When we last covered the Nogales High School Football team they were 5-1 and had arguably their biggest game of the season right over the horizon.
Well, a lot has happened since then, and not much of it is all that good.
Since that 5-1 start where playoff hopes were high and the team looked like it had one of the most potent offenses in the state, Nogales went 1-3.
A team that averaged 46 points through winning five of their first six games managed to average 30 points a game in their last four games.
Another strange discrepancy is found in that they gave up 28 points a game to opponents. This shows the erratic play of the Apaches, actually averaging scoring more points than they gave up, and yet went 1-3.
One would think for this to happen Nogales would have to be losing a lot of close games but the average margin of difference between what they scored and their opponents scored was over 20 points in those last four games.
So how does a team manage to average scoring more points than they give up and then go on to a 1-3 record?
Well, the scores of these last four games shows that Nogales as a football team is quite erratic in their play.
That huge game against Sabino that the team needed to stay atop the division ended up in a 33-35 loss. The Apaches managed to give up five touchdowns to Sabino’s senior running back Scott Brown and then it really got bad.
Their next game was against Flowing Wells, which ended the season 5-5. Nogales by all intensive purposes should win this game if they want to say they are a team to beat. Instead they lossed 21-31 and that pretty much ended their season. Even senior sensation and Arizona Border Sports favorate Andy Garcia couldn’t get out of the funk, he rushed for -2 yards in this loss.
And then it gets really bad. Against a Cienega team that would win the division Nogales dropped a 13-42 bomb.
This would bring their loss total to three in a row. You would think the team had nothing left to play for but showed their pride and fighting spirit by ending the season with a 56-14 victory over bottom feeder Desert View (2-8, 0-5 in their conference).
A once promising season may have ended in disappointment but at Arizona Border Sports we are still hoping that senior sensation Andy Garcia gets some college attention. He is constantly referred to as the player to watch for at Nogales, consistently carried the load and had some insane games along the season (against Cholla he managed to average 25 yards a carry, he is special).
Garcia rushed for 9.1 yards a carry on average this season and scored 25 touchdowns, Let’s hope he can represent the border at the next level.
Well, a lot has happened since then, and not much of it is all that good.
Since that 5-1 start where playoff hopes were high and the team looked like it had one of the most potent offenses in the state, Nogales went 1-3.
A team that averaged 46 points through winning five of their first six games managed to average 30 points a game in their last four games.
Another strange discrepancy is found in that they gave up 28 points a game to opponents. This shows the erratic play of the Apaches, actually averaging scoring more points than they gave up, and yet went 1-3.
One would think for this to happen Nogales would have to be losing a lot of close games but the average margin of difference between what they scored and their opponents scored was over 20 points in those last four games.
So how does a team manage to average scoring more points than they give up and then go on to a 1-3 record?
Well, the scores of these last four games shows that Nogales as a football team is quite erratic in their play.
That huge game against Sabino that the team needed to stay atop the division ended up in a 33-35 loss. The Apaches managed to give up five touchdowns to Sabino’s senior running back Scott Brown and then it really got bad.
Their next game was against Flowing Wells, which ended the season 5-5. Nogales by all intensive purposes should win this game if they want to say they are a team to beat. Instead they lossed 21-31 and that pretty much ended their season. Even senior sensation and Arizona Border Sports favorate Andy Garcia couldn’t get out of the funk, he rushed for -2 yards in this loss.
And then it gets really bad. Against a Cienega team that would win the division Nogales dropped a 13-42 bomb.
This would bring their loss total to three in a row. You would think the team had nothing left to play for but showed their pride and fighting spirit by ending the season with a 56-14 victory over bottom feeder Desert View (2-8, 0-5 in their conference).
A once promising season may have ended in disappointment but at Arizona Border Sports we are still hoping that senior sensation Andy Garcia gets some college attention. He is constantly referred to as the player to watch for at Nogales, consistently carried the load and had some insane games along the season (against Cholla he managed to average 25 yards a carry, he is special).
Garcia rushed for 9.1 yards a carry on average this season and scored 25 touchdowns, Let’s hope he can represent the border at the next level.
Here's a video from their opening game of the season, when the team showed so much promise and pulled off a 61-0 blow out over Rio Rico.
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