However, going into the Frisco game, I can tell you we were still confident. We had pummeled them 42-0 at Frisco the year before and expected more of the same in 1993. We got off to a sloppy start though and had an unexpected amount of penalties in the game. It was 12-6 going into the 4th Qtr. until we scored two more touchdowns in route to a 25-6 victory. We had a lot to correct as we had 4 fumbles and 114 penalty yards. On a positive note our defensive looked stout and star Running Back Derek Jones ran for 282 yards in the contest. It would have been 300+ if not for penalties and we started to answer some of the previous questions.  Brian Chambers started to emerge as a solid replacement for William Clark at FB and Josh Chandler and Steve Custy accounted for 25 tackles in the game. They were filling the linebacker voids that Brett Renfro and Jeremy Deckard left via graduation. Paul Dennis also had 10 tackles in the game and did yeoman’s work at Wing Back alongside myself and Bob Erwin in helping us amass 374 total rushing yards in the game.

We didn’t have long to enjoy our victory over Frisco as our old foe Van Alstyne was on the schedule next. Van Alstyne had beaten us at home 32-10 the year before in week two.  Van Alstyne beat Howe 23-0 in week 1 in 1993 so they were feeling good about themselves. We knew this one was going to be a tough one since we dominated them to end their previous season and we would be playing them at their home field in week two this time around. This was a delicious early season match-up.