Pictured is #87 Cameron Raggio
Last Friday night, the Magazine Sr High Rattlers remained calm and collected as they hosted the Mountainburg Dragons in conference play. And boy did it pay off. With hundreds in attendance, Mountainburg was first to open the game by kicking off to the Rattlers. After plenty of back and forth action but zero deal-making, the first quarter ended with a score of 0-0. After Magazine recovered a fumble by Mountainburg to start the second quarter, it was nothing but high octane Rattler skills offensively and defensively.
Tatum Scott put up the first TD with 16 rushing yards while Ashton Droemer rushed for the 2-point conversion. Kobe Faughn stepped into the spotlight next with a 4-yard rushing TD topped off with a completed 2-point conversion pass from Scott to Brad Price. The quarter ended with Faughn delivering one more TD from a 7-yard rush. Fortunately, in the second quarter, the negative action tone was only set for the Dragons as Magazine hammered 22 points on Mountainburg going into the half with a score of 22-0.
With another 0-0 quarter in the third, the Rattlers delivered one final blow in the 4th as Brad Price bulldozed the ball in for paydirt with his first-ever career TD. Adding the 2-point conversion rushed by Droemer and the Rattlers sealed 30 points on the game. Mountainburg was able to put up 6 points in the finale but it was too little too late. The game concluded with the scoreboard lit at 30-6 Magazine. The win put the Rattlers at 1-1 in conference play.
“We played our best game of the season this past Friday against Mountainburg,” stated coach, Ryan Chambers. “Our offensive line play was great as we ran for 406 yards.” Kobe Faughn made 28 carries for 199 yards, 2 TDs, 11 tackles 2 forced fumbles, and recovered 1. Ashton Droemer ran for 91 yards and 2 2-point conversions. Tatum Scott ran for a total of 67 yards and a TD. And defense forced 3 turnovers.
Next up, the Rattlers will travel to Hector to take on the 1-0 Wildcats in another bare-knuckle conference battle on Friday, October 9. “In this Friday’s game against Hector, we just need to continue building on the momentum from last week. We can’t have any letdowns. Hector looks similar to us as they also run the double wing. Right now they are more run-oriented but have shown in the past they can throw the football. And we have to work on tackling better since we had some missed tackles last week that could have been no gains but turned into 6 or 7 yard gains.”
Photos courtesy of LaWaynea Cox
