2004 Cedar Park Timberwolf Football

Game-by-Game Narratives
2004

Week Six: at Stony Point
Friday, October 8th

Next up was a short road trip to Round Rock to face Stony Point, a program that always seemed to have their share of good players but usually fielded sub-par teams. CP had never lost to the Tigers, at 3-0 all-time. None of the games had even been terribly close, even in the two “down” years for CP in ’02 and ’03. So it was very likely, barring some improbable disaster, that the Timberwolves would take this game and post their fourth straight victory to go 4-2 overall and stay tied atop the league standings. (Of course P’ville and Leander would win, wouldn’t they?)

The Point’s Cameron Bell was district 15-5A’s second-leading rusher going into the game, and although the Tigers had lost every contest, they had been moving the ball on the ground. And perhaps most ominous of all, their 37-14 loss to Harker Heights was frighteningly close to the score in our own loss to those same Knights.

But once the game began, nothing was ever in doubt. There had never been a game to date in which the Cedar Park offense and defense so perfectly complimented each other.

After Wes Wagener’s kickoff, the first Stony Point possession netted only seven yards, and ended up with a blocked punt by Trevor Myogeto. The T’wolves covered the ball at the Tiger twenty and methodically covered the distance in six plays, Korey Washington running it over from the three.

Wagener kicked off again. On the second Tiger possession, they went backwards eleven yards in two plays and fumbled it away. Cedar Park started from the Tiger five and Rupert Edwards scored on the first play.

Wagener kicked off again. The third Stony Point possession gained zero yards in three plays and ended in a successful punt. Well, successful in that it wasn’t blocked. It only went twenty-one yards and Cedar Park was in business at the Tiger 41. After a nice 24-yard connection with Tyler Farst, Washington scored from fifteen yards out and it was 21-0 early in the second quarter.

Wagener kicked off again. The fourth Tiger possession was a replay of the third; zero yards on three plays and a punt. This one went only 25 yards and Cedar Park started for the first time on their side of the field, at the 44. Five plays later Edwards scored from twelve yards out and it was 28-0 Cedar Park with just over six minutes left in the half.

At that point in the contest, the Timberwolves had outgained Stony Point 122 yards to -4. Ball game.

No one expected an unprecedented third consecutive shutout from the Gang Green. No one could remember when (or if!) that had ever been done in Austin area football during modern times. Incredibly, Stony Point was held to just 102 total yards of offense – another new CP defensive record – on 62 rushing yards and just 40 through the air. Going into the fourth quarter, the Tigers had squeezed out a mere 21 yards of total offense. Cedar Park won handily 35-0, getting another TD run from Edwards in the third quarter; his third of the game. Edwards totaled 135 yards on 27 carries and three scores.

The defense had to answer one last call to preserve their third consecutive shutout. Late in the game, Timberwolf quarterback Travis Watson completed an 18-yard pass to tight end Keil Luber at the 33-yard line. But a fumble stopped that drive at the Cedar Park forty. The Tigers drove down to the seven. On fourth and one, the Gang Green stuffed a quarterback sneak and kept the goose egg from cracking.

“Coach Chip Killian called the defensive signals this season, and did a tremendous job,” said Coach Weaver. “All the coaches on defense played such important roles. Ryan George, Darin Ramsey…everybody did an unbelievable job.”

During the fourth quarter, we heard something impossible. Eyeballs popped all over Dragon Stadium as the news rolled in that Georgetown, a 3-2 team going into the night, had beaten mighty Leander at Bible Stadium, 17-13. Then we realized that Georgetown had beaten this same Stony Point team by “only” three touchdowns the week before. Our boys had just beaten them by five, and if Coach Weaver hadn’t mercifully been taking knees deep in Tiger territory at the end, it could have easily been six, at 42-0. Dare we compare our Timberwolves favorably to Leander all the sudden?

Why not? Yes, Cedar Park’s four victims were now only 5-19 on the year. But The Timberwolves were doing to poor teams what great teams should do to poor teams: thorough and absolute domination, huge rushing yardage totals, three straight games that were over before halftime, on back-to-back-to-back shutouts. It might just be coming together.

The heady wine of victory now began to flow freely. Certainly we realized that perhaps the three easiest teams in the district – based on records at the time – were the three we’d beaten, and that the tougher teams lie ahead, but…no one else was shutting these teams out! Cedar Park had allowed zero points in achieving their share of the 3-0 district lead that had now been reduced from three to two frontrunners: our Timberwolves and Pflugerville. Dare we entertain thoughts that, not only were we a respectable team, a pretty decent team, a team that would give even the best teams a tough time… but, maybe we were one of those “best” teams ourselves? Just perhaps?

It was intriguing to ponder. Cedar Park was now 4-2 and 3-0 and starting to get some publicity. But it turned out that Stony Point would be their last “easy” game of the year.

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