Texas 5A Playoffs

SteveB

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High school football in Texas is big time and it is coming to the end of the 5A playoffs. In 5A DivII, once again it is a rematch of the 2003 Finals, Southlake Carroll vs. Katy. From what I can tell, Southlake has one black starter on defense at CB and a black RB, but is white at every other position. Katy has two black running backs and one black backup DB, but the rest of the team is white with a couple of hispanics. Katy beat all white Smithson Valley, last year's finalist, to get to the title game.Southlake beat mostly black Lufkin in the semi-finals. Three of the four semi-finalists were mostly white.

Southlake uses a spread offense much like Texas Tech with leading receivers, McKay Jacobsen (1496 yds), Evan Fentriss (897 yds), and Clint Renfro (727 yds) leading the way. QB Greg McElroy has 4308 yds passing with 52 TDs.

Katy is a more balanced attack with two black RBs combining for 2039 yds and two white WRs Michael Fuda (1203 yds, 18 TDs) and Will Thompson (371 yds, 4 TDs). Thompson also handles kick returns (2 TDs on punt returns), is the best DB with 4 interceptions returned for 2 TDs, and is considered the fastest player on the team. QB Andy Dalton has 2476 yds passing and 40 TDs.
 

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It seems that Katy was all white in the mid 90s and they had a awesome tailback who was never heard from in college.
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Do you remember who I'm talking about? He had a lot of power and speed. I believe they won the state championship in 95 with him at HB.
 

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I think that you are thinking of Bill Jatzlau. According to the Katy Tigers website he owns the school records for rushing yds/season (2565), rushing TDs (27), points scored (162), TDs in a game (5), and rushing yds in a game (322) all set in 1994. That year they lost in the state finals to Plano. Jatzlau was recruited by Baylor and never heard from again.
 

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Southlake Carroll dominated Katy 34-20 to win the 5A Championship. SL Carroll is now 63-1 in the last 4 years with it's only loss to Katy in the 2003 Championship game. Carroll and Katy have won 5 of the last 6 5A Championships.

For SL Carroll, McKay Jacobson (going to BYU) had over 100 yds receiving and a TD, safety Joseph Agnew (going to Tulsa) had 2 ints, and DB Trevor Ashlock had a pick.

For Katy, the only bright spot was Will Thompson who received a short pass and turned it into a 66 yd TD. Shortly after that he returned a punt 55 yds and almost scored again. Thompson has been WR and CB starter for the past 3 years and is the most exciting player on the team. What really chaps me is that he is not getting offers from any Div 1 schools. Here is a kid who has performed at the highest level in high school, won many awards, is 5'9" 165 lbs, runs a 4.4 sec 40, and yet can't get an opportunity to play Div 1 football. Disgusting.
 
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