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| 39 earn letters, Curtis is MVP for MC football |
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12/20/2007
By Dan Manley
Advocate Sports Editor
They honored the 2007 Montgomery County High School football team Sunday afternoon at the MCHS cafeteria with senior Kaleb Curtis walking away with the Most Valuable Player award.
Curtis, who set a number of school records and was named the Class 5A District Player of the Year, was also named the Most Valuable Offensive Back and the Caswell Prewitt Realty Tiny Jones Leadership Award winner along with earning Academic All-State honorable mention honors.
On a more global scale, 39 players earned letters, including 19 who lettered for the first time.
“After that first season,” Coach Dan Gooch told the crowd, “I told my wife it was going to be a long time coming (success). But thanks to a dedicated coaching staff and a lot of hard work by the players we found success much quicker than I thought possible.”
The Indians, who went from 1-9 in Gooch’s first campaign to 5-6 last year and then 8-4 in 2007, won a playoff game this season for the first time in almost a decade and finished as district runners-up.
The MVP award was voted on by the players while the other awards represented decisions made by Dan Gooch and the members of his coaching staff.
The letter winners for 2007 are:
Seniors
Jimmy Castaneda, Dennis Coomer, Kaleb Curtis, Steven Davis, Jake Garland, Ryan Hall, Steven Hovermale, B.J. Jones, Phillip Means, Jamil Owens, Joe Stanfield, Zack Stroub, Jessie Vaughn and Logan Witt.
Juniors
Dan Bailey, Ronnie Bryson, Tyler Cundiff, Grant Darnell, Cody Groves, Ryan Hackworth, Nick Hendrix, Tyler Hussey, Charles Valentine and Will Young.
Sophomores
Blaine Catron, Gabe Copley, Travis Cundiff, Reise Collins, Zach Hood, Patrick Jorgensen, Anthony Leger, Cory LeMay, Andre McCall, Tyler Murphy, Kaleb Prater and Ben Tuttle.
Freshmen
Justin Covey, Seth Dotson and Ethan Shuler.
Of the 56 players on the Montgomery County roster in grades 9-12, 10 made the Academic All-State Team and two, sophomores Tyler Murphy and Patrick Jorgensen, were on the first team.
In Class 5A, Montgomery County finished among the leaders in a number of categories (based on 10-game regular season):
Individual Rushing—Kaleb Curtis was 11th with 93.2 yards per game.
Individual Scoring—Curtis was 11th with 9.6 points per game.
Scoring Defense—Montgomery County was eighth giving up 18.4 points per games.
Scoring Margin—Montgomery County was 13th with a margin of 6.9 points per game.
Team Rushing Offense—Montgomery County was 11th with an average of 198.6 yards per game.
Team Rushing Defense—Montgomery County was 13th allowing just 126.4 yards per game.
Team Pass Defense—Montgomery County was third, allowing just 102.2 yards per game.
Overall Montgomery County finished 10th in Class 5A.
There were also a number of school records set this past season and Gooch read the list while stating that he’s still in the process of researching to gather more complete records for the football program, which is now 40 years old.
The event was sponsored by the Quarterback Club.
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