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Sunday, December 21,2008
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Dayton falls in highest-scoring title game
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District losses toughened Wildcats
SAN ANTONIO —Sulphur Springs
SEE WILDCATS • PAGE 6A
SEE BRONCOS • PAGE 6A
DIVE ROGERS
dave.rogers@baytownsun.com
SEE ROGERS • PAGE 6A
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Sulphur Springs' Rashad Hall (5) leaps over Dayton's Cameron Lacour (6) while Evan Brown (25) pursues in the first half of the
Class 4A Div. II high school state championship football game on Saturday, Dec. 20,2008 in San Antonio.
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A year ago, I asked Dayton coach Jerry
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be Goose Creek Memorial’s first coach.
Stewart, a Baytown resident, told me, “the
Goose Creek school district isn’t big enough
for both me and Dick Olin,” which I took to
mean two king-sized personalities.
I reminded him of that conversation last
week and asked if he might apply to coach at
Lee. The former Sterling defensive coordina-
tor who was passed over years ago when he
applied to be Ranger head coach, said he
liked it just fine in Dayton.
“I can’t imagine Jerry Stewart ever doing
anything but coaching football at Dayton
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Thompson resigned that job Thursday
night, a move he denied was tied to Boutte’s
appointment. And in stepping down as foot-
ball coach, he announced he wanted to stay
on as AD.
Boutte, a Port Arthur resident who
coached Port Arthur Lincoln to two state
titles in the 1990s, coached his final ganje
for Ozen Friday night to get a head start on
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care that his team gave up 49 points in
Saturday’s game.
“I just wanted to get the win,” he said,
after the Wildcats 69-49 win over
Dayton in the highest scoring state
championship game ever in Texas.
“I didn’t care if it was by one point or
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BY DAVE ROGERS
dave.rogers@baytownsun.com
SAN ANTONIO - The Sulphur Springs
Wildcats were definitely what Dayton
coach Jerry Stewart thought they were on
offense.
“It’s the best offense I’ve ever seen and I
told everybody that before the game,” he
reminded reporters Saturday afternoon,
shortly after quarterback Tyrik Rollison
and the Wildcats rolled up 778 yards of
total offense and a 69-49 win over
Stewart’s Broncos in the Class 4A
Division II state championship game.
It was the highest scoring state champi-
onship game in the 89-year history of 11 -
man football in the UIL.
Dayton finished 13-2, the only 13-win
season in school history
Dayton quarterback Cody Green passed
for six touchdowns and 330 yards while
leading his team to 622 total yards in a
three-hour, 20-minute game that saw the
teams combine for 118 points, 63 first
downs and 1,400 yards of total offense.
Receiver A. J. Dugat caught eight passes
for 141 yards and three touchdowns, rush-
ing five times for 92 more yards; and
Bronco running back Cameron LaCour
rushed six times for 108 yards and scored
twice, one on a pass, once on a run.
“We had two or three (big-play threats).
They had an arsenal,” Stewart said of the
Wildcats, who finished 14-2 for their first
state title.
“It was like chunking rocks and they had
bullets.”
Rollison, the second-ranked quarterback
recruit in the state, according to
rivals.com, completed 23 of 30 passes for
397 yards and four touchdowns. He added
three more scores on the ground as he
rushed 18 times for 131 yards, giving him
528 yards of total offense by himself.
Running back Ryan Young rushed 28
times for 235 yards and scored three •
touchdowns for Sulphur Springs, and •
Wildcat receiver Jace Jackson caught nine
passes for 200 yards and two scores. .
The two teams’ offenses averaged 10 .
yards per snap. In one 6-minute, 5-second
span between the first and second quarter,
Dayton and Sulphur Springs scored a total .
of seven touchdowns.
And, if not for three Dayton fumbles,
Stewart thinks the game might still be ’
going on.
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2 Day Turn-Around
in most cases
Dayton’s football coach happy to stay where he is
••• Between the three, Boutte, Thompson and
Port Arthur school board politics and Hampshire are in line for annual combined
school district doings have become infamous salaries of $250,000 or more.
in the last couple of decades and Thursday
night’s doings might take the grand prize.
Superintendent Johnny Brown, hired there
three years ago as the district’s fourth super-
intendent in a calendar year, hired Andre
Boutte, the coach of the 2001 state basketball
championship squad at Beaumont Ozen, to a
newly created position of executive athletic
director.
This makes Boutte, in essence, the third
athletic director for a school district with one his new job, which, reportedly won’t include
high school. any coaching.
Ronnie Thompson, the Port Arthur But it’s Port Arthur. Who knows?
Memorial head football coach since 2006,
has been the district’s athletic director and he
works with athletic coordinator Laurie
Hampshire, a former bookkeeper who is,
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humbled us and got us hungry again.
Tyrik Rollison, Ryan Young and Jace We had just come off a win over
SAN ANTONIO Sulphur Springs Jackson led the Wildcats, third-place Wichita Falls Rider on ESPN and then
head coach Greg Owens said he didn t finishers in District 13-4A, who fin- got an easy non-district win.
jshe(j their dream season at 14-2. “Then we got whipped a little against
The Wildcats’ two losses this year Longview and Texas High and I feel
came to Longview 32-13, winner of that helped us pull together as a team.”
District 13-4A, Oct. 3 and Texas High Jackson had nine catches for 200
59-25, the second-place team in that yards and two touchdowns while Young
district, the following week.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 353, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 21, 2008, newspaper, December 21, 2008; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1192220/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.