WESTFALL vs. COLDWATER
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mstangmom, I don't know who Coldwater whined to, as I don't know who Westfall has whined too. I based my comments and opinions off of what I have read from the comments I've read. If the OHSAA can do as they please, which is what I've read on this site, why is anyone surprised? Deal with it, and focus on the game.
And I base my other comments off of what I have read, what I have seen, and discussions with others whom I respect. If they are not kosher to others, I will gracefully bow out of further discussion.
And I base my other comments off of what I have read, what I have seen, and discussions with others whom I respect. If they are not kosher to others, I will gracefully bow out of further discussion.
Mikepike I only said I was disappointed with a couple of your comments on there. You can say what you want, it is your opinion. However I find it funny that you can make such an assessment on how the team acts on the field after only seeing them play one time. I must say I have seen and heard many comments about the team and Cockey, Preen, and poise are not words I have heard used to discribe them.
I said who Coldwater whined to because of their comments on there, not yours.
I said who Coldwater whined to because of their comments on there, not yours.
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Congrats to the Mustangs!! I saw the game mentioned this morning on WBNS as being played tomorrow and found my way over here 
I know nothing about football but will turn on ONN to see the outcome or even catch the game I am assuming it will be on tv
Go Mustangs
I know nothing about football but will turn on ONN to see the outcome or even catch the game I am assuming it will be on tv
Go Mustangs
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heres the guy we owe last weeks win to. Keep it going Cameron you are awesome
Westfall kicker as automatic as he needs to be
By PHIL GRAY
for PickawayNow.com
WILLIAMSPORT — As the story goes, a teammate once turned to Yogi Berra at a New York nightspot and said, “Hey Yogi — can you play piano?â€
“I dunno,†came the now-famous reply. “I’ve never tried.†That’s kind of how it started for Westfall kicker Cameron Puckett too.
Speaking for a minute from purely a sportswriter’s standpoint, box scores are a necessary evil — particularly on football Friday nights. They’re clunky, time-consuming things, and the stats are almost never totaled before the call comes in. But box scores do tell you a lot — trends and tendencies emerge in the small print of the scoreboard page, particularly when you look at them over the course of several straight weeks.
Or several straight years.
That’s how long one two-word notation has been repeated in box scores of the Westfall Mustangs — reliable as reading about a Westfall win over that same period of time.
The two-word phrase: Puckett kick.
As in, “Gose 54 yard pass from Cain, (Puckett kick)â€.
As in, the extra point try after a touchdown.
And as in what made the difference last Saturday in Westfall’s Week 13 playoff victory over St. Clairsville.
And it all started with an innocent question, asked a few weeks into Puckett’s freshman year by then-athletic director Trevor Thomas.
“(Thomas) came up to me in P.E. and he was like, we’re looking for a kicker, and as a soccer player you probably can, but can you do it?†said Puckett, now a junior. “I said probably, if I try. I’d never tried to kick a football before.â€
A day after that simple question — cousin to a Yogi-ism uttered in gym class in Williamsport instead of at a Manhattan restaurant — and Puckett was kicking for a job as a varsity football player on a program emerging as a true power in this part of Ohio.
Guy went 9-for-10 that afternoon.
“Thomas said he was going to go talk to Bart,†Puckett said (Bart is, of course, former Westfall coach Scott Bartholomew). “Come along eighth period, Bart pulled me out of my English class. Eventually he goes, I heard you can kick a football — do you want to?
“I said sure.â€
And ever since, “Puckett kick†has been a regular part of Westfall football.
It was never any bigger than it was last Saturday.
“He’s money,†Mustangs coach Scott Keller said. “I think he’s missed, like, four extra points all year. He’s something stupid like 56-for-60 or 57-for-61 now. And last week’s game, like I’ve said before, these kid played 48 minutes of football, and it was two darn good teams going at it. Then all of a sudden it comes down to two untimed downs — their missed extra point and their failed two-point conversion. And it came down to that because we’ve got a heck of a weapon in Cameron.â€
Now, let’s be honest for a minute. Puckett’s a kicker, and there’s a burden that goes along with that. Forget any trash-talk on the field, guys who spend their time swinging a leg — no matter how well they do it — hear it all the time.
From their own team.
“I know,†Puckett said. “I hear it all the time. People say things like they want my job — it’s so easy. That I just come in and kick for an hour and go home. I know, and it doesn’t bother me. I come out and do my job on Friday nights or whenever it comes down to me, and that’s all I can do. I do what I can.â€
Keller laughed at the word ‘kicker’.
“I get on him all the time,†the coach cackled. “He’s a soccer kid that we pulled out of class and got him on the field to be our kicker. Kickers are always going to have this stigma where they’re not really football players, that they’re these specialists who come out and kick and don’t have any physical contact.
“But at the same time, I don’t think our kids really see him like that. They tease him — yeah, he’s abused like that. But he’s still very much a part of the team. Our kids aren’t stupid. They all understand that we might not be sitting where we’re at right now if we didn’t have Cameron and the way he can kick the ball.â€
Even with the pressure of the regional championship game weighing on his leg last week, for Puckett it was the same old stuff.
After all, he’s already tried kicking a football.
And he’s pretty good at it.
“I don’t think about anything, either on a field goal or an extra point,†Puckett said.
“Really, it’s the snapper, the holder, me and the ball. Before I kick I picture it going through the uprights, then I go out and do my job.â€
And here’s the proof that Puckett understands he wouldn’t be where he is without the other guys involved.
“You have to think that all the awards I’ve won — I’m all-county, all-SVC, all-district,†he said. “I owe every one of them to the guys up front and my holder, Jack, for giving me the chance to do this. Without those guys up front, I’m nothing. Without my holder, I’m nothing.â€
Without the rest of the Mustangs, in other words.
And without Puckett — let’s leave it at the fact that “Puckett kick†has appeared in this newspaper and a few others a whole lot of times since that simple question, asked in the middle of P.E. class.
Westfall kicker as automatic as he needs to be
By PHIL GRAY
for PickawayNow.com
WILLIAMSPORT — As the story goes, a teammate once turned to Yogi Berra at a New York nightspot and said, “Hey Yogi — can you play piano?â€
“I dunno,†came the now-famous reply. “I’ve never tried.†That’s kind of how it started for Westfall kicker Cameron Puckett too.
Speaking for a minute from purely a sportswriter’s standpoint, box scores are a necessary evil — particularly on football Friday nights. They’re clunky, time-consuming things, and the stats are almost never totaled before the call comes in. But box scores do tell you a lot — trends and tendencies emerge in the small print of the scoreboard page, particularly when you look at them over the course of several straight weeks.
Or several straight years.
That’s how long one two-word notation has been repeated in box scores of the Westfall Mustangs — reliable as reading about a Westfall win over that same period of time.
The two-word phrase: Puckett kick.
As in, “Gose 54 yard pass from Cain, (Puckett kick)â€.
As in, the extra point try after a touchdown.
And as in what made the difference last Saturday in Westfall’s Week 13 playoff victory over St. Clairsville.
And it all started with an innocent question, asked a few weeks into Puckett’s freshman year by then-athletic director Trevor Thomas.
“(Thomas) came up to me in P.E. and he was like, we’re looking for a kicker, and as a soccer player you probably can, but can you do it?†said Puckett, now a junior. “I said probably, if I try. I’d never tried to kick a football before.â€
A day after that simple question — cousin to a Yogi-ism uttered in gym class in Williamsport instead of at a Manhattan restaurant — and Puckett was kicking for a job as a varsity football player on a program emerging as a true power in this part of Ohio.
Guy went 9-for-10 that afternoon.
“Thomas said he was going to go talk to Bart,†Puckett said (Bart is, of course, former Westfall coach Scott Bartholomew). “Come along eighth period, Bart pulled me out of my English class. Eventually he goes, I heard you can kick a football — do you want to?
“I said sure.â€
And ever since, “Puckett kick†has been a regular part of Westfall football.
It was never any bigger than it was last Saturday.
“He’s money,†Mustangs coach Scott Keller said. “I think he’s missed, like, four extra points all year. He’s something stupid like 56-for-60 or 57-for-61 now. And last week’s game, like I’ve said before, these kid played 48 minutes of football, and it was two darn good teams going at it. Then all of a sudden it comes down to two untimed downs — their missed extra point and their failed two-point conversion. And it came down to that because we’ve got a heck of a weapon in Cameron.â€
Now, let’s be honest for a minute. Puckett’s a kicker, and there’s a burden that goes along with that. Forget any trash-talk on the field, guys who spend their time swinging a leg — no matter how well they do it — hear it all the time.
From their own team.
“I know,†Puckett said. “I hear it all the time. People say things like they want my job — it’s so easy. That I just come in and kick for an hour and go home. I know, and it doesn’t bother me. I come out and do my job on Friday nights or whenever it comes down to me, and that’s all I can do. I do what I can.â€
Keller laughed at the word ‘kicker’.
“I get on him all the time,†the coach cackled. “He’s a soccer kid that we pulled out of class and got him on the field to be our kicker. Kickers are always going to have this stigma where they’re not really football players, that they’re these specialists who come out and kick and don’t have any physical contact.
“But at the same time, I don’t think our kids really see him like that. They tease him — yeah, he’s abused like that. But he’s still very much a part of the team. Our kids aren’t stupid. They all understand that we might not be sitting where we’re at right now if we didn’t have Cameron and the way he can kick the ball.â€
Even with the pressure of the regional championship game weighing on his leg last week, for Puckett it was the same old stuff.
After all, he’s already tried kicking a football.
And he’s pretty good at it.
“I don’t think about anything, either on a field goal or an extra point,†Puckett said.
“Really, it’s the snapper, the holder, me and the ball. Before I kick I picture it going through the uprights, then I go out and do my job.â€
And here’s the proof that Puckett understands he wouldn’t be where he is without the other guys involved.
“You have to think that all the awards I’ve won — I’m all-county, all-SVC, all-district,†he said. “I owe every one of them to the guys up front and my holder, Jack, for giving me the chance to do this. Without those guys up front, I’m nothing. Without my holder, I’m nothing.â€
Without the rest of the Mustangs, in other words.
And without Puckett — let’s leave it at the fact that “Puckett kick†has appeared in this newspaper and a few others a whole lot of times since that simple question, asked in the middle of P.E. class.
Westfall carries high expectations into football semis
By PHIL GRAY
For PickawayNow.com
Get this:
"The expectation is there. I think if you ask anybody on this team, any of the coaches or even anybody in this community, the expectation is to make it to the Final Four. Anything less would be a huge disappointment."
That was Westfall coach Scott Keller talking.
More than three weeks ago.
As in, even when Westfall was preparing for Week 11, the plan was to live on until at least Week 14. As in, a team from a conference that had never won a regional championship was already talking like one needed to be in the bag for an already big season to not end as a letdown.
It was a big statement then, back when the sights were on New Lexington in Round 1.
Now... well, now history has been made.
With no plans to stop here.
"We're still in this to win this," Keller said this week. "I know it's history and we know we're very fortunate to be where we are - I'm not making light of what we've already accomplished. But yeah, we're not satisfied with where we are right now."
The task in of Westfall is a big one - beating a machine of a team in Coldwater (and much more on the Cavaliers coming in the next few days). But the thing about the Mustangs is that, in a way, they're a bunch of old dogs doing the same old tricks.
"No, these kids have never been here, as in right here," Keller said. "But we have so many kids who have experienced November playoff games. The last three or four years, these kids have seen so much. They've seen Ironton. They've seen Bellaire. They're not afraid of anything. From what they've been through, they really feel in their hearts and minds that they can play with anybody.
"It's an attitude they have. And it's part of what makes them so special."
On this day of giving thanks, there's a good bet that talk of this team's defense will be in the air around a dinner table or two in Williamsport. After all, with all the flash of the Mustangs offense - and all the points it's put up so far - it was the defense that stonewalled St. Clairsville in Week 12, held the No. 1-ranked Red Devils to a dozen points to lock up the regional championship in a game when the offense managed just two touchdowns.
"You have to understand what the defense was able to do," Keller said. "Anybody who wants to say our offense didn't play well doesn't understand how good St. Clairsville's defense did. And our defense played right with them. I've said it so many times. Our offense is flashy and it sells a lot of tickets, but our defense is as good as I've ever seen."
This playoff run has been full of talk of making history, putting football in this part of Ohio on the map.
Blown out of proportion, to a certain extent. It is, after all, still just football. Still blocking and tackling, holding onto the ball. Catching and running.
But still, playing football Thanksgiving week will open some eyes.
"One thing you think about when you think Thanksgiving dinner is backyard football," Keller said. "Most of the time you go out and you just play for no reason. Now, we have a reason. We're still watching film, we're still gameplanning and practicing for a real, meaningful football game.
"Ron Hinton (the coach at football powerhouse Amanda-Clearcreek) e-mailed me this week and said one of their goals is to still be practicing on Turkey Day. Well, one of our goals is to be a program like Amanda-Clearcreek - the kind of team that's always expected to be in this position."
For now, the Mustangs are right where they want to be.
With no plans to stop here.
By PHIL GRAY
For PickawayNow.com
Get this:
"The expectation is there. I think if you ask anybody on this team, any of the coaches or even anybody in this community, the expectation is to make it to the Final Four. Anything less would be a huge disappointment."
That was Westfall coach Scott Keller talking.
More than three weeks ago.
As in, even when Westfall was preparing for Week 11, the plan was to live on until at least Week 14. As in, a team from a conference that had never won a regional championship was already talking like one needed to be in the bag for an already big season to not end as a letdown.
It was a big statement then, back when the sights were on New Lexington in Round 1.
Now... well, now history has been made.
With no plans to stop here.
"We're still in this to win this," Keller said this week. "I know it's history and we know we're very fortunate to be where we are - I'm not making light of what we've already accomplished. But yeah, we're not satisfied with where we are right now."
The task in of Westfall is a big one - beating a machine of a team in Coldwater (and much more on the Cavaliers coming in the next few days). But the thing about the Mustangs is that, in a way, they're a bunch of old dogs doing the same old tricks.
"No, these kids have never been here, as in right here," Keller said. "But we have so many kids who have experienced November playoff games. The last three or four years, these kids have seen so much. They've seen Ironton. They've seen Bellaire. They're not afraid of anything. From what they've been through, they really feel in their hearts and minds that they can play with anybody.
"It's an attitude they have. And it's part of what makes them so special."
On this day of giving thanks, there's a good bet that talk of this team's defense will be in the air around a dinner table or two in Williamsport. After all, with all the flash of the Mustangs offense - and all the points it's put up so far - it was the defense that stonewalled St. Clairsville in Week 12, held the No. 1-ranked Red Devils to a dozen points to lock up the regional championship in a game when the offense managed just two touchdowns.
"You have to understand what the defense was able to do," Keller said. "Anybody who wants to say our offense didn't play well doesn't understand how good St. Clairsville's defense did. And our defense played right with them. I've said it so many times. Our offense is flashy and it sells a lot of tickets, but our defense is as good as I've ever seen."
This playoff run has been full of talk of making history, putting football in this part of Ohio on the map.
Blown out of proportion, to a certain extent. It is, after all, still just football. Still blocking and tackling, holding onto the ball. Catching and running.
But still, playing football Thanksgiving week will open some eyes.
"One thing you think about when you think Thanksgiving dinner is backyard football," Keller said. "Most of the time you go out and you just play for no reason. Now, we have a reason. We're still watching film, we're still gameplanning and practicing for a real, meaningful football game.
"Ron Hinton (the coach at football powerhouse Amanda-Clearcreek) e-mailed me this week and said one of their goals is to still be practicing on Turkey Day. Well, one of our goals is to be a program like Amanda-Clearcreek - the kind of team that's always expected to be in this position."
For now, the Mustangs are right where they want to be.
With no plans to stop here.
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