The Staley Mustangs 7th Grade White Team rolled to a 27-6 victory over the Wester Wildcats on a cold, rainy night.   Wester struck first when they got the ball after a stalled Mustang drive.  The Wildcat running back ran down the  sideline 45 yards for six.  The Wildcats had the early lead 6-0 with 2:22 left in the first quarter.  The Mustangs got the ball and quarterback #4 had a great run for a first down.  Then #9 took it down to the twenty yard line.  A fumble had the Mustangs back on defense.  Wester had an incompletion, and on the next down, Staley #52 leveled the quarterback in the back field, causing a fumble.  Staley #64 recovered the fumble at the 25 yard line.  Once on offense, the Mustang quarterback #4 ran a sweep and took it in for the score.  A short kick had the score tied at 6.  That was the score at half time. 

The rain was still coming down at the start of the second half.  Wester started off with the ball, threw an incomplete pass, on the next play the Wester back dropped the ball, but was lucky enough to have it bounce back into his hand.  The back was dropped for a loss by a shoestring tackle by #15. The defense held and Staley got the ball back on the twenty five yard line.  Unfortunately the drive stalled. 

The Staley defense was tough, and the Mustangs got the ball back at their own 45.  Strong running by #4 and #9 had the Mustangs driving down field.  The Staley quarterback #4 pitched it out to #33 at the 30 yard line.  He turned it around the corner and broke tackles.  He encounter some traffic at the three yard line, but manage to plow through and over the goal line for the score.     The PAT team lined up and hiked the ball to the holder #4; however; the rain made the ball slippery and #4 had to get rid of  the ball fast, he dropped back and passed to #32 for a one point conversion.  To the delight of the rain soaked crowd, the Mustangs took the lead 13-6.

The Wildcats took the kickoff at the 13 yard line and was taken down immediately.  The Mustang defense pushed Wester back to the 10 yard line on first down.  Then pushed them back to the 6 yard line on second down, for the start of the fourth quarter.   On third down, the Mustang defense pushed the Wildcat quarterback back across the goal line, in what appeared to be a safety for the Mustangs.    However, the referees called forward progress at the 1 yard line.   Wester punted the ball from their own end zone.  The ball went up, came down and bounce, #5 quickly covered the ball at the 16 yard line for the Mustangs.  

Number 8 took over the quarterbacking duties.  On first down, he took the snap and scampered to the end zone for another Mustang score.  A good kick for the PAT put the score at 21-6 in the Mustang's favor.  

The Wester Wildcats had a nice run back on the kick off , first down was a small loss of yards, the next down, the quarterback decide to pass.  The pass was intercepted by Mustang #14.          The Mustangs  were back on offense,  #9 had a nice ten yard run on first down.   Second down had a hand off to #33, who raced 45 yards to take it to the house.  The Mustangs had another successful PAT, putting the score at 27-6 in favor of the Mustangs with 18 seconds left.  The defense finished of the game off stuffing the Wildcats one last time.  

A great win for the Staley boys, after a night in the cold and rain.   Way to go, Mustangs!!!

Here are some images of the night.