Final per Riherd's.

Ouch! Sounds like the aerial circus was in full effect.

This game sets the Tigers up to score 630 points if they can keep that average up.....

Clay County looked very good tonight, they did really well the 2nd half..

 

At half time I think it was 26 to 29 Clay Co lead..But after the half Clay Cos Defense really stepped up and their offense just had a great game..

 

Nice game for alot of CC kids tonight, Lewis had a Great night, Collins, Dobbs, Marcum, Dunn, and Nolan also did very well tonight.

Lynn Camp had a few breakdowns that allowed it to turn ugly late, score wise. A tipped backfeild toss intercepted and almost walked into the endzone and a couple of big yardage plays for scores. We did wrap up the quarterback a handful of times, but just never seemed to be able to put him on the ground. The big pass play for us that would have given us the lead at the half came up 2 yards short. I think that Wagner went out of bounds with about 1 second left on the clock, but they ruled time ran out. Apples and Oranges. Clay played a fairly solid offensive game and scored on all but 2 or 3 possesions. Only a couple of turnovers on the night for both teams. Both teams are going to have to develop more solid defense as the season goes on or average about 55 points a game to win. Lynn Camp had some young inexperience show tonight, but had a lot of bright spots on offense. Congrats to Clay County, and to Roskoph for LC and Lewis for CC for being the Nat. Guard players of the game.

I thought Clay Co played very well on Defense the 2nd half...

 

Does anyone know how many yards Lewis threw for tonight?

Lynn Camp had a few breakdowns that allowed it to turn ugly late, score wise. A tipped backfeild toss intercepted and almost walked into the endzone and a couple of big yardage plays for scores. We did wrap up the quarterback a handful of times, but just never seemed to be able to put him on the ground. The big pass play for us that would have given us the lead at the half came up 2 yards short. I think that Wagner went out of bounds with about 1 second left on the clock, but they ruled time ran out. Apples and Oranges. Clay played a fairly solid offensive game and scored on all but 2 or 3 possesions. Only a couple of turnovers on the night for both teams. Both teams are going to have to develop more solid defense as the season goes on or average about 55 points a game to win. Lynn Camp had some young inexperience show tonight, but had a lot of bright spots on offense. Congrats to Clay County, and to Roskoph for LC and Lewis for CC for being the Nat. Guard players of the game.

 

Clay played a "fairly solid offensive game" and scored 63 points? Sounds like we're all in trouble. Or could it have been abysmal defense?

Lewis was the state passing leader last year and will probably be again. The Clay offense was not eye popping. It was not the juggernaut I expected. It was Very good. Could be better. A lot of points were scored late when we were finally wearing down. Numbers AND a very good quarter back/receiver set tandem got us bad. Not every pass went for 6, and the running game for Clay will have to develop some to compete with bigger schools. Any school that plays them that has a weak secondary at any point will be "in trouble". Our defense was not great, I'll admit, but it also was not totally impotent, or "abysmal". A lot of young kids. We forced a turnover to stop the opening drive of the 2nd half, stayed in reach until late. The game got totally out of reach in the 4th quarter. Clay did play better defense in the second half, but we also got down by 18 and got out of our game and were trying to play a game we were not comfortable with when trying to play catch up. If Clay was stuck just running the ball, which is not what they do best, our D may have looked better. But they threw it and we did not stop them. Clay handled what they had to, we didn't and they will be o.k. this season. Maybe everyone will just average in the mid-60's against us, maybe they won't. Still say the running game will have to get better for CC, but God help the team with a weak link in coverage.

O come on Clay County looked good tonight, just admit it! Clay figured out how to handle the RB the 2nd half and was able to stop it alot better.

 

Clay Co's Game is passing, but I thought they did pretty good at running it tonight.

Lewis was the state passing leader last year and will probably be again. The Clay offense was not eye popping. It was not the juggernaut I expected. It was Very good. Could be better. A lot of points were scored late when we were finally wearing down. Numbers AND a very good quarter back/receiver set tandem got us bad. Not every pass went for 6, and the running game for Clay will have to develop some to compete with bigger schools. Any school that plays them that has a weak secondary at any point will be "in trouble". Our defense was not great, I'll admit, but it also was not totally impotent, or "abysmal". A lot of young kids. We forced a turnover to stop the opening drive of the 2nd half, stayed in reach until late. The game got totally out of reach in the 4th quarter. Clay did play better defense in the second half, but we also got down by 18 and got out of our game and were trying to play a game we were not comfortable with when trying to play catch up. If Clay was stuck just running the ball, which is not what they do best, our D may have looked better. But they threw it and we did not stop them. Clay handled what they had to, we didn't and they will be o.k. this season. Maybe everyone will just average in the mid-60's against us, maybe they won't. Still say the running game will have to get better for CC, but God help the team with a weak link in coverage.

 

Would it have helped if Lynn Camp had more than Roskopf and a prayer? They aren't very imaginative on offense.

We do have more than Roskoph and a prayer. We didn't just line up and run for 3 yards and a cloud of dust. We scored 38 points and moved the ball. We even passed the ball. We threw short, we threw long. We caught short passes, we caught long passes. We ran the ball. We did stuff that football teams do on Offense. We just didn't stop CC from passing and catching and running some. O was not what got us tonight, D killed us. 38 points will win you a lot of games when you can stop the other guy cosistently.

We do have more than Roskoph and a prayer. We didn't just line up and run for 3 yards and a cloud of dust. We scored 38 points and moved the ball. We even passed the ball. We threw short, we threw long. We caught short passes, we caught long passes. We ran the ball. We did stuff that football teams do on Offense. We just didn't stop CC from passing and catching and running some. O was not what got us tonight, D killed us. 38 points will win you a lot of games when you can stop the other guy cosistently.

 

The Cats will be fine if they score like that the rest of the year. But their defense will have to improve.

It will and they will. A full season of football to correct it and not many teams have the offensive explosiveness of Clay left on our schedule. A lot of the mistakes were on young players in positions for the first time. Clay found the spots and took advantage. We had more than 1 great defensive stop undone by penalties. An interception came back early due to a penalty. Just takes time to develop and there is no learning curve against a team with an offense like Clay's. The kids will learn what they have to do and the problems will start to diminish. Coach Mitchell was quoted in the paper earlier this week as saying that he just didn't want Clay to set the state scoring record on us. They didn't, we'll live and learn.

It will and they will. A full season of football to correct it and not many teams have the offensive explosiveness of Clay left on our schedule. A lot of the mistakes were on young players in positions for the first time. Clay found the spots and took advantage. We had more than 1 great defensive stop undone by penalties. An interception came back early due to a penalty. Just takes time to develop and there is no learning curve against a team with an offense like Clay's. The kids will learn what they have to do and the problems will start to diminish. Coach Mitchell was quoted in the paper earlier this week as saying that he just didn't want Clay to set the state scoring record on us. They didn't, we'll live and learn.

 

:thumb: Gotcha, if I were Clay Co. I would be more worried about giving up 39 points to tiny Lynn Camp then I would be about Lynn Camp giving up 63 to Clay Co. Lynn Camp is not a bad team but they are far smaller than Clay--what will Clay's district/regional foes do to them.

Good Start for Clay County!! Stepp has really turned that program around. Hope Clay County has a great year!