Plowboys Down Munday 12-0 in Rain, Wind

Barrett Beal goes ten yards for a Plowboy touchdown. (Football photos by Tamara Alexander.)

Some football games, especially those played in bad weather, are just ugly no matter how they turn out. Such was the contest in Munday Friday evening, one that saw the Plowboys come out on top 12-0. High winds and intermittent rain on a sloppy field kept both teams from performing normally, and fans just tried to keep warm and dry. There was so much water from an earlier rain that a big pool had to be pumped clear of water before the Plowboy fans could make it to the visitors’ stands.

The Plowboys scored two touchdowns in the game. The first came in the second quarter after a Plowboy drive when Jose Ortega went over from the six. The second came after another Plowboy drive in the third when Barrett Beal scored on a ten-yard run. Munday never made it to the end zone. In the second quarter, they made it to the Plowboy one before being stopped, and the same thing happened again in the third quarter as they were once again turned away on the one-yard line.

Munday’s field runs east-west instead of north-south, and the strong north wind kept both teams from throwing. Plowboy quarterback Barrett Beal, who usually passes about 30 times per game, attempted only 10, completing 6 of them with 1 interception. Munday passed 12 times and never completed any except for two interceptions. 

Top receivers for the Plowboys were Brandon Lavalais with 2 catches for 55 yards and Nick Limones with 2 catches for 14 yards. Junior Martinez and Jose Ortega both had one catch.

Ortega was the leading Plowboy rusher with 5 carries for 35 yards, while Limones had 14 carries for 34.

The defense was led by Ortega with 7 tackles, Gary Shaw with 6, Garrett Bowers with 3½, and Ryan Highsmith with 3. Several others had either two or one. Ortega and Martinez had one interception each.

Gary Shaw (32) makes the tackle as Jacob Rainey (50) and Ryan Highsmith (6) close in.

The Plowboys have this weekend off and will resume play next Friday, October 5, when they travel to Plainview to play a non-district game with Gruver. Their next home game will be their district opener with Hamlin the following Friday, October 12.

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WADE BOWEN, SAINTS ELEVEN AT LUMBERYARD SATURDAY

Wade Bowen

Red Dirt/Texas Country singing star Wade Bowen returns with his band to the Lumberyard Saturday night with Saints Eleven opening the show.  

Bowen, originally from Waco and a Texas Tech grad, has grown in popularity over the years and now has a large following. His albums include Try Not to Listen (2002), The Blue Light Live (2004), Lost Hotel (2006), If We Ever Make It Home (2008), Live at Billy Bob’s Texas (2010), and The Given (2012), Wade Bowen (2014), and Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother (2016).  He’s also produced two CDs with fellow Texas Country artist Randy Rogers—Hold My Beer, Vol. 1 (2015) and Watch This (2016).

His latest studio album, Solid Ground, released earlier this year, is also now available.

Top singles include “Trouble,” “Songs About Trucks,” “Who I Am,” “Mood Ring,” and “Why Can’t You Love Me.”

Saints Eleven.

Opening for Wade Bowen is Saints Eleven, a band that sings a mix of Texas Country, Red Dirt, and honky tonk. The band is originally from Midlothian, just south of Dallas, and is well known at clubs in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex.

Composed of Jeff Grossman, Alex Shepherd, Ivan L.Pierce  and Alex Johnson, the band’s most recent albums are Saints Eleven: One Night at a Time and Coming Back Around. Singles include “I’ll Be Fine,” “One Night at a Time,” “Just for Tonight,” “Turns to Rust,” and “Man in the Water.”  

For reservations and more information, contact the Lumberyard at 325-766-2457.

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HENDRICK REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER SEEKS DONORS

The Hendrick Regional Blood Center of Abilene is looking for volunteers to donate blood this Friday, September 28, from 9:00am to 2:00pm. The Bloodmobile will be located on 7th Street in front of the Roscoe Collegiate High School Special Events Center. Donations will take approximately 30-45 minutes, and donors are advised to eat a good meal and drink plenty of fluid beforehand.  

Your donation could save a life. To reserve a sign-up time or for questions, phone Nick Anthony, CD, of College Chiropractors at 325-766-3423.  Walk-up donors are also welcome.

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ROSCOE IN YEARS GONE BY: CARS IN THE PRE-WAR YEARS

Editor’s note: This is another excerpt from Herschel Whittington’s Smiles and Tears of Boyhood Years, memories of growing up in Roscoe in the 1930s and early 1940s.

1941 Ford

The average new car in 1941 probably cost no more than $800 and smelled like a new car without being sprayed internally with New-Car scent. Big-time automobile accessories included seat covers, external windshield visors, and spotlights mounted on the driver’s side windshield posts and controllable from within by the drivers.

Few cars had such simple devices as air filters for carburetors, or oil filters. Tires enclosed inner-tubes. Every car had—or at least needed—a hand pump, because tires and tubes leaked air. Flats were frequent. No steel-belted radials back then. Every thousand miles or so, the wheels had to come off so the brakes could be adjusted by hand to offset wear. Two-tone paint jobs were common.

All car paint tended to come off pretty quickly, especially if the car sat outside in the weather, or received frequent waxings and buffings.

I don't remember ever seeing a white car prior to World War Two.

No one locked a car back then, at least not in our neck of the woods. In fact, we generally didn't even remove the key from the ignition. Still, cars never got stolen—not in West Texas. Frontiersmen may have heaped all kinds of abuses on one another, but they didn't steal one another's horse or other means of transportation. To do so was sure death, usually by hanging from the nearest tree at the hands of a posse of outraged vigilantes. This hang 'em attitude carried over to the automobile era, at least up to World War Two. Maybe it should still be unwritten law.

1941 Chevy Suburban

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WEATHER REPORT: MORE RAIN

The Roscoe area got another good rain this past weekend, and the town is greener now than it has been all year. Here in town, anywhere from 1½ to 2 inches fell, and Roscoe weatherman Kenny Landfried recorded the official total as 2.1". However, larger amounts fell south and east of town with places around Maryneal reporting from five to seven inches. It was enough that Lake Trammell had water going over the spillway on Sunday. Areas west of town got less with some places totaling less than an inch.

Then last night a strong cold front blew in with strong winds and a temperature drop of around thirty degrees. Yesterday afternoon's high was 89°F while this afternoon’s is not forecast to make it above 57°. Chances for rain will diminish this afternoon as the front pushes through, and the strong winds will die down this evening. 

Then, sunny skies and a warming trend characterize tomorrow and Friday with afternoon highs of 75° and 81° respectively. Skies will be partly cloudy on Saturday and Sunday with highs of 78° and 80° and lows in the low sixties. Chances of precipitation are 10% tomorrow and Friday and 20% Saturday and Sunday.

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