Marble Falls-Boerne contest should be quarterback battle
JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF
MARBLE FALLS — A pair of Division I quarterbacks highlight the Marble Falls High School football team’s contest against Boerne High on Sept. 12.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. at Mustang Stadium, 2101 Mustang Drive.
The Greyhounds (2-0) are led by senior quarterback Quinten Dormady, a Tennessee commit, who has already passed for 683 yards and 10 touchdowns this season. He has four interceptions.
Boerne beat Hondo 38-22 and Medina Valley 41-15.
Marble Falls head coach Matt Green said Dormady “threw the ball all over the field” against Medina Valley.
The senior is known as a pro-style quarterback, which means he likes to stay in the pocket to pass or have designed rollouts to allow him to throw on the run.
“He’ll challenge you to be in shape and put pressure on you the whole game,” Green said.
Most of the Mustangs practices do not feature the starting offense against the starting defense. But with Mustangs junior quarterback Brennen Wooten, a TCU commit, on the team, the coach said that changes this week.
“They’ll want to go against us and get a good look,” Green said. “It’ll be good.”
The Mustangs (1-1) enter this contest with confidence after a 60-43 victory against San Antonio Jay on Sept. 6.
Jay took a 14-0 lead after scoring on its first two drives. The Marble Falls defense then forced four punts, two turnovers on downs and grabbed two interceptions that allowed its offense to build a 53-27 lead. Sophomore defensive back Sam Harkins nabbed both interceptions, and junior linebacker Chris Carter had two sacks.
Wooten threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns, while junior receiver Jacob Metcalf caught six passes for 158 yards. The Mustangs had 40 rushes for 403 yards led by sophomore Daven Manning’s 12 carries for 136 yards. Senior running backs Royale Brown added 10 carries for 109 yards and a touchdown, and Tyler Ryan carried nine times for 78 yards and three touchdowns.
Marble Falls was seven of 10 on third down, two for two on fourth down and had 25 plays that went for more than 10 yards. Wooten hit Metcalf for a 77-yard pass, Manning for a 44-yard pass, Brown for a 27-yard pass, sophomore receiver Aaron Wooten for a 19-yard pass and junior receiver Eric Cauble for a 30-yard pass.
The Mustangs only lost one fumble when the ball was pushed out Cauble’s hands. Jay turned that into a touchdown and shifted momentum again.
Green, however, praised Cauble for coming back on the next series to score a 16-yard touchdown reception. From that point on, Jay was never a serious threat.
“You could see the hurt in his eyes when he fumbled,” Green said. “But he got over it and responded.”
The coach commended his defensive line for wearing down Jay’s offensive line, noting the Mustangs were able to control the line of scrimmage and slow junior quarterback Moses Reynolds. He finished with 358 of Jay’s 509 yards of total offense. Previously, against Brackenridge, Reynolds accounted for 578 of his team’s 721 yards of total offense.
And the Marble Falls defensive backs were extraordinary.
“They made big plays, they hit people,” Green said. “They tackled in space.”
jfierro@thepicayune.com