3 December, 2010 / High School Sports
By J.J. Smith. The 2010-11 basketball season has begun for Rockwall County’s three area public high schools with a variety of wins and losses. Girls teams started earlier and have played more games than boys, thus far.
ROCKWALL:
The Rockwall boys (1-2) opened their season last week with two losses to Terrell (Tuesday night), 59-56, and to Tyler Robert E. Lee (Friday night), 51-33.
They won their first game last night, defeating Royse City, 55-41. Blake Sandlin scored 17 points and Wesley Davis had 14.
They will play in the Royse City TNT tournament Dec. 2-4, and have 11 more games following in 2010 before beginning District 10-4A play vs. Heath, Jan. 4.
The Yellowjackets girls (5-3) opened their season with two victories, squeaking by Plano West Nov. 8, 60-56, and beating Round Rock Stony Point, 42-32, Nov. 11, at the Belton High School Dr. Pepper Chisholm Trail Classic Tournament.
They lost their next two tournament games to Houston Westbury and Harker Heights, 61-40 and 45-42, respectively, followed by a win over Temple, Nov. 13, 60-44.
Last week the Lady Jackets defeated Garland, 44-33, and lost to Mesquite Poteet, 62-52.
Last night they defeated Royse City there, 52-31, behind Alyssa Lang’s 23 points and 16 rebounds. Hannah Hughes added 18 points.
They resume play Nov. 29 at home vs. Carrollton Creekview, and will open District 10-4A play Dec. 10 at Highland Park.
The girls have 18 more games in December.
ROCKWALL-HEATH:
The Hawks boys team (2-1) opened the season last week with a victory at home Tuesday over Carrollton Newman-Smith, 58-32, and a close loss Friday night to Royse City there, 55-52.
Last night they clobbered Forney there, 50-35.
Next game is Nov. 30 at Lake Highlands, followed by the Royse City TNT Tournament, Dec. 2-4.
After 12 more pre-season games, they begin District 10-4A play at home vs. Heath, Jan. 4.
The Lady Hawks (1-6) began the season with three straight losses at West Mesquite, 64-51, at Mesquite Poteet, 59-29, and Denton Ryan, 60-34, at the Allen Lady Hoopfest.
They won their first game of the season at Allen Nov. 18 over San Antonio Alamo Heights, 47-33, but lost two more tourney games to The Colony, 57-31, and to Ennis, 39-35.
Richardson beat the Lady Hawks last night, 44-34, at Heath. April Brown and Aly Coughlin led Heath with eight points apiece.
They next play at the Royse City TNT Tournament, Dec. 2-4, and open District 10-4A play at home Dec. 10 vs. Richardson Pearce.
Tags: Lady Hawks, Rockwall Basketball, Rockwall Heath, Rockwall Yellowjackets
23 November, 2010 / High School Sports
By J.J. Smith.
Friday night playoff football game scores:
Carrollton Newman-Smith 28
Rockwall 14
Whitehouse 48
Royse City 7
FRISCO -In a hard-fought, see-saw, Bi-District playoff battle, Carrollton’s Newman-Smith managed to slow down the normally high-powered Rockwall offense and escaped with a 28-14 win Friday night at Pizza Hut Park.
It was the Trojans first playoff victory in 26 years.
With 5:45 left in the game and trailing just 21-14, Rockwall had momentum while facing a 4th-and-4 at the Newman Smith 11-yard line.
But the Trojans’ defense forced Yellowjacket quarterback Alan Reed to hurry his pass and throw it incomplete, turning the ball over on downs.
Newman Smith then marched 89 yards in 10 plays to score its final TD, taking 4:06 off the clock, capped by an 8-yard scoring run by Braxton Bearden with 1:39 remaining.
Rockwall’s final attempt to score was unsuccesful Reed was intercepted by Trojans defensive back Jerric Porter with less than a minute left to go.
Reed finished his last game completing 24-36 passes for 232 yards and one TD to Blake Turner, who seven passes for 87 yards. Spencer Edwards caught eight for 63 yards, Wes Davis grabbed six for 57 yards and senior Reed Loftis snarred three for 25 yards.
Baylor Black led rushing with 14 carries for 39 yards.
Rockwall ended the season with a 6-5 record.
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11 November, 2010 / High School Sports
J.J. Smith.
By defeating Richardson Pearce last Friday night, 42-35, the Rockwall Yellowjackets football team qualified for Bi-District playoff action this Friday night at 7:30 pm against former District 10-4A foe Carrollton Newman-Smith at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco.
The 6-4 Yellowjackets finished in second place in District 10-4A with a 5-2 record, behind undefeated Highland Park.
The N-S Trojans completed their regular season at 5-5 and 4-3, good for fourth place in District 9-4A.
Advance tickets of $8 for adults and $5 for students are on sale through 4 pm Thursday at Rockwall High School, Williams and Utley middle schools and the RISD Athletic Office. All tickets sold at Pizza Hut Park will be $10 per person.
Parking at the stadium will be free for this event. Rockwall parking will be in the Blue Lots east of the stadium (the visitors’ side) and in the Red Lots west of the stadium (home side). Rockwall fans will sit on the visitors’ side.
Tags: Bi-District Playoff, Carrollton Newman-Smith, Richardson Pearce, Rockwall Yellowjackets
5 October, 2010 / High School Sports
Dallas Morning News. HIGHLAND PARK – Highland Park receiver Dalton Stagner had five catches for 188 yards and three touchdowns as the Scots escaped with a 37-30 victory over Rockwall on Friday at Highlander Stadium.
All three of Stagner’s touchdowns came in the first half, when Highland Park jumped out to a 30-16 lead. He scored on receptions of 52, 72 and 39 yards to finish the half with 179 receiving yards.
Rockwall’s defense stiffened in the second half, holding Highland Park to 84 yards and one touchdown, a 12-yard run by quarterback Jake Howeth. That score gave HP a seemingly safe 37-16 lead early in the fourth quarter, but Rockwall kept battling
Tags: Dalton Stagner, HIghland Park, Jake Howeth, Rockwall Yellowjackets
5 October, 2010 / High School Sports
Rockwall-Heath lost for the first time this season when McKinney’s Robert Somborn threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Devante Harrison with 22 seconds to play.
The Lions led 27-17 after three quarters, but RHHS came back to take a 31-27 lead as Jovan Hernandez ran 5 yards for a touchdown and Dorian Lawry followed with a 60-yard TD run.
Hernandez led the Hawks with 117 yards in 25 carries. McKinney gained just 38 rushing yards, but capitalized on big plays by Travis Tarver: a 58-yard scoring pass from Somborn and an 88-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Hawks quarterback Ross Hudson did not play. In his place, Cody Court threw a 65-yard touchdown pass to Amaris Fields and Hunter Hopkins ran 6 yards to score.
Both teams are 1-1 in District 10-4A, even though Rockwall-Heath is 4-1 overall and McKinney 2-3.
28 September, 2010 / High School Sports
ROCKWALL – Jovan Hernandez rushed for 184 yards and three scores, and Ross Hudson passed for three touchdowns to lead undefeated Rockwall-Heath over Richardson Pearce in the District 10-4A opener for both schools at Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium.
Hernandez scored on runs of 6, 1 and 1 yards for Heath (4-0, 1-0).
Hudson, who finished 12-for-16 for 161 yards with no interceptions, connected with Amaris Fields twice and Tyler McLoughlin once for scores.
Jonathan Cosby returned a kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown for Pearce (1-3, 0-1), which scored all of its points in the second quarter.
28 September, 2010 / High School Sports
Dalton Stagner scores three times as Highland Park beats Rockwall, 37-30
Dallas Morning News. HIGHLAND PARK – Highland Park receiver Dalton Stagner had five catches for 188 yards and three touchdowns as the Scots escaped with a 37-30 victory over Rockwall on Friday at Highlander Stadium.
All three of Stagner’s touchdowns came in the first half, when Highland Park jumped out to a 30-16 lead. He scored on receptions of 52, 72 and 39 yards to finish the half with 179 receiving yards.
Rockwall’s defense stiffened in the second half, holding Highland Park to 84 yards and one touchdown, a 12-yard run by quarterback Jake Howeth. That score gave HP a seemingly safe 37-16 lead early in the fourth quarter, but Rockwall kept battling.
15 September, 2010 / High School Sports
By J.J. Smith. Yellow Jacket junior quarterback Alan Reed completed two 21-yard touchdown passes early in the third quarter to sophomore running back Spencer Edwards and senior tight end Reed Loftis to break open a close game and Rockwall (1-2) earned its first win of the season last night, 41-29, over the Royse City Bulldogs (0-3) in a non-district game at Rockwall’s Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium.
Royse City is now in District 13-4A, after the recent UIL re-alignment.
Reed again led the Yellow Jackets to victory, completing 13 or 16 passes for 167 yards and rushing 16 for 57 yards.
In a game that Rockwall was favored to win, Royse City actually led at halftime, 15-14, behind the running of senior Jonathan Burns, who scored from the one and nine yard lines. Sean Pollock also kicked a 20-yard field goal in the first quarter.
Senior Josh Broach ran 48 yards and Darian Moseley 21 yards for Rockwall’s TDs. Broach surprisingly only ran five times during the night for 60 total yards. Moseley did most of the work, rushing 17 times for 85 yards.
But in the second half, Reed’s two TD passes put the Yellow Jackets ahead to stay, 27-15. Kicker Ted Gates nailed his second of three PATs, as well.
In the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs came back strong, scoring twice to make a game of it. Junior quarterback Taylor Corbin connected on TD strikes of 33 yards to junior Oscar Crosby and 25 yards to junior Torrell McQueen.
Corbin completed 20 of 26 passes for 292 yards in another strong showing, plus rushed 21 times for 65 yards. McQueen caught six passes for 69 yards and Crosby five for 82 yards on the night. Senior Elijah Moody also caught five for 72 yards. Receiver Kris Smith did not play.
But Rockwall also scored twice in the final period, highlighted by Spencer Edwards’s 45-yard run. Edwards totaled 79 yards rushing on four carries and caught seven passes for 76 yards. Reed Loftis also caught five for 79 yards.
Statistically, the teams finished almost even. Both teams had 21 first downs. Rockwall outgained the Bulldogs 463-415 total yards. The Yellow Jackets relied more on their ground game, rushing for 296 yards, whereas the Bulldogs relied more on the air, with 292 passing yards.
There were no turnovers and only a few short yardage penalties. Royse City punted three times and the Yellow Jackets twice.
Rockwall will now take a week off to prepare for its first district game Sept. 24 against mighty Highland Park, which squeaked by Sherman, 43-42, last night in Sherman.
Royse City will take on Frisco Liberty in its annual Homecoming game Sept. 17 at 7:30 pm at Bulldog Stadium.
15 September, 2010 / High School Sports
GARLAND – Two interception returns were the difference as Rockwall-Heath held off Garland Lakeview at Homer B. Johnson Stadium.
Parker Wood’s 75-yard return with 2:17 left secured the win for Rockwall-Heath, SportsDay’s sixth-ranked Class 4A area team. Lakeview started the drive at Heath’s 43-yard line and drove to the 30, but 25-yard loss after a poor snap put Lakeview in a hole, leading to a desperation pass.
With 1:40 left in the second quarter, Heath had taken a 14-3 lead after a Jeffrey Irokwe’s 27-yard touchdown run, but Lakeview tried to answer. However, Mario Henderson returned an interception 32 yards to give Rockwall-Heath a 21-3 lead.
8 September, 2010 / High School Sports
GARLAND – Treyvon Green rushed for 125 yards and scored three touchdowns to lead Rowlett to a 38-14 victory over Rockwall Friday night in nondistrict action at Homer B. Johnson Stadium.
Alan Reeds deceptive fake hand-off allowed him to trot 14 yards untouched into the end zone with 3:43 left in the third quarter, pulling Rockwall (0-2) to within 24-17, but Rowlett took over the contest after that.
Green’s 6-yard run early in the fourth quarter gave Rowlett (2-0) a commanding 31-14 lead and it never looked back. Grant Bothun completed 9-of-10 passes for 126 yards.
For Rockwall, who entered the day 14th in SportsDay’s area 4A rankings, Reed completed 13-of-19 passes for 146 yards, while also gaining 103 yards and one touchdown rushing.
Rockwall actually outgained Rowlett by 78 total yards, but three turnovers (two fumbles and one interception) proved costly.
After Rockwall pulled to within 10-7 on Josh Broach’s 9-yard touchdown run with 1:50 left in the second quarter, Rowlett responded quickly, restoring a 10-point lead just 38 seconds later on Green’s 35-yard score.
Alex Barriento’s 60-yard interception return 5:30 into the third quarter pushed Rowlett’s lead to 17.
Tags: Rockwall Yellowjackets, Rowlett
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