Coaches often like to segment the football season into 3 different sections; non-district, district and playoffs. The Mansfield Wolverines began the district portion of their season last week after playing a difficult non-district schedule and coming out with a 2-3 record
The Logansport Tigers opened their second season back in District 3-1A; with a commanding 40-21 win over the visiting LaSalle Tigers. Once again Logansport uses a dominating second half to earn the win. For the game the Tigers ran 72 plays and limited LaSalle to 43. The Tigers gained 448 yards and the defense held LaSalle to 195 yards. With the win the tigers improved their record to 4 wins and 2 loses overall and 1 win and 0 loses in District play
The change at quarterback seems to be working for the Griffins. Last week North DeSoto traveled to Lee Hedges Stadium to play Huntington in the third district game of the year and produced a dominating 49-14 win over the Raiders, their second straight 40 plus point performance, behind the effective running of both Hall’s, Ward, and Rowlins and a physical offensive line
After three straight weeks on the road against 4 and 5A competition, Mansfield was ready to play a game at home for the first time since week 1. Enter the Richwood Rams from Monroe. Richwood came in with the same record as Mansfield (1-3) and a similar style as well, a ground a pound run right at you offense and aggressive defense
The Logansport Tigers claimed their third win of the season with a 40-0 shutout of Ringgold. The shutout was the first for Logansport since week 7 of the 2010 season against Sarepta. The game was the final tune-up for the Tigers before they begin District 3-1A competition this week at home against LaSalle
After being shutout against Benton, the Griffins made a change to their starting quarterback and moved Delmonte Hall from his running-back/receiver position under center. The result; the highest point total of the season for
the Griffins, 34 offensive points and a 41-21 win over defending district champions Northwood.
After giving up almost 350 yards of offense to Southwood the North DeSoto defense had a point to prove coming into the district 1-4A opener last Friday on the road against Benton. They were able to prove that point by flying to the football, securing tackles in the open field and holding Benton to 160 yards of total offense and only 50 on the ground
For the second straight week the Mansfield Wolverines suffered loses at Lee Hedges Stadium, first to Captain Shreve and last week to the number 3 ranked team in the state, the Byrd Yellow Jackets. The Wolverines knew going in that the challenge was real facing off against Byrd and they were able to start well taking the opening possession of the first quarter for a touchdown, a 1-yard run from Levonte Hall and after a successful 2-point play Mansfield was leading 8-0. The Wolverine defense held the Yellow Jackets to three plays and a punt but weren’t able to add to their lead and Byrd proceeded to score 42 unanswered points including a 28 point second quarter
The Logansport Tigers claimed their second consecutive victory of the season this past Friday night with a 21-12 win over the Red River Bulldogs. With the win the Tigers improved to 2-1 on the season. All of the point were scored in the first half as the defenses dominated the game in the second half
A week after celebrating a homecoming win over Mansfield, North DeSoto were in the Wolverines shoes as they were the homecoming opponent for 1-5A Southwood last Friday at Independence Stadium. After a few years of the Griffins winning this game rather handily the past two years games have been decided by 2 points last year and 4 points this year.
