescents – crave. Every practice is planned. Every contingency has guidelines. “I think we turn over every stone,” Gibson said. 3. Belief: Not hope, belief. “Belief comes when the kids put in a ton of work. We teach them that the more work they put in, the better the return on their investment.” Off-season conditioning, participating in non-curricular activities, such as 7-on-7 football in the summer, playing pick-up basketball and volleyball games all summer, playing select ball – all are de rigueur at Pleasant Grove if you want to get into the game. Champions are not born; they reach their goals one step at a time. “We focus on the growth of the individual,” Gibson said. “That’s why we’re here in education, is to help kids grow. Every time they take a step forward, we celebrate that growth and encourage them to take the next. That’s why we keep getting better and better each week of the playoffs.” These values reverberate throughout this special football team. Go read our stories on the various components, the linemen, the linebackers, the secondary, and the skill players, and you will hear the echoes of every one of these values. “No one outworks us,” is an oft-repeated quote. “Our trust in each other helps us get through adversity,” is another. Frankly, I have never seen such an unselfish group of youngsters. A season such as the one the 2017 Hawks are having is a gift to be treasured. In truth, no one can guarantee what will happen at Cowboy Stadium Friday afternoon, but I can assure you that when that bus crosses back into the city limits it will be filled with young men – future educators, doctors, lawyers, professionals of all stripes – who will be better husbands, fathers and citizens because of what they have learned the past four years. In that sense, we all win. Bill Owney A veteran journalist and educator, Bill Owney is a 1980 graduate of the University of Florida. Writing awards include APME honors for investigative reporting, the Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Award for public service reporting and numerous awards for editorial, column and news writing. He served as publisher of the Atlanta Citizens Journal and Pittsburg Gazette when each paper won sweepstakes awards from the Texas Press and North and East Texas Press Associations. He spent 15 years as a public school teacher and is an adjunct professor of English at Texarkana College.

I just want to know if any of you people have real jobs...posting on here all times of the day and night? And by the way...PG by 10 points!

There will never be a team like the 83 Tigers. Had a killer defense and offense. Never seen anything like it. I was laying 40 points through the playoffs and still won...

This reminds me of the USC vs TEXAS game a few years back. WOS is USC who in turn seems to be Bama or the Patriots. The team with the best athletes do not always win. WOS and PG will both know they have been in a battle afterwards. Just sit back and enjoy the game. Both teams are deserving and it's usually the adults that mess everything up. Insulting each other's fans does nothing to enhance the game whatsoever.

Can someone post the starting lineups for offence and defense for both teams? Positions...heights and weights.

No...You will be back to eat crow like all the past Super teams PG have beaten..Just better decide if you like it straight up or with your favorite dipping sauce. We have been dogs all year...A win streak has to start somewhere...Just like the losing streak that WOS is about to embark upon...

Name a team WOS has faced this year that has 300+ lb athletic linemen on both sides of the ball. That doesn't happen at the 4A level very often. Win or lose WOS will feel the pounding that the PG defense and offense lines put on them for days to come.