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Murfreesboro
Rattlers Football
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322 East 13th Street
Murfreesboro,
Arkansas 71958
Phone: (870) 285-2228
Fax:
(870) 285-2144
10/16/09
MURFREESBORO, AR- The Murfreesboro Rattlers took over sole
possession of first place in district 7-2A with a 45-6
win over the Foreman Gators (1-5, 0-3) in Murfreesboro.
The Rattlers (6-1, 4-0) took a 24-0 lead at the half and coasted
the rest of the way. Cody Fugitt led the Rattlers with 122
yards rushing on 12-totes and 2-touchdowns while Garrett Gills
had 14 tackles for the Rattlers defense.
Murfreesboro's next game is this Friday night at Mt. Ida (2-4, 1-3)
at 7:30 p.m. Dierks beat Mt. Ida 20-7. You can listen to the
Mt. Ida Vs. Murfreesboro game live on our web site at
www.kwxi.net.
10/9/09
MINERAL SPRINGS, AR- In a game of biblical proportions, the
Murfreesboro Rattlers upset state ranked Mineral Springs 26-0
Friday at Mineral Springs. Cody Fugitt rushed for a 70-yard
and 10-yard touchdown runs, Austin Hignight recovered a fumble
and returned it 35-yards for a touchdown and Wesley Womack
completed a 40-yard touchdown pass to Tyler McRae for the
Rattlers while their defense totally shut down the Mineral
Springs offense.
Murfreesboro is tied for first place with
Spring Hill who beat Mt. Ida. Murfreesboro will host Foreman
Friday night; Foreman is 1-5 overall and 0-2 in district.
9/11/09
ROSBORO, AR- The Murfreesboro Rattlers (2-0) spoiled the
Centerpoint Knights (0-1-1) home opener last Friday with a
dominating 35-0 win in front of a huge crowd at Rosboro
Stadium in Rosboro, Ark.
Murfreesboro's quarterback Tyler McRae pitch's the ball back
to Cody Fugitt as Murfreesboro's line holds Centerpoint back.
In Murfreesboro's 35-0 victory over Centerpoint.
The Knights didn’t have 100 yards of offence,
the Knights gained 24-yards on the last play of the game to
get a total of 89-yards in total offense and until that play
they only had 65-yards.“
We got stoned,” Cary Rogers, Centerpoint Knights head coach
said. “It was every bit as bad as it sounds.
Murfreesboro's Garrett Gills gets into Centerpoints secondary
for extra yardage against Centerpoint.
Cody Fugitt takes the hand-off from Murfreesboro's quarterback
and head into the line against the Centerpoint Knights.
9/4/09
MURFREESBORO, AR- The Murfreesboro Rattlers squeaked by the
Gurdon Go-Devils 20-19 in their first game of the 2009 season
in Murfreesboro last Friday night. Rattlers quarterback Tyler
McRae scored the 2-point conversion with 2:58 remaining game
to cap off a Cody Fugitt 70-yard touchdown run to win the game
in spectacular fashion.
McRae passed for two other touchdowns, once for
19-yards to Wesley Womack and again for 12-yards to Garrett
Gills.
Fugitt was the Rattlers leading rusher with 13
totes for 101-yards. Womack had five receptions for 57-yards
and Gills had five grabs for 84-yards.
Drew Cox led the Rattlers defense with twelve
tackles and Gills had ten tackles.
The Rattlers play the Centerpoint Knights this
Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Rosboro Stadium in Rosboro, Ark. You
can listen to the game on KWXI AM-FM and streamed on line at
www.kwxi.net
Pre Season Preview by Robert Del Giorno
MURFREESBORO, AR- The Murfreesboro Rattlers
football team under the tutelage of head coach Jay Turley who
has a career record of 23-12 going into his fourth year at the
helm of the Rattlers are coming off a 5-6 record last year and
they’re making changes this year with hopes of finishing
higher in the Conference 7-2A standings so they can get a
better seating in the Arkansas high school football playoffs.
“First thing that we have to do is win the conference so we
can have some home field advantage through the playoffs,” Jay
Turley, Murfreesboro Rattlers head coach said. “It’s tough to
travel in the playoffs, especially that second week when you
have to go to Junction City or Bearden where we’ve seemed to
have gone the last couple of years. That’s a tough draw.”
The
Rattlers run a spread offense and a 3-3 defense and coach
Turley said that right now there team’s strength is the
Rattlers defense.
“I’m going to say defense is our strength right now. Our
offense still has a lot of young guys or inexperienced in some
places,” Turley said. “We’ve moved them around and we have
them playing in different places and it will take us time to
catch up in that area.”
One
of the changes that the Rattlers have made is that they moved
senior Tyler McRae from receiver to quarterback.
“The quarterback last year (Garrett Gills) really didn’t like
playing quarterback and if you don’t like playing quarterback;
you’re not going to be effective. Garrett (Gills) is a better
receiver for us,” Coach Turley said. “Tyler is real smart and
he’s a pitcher in baseball so we said hay; let’s teach him how
to throw a football and let him control the game for us.”
Saying that McRae is smart is an understatement, he had a 30
on the ACT and he has a 4.0 GPA.
Gills who is a senior (6-0, 190) will be a good target
for McRae because he has 4.6 speed and in 4-games at wide
receiver last year he racked up 381 yards and 6-touchdowns.
Besides McRae and Gills, Coach Turley said that another player
to watch on the Rattlers offense is senior fullback Cory
Fugitt. Fugitt (6-0, 200) won the 100 and 200 meter sprints at
the conference track meet and he has size, speed and strength.
Even though the Rattlers run the spread offence, they still
like to run the football more than they like to pass.
“We
run mostly,” Turley said. “We will run and play action pass a
lot.”
On
defense the Rattlers 3-3 defense is diversified and coach
Turley like they way you can bring the outside linebackers in
when you want to bring more players on the line.
“The 3-3 is pretty versatile and se can get down to a 5-3 real
easy when we’re in it (the 3-3) by moving the outside
linebackers in. It’s something that we like and we get a
lot of kids moving around and it seems to work well for us,”
Coach Turley said.
On
defense Coach Turley said the players to watch on defense are
senior linebackers Drew Cox (5-7, 190) and Gills.
The
Rattlers open their season September 4th against
Gurdon at home.
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