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cats advance; snreve toppled joBy O.K. DAVISExecutive Sports EditorAnybody who missed grabbing ft driia soft drink and popcorn upon entering James Stadium Friday had plenty of chances before the night was over.Ruston High’s defending Quad-A state champions sent spectators to the concession stand—and exits--early on with their convincing first round playoff victory over Shreveport’s Captain Shreve.“We played in spurts, but I’m sure not unhappy about the win. I’m not unhappy at all.”Chick'’ Childress“We took control early,” said Smith. “The first touchdown came on an off tackle play and we got good blocking. But we didn’t want them to score.”Prior to Malcolm’s 10-yard touchdown run with 8:27 to play in the second quarter, Laird hurled a 34-yard pass to Smith.And it was another key pass from Laird, this time to tight end Todd Sumrall for 42 yards, that helped pave the way for Carr’s 17-yard scoring catch from Brad.“We’re all just trying to getLabel this one a romp, rout, a 15-yard TD run erased becauseor yawner. . of another holding infraction. _ ^Whatever, the Bearcats looked That s part of football, he better every week,” said Mal-tough, as they have all year said of the penalties. It seems colmlt; «0ur offensive line did alike thats been happening to me great job all night long. But wea lot this year. But 1 can t letlong.Totalling 485 offensive yardswere really expecting more fromand scoring in the first minute that gel me down. I’ve still got shreve. We had heard that their•iln.a U !1 4m nn t tart... Irt ffllrti i It ** ........of play, “Chick” Childress’ pow- to play hard.Rusterhouse socked the Gators 38-7, Ruston was putting a hard sellThe win, 10th without a loss on the Gators early on, as this season, sends the ’Cats to a Smith's 61-yard touchdown runsecond round game on Friday came with less than a minute night against East Ascension High having expired.of Gonzales, Kickoff time will be 7:30.Ruston totalled 272 rushing district 2-AAAA.yards and 213 passing yards, the Sull, Childress wasn’t totallylatter being achieved with only pleased with his team’s effort,. a a . a ■ m m _ tft___ ____ • tthree (Disconnections in 15 tries; Brad Laird was ll-of-13 for 203yards and touchdowns of 17 the ’Domeyards to wideout John Carr and “We played in spurts,” he25 yards to running back Chad said. “Oh, I’m not unhappy withdefensive line had been prettysolid.”But against the ’Cats, it was like putty.Shreve’s pass-oriented offense .. spread its formations out ihrough-From there, everything was out the evening, but Angelodownhill for the visitors from Miller and Rodney Young wereamong the RHS defenders causing problems; both had interceptions.“They were pretty quick,” said Dameian Jones, a defensive tackle. “We kept worrying about inside, inside, and then they’d go outside on us. We know we’vealbeit a convincing win and one more notch on “The Road toBryan.the win. But I was disappointingThe Bearcats’ attack was fu- in some our tackling, which elied on the ground by 1989 wasn’t crisp at times, and wegot to play much better the next !. We diregular season rushing leader Randall Smith, who had 127 yards on only eight carries and made it into the end zone on runs of 61 yards and one yardtime. We didn’t play as well defensively as we could have.”. . - Taft’s career best 40-yard fieldlost containment on defense. Our goal dipped barely over thevtAnn Mink mm mm ■ * ■ • . »_■ ^ .pass rush wasn’t as good as it uprights with 6:42 to play andcould’ve been. gave Ruston a 38-0 lead.But we U take the win. Play- Bryan had three receptions foryards ana one yara ing well and losing is not worth 39 yards to lead Ruston’s receiv-_.J1uni1or nmnmgback Roymon * dang. I’m certainly not un- ers. Sumrall (62), Carr (35), andMjUeolm had a 10-yaid ran for happy.” Malcolm (25) all had twothe other touchdown and place- How couId he really be, as catches each.lacker Ken Taft put the finishing ^ Bearcats outgained the Gators Malcolm totalled 50 rushingK^hes^on die romp with a 40- 485-208, had 12 more first yards on 12 carries and Bryandowns (20-8), and completed finished with 30 yards on fivepasses almost blindfolded. carries.If you did add on the 122, , , . yards that Malcolm would’veyarder early in the second quar- gained on his cancelled out »mter that was cancelled because of touchdown runs, you would’ve shrtv*yard field goal.And the score could’ve worse. Malcolm had two touchdowns called back, the first on a 70-a holding penalty; in the laterr ^ weH over 500 yards worth of the same period, he had of offense.ThftYarcMIck Scoring SumnwiyT *1 7OO 07—7partSee RHS, page 13Br•$V*Stretching for TackleLeader photo by TERRY RANKINRuston High’s Ray Tortoor (11) tries to break away from a Captain Shreve defender during the Bearcats* 38-7 first round Class AAAA playoff victory at James Stadium Friday night. The ’Cats Increased their record to 1(M) and will play at East Ascension next Friday.seasonat Auburn- i i iBv PAUL NEWBERRY who trailed 10-7 at the end of As for Williams, Dye said, P)»t* Auburn took only twoPrAfifi U/ritor the first quarter. “Darrell ran well. It’s obvious Pkys to go 52 yards to makeLouisiana Tech surprised the and Louisiana Tech right now, Tigers early. James Joseph fum- But one day very soon, Loui-n aM rt r ! 'rt rt k ■■..11 1.1. art /I rt rt I* a lt;-%
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