Dragon Football Collects Another Conference Win; Boys’ Cross Country Finish Second In Maverick Ramble

VARSITY FOOTBALL Undefeated Dragons Add Fourth SPC Win of the Season

10/12 vs Oklahoma City Casady* • 44-10 WIN

John Cooper improves to 7-0 overall and 4-0 in SPC 3A play

Next game for the Dragons: John Cooper travels to Fort Worth Trinity Valley Friday the 19th for a 7:00 PM kickoff

Statistics:
Offensive statistics:
Passing:
Evan Minarovic was 20-34 for 310 yards 5 TD passes and 1 INT
Rushing:
Thomas Elkhoury carried 2 times for 86 yards and 1 TD
Ben Deloit carried 9 times for 54 yards
Evan Minarovic carried 11 times for 54 yards
Jake Peterson carried two times for 17 yards
Receiving:
Thomas Elkhoury had 7 receptions for 128 yards and 4 TDs
Rob DeLoit had 3 catches for 71 yards
Ben DeLoit had 3 catches for 40 yards
Logan Leax had 3 catches for 19 yards

** Thomas Elkhoury had 214 total yards and he scored 5 touchdowns **

Defensive statistics:
Tackles:
Matt Krehbiel had 13 tackles and 3 of those tackles were tackles for a loss
Cameron Reed had 11 tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss
Jake Peterson had 11 tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss
Thomas Elkhoury had 3 tackles
Turnovers:
Jake Peterson had a fumble recovery
Cameron Reed had a fumble recovery
Parker Edwards had an interception

From Coach Brent Landrum: This was our most complete team win. Defensively we held them to 10 points and under 300 yards of offense. We tackled well, we created turnovers, and we played with incredible effort on defense all night long. Special teams had a great night. James Araya is kicking  the ball well. He made a nice field goal last night. We recovered an onside kick. Ronnie Woodall made some great tackles on kickoffs. Offensively we had our best night running the ball. We gained over 200 yards rushing. The offensive line had their best game to date in the run game and they protected the passer well all night. Thomas Elkhoury had five touchdowns, that doesn’t happen often. Evan Minarovic threw five more touchdown passes, bringing his season total to 34 TD passes to only 5 interceptions. Rob DeLoit stepped in for an an injured Logan Lex and had a great night receiving the football. I am extremely proud of the focus this team has shown. We have a huge test this Friday in Fort Worth vs. Trinity Valley. We need a great week of practice. Go Dragons!

Next up for Dragon Football:
Oct.19 at Fort Worth Trinity Valley*, 7 p.m.
Nov. 2 vs. Austin Saints*, 7 p.m. SENIOR NIGHT

VARSITY VOLLEYBALL

10/11 vs. Episcopal High School* 3-0 LOSS

From Coach Ray Hedden: We played a hard-fought match losing in three sets (24-26, 22-25 and 21-25) to the reigning SPC champs. Episcopal is big and athletic. We did well and had some great rallies! I am proud of how hard we fought! We have some work ahead of us needing to win two of the next three SPC matches.

Season record: 19–3 SPC record: 1-2

Next up for Dragon Volleyball:
Oct. 18 at Kinkaid*, 6 p.m.
Oct. 25 vs. Houston Christian*, 5:30 p.m. DIG PINK
Oct. 30 vs. St. John’s School*, 6 p.m. SENIOR NIGHT

VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY Boys’ Team Finishes 2nd, Girls Finish 5th.

10/13 at St. John’s Maverick Ramble-TC Jester Park

Dragon cross country teams competed in the St Johns Maverick Ramble on Saturday. The boys finished in 2nd place just a few points behind the host team of St John’s. The boys were led by seniors Mitchell Shannon and Eli Araya, who finished in 5th and 6th place. Erik Burns and Cadan Hanson also ran well finishing in 13th and 20th. Will McDermott and Drew Wilkerson finished out Cooper’s scoring in 26th and 28th place.

Boys' Team Finishes 2nd
5th Mitchell Shannon 16:27
6th Eli Araya 16:51
13th Erik Burns 17:03
20th Cadan Hanson 17:33
26th Will McDermott 17:46

Dragon girls finished in the 5th place, just one point behind SPC’s St Andrew’s. Junior Madison Breaux had her best meet of the year finishing in 13th place. Uche Oguchi followed her in 16th place. Freshman Rebecca Melin also had a great race finishing in 23rd followed by Paige Cromley in 25th. Freshman Abby Mendenhall was our final scorer in 27th place. Mendenhall has been gradually making her comeback from a stress fracture at the beginning of the season. “After missing a few weeks of training, it is great to see her making quick progress,” said Coach George Dohner. “We have a couple of kids that are struggling a bit with minor injuries, so we had some runners step up to fill those spots. This shows that we have some depth and will hopefully be able to build on that once we get everyone healthy.”

Girls' Team Finishes 5th
13th Madison Breaux 21:20
16th Uche Oguchi 21:37
23rd Rebecca Melin 21:45
25th Paige Cromley 21:54
27th Abby Mendenhall 22:08

“This was a good meet for Cooper as we got to see how we matched up, head to head, with a couple of SPC schools we haven’t seen yet,” said Dohner “We did a good job and we are making progress with each meet on our way to SPC Championships in Dallas”

Next up for Cooper will be the SPC South Zone meet in Austin on Saturday, October 27.

Next up for Dragon Cross Country:
Oct. 27 at SPC South Zone Championships at St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Nov. 2 SENIOR NIGHT
Nov. 10 at SPC Championships at Norbuck Park

UPCOMING VARSITY SPORTS ACTION AT HOME
Thursday, October 25
5:30 p.m. Varsity Volleyball vs Houston Christian* DIG PINK
Tuesday, October 30
5:30 p.m. Varsity Volleyball vs St. John’s* SENIOR NIGHT for Volleyball
Friday, November 2
7 p.m. Varsity Football vs Austin Saints* SENIOR NIGHT for Football, Cheer and Cross Country

*conference matchup