Cardinals stun Tigers at Home
By Marty Mayfield
KRTN Multi-Media
Two plays,
only two plays and a PAT, Robertson was on the scoreboard with seven and only
45 seconds have run off the clock. Coach Brock Walton later said, “I thought we
were better prepared than we really appeared to be.” As The Robertson Cardinals
stun the Tigers in a 35 to 6 romp.
The
Robertson defense did their job as well and held Raton at bay. The next
Robertson series ended with a field goal attempt that went wide. Raton now had
the ball on the 20 and with the help of a persona foul penalty they moved
forward. Matt Ortiz laid out a short pass to George Marquez and 60 yards later
Raton had six. The PAT wobbled wide and it was a 6-7 game at 3:58 on the clock.
As second
quarter action got underway Robertson’s Justin Bustos made the 37-yard field goal,
11:52 on the clock and it was a 6-10 score. Again the Cardinal defense did
their job and kept Raton clear of the goal line and getting the ball back on
their 23.
The next
Robertson series was all Dalan Abreu with a little help from Cardinal quarterback
Girard Maestas who took it on the ground and rambled up the field. Abreu
himself went 10, 15, and then 30 yards, which placed the ball at the Raton one.
Abreu did the honors and went in almost untouched. Bustos missed the PAT and
left Robertson on top 16-6.
The second
half was even crueler to the Tigers when Robertson’s Dalan Abreu picked off a
Matt Ortiz pass at the Raton 40. A 28 yard run by Maestas was called back on a
hold and then a procedure penalty had Robertson on a 1st and 25. A
run then a 25-yard pass play and it was at the five. This time James Gonzales
took the honors and six. Bustos shanked the PAT and it was now a 22-6 ball
game.
The
Robertson defense forces a Raton punt and from the Robertson 37 they march up
field. Penalties plague this series but they go both ways and a facemask
penalty puts the ball on the Raton six. Maestas rambles in from the six and
Bustos nails the PAT for a 29-6 game.
Raton
rumbles down the field, inside the red zone Raton suffers a sack and then in
the end zone it goes, no not a Raton touchdown but a Robertson pass
interception by Dominic Lucero. Robertson took the ball at the 20 and worked it
to the 35 where Girard Maestas seals the deal with a 65-yard romp for six. The
PAT failed and left the score a dismal 35 to 6 with only 5:42 left on the
clock.
Robertson
again ended another Raton drive deep in Cardinal territory when Lucero found
another Matt Ortiz pass. It was only a matter of running out the clock and
Robertson did that with the second-string offense then the first-string defense
held Raton and forced the ball over on downs. A knee ended the game and a
stunned Raton team wondered what happened.
After the
game the Raton huddle was quiet and coach Walton shaking his head told KRTN we
will have to go back and look at the video. He added the coaches will have to
study the video and see what went wrong. One thing that did go wrong was
allowing the run to the outside, which often times ended in big yardage.
Raton will
now prepare and travel to West Las Vegas for the final district game of the
season Friday night.
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