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bullitpdq68

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Don't know if I will have time to track picks this year, we will see.

Big 8
Monett@Nevada
Aurora@Mt. Vernonbell bowl
Cassville@Seneca
Lamar@Mac County
East Newton@Springfield Catholic
 
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Monett at Nevada -- Nevada
Aurora at Mount Vernon -- Mount Vernon
Cassville at Seneca -- Seneca (planning to go watch this one)
Lamar at McDonald County -- Lamar (the lone road favorite?)
East Newton at Springfield Catholic -- Catholic
 
Nevada
Mount Vernon
Seneca
Lamar
Catholic


The last game is the only one in doubt.
 
Monett at Nevada -- Nevada
Aurora at Mount Vernon -- Mount Vernon
Cassville at Seneca -- Seneca (planning to go watch this one)
Lamar at McDonald County -- Lamar (the lone road favorite?)
East Newton at Springfield Catholic -- Catholic
That Seneca Cassville game is interesting, I am afraid Seneca may run away with it.
 
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That Seneca Cassville game is interesting, I am afraid Seneca may run away with it.

I'm not sure what to expect to be honest ... will be pleased to watch a competitive game. As mentioned elsewhere, CJ, Webb, Joplin, Carthage, Neosho are all road warriors and I wanted to find the best closest game to go watch.

Kansas and Oklahoma are idle for one more week, Jasper, Diamond, Lockwood, Sarcoxie and the school formerly known as College Heights are all home but I'm passing on those schools in week one. That left Cassville at Seneca or Lamar at McDonald County.

Either way I'm having post game ice cream ... but I would like to see a good game in week 1.
 
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Nevada 51-0
Mount Vernon 28-10
Seneca 42-13
Lamar 45-28
East Newton (Granby) 22-6

Logan-Rogersville (Rogersville) 31-21
Marshfield 28-19
 
Seeing all you experts picked Mt Vernon to beat Aurora, Maybe the houns will be good this year.
 
Seeing all you experts picked Mt Vernon to beat Aurora, Maybe the houns will be good this year.
I was on the fence on that one. Watched the first half of the game. Mistakes kept this game close in the first half.

My only miss was Mac co.
 
What kept it close in the second half?
Son and I went to Seneca thinking it would be the better of the two “closer” games to us Friday night. Watched one half of that game, was 35-6 at the half and should have been 42-6 (Seneca was stopped at 1 as time expired) on the final play of the first half.

While checking scores, read that Lamar and McDonald County was 18-14 second quarter so we decided to make a beeline to Anderson for that game. Got there with 10 minutes left in the third quarter.

From what we watched … McDonald County has a southpaw quarterback who can sling it. He looked good, except he threw an interception in the end zone that was costly and found out earlier in the game he threw an interception right to the Lamar linebacker who was able to take it back for a score.

Second costly mistake by McDonald County was in the fourth quarter, had Lamar in a third and 24 situation and they converted it into a first down with over 3 minutes left. I assumed Lamar would run it for a first down and kill the clock and leave with the victory.

Nope, Lamar passed for a touchdown and a 32-14 lead.

McDonald County drove down and scored with 18 seconds left and no timeouts remaining to make it 32-21. Then they immediately recovered the onside kick, first play a touchdown pass and 11 seconds left. Mustangs went for 2, got it and a 32-29 score.

Lamar recovered the second onside kick and that was the ballgame. Should have gone to Anderson from the start.
 
What kept it close in the second half?
Aurora was better than I thought. Still think they only win 5 games this year max. Mt. Vernon made wat too many mistakes. Threw a pic on first play of game. Had another drive ended with another bad int. Another drive inside the 3 and had a dumb penalty push them back and they ended up missing a FG. Best drive was at the end of the game. They could of punched it In but just kneeled on it inside the 5. ( What you should do.). Just a sloppy game by them. They play like that Friday and Seneca will Turbo clock them.
 
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