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I think the coaching philosophy of the teams is similiar. Very balanced offense. Texas High Passing plays - 277 Rushing plays - 302 HP Passing plays - 301 Rushing plays - 401 I find it interesting that HP has run 123 more offensive plays than Texas High. Texas High has only punted 18 times or 1.6 x per game. I guess Texas High has faced more run oriented teams content on grinding down the time on the clock - Tyler John Tyler, Arkansas High, Atlanta, North Lamar, Mt. Pleasant, & Nacogdoches.

Individual Stats QB TH - Mallett - 173 - 274 - 29tds, 4 ints, 2814yds 63% Completion, 16.3 yd/comp HP - Webb - 143- 227 - 19 tds, 6 ints, 2367 yds, 63% Completion, 16.6 yd/comp HP - Ellerman 37-63 - 7 tds, 2 ints, 670 yds, 64% completion, 18.1 yd/comp RB TH - Smith - 194 - 1236 yds, 14 tds, 6.4 yd/carry TH - Johnson - 23 - 316 yds, 3 tds, 13.7 yd/carry HP - Carroll - 173 - 1413 yds, 23 tds, 8.2 yd/carry HP - Fanning - 74 - 558 yds, 10 tds, 7.5 yd/ carry HP - Webb - 68 - 376 yds, 8tds, 5.5 yd/ carry HP - Thatcher - 41 - 185 yds, 1 td, 4.5 yd/carry HP - O'Dwter - 20 - 123 yds, 2 tds, 6.2 yd/carry Receiving TH - Anderson - 61 - 1070 yds, 11 TD, 17.5 yds/ completion TH - Johnson - 31 - 672 yds, 9 TD, 21.7 yds/completion TH - Smith - 26 - 283 yds, 10.9 yds/completion TH - Glover - 24 - 424 yds, 4 tds, 17.7 yds/ completion TH - Strong - 14 - 175 yds, 2 tds, 12.5 yds/ completion HP - Bolin - 48 - 923 yds, 10 tds, 19.2 yds/ completion HP - Lawson - 30 477 yds, 2 tds, 15.9 yds/ completion HP - Gardner - 17 - 467 yds, 6 tds, 27.5 yds/ completion HP - Carroll - 23 - 335 yds, 1 tds, 14.6 yds/completion HP - Redwine - 24 - 280 yds, 0tds, 11.7 yds/completion HP - Harris - 15 - 205 yds, 5 tds, 13.7 yds/ completion

Mallett has been hit late more often than he has been hurried. Half the time the referees don't call the late hit, because his protection has been so good and the ref is admiring the pass and misses the call. Even is Ryan is hurried rarely does he get sacked due to his strength.

Highland Park stats per the DMN Offense Rush 2738 - 248.9 ypg Pass 3171 - 288.3 ypg Total 5909 - 537.2 ypg Defense Rush 1823 - 165.7 ypg Pass 1665 - 151.4 ypg Total 3488 - 317.1 ypg Pts 521 - 190 PG 47.4 -17.3 Massey Rating #2 (#14 overall) - Massey has Lamar Consolidated #1 in 4A Offense #1 (#3 overall) Defense #39 (#150 overall) Schedule #20 (#160 overall) Texas High - I will add when stats are published Massey Rating #3 (#17 overall) Offense #11 (#58 overall) Defense #6 (#22 overall) Schedule #7 (#132 overall)

Word is HP is boarding buses at 6am. I wonder if they will just use the same bus as the kids lease for the "Warehouse parties".

I guess Barry should have scheduled the game in Maud. That stadium host a semi-pro football team.

This is a game between 2 great programs. I have dealt with HP fans in tennis. I must say out of all the drumming we have endured, I have not had a bad experience. I know Norton has tremendous respect for HP and expects a great game.

If they are flying it must be on private planes. As of Friday there were only 57 seats left of airlines!!!!! A charter will not save them that much time.

This will be a very interesting matchup. I believe the HP offense will be extremely dangerous. The Texas High defense while they will probably bend, must stop drives before they become touchdowns. Give HP all the FGs they can make. HP by all accounts are not near the defensive team they were last year. So if the Tigers are patient and watch the ball into their hands and not worry about YAC, they should have plenty of success on the offensive side of the ball. Receivers just need to let Ryan's arm direct them to the endzone. The doses of Roland Smith should make the HP defense play honest. The travel for Highland Park will be a challenge. First they are travelling after Thanksgiving. Second the longest road trip for Highland Park was 26 miles to Forney. Shreveport is a 190 mile bus ride for the Scots (3 hours). The 80 miles Texas High is just another district game. Texas High only played 4 games in Texarkana and had road trips as follows: 1) Tyler - 125 miles 2) Cincinnati - 700+ miles 3) Greenville (Waxahachie) - 130 miles 4) North Lamar - 90 miles 5) Lindale - 125 miles 6) Paris - 90 miles The Texas High kids are used to the trip on Friday. They know the routine.

And more sports writers!!!!!

yes Quite frequent with teams playing in West Texas to play in New Mexico.

Nice article on the game in Sunday's paper as I suspected.

As you should be.

Best of luck in your remaining playoff games. Hope you make it to the Regional finals against North Lamar.

Congrats to Panthers. Good weekend for 11-4A

Started the day as a "benchwarmer" and is now on the "coaching staff". Good job.

Maud and James Bowie lost.

This weekend Arkansas High plays for the Class 6A state Championship of Arkansas. Texas High plays a tick of a team called Highland Park Liberty Eylau play Tyler Chapel Hill Pleasant Grove plays Canton. With Arkansas two playoff wins, Texarkana is guaranteed of a winning playoff record. Also congrats to Atlanta & DeKalb on their winning ways.

Congrats to the Hawks for making it a clean sweep for the Texarkana teams beating Spring High 43-21. That is why 3-7 teams are allowed to play 6-4 teams.

Congrats to the hawks

I bet you will see a nice article on Sunday on the game. The Gazette was spread thin with playoff games. I suspect with the sports editor out of town covering at game, the layout was set before everyone went out on their beats. Each person knew the column inches they had to fill. The betting money was on LE losing, so the column inches were the least. I the LE/Gilmer game was still going as the Texas High crowd was headed back to Texarkana. I am sure there were deadline constraints. I give them a break.

Congrats on the win. Best of luck in your future playoff games.

Interesting observation. While Texas High is #1 in the state, most of its fans know they can be beat. My gut has been nervous entering probably half the Texas High games this year, including Nac.

Noticed alot of WH fans cheering the Tigers:evil2:

Well it may be the game of the year in Texas, but Texas v Highland Park will be the game of the year in Louisiana!