High School Football

Surging Tompkins tops Morton Ranch, wins third straight

By Tyler Tyre, Sports Editor
Posted 10/14/22

“We just have to stay hungry, do our job and stay together,” Simonton said. “We’re 1-0 on the week so it’s on to Monday and we’ll see how that goes. For us, it’s just another game on the schedule and we have to continue to look at it that way every week and just make sure we go 1-0.”

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Surging Tompkins tops Morton Ranch, wins third straight

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Tompkins just keeps improving.

The Falcons brought a young team into this season, and they needed time to mature. There were encouraging signs early, a hard fought win in their season opener against Cy-Ranch and a strong performance against Bridgeland.

But back to back losses to open District 19-6A play showed areas where the young Falcons needed to grow, and showed a need for the Falcons to take steps to raise their game.

But the Falcons have answered questions any could have of them over their past three games, handily beating Seven Lakes and Taylor before dominating Morton Ranch on Thursday at Rhodes Stadium, 55-21, moving Tompkins into third in the district standings.

“We’ve grown each week and we’ve learned from our wins and our losses,” said Tompkins head coach Todd McVey. We’re going in and doing a good job of fixing mistakes, but it doesn’t end here and we know we have to continue to improve. We know that even now we have to get better at every position with who we are each and every snap. It’s a simple concept, but hard to achieve and that’s what we’re focused and working on.”

It was a complete team effort from top to bottom from the Falcons, the offense got things going early, the defense forced four turnovers and even Tompkins special teams got in on the action, scoring two touchdowns.

“This all comes down to the gameplan from the coaches,” said senior linebacker Griffin Simonton. “They put it together and from Monday on we knew what we needed to do and what to expect. Our ability to study film, trust each other as a team and execute our job and that gameplan really just was exemplified tonight.”

Wyatt Young continued to take steps as the Falcons starting quarterback and made an immediate impact on Tompkins first drive, running in a four-yard touchdown to give the Falcons the lead.

Morton Ranch then got pushed back toward their own goal line and on a third and long, Josh Davis stripped Josh Johnson of the ball and Simonton picked the ball up and ran in a touchdown from 15-yards out.  Young followed that up with another running score from 45 yards out to make things 21-0 and Caleb Komolafe made it a four-score game shortly before the end of the first half.

“It’s been a change and I had to get settled into being the quarterback as quick as I could,” Young said. “I hadn’t played quarterback since my freshman year but I knew this is what’s best for the team and I’m just embracing it.”

Morton Ranch tried to get back into the game with a surprise onside kick to start the second half, but Tompkins was waiting and ready, and Trevor Davie returned the onside 50 yards for another Tompkins score.

Santana Scott finally got Morton Ranch on the board midway through the third quarter when Santana Scott ran in a 7-yard touchdown, but Tompkins answered back, as Caleb Blocker ran in a touchdown from 11-yards out. Morton scored again on a 1-yard run from Ryan Hall but Tompkins instantly gained the momentum back when Matthew Ogunrin returned the ensuing kickoff 74 yards for a touchdown.

“We knew they had a good onside kick setup and we studied that Cinco Ranch game,” McVey said. “We worked on that because we knew that it might get used against us and that was one phase of the game that I can say I was very proud of. The kids reacted, they were ready for it and they blocked for it just like we talked about. It’s fun when you work on something like that all week long and then they come out and execute it.”

Morton got one final score late on an 18-yard touchdown pass from Josh Johnson to Jairon Davis before Tompkins closed things out with a 10-yard touchdown by Dylan Rodriguez.

The win was a huge one for the Falcons as it brings them a step closer to securing a playoff spot, and gets them out of the jam packed fourth place spot in District 19-6A.

But for the Falcons, it’s just another week, they went 1-0, that’s the important thing and now they have to make sure they continue to do that next week as well.

“We just have to stay hungry, do our job and stay together,” Simonton said. “We’re 1-0 on the week so it’s on to Monday and we’ll see how that goes. For us, it’s just another game on the schedule and we have to continue to look at it that way every week and just make sure we go 1-0.”

Tompkins 55, Morton Ranch 21

Morton Ranch

0

0

7

14

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 21 

Tompkins

14

14

6

21

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55

First quarter

T: Wyatt Young 4 run (Andrew Horner kick) 2:55

T: Griffin Simonton 15 fumble return (Horner kick) 1:07

Second quarter

T: Young 45 run (Horner kick) 10:46

T: Caleb Komolafe 26 run (Horner kick) 3:23

Third quarter

T: Trevor Davie 50 kick return, 11:55

MR: Santana Scott 7 run (Angel Rincon kick) 5:34

Fourth quarter

T: Caleb Blocker 11 run (Horner kick) 11:20

MR: Ryan hall 1 run (Rincon kick) 7:59

T: Matthew Ogunrin 74 kick return (Horner kick) 7:46

MR: Josh Johnson 18 pass to Jairon Davis (Rincon kick)

T: Dylan Rodriguez 10 run (Horner kick) 2:06

Team stats

Morton Ranch

 Tompkins

  First downs

18

14

  Yards rushing

42-204

27-177

  Yards passing

105

73

  Passes

10-16-1-0

4-7-0-0

  Punts

2-34

1-35

  Fumbles-lost

4-3

0-0

  Penalty-yards

6-55

9-100

Individual Statistics

Rushing – Tompkins: Caleb Komolafe, 10-64-1; Wyatt Young, 3-58-2; Caleb Blocker, 11-42-1; Dylan Rodgriguez, 2-7-1; Chris Gilbert Jr., 1-6; Morton Ranch: Santana Scott, 20-142-1; Ryan Hall, 14-75-1; Josh Johnson, 7-(-6);

Passing – Tompkins: Wyatt Young, 2-5-48-0-0; Chris Gilbert Jr., 2-2-25-0-0; Morton Ranch: Josh Johnson, 10-16-105-1-0

Receiving – Tompkins: Matthew Ogunrin, 3-53; Alejandro Alvarez; Morton Ranch: Jairon Davis, 2-29-1; Mike Gerald, 2-28; Santana Scott, 2-25; Cameron Hudson, 3-16; Adam Willis, 1-7;

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