Ardmore provided the big play once again at the 10th edition of the Super Scrimmage.
At Noble Stadium on Thursday, the Tigers blanked a game Sulphur squad 14-0 in both teams’ final tune-up before the regular season starts next week. A fourth-and-1 turnover by Sulphur led to a 17-yard Reggie Thompson touchdown run and the winning score.
On the Tigers’ next possession, running back Andra Brown took the first play from scrimmage 87 yards for the score. The senior shed a couple of tackles and outraced the Sulphur secondary down the Ardmore sideline.
“We played pretty good, but we can’t turn the ball over,” Sulphur coach Jim Dixon said. Sulphur’s fumble on the Ardmore 36-yard line came after an eight-play drive and holding the Tigers to three-and-out on their first offensive possession.
After Kenny Gordon recovered Tylor Graves’ fumble at the Sulphur 36, Ardmore got its ground game working. Brown (seven carries, 118 yards) ran for 22 yards on his first touch and the Tigers ran the ball nine consecutive plays, carrying over into the beginning of the second half. The game was played in two 12-minute halves.
Three plays into the second half, Thompson took a handoff from quarterback Trey Cohee and turned the left corner for Ardmore’s go-ahead score. Elijah Cary added extra points on each of the Tigers’ touchdowns.
“I thought we looked a little sluggish,” Ardmore coach Larry McBroom said. “We scored a couple of touchdowns, but I wish we would have tackled better.
“Overall, we weren’t as sharp as I would have liked for us to have been.”
Sulphur, making the jump from Class 2A to 3A this fall, didn’t back down against 5A Ardmore. The Bulldogs’ tandem of quarterback Ty Williams and wide receiver Caleb Neal was in sync from the start. Williams found Neal six times for 110 yards, including a 48-yard jump ball that Neal wrestled away from an Ardmore defensive back on the game’s final play.
Williams finished 8-for-12 with 144 yards in the air.
“We had a pretty good drive until we turned the ball over,” Dixon said. “We had poor tackling but I’m pretty pleased because Ardmore’s got a lot of speed.”
McBroom was more pleased with the short scrimmage against Durant in which each team ran 10 plays on offense. Akari Tucker scored a 9-yard touchdown and Cohee added a 40-yard touchdown pass to Jywayne Allen.
