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| Longview couldn't overcome its seven turnovers in the game, despite outgaining Austin Westlake in total yardage, losing to Westlake, 38-10, in the third round of the playoffs. Hats off to another great season to the injury-plagued Lobos who relied on many sophomores and juniors in the latter part of the season. Longview finishes the season at 9-4. game story |
Longview finishes the 2011 season at 11-2. Not bad for a team that wasn't even projected to be a district champion contender. Longview won its eighth consecutive district championship this season, with its only other loss (besides Dekaney) coming from 5A power Allen High School. Since Coach John King has taken over as head coach in 2004, Longview's overall record is 91-19 and the Lobos' district record is 43-1. Longview's playoff record is 16-7 since 2004. With numerous starters coming back next year, including QB Bivins Caraway who set the all-time Lobo passing record this season, 2012 should be another great year for the Lobos. For fans, be patient. Nobody expected Longview to make it even close to this far in the playoffs as young as the team was, especially with as many holes as the coaches had to fill this year with underclassmen. Congratulations to the 2011 Lobos, especially the seniors for a great year. 2012 will be lots of fun with an abundance of experienced players returning. |
11- 26-2011...Longview ended its spectacular season with a loss against a one-man show today. That one man, Spring Dekaney running back Trey Williams, stole the show, proving why he is the second-best ranked back in the nation--scoring on a 58-yard run early in the game and a 100-yard kickoff return in the second half. Only a handful of plays all afternoon for the Wildcats were plays that didn't involve handing Williams the ball. The Lobo offense sputtered all afternoon against a stout Dekaney defense, unable to make it into the endzone except for a Deontre Wilson 26-yard TD run in the third quarter. Longview just couldn't catch a break all afternoon with many opportunites to score, but just couldn't capitalize. With seconds left in the third, Dekaney's Williams had a 97-yard TD run called back on a holding penalty. The Lobos then had Dekaney on their own four yard line with a fourth down. Dekaney would then fumble, but the Lobos were held to a three-and-out and missed a field goal with 9:46 left in the game that would have put Longview within 5. Longview had another chance late in the game, needing to go 80-something yards with 2 minutes remaining, but fumbled, resulting in a Dekaney field goal to make the final score 17-6. Photo by Brian Pitts |
| Longview ousted Garland Sachse on an overcast Saturday afternoon Nov. 19 at Dallas' Kincaide Stadium. With the 59-35 win over the Mustangs, the Lobos move on to the third (regional) round of the playoffs. Longview's offense looked strong throughout the contest, putting up 38 points in the first half. Longview scored first on an Israel Madrid 41-yard field goal three minutes into the contest, followed by a Tory White 8-yard TD run. Sachse would answer to make the score 10-7 at the end of the first quarter, but the Lobos weren't finished. Longview racked up 28 points in the second quarter, 21 of which were scored by Deontre' Wilson on two TD runs and pass caught for a TD. QB Bivins Caraway added the other Lobo TD in the first half on a quarterback keeper, making the halftime score 38-14. Longview scored 21 more points in the second half. Sachse got within 17 points in the second half, but that was as close as they would get. The Lobos scored in the second half with a Tory White rushing TD, a 55-yard toss from Caraway to Donterius Jackson and a 60-yard TD scamper by J'Haston Fagans to put the game out of reach with 2:18 left to play. Mesquite and Longview are the only two remaining District 11-5A teams left in the playoffs. District 11-5A Playoff Schedules |
| Longview knocked off the Temple Wildcats Nov. 12, in Corsicana, 24-3. Both teams struggled offensively in the first half resulting in a 7-3 advantage for the Lobos at halftime, but Longview rolled in the second half, with the Lobo offense putting up 17 points and the Lobo defense shutting out the Temple offense. Longview scored first in the game with a 40-yard drive, capped off by a 6-yard TD run by J'Haston Fagans with 4:18 left in the first quarter. Temple kicked a 33-yard FG with 5:38 left in the first half to give Temple its only points of the game. In the third quarter, Lobo kicker Israel Madrid nailed a 30-yard field goal. Temple then fumbled that gave Longview the ball on the Temple 10 yard line. The Lobos scored on a Tory White scamper for 10 yards to make the score 17-3. Longview put the game out of reach with a nine yard TD pass from QB Bivins Caraway to junior TE Colin Jeter with 3:21 left in the third quarter, making the score 24-3. 5A Playoff Brackets I game story |
The Lobos did just what they needed to do tonight to preserve a win, earning Longview its eighth-straight district championship. Both offenses struggled in the first half, knotting a 7-7 tie at halftime. Both offenses would respond, however, in the second half. J'Haston Fagans scored first in the second half on a 10-yard run, putting the Lobos up 14-7. DeSoto scored on the next drive, tying the game up going into the fourth quarter. QB Bivins Caraway then connected with a 22-yard TD pass to Eric Hawkins to put the Lobos up 21-14 with 9:38 left in the game. With about five minutes left to play, DeSoto fumbled and Jordan Burton recovered. Longview went three-and-out and was forced to punt. DeSoto scored on a long run to tie the game up 21-21 with 4:27 left in the game. Longview got the ball from the kickoff, but was intercepted at the three yardline. The play of the game then came when Jalen Porter jarred the ball loose from the DeSoto QB in the endzone, which resulted in a safety. Longview then ran out the clock, preserving the victory, 23-21.
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| Longview struggled a bit early on, only scoring three points in the first quarter with a field goal by Israel Madrid, but the Lobos put up 28 points in the second quarter en route to Longview's 45-19 victory over the Robert E. Lee Red Raiders at Trinity Mother Francis Rose Stadium in Tyler. In the second quarter, QB Bivins Caraway threw three TD passes...a 20-yard TD pass to WR Eric Hawkins and a TD pass to both tight ends, one to Braden King on a 40-yard TD strike, and another to TE Colin Jeter on an 8-yard touchdown pass. Longview, up 31-7 at the half, didn't slow down much in the second portion of the game. RB Tory White scored in the third quarter on a one-yard scamper, but the most memorable TD of the night was probably when Khody Hubbard caught a deflected Tyler Lee punt and ran it back 30 yards for a touchdown, putting the Lobos up 45-7 with 10 minutes left in the game. Longview moves to 8-1 on the season and 4-0 in district play, while Robert E. Lee drops to 1-8 overall and 0-4 in district. Longview hosts DeSoto this Thursday at Lobo Stadium in a nationally televised game on Fox Sports. Gametime Thursday is 7 p.m. The winner of the game will be the District 11-5A champions. |
| Longview dominated North Mesquite Oct. 21, handily defeating the Stallions 49-13. Longview, up 21-0 at the half, didn't slow down after intermission. With only a minute and a half into the third quarter, the Stallions were forced to punt. Senior SS Jordan Burton ran the punt back 55 yards for a Lobo touchdown, making the score 28-0. Longview held North Mesquite once again, got the ball back and junior QB Bivins Caraway rushed for the Lobo TD, making the score 35-0 with 8:26 left in the third quarter. After another Lobo hold, junior RB Tory White added to the Lobo lead with a 9-yard TD scamper with 2 minutes left in the third quater, putting the Lobos up 42-0. North Mesquite then scored on the Lobo second team defense in the fourth quarter twice, but the Lobos also scored with junior Jacoby Redden's 2-yard TD run. Longview faces Tyler's Robert E. Lee High School next Friday at Trinity Mother Francis Rose Stadium. With the win tonight, the Lobos are assured a playoff berth. Longview improves to 7-1 overall and 4-0 in District 11-5A play, while North Mesquite drops to 4-4 on the season and 0-4 in district play. |
| Former Longview Lobo kicker Josh Scobee tied an NFL record with three field goals of 50-plus yards, hitting from 54 yards twice in the first half and adding a 51-yarder in the fourth quarter for the Jacksonville Jaguars in their win Oct. 23 against the Baltimore Ravens, 12-7. Scobee finished 4-of-4 on field goals and scored all 12 of the club’s points. In seven games, he is 14 of 14 on field goals and leads the team with 48 points. The 14 consecutive field goals ties for the fourth-longest streak in franchise history. Scobee's senior football season was in 1999 at Longview. He has been the place kicker for the Jaguars since 2004. |
| Longview High School was almost guaranteed to be 4A for the next two years in UIL competition, turning in 2,000 students on "snapshot" day Oct. 13. But LISD has resubmitted a new enrollment figure of 2,163. According to Adam Holland, LISD spokesman, the UIL has a new rule that schools must include all spin-off campuses. The new number includes the LEAD Academy, which is a campus of LHS students separate from the main high school campus. This means that the possibility of going 5A next year is a big possibility, depending on the new cut-off for 5A schools. Last year's low number for a 5A school was 2,065 students. |
 Longview improved to 6-1 overall and 2-0 in District 11-5A play with its win over the Mesquite Horn Jaguars Oct. 7 at E. H. Hanby Stadium. Horn put up a valliant fight closing in on the Lobos. At halftime, Longview was up 24-17. Horn came out in the second half on fire with a 55-yard touchdown run 30 seconds into the half to tie the score up. Longview then fumbled the ball and the Jaguars capitalized with a 21-yard field goal to go up 27-24. Longview would answer, however, with a Bivins Caraway 21-yard TD toss to Eric Hawkins, putting the Lobos up 31-27 with 2:46 left in the third quarter. The Lobos then held Horn to a four-and-out and pounded the ball down the field with old-school Lobo smashmouth football on a 65-yard drive that ended with a Caraway 6-yard TD pass to Deontre' Wilson with 8:37 left in the game. Horn answered with a 39-yard field goal to make the score 38-30 with 4:17 left in the game. They forced a Longview punt which put the Jaguars on its own 26 yardline with 2:25 left in the game. Longview's defense stood strong, though, and knocked a pass down on fourth down to preserve the victory, 38-30. The Horn Jaguars drop to 2-5 overall and 1-1 in district play. photos I game story |
| Longview improves to 5-1 on the season and 1-0 in District 11-5A play with its one-sided defeat of the Mesquite Skeeters Oct. 7 at Hanby Stadium. The Lobos came out strong in the first half, putting up 40 points on the Skeeters by halftime. With the loss, Mesquite drops to 2-4 overall and 0-1 in district play. Next Friday, the Lobos will once again travel to Hanby Stadium to face Mesquite Horn (2-4, 1-0) who beat Tyler Lee Oct. 7 by the score of 55-21.. |
| It wasn't pretty, but Longview came from behind to knock off the Abilene Eagles at Birdville ISD Stadium, 35-28. The Lobos spotted the Eagles 14 points before Longview even scored. At halftime, it was Abilene 21, Longview 14. QB Bivins Caraway hit Deontre' Wilson on a TD pass with 9 minutes left in the third quarter to tie the game up at 21. After a missed 51-yard Eagle fieldgoal, Longview scored on third and 11 to go on a Caraway pass to D.T. Jackson, making the score 28-21. Longview would score again on a 36-yard Fagans TD run with 36 seconds in the game. But the Eagles weren't finished. They scored on a long TD run on the next possession, making the score 35-28. Longview recovered the onside kick and ran the clock out. The Lobos move to 4-1 on the season and the Eagles drop to 2-3. Longview has a bye week coming up. Photo by Brian Pitts. |
 The Lobos (3-1) shut out the No. 10 in state Lufkin Panthers (3-1) in the second half to preserve a 24-10 victory at Lobo Stadium in a Homecoming matchup. Click photo at right to enlarge. Photo by Brian Pitts. Longview plays a non-district game against Abilene at 2 p.m. next Saturday at the Birdville Fine Arts and Activities Center in North Richland Hills. Longview’s next home game is against North Mesquite on Oct. 21. |
There's a reason the Allen Eagles are ranked No. 1 in the state of Texas and they proved that tonight at Lobo Stadium in front of a overflowing crowd for the tenth annual Green Out Game. Longview couldn't have lost to a better team. The Eagles surged early, putting up 21 points to Longview's 3 in the first half. Allen quarterback Alec Morris, who has committed to the University of Alabama, was nearly unstoppable. Longview made a small surge in the third quarter with a Bivins Caraway 50-yard TD toss to make the score 28-16, but Allen didn't bow down, making key plays to keep the Eagles on top. The Lobo Loss marks the first Green Out game to lose, with the Green Out record now standing at 9-1. Longview (2-1) faces the Lufkin Panthers at home next week. game story |
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Don Fambrough, who was a captain and standout player for the Lobos' 1937 State Championship Team, died Saturday as the result of an accident. Fambrough was 88 years old. After LHS, Fambrough went on to play football for the University of Texas and the University of Kansas. He was also later the head coach at Kansas. story |
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