Game Recaps

11-18-2011 Rockwall-Heath Hawks 38 vs Kimball HS 6 Recap

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4A Div I Area Championship - 2nd Round Game

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GARLAND — There’s no such thing as having too many offensive weapons. On Friday, Rockwall-Heath used its Class 4A Division I, Region II playoff game to showcase the depth of its arsenal.

Whether it was freshman running back Rico Henderson or wide receivers Amaris Fields and Shyon Motlagh, Heath found success, easily blowing past Dallas Kimball, 38-6, at Homer B. Johnson Stadium.

Henderson and Fields set the tone in the first half, combining for 186 yards of offense and three scores as Heath (11-1) took a 28-6 lead into halftime.

Henderson did most of the dirty work inside the tackles, finishing with 84 yards and two touchdowns.

“He doesn’t outrun a lot of people, but I’ve never seen a kid with that kind of instinct,” Heath coach Mickey Moss said. “Such a natural running back. He’s going to be a great one.”

Fields did all of his damage on only two touches, one of which was a 65-yard score on a reverse, a play that allowed the senior to show his superior speed.

“He just made an incredible play,” Moss said of the reverse, a play he admitted was not typical for his team.

Like Fields, Motlagh only needed a pair of touches to make a significant impact. The junior caught two passes and turned them both into touchdowns.

After falling behind by multiple scores in the second quarter, Kimball (9-3) just didn’t have an offense capable of getting back in the game. Whether it was rotating quarterbacks or attempting fake punts, nothing seemed to work.

Heath advances to face Sherman next Saturday at Fouts Field in Denton.

11-11-2011 Frisco Wakeland Wolverines 21 @ Rockwall-Heath Hawks 22 Recap

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1st Round playoff game in 4a Division 1. Winning team advances to play the winner of Dallas Kimball - Bryan Adams Game.

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Friday, November 11, 2011
Late score lifts Rockwall-Heath past Wakeland

By Brittany Levine

DALLAS -- Rockwall-Heath has been in this position before.

ESPNDallas.com’s seventh-ranked team fought back in the final minutes to defeat Frisco Wakeland, 22-21, in Class 4A Division I bi-district playoffs Friday at Wildcat-Ram Stadium.
Coach Mickey Moss didn't have too much to say in the postgame huddle and simply repeated the words “never give up” over and over.

“That’s a sign of this team in the fourth quarter. Nine of our 11 games have all been decided in the last three minutes of the ball game,” Moss said. “We have won eight of them. That says a lot about our kids.”

Wakeland struck first on quarterback Nick West’s 5-yard touchdown pass to Carson Carew in the first quarter.

Rockwall-Heath closed the gap to 7-3 with a 31-yard field goal from Ethan Smith and briefly went ahead in the second quarter after an Amaris Fields 54-yard punt return for a touchdown.

Wakeland answered when West scored on a 1-yard run with 36 seconds remaining in the first half to take a 14-10 lead at the break.

Wakeland extended the lead on Dan Harrington's 9-yard touchdown reception from West early in the third quarter.

But the offense really began to click in the third quarter for Rockwall-Heath, which started moving the ball well and was able to find holes in the Wolverines’ defense.

Rico Henderson’s 1-yard run capped off a touchdown drive late in the third quarter that pulled Rockwall-Heath within 21-16 after a missed conversion attempt.

Henderson’s 11-yard run with 3:04 left in the game finished off the late comeback for Rockwall-Heath and sent his team into the next round of playoffs.

“We just continued to play hard and execute and not make as many mistakes as we did in the first half,” Moss said.

Henderson and Moss were pleased to win, but both were already looking forward to the next game.

“Tomorrow we will recover and hit the weight room hard and condition. Every game in the fourth quarter it seems like our kids have been the strongest,” Moss said. “So, we believe we have to turn around tomorrow and hit the weight room and do a lot of running and watch film and then prepare for the next one."

Rockwall-Heath will face Kimball next Friday in the area playoffs.