Knights cruise past Crockett to get to 8-0
October 23, 2017
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The varsity football team won its eighth straight game on Friday night by shutting out the Crockett Cougars 55-0 at House Park.
The Knights, who are ranked No. 21 in the state on Dave Campbell’s 5A Texas Football rankings, are 4-0 in district and 8-0 overall.
The team’s run has been fueled by a strong rushing offense and an opportunistic defense that has made big plays when it needed to and has shut out its last two opponents.
Averaging 394.5 rushing yards per game, the Knights logged 426 more rushing yards versus Crockett on Friday. Max Perez ran for 116 yards and three touchdowns and passed for another 103 yards and a score. Alexander Julian led all Knight rushers with 117 yards and two touchdowns. Deron Gage ran for 92 yards and added another 39 yards as a pass receiver.
The Knights led the Cougars 7-0 after Perez ran 16 yards for a touchdown, and Ian Carson converted the extra point. Later in the first quarter, Perez found the end zone as a rusher for the second time, and before the first quarter ended, a 30-yard Perez-to-Gage pass play set up Julian for a short TD run.
Heading into the second quarter, Mac led, 20-0. The Knights added four touchdowns in the second quarter. Gage ran 78 yards down the Knight sideline for the first score of the quarter, then JB Faught returned a fumble 18 yards for a defensive touchdown. Julian then added his second touchdown run.
The quarter closed with 25-yard strike from Perez to Davis Roe who caught the ball and tip toed to the corner of the end zone for a 48-0 halftime score. It was a good night for Roe who before the game was named the Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Athlete of the Week.
The first unit made one more appearance to start the third quarter, making a statement touchdown on Perez’s 59-yard run, his third rushing score of the game.
That was the end of the scoring for both teams as the Knights ran out the clock, and looked ahead to a bye week this week then a challenge from the Lanier Vikings (2-5) on Friday Nov. 3 at House Park.
In his postgame comments, Coach Taylor urged the team to continue improving each week, starting with the upcoming week of practice.
![A PRIDE-FUL WEEK OF CELEBRATION:
As part of AISDs week-long celebration of PRIDE, students of the McCallum Spectrum Club worked to create a week full of activities, prizes and helping hands to support the schools LGBTQ+ community. The club is widely available for anyone to join, and specializes in creating a safe space for students to share and give advice. While Pride month itself isn’t until June, AISD designates one week in March to celebrate and commemorate the importance of this part of the student body.
As part of the week of festivities, the club held a booth in the front hall handing out pride stickers, pins and merch to passers by. For junior Zane Joly, the booth idea was brought up as a way for students to engage with one another, and connect with the community.
“I call out to people in the halls, ‘hey, do you want stickers?’” Joly said. “We just give out free pride stickers and sometimes other free pride merch to the students of Macallum because everybody likes pride stickers.”
While the week itself is packed with a variety of different activities, the overall goal is to bring students closer together and create a safer environment for self expression at McCallum.
“The idea for the student panel largely came from the black [history] student panel that is done during Black History Month,” Joly said. “And the idea for giving out free stuff was developed at Spectrum last year.”
Joly is not only a member of the Spectrum club, but also holds a leadership position giving them a more hands-on role with the projects and Pride Week activities.
“McCallum has a very high queer population,” Joly said. “I think Its nice that we get a chance to celebrate Pride because Pride Month is during the summer, and I think its just a nice thing for the community and getting to just celebrate it.”
While the merch table at lunch was only a small part of the numerous parts of McCallum’s Pride week, for Joly this small impact made all the difference.
“The purpose of Pride is to make people not feel alone and to make them feel safe,” Joly said. “The goal is [to make people] happy about a part of themselves that theyre often conditioned to not feel good about.”
Caption by Chloe Lewcock. Photo by Shila Gill.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/53597258192_6e7168d8ae_o-1-600x338.jpg)
![BACKGROUND IN THE BUSINESS: Dressed by junior designer Kaitlyn Gerrie, senior Chamila Muñoz took to the “Dreamland” runway this past weekend. While it was her first time participating in the McCallum fashion show, Muñoz isn’t new to the modeling world.
I modeled here and there when I was a lot younger, maybe five or six [years old] for some jewelry brands and small businesses, but not much in recent years,” Muñoz said.
Muñoz had hoped to participate in last year’s show but couldn’t due to scheduling conflicts. For her senior year, though, she couldn’t let the opportunity pass her by.
“It’s [modeling] something I haven’t done in a while so I was excited to step out of my comfort zone in a way,” Muñoz said. “I always love trying new things and being able to show off designs of my schoolmates is such an honor.”
The preparation process for the show was hectic, leaving the final reveal of Gerrie’s design until days before the show, but the moment Muñoz tried on the outfit, all the stress for both designer and model melted away.
“I didn’t get to try on my outfit until the day before, but the look on Kaitlyn’s face when she saw what she had worked so hard to make actually on a model was just so special,” Muñoz said. “I know it meant so much to her. But then she handed me a blindfold and told me I’d be walking with it on, so that was pretty wild.”
Caption by Francie Wilhelm.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/53535098892_130167352f_o-600x400.jpg)
