Frisco Wakeland
Pilot Point 34 Frisco Wakeland 0
Pilot Point's Arthur Buckingham is wrapped up on a run in the third quarter of the Bearcats' 34-0 win Thursday night.
Pilot Point quarterback Arthur Buckingham scambles for yards against Frisco Wakeland
Yardstick
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Pilot Point
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Frisco
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First Downs
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19
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5
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Rushing Yards
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46-263
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12-13
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Passing Yards
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135
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119
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Comp-Att-Int
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7-10-2
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13-24-0
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Fumbles Lost
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0-0
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0-0
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Penalties
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5-40
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7-75
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Punting
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0-0
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6-29.5
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Pilot Point 34, Frisco Wakeland 0
Pilot Point 7 6 8 13 - 34
Wakeland 0 0 0 0 - 0
First Quarter
P - Cooper Guthrie 3 run (Ricky Loftis kick).
Second Quarter
P - Guthrie 5 run (kick failed).
Third Quarter
P - Stuart Tilley 31 pass from Arthur Buckingham (Guthrie run).
Fourth Quarter
P - Wes Ford 7 run (kick failed).
P - Ford 7 pass from Ethan Stuckly (Loftis kick).
Individual Statistics
Rushing: PP - Cooper Guthrie 22-134, Wes Ford 10-87, Stuart Tilley 4-9, Arthur Buckingham 9-24, Ethan Stuckly 2-19, Michael Yarnall 1-10. W - Phillip Floyd 4-3, Will Secord 5-8, Lee Harris 2-7, Jordan Drake 1-(-5).
Passing: PP - Buckingham 6-9-2-118, Stuckly 1-1-0-7. W - Will Secord 13-23-0-119.
Receiving: PP - Adam McBride 4-88, Tilley 1-31, Justin Brown 1-9, Ford 1-7. W - Darius Davis 4-84, Drake 1-3, Calvin Seidler 4-19.
Cats turn in near flawless win, 34-0
By Richard Greene
Assistant Editor
The Pilot Point Bearcats Thursday night wrote a near perfect ending to the regular season and kept their momentum building for next week’s playoff opener.
The Bearcats rolled up 398 yards of offense and posted their third shutout of the season in a 34-0 drumming of Frisco Wakeland at Frisco Memorial Stadium.
“I’m proud of the way our football team is playing right now,” said Pilot Point coach Blake Feldt. “We played good offensively and ran the ball well. We’re playing good defense. It’s just a lot of fun to coach this team right now and we’re getting better each week.”
The Bearcats will play Emory Rains Friday night in Greenville at 7:30 in the Class 3A Division II bi-district championship. It will be the Bearcats’ 27th playoff appearance in 28 years.
Pilot Point will enter the playoffs with the momentum of three straight wins – its longest winning streak of the season. Thursday night was perhaps the most impressive of the three straight wins.
Offensively, the Bearcats dominated up front and rolled up a season-high 263 yards on the ground. Pilot Point put up three scoring drives of 11 plays or more. The longest was a 17-play, 85-yard drive that ate up nearly eight minutes of the second quarter.
“That’s just old school football; driving it down their throats and eating the clock three to four yards at a time,” said Pilot Point senior center Monty Chambers.
Sophomore tailback Cooper Guthrie carried the ball in the final five yards of the 17-play drive to give Pilot Point a 13-0 halftime lead. Guthrie also scored on a 3-yard run on Pilot Point’s first possession. Guthrie finished with 134 yards on 22 carries.
“Cooper has played good all year for us,” Feldt said. “He’s played very well the last three weeks. I’m real proud of the way he’s playing and the way we’re running the football.”
Pilot Point really had only two miscues all night on offense. Senior quarterback Arthur Buckingham tossed a pair of first quarter interceptions. They were two of only three passes he did not connect on all night. He finished with 118 yards through the air, completing six of eight passes. He tossed a 31-yard touchdown to Stuart Tilley on Pilot Point’s opening possession of the second half.
“I wished we wouldn’t have thrown those two interceptions in the first quarter,” Feldt said. “Those were our only miscues of the night. But after those we didn’t have an incompletion the rest of the night.”
Defensively, the Bearcats were dominating. Pilot Point held Wakeland to 132 total yards, including 13 yards rushing on 12 carries. Wakeland managed only five first downs.
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