Wise County Messenger from Decatur, Texas • Page 14

THE WEE COUNTY MESSENGER DECATUR, TEXAS PAGE October 31, 1974 Panthers blister Pirates Paradise added a crew of land-locked Pirates to its victims Friday as the Panthers mauled Perrin 70-0 in a District 7B south zone battle. The state-ranked Panthers are 3-0 for the season and 2-0 in league play, Perrin dropped to 1-2 in 7B tone action and 2-4-2 over-all. Friday at 8 p.m., the Panthers host Godley, 0-2 in district action following a 14-0 last minute loss to Chico, the other contender for the south title. Godley Is 1-6-1 for the year. Against Paradise the Pirates didn't stand a chance.

The Panthers led 29-0 after the first quarter and were ahead 42-0 at intermission. The Panthers scored their 70 points while ringing up 262 yards rushing and 168 yards passing. Perrin had 52 yards net rushing and put up eight passes. The Panthers Intercepted five of the Perrin aerials and prevented the others from being on target. Junior halfback Brett Gentry passed the mark by 57 steps Friday as he ground out 124 yards on 15 carries.

Gentry scored two touchdowns and made two extra points. David Horton also scored two touchdowns, tallied two extra points and shone on defense with three pass Interceptions. He punted only twice against the Pirates, but averaged 43.5 yards per boot. Scoring a touchdown each were Steve Hensley, Jimmy Gentry, David Stokes, Sam Cook, DavidCobb and quarterback Joel Dickinson, who completed 6 of 9 passes for 128 yards. Cobb scored his touchdown by recovering a teammate's fumble in the endzone.

Reserve quarterback Dike Read completed all three of his passes for 43 yards. Extra point specialist Dale Gayan scored on six of his and he also recovered two Pirate fumbles. Gary Gentry recovered a Perrin fumble and David Stokes picked off two Pirate passes, The Panthers made 24 first downs while allowing only four. (llatwified Sell lor You Bulls face the Indians Following a week's breather, the Bridgeport Bulls get lack Into the groove Friday as they travel to Nocona for an 8 p.m. encounter with the Indians.

Bridgeport owns a 4-3 season record and Is 2-1 In Dis- trict 10AA. The Bulls are tied for second place with Bowie and Jacksboro. Nocona now is 3-4-1 overall and 1-3 in district. The Indians lost an 18-15 squeaker to Northwest last week. TIGER IN TROUBLE Mean Green middle linebacker David Deaton (38) of Boyd reaches for Memphis State running back Jay Verna during North Texas State's 41-0 loss Saturday.

Deaton's performance was one of the few- bright spots in an otherwise dismal day for the Mean Green. (Messenger Photo by Ernest Richter) Memphis State paddles NTSU Memphis State won the coin toss and never cast a backward glance as the Tigers administered a terrible 41-0 beating to North Texas State Saturday at Denton, The only bright thing about the game was the outstanding performance of David Deaton at middle linebacker. A Boyd High School product, Deaton played like a winner, being credited with several tackles and assists. Memphis State, the most physical team we've seen this Texaco Service PHONE 627-5292 LOOP 287 DECATUR, TEX, Tune-Ups Wash Lube Minor Repair Open 24-Hrs Batteries Dragons escape Wildcat scheme Bill Woolaver Wayne East Wildcats set out a sure-fire trap for the Chico Dragons Friday, but at the last minute got clumsy and snared themselves In their errors. And Chico escaped with a 14-6 win in the District 7B smith zone encounter.

Godley, now 1-6-1 for the year and winless in two dls: trlct tries, tied the powerful Dragons for most of four quarters. But a fumbledGod- ley pitchout in the waning 1 moments of the game gave Chico the ball and the Dragons I wasted no time capitalizing I on the unexpected gift to spoil the fired-up Wildcats' homecoming. The win Is third COME IN- ASK ABOUT THE EXCLUSIVE FOUR YEAR WARRANTY 4 YEAR GUARANTEE 4 YEAR GUARANTEE PICTURE TUBE 4 YEAR GUARANTEE SHOP LABOR AU TOO PAY ti A NOMINAL CNAtGI TMI FIRST ft) OAYI, Because this is the Best Color TV on the market, Curtis Mathes backs it with the Best Guarantee in the World. Bharmacu PHONE 621-5931 CORNER OF HWY. 287 HWY DECATUR, TEX.

76234 Curtis Mathes 51 without a loss In zone and their seventh In eight starts for the year. Friday at 7:30 p.m., the Dragons travel to Lindsay for a nan-zone tilt. Last week Lindsay edged Saint Jo 22-21 to up Its season mark to 6-2, Against Godley, the Dragons opened the scoring In the second quarter on a 2 yard dash by Tim Hand. The extra points pass failed. The touchdown capped a 21-yard drive.

Godley came back before intermission to tie Chico 6-P as Bobby Hamm scored on a 47-yard run. The play followed a Chico fumble. Chico salvaged the win In the final period as Rusty Hand recovered a fumbled Godley pitchout. TonyChesnut scored for the Dragons on a 2 yard scamper and Keith Blanks ran in the extra points. A sophomore, Blanks passed a milestone Friday as his 96 yards in 19 carries pushed him over the 1,000 yard mark for the season.

Statistically, the Dragons maintained a slight edge, gaining 242 net yards while yielding 237. The Dragons tallied 13 first downs to the Wildcats' 8. Outstanding for the Dragons defensively were Jerry Fitzgerald, Mitchell Terrell and Alvin Boner. In other Dragon action, the Junior high grldders were shut out by Perrin 14-0. The Team's clash with Paradise was cancelled by rain.

The junior varsity will see its last action Thursday at 7 p.m. as it hosts Bridgeport, News briefs Mr, and Mrs. Terry Taldo of Nacogdoches visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Nowell, over the weekend.

Weekend guests of Mrs, Bonnie McCrary were her grandchildren, Debbie and Donald McCrary of Boyd. year, ran the opening klckoff back 57 yards to the NTSU 25 and in seven plays had 6 points on the scoreboard to begin the fatal rout. With 1:12 remaining on the second period clock, MSU took the ball at the NTSU 32 on a partially blocked punt. In four plays the Tigers scored on an 8 yard pass, then ran across the PAT to carry a 14-0 halftime lead. The Tigers made 67 yards in seven plays and a TD with the conversion for a 21-0 third quarter advantage.

And to start the final period, MSU advanced 60 yards in seven plays to score from 30 yards out. The obviously snake-bitten Mean Green got off a 53 yard punt to the Memphis State 3 yard line, only to see the Tigers' Keith Wright run It into the endzone, then back out and down the field for 100 yards and a touchdown. Following Memphis State's interception of a Ken Washington pass at the Tiger 46, MSU used 13 plays before collecting its 40th and 41st points. North Texas Head Coach Hayden Fry will be hard pressed to get Ms Mean Green back In physical and mental condition to meet San Diego State Saturday at 2 p.m. in Fouts Field.

The Mean Green are 1-5-1 and have four hard games remaining. ERNEST RICHTER Church of Christ 300 N. Trinity Decatur, Texas FRANK BRISCOE. Preacher ONE LORD UNITY OF AUTHORITY Accepting Jesus Christ as Lord offers unity to all His disciples. His absolute and complete authority must be accepted, respected and obeyed! Before leaving for Heaven our Lord declared, "All power (authority) is given unto me in Heaven and on earth," Watt.

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