Success on turf this season

At Husky Stadium in St. Cloud on October 5.

The Jaguars football team has had two successful games on artificial turf this year. Both were hard-fought games, a 22-7 win at Rockford Area on September 27 and then a 20-19 overtime win over Maple Lake at SCSU's Husky Stadium on October 5.

We get a chance at a third win on turf this fall when the Jaguars face LP/HT on Friday in Sauk Centre.

I am going to be a little more emphatic than I was last week: please, please start making plans to get to Sauk Centre next Friday night. The Jaguars absolutely need a thousand or more B-B-E fans making the trip. There is no reason we can't do it!!! Make no mistake about it, LP/HT will be the toughest team the Jaguars have seen since going to Holdingford in Week 3. I don't know how an LP/HT vs. Holdingford game would turn out, but it is safe to assume at this point that the Jaguars will have their hands full considering what the Bulldogs bring to the table. They definitely need your support. Start talking today to your friends and neighbors and anyone else you know to get up to Sauk Centre next Friday. Even if you have friends who have never been to a high school game or haven't been to a game in a long while, our guys need their support!!

Kickoff is at 7:00pm. I'd plan to be there before 6:30pm to get a good seat. I'll be posting important information on O'Gara Field and their new football stadium over the next few days.

Back to last night...the Jaguars scored their last go-ahead touchdown with 39 seconds left in the third quarter. The good PAT kick made it 26-22 with over 12 minutes to go in the game.

With just 21 seconds left in the 2nd quarter, the Jaguars scored to move in front 19-16. On a two-point conversion attempt, the Falcons snuffed it out to keep that score standing at halftime. 

Here's a few missing notes from the LPHT/North football game yesterday.

I did not hear their first touchdown, but I gathered that it didn't take long for LP/HT to march down field to score after they snuffed out North to start the game. LPHT held North to 3-and-out on the game's first series.

LPHT had 2nd-and-goal on the North 5...but fumbled away the ball.

1st quarter, 3:37 left, North ball on their own 5. LPHT held them to no gain down to 3rd and 10. On 3rd and 10 North tried a pass, INC. On 4th down they punted, but it was a terrible punt and the Bulldogs brought it back to the 20.

1st quarter, 3:07 left: LPHT ball on the North 20. On the first play, Machemehl caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from Heigl. They lined up for the trademark shift, Tesch walked in all alone for two points. 16-0 Bulldogs.

On North's 4th possession of the game, they started on their own 44-yard line after a good kickoff return with 2:42 left. At that point North's quarterback Johnson was 0-for-6 passing. North was held to 3rd-and-5. Johnson ran for North's first 1st down of the game at that point and crossed mid field to the LPHT 38-yard line.

1st-10 at B-38:  run of 3 yards

2nd-7:  NO GAIN on QB keeper

3rd-7:  Johnson flushed by blitz, INC pass

4th-7:  Johnson keeper, he gets free and runs for 30 yards.

1st-GOAL at B-5:  Josh Cunningham 5-yard touchdown reception (running back position) with 11:52 left in the second quarter.   16-8 was the score.