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Red-hot Dayton steamrolls Galena Park
By Jerry Michalsky
Baytown Sun Published October 29, 2005 DAYTON — There was one thing the Dayton Broncos wanted to do coming into Friday night’s 19-4A contest with Galena Park, and that was clinch a playoff spot for the tenth straight year. In fact, the Bronco motto coming into the season was “A Decade of Excellence.”
Well the mission was accomplished — and then some — as Dayton blasted last season’s district champion 42-0 at Bronco Stadium.
For Dayton (6-2 4-0) it was sweet and then some as the Yellow Jackets took the district championship away from Dayton with a 14-8 overtime victory last year at Galena Park ISD Stadium.
With a win next week against Crosby, the Broncos will win another district championship for head coach Jerry Stewart, who just happens to be in his tenth year as the Bronco skipper, all of which have led to the playoffs. The Broncos had won a total of four games the previous five years before Stewart arrived.
Dayton remains the only undefeated team in 19-4A after Crosby fell to C.E. King 45-6 on Friday night.
On a night when the Bronco defense dominated, the offense was just as good, piling up 356 total years of offense.
The Yellow Jackets’ first drive of the game happened to be their best, as they took the opening kickoff and marched down to the Bronco 35-yard line before Lester Bush was stopped short on a fourth-and-two.
The Broncos did not waste much time, marching 66 yards on just six plays with Michael Dugat scoring from seven yards out with 3:40 left in the first quarter. The big play of the drive was a Sean Gilley to Andrew Thomas 30-yard pass down to the Galena Park 7-yard line.
The Thomas to Gilley connection would then account for the second Dayton score as the duo would hook up from 36 yards out with 2:54 left before the half.
Dugat’s 39-yard run set up the connection on the next play.
Thomas then returned the second half kickoff 27 yards to set Dayton up at the Yellow Jacket 39-yard line, where four plays later Dugat scored from two yards out.
James Maxwell, who returned a kickoff last week 86 yards for a score against C.E. King, did his best not to leave Galena Park feeling left out.
The junior returned a Gahn McGaffie punt 75 yards for his second special teams touchdown in two weeks to make it 28-0 with 2:02 left in the third quarter.
Maxwell and his Bronco teammates where not done, as Dugat capped off a 56-yard, seven-play drive by scoring from 10 yards out and Thomas put the final touches on the Bronco scoring by scoring from 18-yards out with 4:31 left in the contest.
Galena Park (6-3 1-3), only got inside Bronco territory twice, with the 35-yard line being their deepest penetration of the night. The Yellow Jackets were held to 161 yards of total offense with Danny Gaskamp, Brett Conner, Joe Carter, Ford Smesny, Alonzo Taylor, Anthony Bailey, Matthew Passmore, Chase Fayle, and Jacob Pickle leading the defensive charge.
Dugat rushed for a modest 101 yards on just 11 carries, while Gilley passed for 99-yards on 8-of-14 passing. Thomas caught three passes for 72 yards while adding 50 yards on the ground.
The Broncos have outscored district opponents by a whopping 207-57.
Baytown Sun Published October 29, 2005 DAYTON — There was one thing the Dayton Broncos wanted to do coming into Friday night’s 19-4A contest with Galena Park, and that was clinch a playoff spot for the tenth straight year. In fact, the Bronco motto coming into the season was “A Decade of Excellence.”
Well the mission was accomplished — and then some — as Dayton blasted last season’s district champion 42-0 at Bronco Stadium.
For Dayton (6-2 4-0) it was sweet and then some as the Yellow Jackets took the district championship away from Dayton with a 14-8 overtime victory last year at Galena Park ISD Stadium.
With a win next week against Crosby, the Broncos will win another district championship for head coach Jerry Stewart, who just happens to be in his tenth year as the Bronco skipper, all of which have led to the playoffs. The Broncos had won a total of four games the previous five years before Stewart arrived.
Dayton remains the only undefeated team in 19-4A after Crosby fell to C.E. King 45-6 on Friday night.
On a night when the Bronco defense dominated, the offense was just as good, piling up 356 total years of offense.
The Yellow Jackets’ first drive of the game happened to be their best, as they took the opening kickoff and marched down to the Bronco 35-yard line before Lester Bush was stopped short on a fourth-and-two.
The Broncos did not waste much time, marching 66 yards on just six plays with Michael Dugat scoring from seven yards out with 3:40 left in the first quarter. The big play of the drive was a Sean Gilley to Andrew Thomas 30-yard pass down to the Galena Park 7-yard line.
The Thomas to Gilley connection would then account for the second Dayton score as the duo would hook up from 36 yards out with 2:54 left before the half.
Dugat’s 39-yard run set up the connection on the next play.
Thomas then returned the second half kickoff 27 yards to set Dayton up at the Yellow Jacket 39-yard line, where four plays later Dugat scored from two yards out.
James Maxwell, who returned a kickoff last week 86 yards for a score against C.E. King, did his best not to leave Galena Park feeling left out.
The junior returned a Gahn McGaffie punt 75 yards for his second special teams touchdown in two weeks to make it 28-0 with 2:02 left in the third quarter.
Maxwell and his Bronco teammates where not done, as Dugat capped off a 56-yard, seven-play drive by scoring from 10 yards out and Thomas put the final touches on the Bronco scoring by scoring from 18-yards out with 4:31 left in the contest.
Galena Park (6-3 1-3), only got inside Bronco territory twice, with the 35-yard line being their deepest penetration of the night. The Yellow Jackets were held to 161 yards of total offense with Danny Gaskamp, Brett Conner, Joe Carter, Ford Smesny, Alonzo Taylor, Anthony Bailey, Matthew Passmore, Chase Fayle, and Jacob Pickle leading the defensive charge.
Dugat rushed for a modest 101 yards on just 11 carries, while Gilley passed for 99-yards on 8-of-14 passing. Thomas caught three passes for 72 yards while adding 50 yards on the ground.
The Broncos have outscored district opponents by a whopping 207-57.