Last night, the Friendswood Mustangs hosted the Santa Fe Indians at Henry Winston Stadium. Santa Fe came into the game 0-4(0-1) and Friendswood came in 4-0(1-0) after a record setting game against Galena Park with a scoreboard that more closely resembled a basketball game than a football game.
First off, some of the players deserving "atta boys" are Jordan Wood, Colin Faulk, Sam Longbotham, Jonah Vandersypen, Michael Hill, Michael Montalvo, Slade Holle, Ryan Bertlesman, Walker Williams, Garrett Wenzel, Anthony Makransky, and Sean White. I have no doubt that there are other players deserving of "atta boys", but I didn't see everything that everyone did. So, if you played last night, give yourself a pat on the back.
Each week, Friendswood gets better about penalties. Last night, I counted 8 penalties. And only 2 of those were against Friendswood. The entire team is improving. Our defense was able to swarm the ball carrier regularly. The pass coverage is also improving, though it's still not quite as good as it was about 4 years ago. Santa Fe didn't throw the ball much, which may be why I didn't notice Camarillo's pass coverage, but I did notice Makransky. He did well. Our defense is still playing too far off the receivers, then trying to race them once a receiver has the ball. This can work against a team on slugs. But anyone with speed will waltz right past us. One thing our defense did do well last night against the passing game was preventing the ball from getting to the receivers. More than once, passes were batted down and nearly intercepted.
Our offense was on fire again last night. So much so, that many of the back up players played the second half. In fact, I didn't see Jordan Wood set foot on the field during the entire second half. I saw immediately that Faulk was in at QB for the second half, but I thought Wood might work on is free safety skills; you know, just for fun.
I am very much looking forward to next week's game. Friendswood will travel to Texas City to take on the Stingarees.
Santa Fe 0 0 0 14 14
Friendswood 21 21 20 0 62
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