Photo: Tom Dendy
Darion Morgan powers his way into the end zone.
Well, that degenerated rather quickly.
In their first district game outside of the Cy-Fair ISD stadiums, the Cypress Woods Wildcats saw the wheels fall out from under them in a catastrophic third quarter as the Tomball Memorial Wildcats finished this game on a 34-0 run after Darion Morgan's touchdown run tied the game at 21 midway through the second quarter. As a result, the other Wildcats cruised to a 55-21 victory in the District 14-6A opener for both squads.
As this game progressed, there was this feeling of inevitability that steadily crept in. Cy Woods was able to keep up with Tomball Memorial for much of the first half on offense, but the defense got ravaged in the process. Once the offense stopped scoring, the floodgates opened and Tomball Memorial absolutely devoured Woods. Leaving what could have been 14 points on the table in the first half didn't exactly help, either!
I'm always Mr. Optimism when it comes to Cy Woods football... but this was a poor showing from this team. As horrid as it was in Tomball... it is only the first district game. By no means am I trying to justify anything. It was simply an awful game and every team is bound to have one of those nights. Nothing more, nothing less. 0-1 isn't the end of the world but it makes next week's game with Langham Creek even more crucial. If this team truly has legitimate playoff ambitions, they'd better top Langham. Every game is a must-win in district play... but some games have more significant ramifications than others and this upcoming game certainly has more significant ramifications for Cy Woods than some of the other games they'll be playing.
And finally... Scott Wiesmann got the last laugh. Scott's a longtime friend, so I'm legitimately happy for him. Obviously, I am not thrilled about the result, but I'm happy for him and Caroline. And only for them. Now that this game is over with, I can resume with wishing Scott and his team good luck for the rest of their season.
The Game, Described In an Image I Found on the Internet
When the points stopped coming, bad things started to happen. It really was only a matter of time because aside from a couple of instances, Cy Woods did not show that they could stop, much less slow down, Tomball Memorial's offense.
After Carson Danner overthrew a wide-open Connor Faulk on second down, Cy Woods went three-and-out. Danner had his punt downed at the one-yard line, but it didn't matter because Tomball Memorial opened the scoring on their first offensive play as Chandler Galban chucked it downfield to Logan Kyle, who ran 99 yards untouched. Later in the first, Galban found Jordan Grice for a 24-yard score. On Cy Woods' ensuing drive, Carson Danner outran everyone to the end zone from 61 yards out.
End of 1st Quarter: Tomball Memorial 14, Cy Woods 7
Christian Lovick opened the second quarter with a 58-yard touchdown run. Danner scored again from four yards and Darion Morgan tied the game with a six-yard touchdown run with a nice second effort. Gustavo Olmedo's extra point tied the game at 21. Unfortunately, that was Cy Woods' last scoring play of the evening as it was all TMHS afterwards.
Lovick struck again from 46 yards and shortly before halftime, Colbie Habermacher survived first contact (which occurred behind the line of scrimmage) and found a way to get into the end zone from three yards out.
Halftime: Tomball Memorial 35, Cy Woods 21
The collapse was complete in the third quarter as TMHS outscored Cy Woods 20-0. The defense aggravated Habermacher in the first half and he decided that he had enough. He opened the scoring in the second half with a 19-yard run and added a 28-yard run later in the frame. In between, Galban connected with Grice again for a 33-yard touchdown pass. There was no scoring in the fourth quarter.
Final: Tomball Memorial 55, Cy Woods 21
Ground
Carson Danner busted loose for a 61-yard scoring run in the first quarter and added another touchdown on a four-yard run in the second period. However, outside of those two scoring runs, Danner was held to 22 yards on his eight other rushing attempts. Darion Morgan also found the end zone for the second time this year. It looked as if they went away from the outside runs that worked extremely well against Spring. Christian Scott touched the ball twice on offense. Jake Tesch got three touches. Why did the A-backs get shut out of the offense in this game?
Jackson Jones is trying to get himself going again following an injury and he had a couple of really nice runs on busted plays.
Well, they gained 256 yards on the ground and got seven yards per carry, but the offense completely fell off the breakneck pace that Tomball Memorial was setting.
Stats from MaxPreps.
Carson Danner: 10 rush, 87 yards, 2 TD
Jackson Jones: 8 rush, 80 yards
Darion Morgan: 7 rush, 23 yards, TD
Trayse Holmes: 4 rush, 11 yards
Christian Scott: 2 rush, 20 yards
Jake Tesch: 2 rush, 5 yards
Tre Mejia: 1 rush, 21 yards
Konner Sabrsula: 1 rush, 9 yards
Air
Cy Woods tried to incorporate some more pass plays into the offense to no avail. Not the best showing from Danner as he threw a couple of balls behind receivers and couldn't complete the throws he had to make. His receivers were positioned to make plays... he just couldn't get the ball to them. On the second play of the game, Connor Faulk emerged from a collision with literally NO ONE within fifteen yards of him and Danner overthrew him by about four yards.
Jake Tesch had a really nice gain after making a one-handed catch on a slightly overthrown ball, and that was probably the only way that he was going to come up with that ball.
Carson Danner: 3-11, 109 yards
Jackson Jones: 0-2
Cameron Sowell: 1 catch, 43 yards
Jake Tesch: 1 catch, 34 yards
Connor Faulk: 1 catch, 32 yards
Defense
So Tomball Memorial recorded 616 yards of offense and scored 55 points. I don't think anything else needs to be said but I will continue anyway.
In what appears to be a running theme for the last four years, Cy Woods' defense couldn't get the opposing offense off the field on third down. I think TMHS failed to convert three, maybe four, third downs all night?
Seeing this team give up first downs in third-down situations time and time again is just tiring. What bothers me most is that it doesn't even matter whether it's 3rd and 1 or 3rd and 21, the other team somehow ends up with a first down.
Jakob Jones strip-sacked Chandler Galban and came up with the loose ball at Tomball Memorial's 11-yard line. UNFORTUNATELY... Cy Woods came away with zero points on their ensuing offensive possession. That's just aggravating. Really felt like they were playing for eight downs and then the points instead of just going for the points.
Cy Woods managed to get some pressure on Chandler Galban, so they did much better with regards to quarterback pressure compared to what they did during non-district play. It wasn't consistent, but they had a few of those moments, which was nice to see, and the results showed as Galban got a bit careless with the ball as the game went on. Mac Bird got a sack that forced a turnover on downs and Jones had the strip-sack and fumble recovery.
Sixteen Wildcats recorded at least one tackle; leading the way was Chase Richter, who had 16. Mac Bird had 14, ten of which were solo. Jakob Jones and Jackson Hosemann both finished with seven, and Reagan Simmons and Colton Morris had six each.
Oh, did I mention that they gave up 616 yards and 55 points?
Special Teams
Jackson Hosemann tried to flop to draw a flag after he fair caught a kickoff. It wasn't a very convincing effort, but at least he tried. He probably should've been slightly more dramatic about it and he was also probably lucky that he didn't get penalized for his, um... theatrics. Jake Tesch had a 30-yard kickoff return that resulted in Tomball Memorial reverting to pooch kicking for the rest of the evening.
Gustavo Olmedo hit all three of his extra points. He needs to get a few touchbacks on kickoffs, though.
Danner boomed a couple of punts, one of which was downed at the one-yard line.
Carson Danner: 3 punts, 143 yards (47.7 yards per punt), long of 60; one punt inside 20
Cole Gerletti: 1 punt, 9 yards
Gustavo Olmedo: 3-3 XP
Jake Tesch: 3 kicks returned, 65 yards
Chase Richter: 2 kicks returned, 25 yards
Christian Scott: 1 kick returned, 16 yards
Man of the Match
Pass.
Alright, fine. I guess it would have to be Chase Richter, who put up 16 tackles. Carson Danner also scored two of the three Cy Woods touchdowns, so he's basically here by default.
Ugh, let's just move on.
Looking Ahead
The Cats will kick off Week 4 in District 14-6A against the Langham Creek Lobos on Thursday, September 20, at Cy-Fair FCU Stadium. Kickoff is at 6:30; Cy Woods will be the home team in this contest.
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