OVERTON GOES BUG-HUNTING | Mustangs beat Alto’s Yellowjackets, 58-34
The Overton Mustangs are putting pressure on Lovelady to win out in the regular season
Coach Scotty Laymance’s team hosted Alto on Friday night, at Coach Chester Roy Stadium, and while Alto was scrappy for a while, the Mustangs pulled away for a 58-34 win.
Overton is 6-2 overall, now, and 3-1 in District 11-2A, Division II; they’re only loss this year in district play was at Lovelady, back on Oct. 11.
Overton still has a chance to win a district title here. They have two games left: at Mount Enterprise (6-2, 2-2) next Friday, Nov. 1; then at home on Nov. 8 against 2-5 Cushing, winless in district play.
Lovelady also has Cushing, in a road game there next week, and they face Grapeland (6-2) to close out the regular season – Overton defeated Grapeland early in the district schedule.
At any rate, the Mustangs are looking good as the regular season draws to a close in a few weeks.
And they looked good Friday night against Alto’s Yellowjackets, from the very beginning.
Jacob Osburn returned the game’s opening kickoff 76 yards for a touchdown, and it was on.
Quarterback Bryce Still, who has a regular place at the Whataburger / ETBlitz.com Player of the Week table, it seems, finished 13-of-25 for 198 yards and two touchdowns, but also ran for 124 yards and three scores on just eight carries – 15.5 yards a carry for Still against Alto.
Justin Weir had another big game: 102 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries. Gabriel Miller ran for 67 yards, and Overton as an offense finished with 293 rushing yards and the four scores.
Rylan Holleman didn’t score, but caught six passes from Still for 98 yards. Jayden Edwards, a recent Built Ford Tough Player of the Week for 2A statewide, finished with three catches for 45 yards and a touchdown, and Bryson Bobbitt had two for 42 and Still’s other TD pass. Weir caught two for 13, as well.
Defensively, this incredible number: 17 tackles for loss. In one game!
Miller recorded five of them, and Gunnar Whitfield had four. Hunter Klima had two, and Kash Holleman, Weir, Braxton Harper, Still, Brody Brown, and Trevor Stinecipher had one each.
Whitfield had two sacks, and kicker Jackson Furlow, just a freshman, was 7-of-7 in extra points and also had a 28-yard field goal.
