By MIKE MONTFORT
NAVARRO FOOTBALL GAMEDAY
Week 11
OPPONENTS: Tyler (5-3/4-2) at Navarro (5-3/4-2)
VENUE: Tiger Field at Community National Bank & Trust Stadium (Nee: Tiger Stadium, 2006)
GAMEDAY WEATHER: Cloudy and not as warm with periods of rain and a thunderstorm Friday evening into Saturday. Chance of rain set at 50 percent Saturday afternoon. High temperature of 71 degrees is expected. South-southwesterly winds of 22-25 mph are anticipated. Humidity will be 51 percent with a 48 dewpoint,
ONLINE TICKET SALES: Purchase tickets online for Saturday's game through HomeTown Ticketing at https://www.navarrobulldogs.com/tickets Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students and children ages 10 and under are admitted free. Tickets cannot be purchased at the stadium. Only 2022 SWJCFC season passes will be accepted at the gate.
KICKOFF: 3 pm CDT Saturday. November 5
LIVESTREAM COVERAGE: The Southwest Junior College Football Conference game will be streamed live on the Navarro Sports YouTube Channel with Scott Batts on play-by-play and Michael Busby on commentary at (145) Football - Navarro vs Tyler - YouTube Fans also may choose to listen to the audio stream of Tyler's 92.1 The Team FM with Bill Coates on play-by-play and Kevin Simon on commentary https://www.ktbb.com/liveaudio/
RANKINGS: Navarro inched forward to No.10 in the NJCAA's latest Division I poll after its week off. Tyler fell into the receiving votes category from the No. 15 ranking after Kilgore's 31-14 win last Saturday at CHRISTYS Trinity Mother Frances Hospital Rose Stadium in Tyler.
PLAYOFF SCENARIOS: Trinity Valley, NMMI and Navarro have clinched spots. TVCC is the regular-season champion and will be the No. 1 seed with homefield advantage throughout the SWJCFC playoffs. NMMI would be the No. 2 seed with a Tyler loss, or the No. 3 seed with a TJC win. A Tyler win Saturday makes the Apaches and Broncos 5-2 with TJC holding the head-to-head for No. 2. Navarro would be the No. 3 seed with a win over Tyler or the No. 4 with a loss to TJC. A win would put the Bulldogs at 5-2 but lost head-to-head with NMMI. A loss to Tyler would put the 'Dawgs at 4-3, with a head-to-head over Kilgore, provided KC beats Blinn its final game and goes 4-3.
THE SERIES: Saturday/s meeting will be the 88th dating back to 1958. Navarro has a 46-41 advantage, but Tyler won the fall 2021 meeting 69-57 – the 126 points representing the highest aggregate score in the series. In their last six meetings dating back to 2014, the teams combined to score 100 points or more. The fall 2021 game broke by two points the previous mark in the 2015 regular season game won 69-55 by the Apaches at Tyler. Navarro won the spring 2021 opener at Tiger Stadium, 53-50.
STREAKS: Navarro's won five of its last six games. TJC has won four of its last five
THE COACHES: NAVARRO -- Ryan Taylor is in his third year of coaching (18-8), his first as Navarro's 16th head coach. The Denison, Tx, native played offensive line for the Yellow Jackets, Tyler Junior College and UCLA. He has 10 years of coaching experience in the Southwest Junior College Football Conference highlighted by leading Cisco to first undefeated conference championship in spring, 2021. TYLER -- Tanner Jacobson was hired as TJC's 10th football coach in April. The 27-year-old served as an assistant at Snow College when the Badgers reached the 2021 spring national championship and the 2021 fall semifinals. Jacobson was a three-year starter at defensive back for Southlake Carroll for Hal Wasson when the Dragons went 37-6 with two district titles and the 2011 state championship
LAST MEETING: In his first conference start, Tyler quarterback General Booty threw a conference-record eight touchdown passes in a 69-57 video-game score victory over 14th ranked Navarro as the teams set a single-game aggregate scoring record in their series. Booty accounted for 569 yards in TJC's 765-yard offensive assault. Booty completed 38-of-51 for 507 yards with two touchdowns to each of four receivers. Additionally, Booty was the Apaches' second-leading rusher by gaining 62 yards on eight carries. Booty broke a seven-year-old SWJCFC record for single-game TD passes established by Blinn's Jake Hubenak against TJC on September 6, 2014. Hubenak went 34-54-597-7 in a 72-65 win over TVCC. Two weeks later in an 80-0 non-conference win over Arkansas Baptist, Hubenak was 35-45-601-10. Booty guided the Apaches ro a 41-9 lead over NC by the second quarter's 7:25 mark. His work was eased as TJC intercepted Qua Gray four times (three tipped) and recovered two fumbles.
LAST WEEK: NAVARRO -- Dane Jentsch threw touchdown passes of 36 yards of Eli Martinez, 37 to Quavon Matthews and 11 to Wesley Douglas as the Bulldogs spoiled Cisco's homecoming and ended the Wranglers' season, 26-7.
TEAM STATS: NAVARRO averages 29.8 points and 421 yards with percentage splits of 59.8 passing (251.6 yards) and 40.2 rushing (169.4 yards). Defensively, the 'Dogs yield 21.5 points and 293 yards. NC's defense allows 128.6 on the ground and 155.3 through the air. TYLER averages 25.5 points and 224.1 yards with percentage splits of 54,7 passing (122.5 yards) and 45.3 rushing (101.6 yards). Defensively. the Apaches allow 19.1 points and 277.8 yards (183.3 on the ground and 94.9 through the air).
INDIVIDUAL STAT LEADERS: NAVARRO – QB Dane Jentsch (105-150-1612-13-6 passing and 47-192-1 rushing); RBs TK Snowden (95-545-2), Tim Collins (53-249-3) and DeAnthony Gatson (44-147-3); WRs Brandon Hawkins (28-586-4), Jay Wilkerson (20-246-2), Eli Martinez (20-336-2), LBs CJ Johnson (55 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, 1 INT-TD); Caimyn Layne (50 tackles, 7 sacks, 8.5 TFLs, 2 forced fumbles, 1 FR); and Marcus Tillman (42 tackles, 11.5 TFLs, 2 sacks, 3 forced fumbles, 2 recovery, 2 PBU); DB Ty Wilson (33 tackles) and Tyrecus Davis (24 tackles, 4 PBU, 2 INT); PK Axel Robertson (37 points). TYLER – QB-RB-WR-LB Austin Skoglund (44-58-485-4-2 passing, 33-151-1 rushing, 6-55-0 receiving, 32 tackles, 5.5 TFL, 1 FR), QB Luke McAllister (10-15-121-1 in last two games), QB Hunt Young (29-59-344-2-0), RB-DB Kywon Morgan (43-207-0 receiving with 37 tackles, 6.5 TFL, 1.5 Sack, 1 FF, 1 INT), WR Gabe Adams (9-134-1) and Owen Olsen (9-110-1), LB Malik Williams (33 tackles, 3.5 TFL, 3 sacks)
AROUND THE LEAGUE: The Navarro-Tyler game is the weekend's headliner. Trinity Valley closes its regular season at Miami, Ok., against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in an 11 a,m. contest. TVCC coach Sherrard Poteete quarterbacked NEO in the late '90s and coached there. The Golden Norsemen (3-5) have shown signs of turning their season around on the road the last two weeks. NEO downed Blinn 28-17 for its first conference win, just one week after putting a scare in NMMI at Roswell…..Blinn tries to break a six-game losing streak and spoil Kilgore's bid for playoff qualificqation in a 3 om game at R.E. St. Johns Memorial Stadium…..NMMI's non-conference finale against Rezolution Prep Axademy at The Wool Bowl has been cancelled.
NAVARRO NOTES: Dane Jentsch leads the NJCAA in passing efficiency with a rating of 180.9 and his 70-percent completion percentage ranks second. Grandview's former two-way star is 56-of-75 for 996 yards and nine touchdowns over his last four games….Jemtsch has thrown touchdown passes in seven straight games….Sophomore OT Lysander Moeolo announced Monday on his Twitter account that he has committed to Syracuse University…..The Bulldogs have 26 first downs via penalties this season. Half of them have occurred in wins over Kilgore (8) and Cisco (5). Last Saturday, consecutive penalties against Cisco enabled Navarro to convert a fourth-and-17 situation into a first down….Linebacker Marcus Tillman's three forced fumbles rank third nationally, and his two recoveries also rank among the Top 10…..Five defenders amassed 10 or more tackles Saturday against the Wranglers: DE Nick Potts and NG Clifton Mosley (12 each), DL Rico Griffin (11), DE Viontay Robinson and LB C.J. Johnson (10)….Ten players accounted for catches during a 19-for-26 performance from three quarterbacks last week….Team-leading WR Brandon Hawkins was part of Navarro's longest play from scrimmage Saturday – a 60-yard pass play from Jentsch…. Hawkins has caught passes in 10 straight games….Whether third seed or fourth, Navarro will have to travel some to reach the SWJCFC Championship game, but the Bulldogs have done it three times in 26 seasons: 1998 (at NEO), 2014 (v. Kilgore), and 2019 (v, NMMI).
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NAVARRO'S TWO-DEEP VS TYLER
OFFENSE
LT – (78) Lysander Moeolo, (74) Isaiah Maumalanga
LG – (70) Kamon Bradford, (54) Turner Hilburn
C – (52) Justin Rogers, (63) Tim Metevia
RG – (53) Anthony Drumgoole, (64) Lennard Medrano
RT -- (71) Welson Lual, (73) Michael Eneh
QB – (8) Dane Jentsch, (12) Brenden Cyr
RB – (22) Tom Carter, (26) DeAnthony Gatson
TE – (14) Jacoby Hunt, (16) Allan Horace
X-WR – (1) Brandon Hawkins, (87) Bryan Spotwood
H-WR – (3) Eli Martinez, (80) Jack Hecker
Z-WR – (85) Quavon Matthews, (4) Jay Wilkerson
A-WR – (9) Wesley Douglas, (82) Jalyn Marks
PK – (37) Axel Robertson, (81) Christian Romero
DEFENSE
DE – (92) Rico Grifin, (55) Travis Chatman
NG – (96) Clifton Mosely (99) Jacory Brown
DE – (95) Viontay Robinson, (93) Nick Potts
ILB – (7) C.J. Johnson, (45) Jayden Hughes
OLB – (10) Caimyn Layne, (47) Kenneth Ellison
OLB – (13) Marcus Tillman, (35) Jordan Smith
CB – (24) Donavann Collins, (30) J.K. Moore
L-SAF – (27) Michael Boudoin, (33) Eddie Toussom
R-SAF – (5) Ty Wilson, (31) Jeremy Sessions
FS – (21) B.J. Jones, (29) Daniel Oneal
CB – (2) Tyrecus Davis, (30) J.K. Moore
P – (39) Anthony Schembri
