Despite Good Defense from Lake View, "Losing is Not Good".

 

SWEETWATER, TX—The Lake View Chiefs dropped their third game of 2017 to Sweetwater 52-21, despite a solid defensive showing for the Chiefs.

“We saw good things [tonight],” Lake View Head Coach Hector Guevara said after the game. “We’ve got to catch the ball and do the little things right. You can’t play a bad game against a Sweetwater team like that.”

While the score and stats may not show it, the Chiefs’ defense was putting Sweetwater under more pressure than expected. The Chiefs had one sack and multiple quarterback hurries throughout the night. However, Sweetwater’s high tempo offense proved to be almost uncontainable for Lake View, with Sweetwater putting over 400 yards of total offense on the board.

“[The defense] has been the leading force for us,” added Guevara. “They’ve been kind of changing the momentum for us.”

However, quarterback Henry Nickias was sacked six times in Sweetwater on Friday night, quelling any threat he may have posed.

The Chiefs would be forced to punt on their opening drive after gaining one first down. The Chiefs would be hurt the very next play, by a holding call on their offensive line, pushing them back to their own eight yard line. The Chiefs would eventually punt on that drive.

Sweetwater got the scoring started at the 10:28 mark in the first quarter when Thompson found Kobe Clark from 20 yards out for the touchdown. The extra-point try was no good from the Mustangs to open the score to 6-0 early on.

The Chiefs’ defense would do well following the opening score of the game, forcing a punt out of Sweetwater. However, on the Mustangs next drive, Chris Thompson would find Kobe Clark once again from 27 yards out. A successful PAT would make it 13-0 Sweetwater with 4:48 left in the first quarter.

Sweetwater would score two more touchdowns before Lake View would answer back with an impressive 16 play, 72 yard scoring drive capped off by a three-yard pass from Henry Nickias to Kendall Blue to erase the goose egg in their part of the score column and close out the first half scoring.

After the break, Sweetwater marched 74 yards down the field in five plays on the legs of junior running back Alex Gallegos. On the fifth play of the drive, Gallegos punched in Sweetwater’s fifth touchdown of the game.

Including the Gallegos score, Sweetwater would score 19 points in the second half before the Chiefs would find the Promised Land again.

Following a Sweetwater pass interference and the score 52-6 in the fourth quarter, Nickias would strike in the form of a 44 yard touchdown pass to senior Devin Williams. Alexis Ayala struck for two points on the conversion with an end around to the left side to cut the deficit to 52-14 with 11:06 left in the game.

The Chiefs got a much needed lift on the next defensive series when senior linebacker Rafael Cruz intercepted Thompson and returned the ball to the Mustang’s 30 yard line. On the very next play, Izaiah Moreno caught a 32 yard touchdown pass from Nickias. The extra-point was converted, making the score 52-21 with 8:36 left in the game.

That pass would conclude the scoring for both teams and Sweetwater was able to kneel the rest of the time out to seal the victory.

"Losing is not good," added a somewhat cheerful Guevara. "But you can learn a lot from losing." 

Lake View moves to 0-3 this season, while Sweetwater moves to 3-0 in 2017.

The Chiefs will return home on Sept. 22 to take on Midland Greenwood (2-1) at 7:30 p.m. 

See video, pics and the narrative as the Lake View at Sweetwater game unfolded here.

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Oh my...... Did the Chiefs lose again ?
What does this make now, 0 wins with 3 straight losses ?
Buses, fuel, wages, meals and miscellaneous expenses probably cost the SAISD tax payers no less than $15,000 for that short venture to Sweetwater.

To Dr Ding-bat:
I would much rather MY tax dollars go to support the Chiefs, Bobcats, Hawks, any of our local kids than help pay for welfare or government programs for those who abuse the system (I'm not saying all do before anyone gets in an uproar).
It kind of makes me sad for you that you have nothing better to do than sit around and bash a bunch of kids that are giving their all to play a sport they love.
And if its such a concern to you, then go public, take it to the city as a complaint and show your face to San Angelo; instead of hiding behind some ridiculous name and profile pic.

oggy, Sun, 09/17/2017 - 18:30

Yes it is sad that you have someone like dingbat who probably lives with his mother and plays with himself in the back room.so sad.I love Lake View,oh by the way the boosters pay for the kids meals not your tax dollars.keep playing with yourself maybe you'll go blind.

To Dr Ding-bat:
I would much rather MY tax dollars go to support the Chiefs, Bobcats, Hawks, any of our local kids than help pay for welfare or government programs for those who abuse the system (I'm not saying all do before anyone gets in an uproar).
It kind of makes me sad for you that you have nothing better to do than sit around and bash a bunch of kids that are giving their all to play a sport they love.
And if its such a concern to you, then go public, take it to the city as a complaint and show your face to San Angelo; instead of hiding behind some ridiculous name and profile pic.

Well now Cindy, wait just a minute here.... Why would I want to waste my time making a complaint and taking it to the city ? The city has absolutely nothing to do with school systems, sports programs or some of the frivolous ways that they squander SCHOOL tax dollars....... But thanks for trying to make sense anyhow, you get a participation trophy for trying.

Lol well excuse me for my mistake, take it to the school board then. Or whoever the heck you think might actually listen to you.

oggy, Thu, 09/21/2017 - 21:24

Coach Kuhlemann sucked the life out of Lake View football,It will take years to rebuild some thing like a team that can compete.

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