Pop Warner league was beginning for today’s Mustangs
MARBLE FALLS — About a decade ago, the Mustangs experienced one of the darkest chapters in their proud 100-year history as the Marble Falls High School team couldn’t claim a victory.
From 2001-2004, the team was in the midst of a 22-game losing streak that was snapped when Cord Woerner, in his second game as head coach, guided the Mustangs to a win over expansion school Cedar Park Vista Ridge.
It would be the only win of the season.
A year earlier, a group of parents saw a need to return the program to victory and took a grassroots approach by getting students better prepared before seventh grade, which is when kids start playing football for the school district.
The 9- and 10-year-old Marble Falls Pop Warner football team included Tyler Higgingbottom (kneeling, left), Cole Wilson and an unidentified child; Braden Torres (first row standing, left), Stacey Heinatz, Lane Becker, Garrett Reitz and Trevor Grebe; Chad Chesnut (second row, left) Travis Grebe, Nic Carter, Clynt Powell, Ben Causgrove and Bryce Pilley; Blaine Hooten (third row, left), Shaun Paris, Jake King, Ian Mayne and Tyler Fry; James Fry (fourth row, left), Blake Price, Adam Montoya, Kevin Vassar, Taylor Cauble and Jordan Johnson; coaches Joe Powell (fifth row, left), Mike Chesnut, Tom Causgrove, Kelly Cauble, Mike Pilley Jr. and Toby Johnson. Courtesy photo