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11/27/09
CARTHAGE, TX- In northeast Texas High School Playoff football today
(11/27/09) at Bulldog stadium in Carthage, TX; the Newton
Eagles defeated the Linden-Kildare Tigers 41-29 in the Region
III, Division II (Small School) Semifinals. The Linden-Kildare
Tigers finish the season BI-District Champions with a record
of 8-5.
The Tigers held a 13-7 lead at 1/2 time but the Eagles outscored
Linden-Kildare 34-21 in the second half to secure the
victory.
KPYN-AM-FM and KPYN.Net will re-broadcast the game Saturday morning
at 9:30 a.m. All of the Linden-Kildare football broadcasts are
arcived on the KPYN website at
www.kpyn.net.
11/25/09
I hope everyone is having
a wonderful Thanksgiving Break. I just wanted to bring
everyone up to speed on the activities for this week. As you
know Coach Bennett and the Tiger's Football team beat West
Rusk on Friday night. Their next opponent is Newton (Eagles).
They will meet Friday, Nov 27th @ 2:00pm in Carthage. The team
will be leaving the field house at 10:15am. We are inviting
everyone out to give them a send off. The team, coaches, band,
cheerleaders, tigerettes, majorettes, flags, fans, parents,
and community members are all welcome to show up to the field
house area in order to show the team how much we are all
behind them. We will create a victory line for the team to
pass through as they load the bus to depart for
Carthage. Spread the word and remember... GO TIGERS!
-Mike Dillinger
11/20/09
Linden-Kildare Advances to Regional Semi-Finals
By Robert DelGiorno
GIMLMER, TX- The Linden-Kildare Tigers (8-4)
overcame a 14-13 half time deficit and they came back and
defeated the West Rusk Raiders 29-14. Now, the Tigers will
advance to the Region III, Division II (Small School)
Semifinals against Newton, Friday at 2 p.m. at Bulldog Stadium
in Carthage. The game will be carried live on KPYN 900, 95.5
FM and
www.kpyn.net. KPYN will re-broadcast the game Saturday
morning at 9:30 a.m.
“We were real happy to win, I thought our team
played extremely well,” Jerry Bennett, Linden-Kildare Tigers
head coach Jerry Bennett said. “We had a great second half and
we’re going to enjoy this one and start looking at tape on
Saturday and Sunday and start getting ready for Newton.
In the first half, West Rusk drew first blood
on an 8-yard run by Josh Medford. Linden-Kildare answered with
consecutive touchdowns; a 1-yard run by RaShoderick Linwood
and a 15-yard touchdown pass from Kenneth Harrison to Colton
Watson. West Rusk finished the first half scoring with a
3-yard touchdown run by Dewayne Fisher.
In the second half, the Tigers scored on a
4-yard Harrison run, followed by the two point conversion and
then with 1:07 remaining in the contest, L-K scored the final
touchdown of the game on another Harrison touchdown run.
KPYN AM-FM and KPYN.Net will air the Jerry
Bennett Coaches Show Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. with Coach
Bennett from Linden-Kildare.
11/13/09
MARSHALL, TX-The
Linden-Kildare Tigers defeated the Harleton Wildcats 22-8.
The Tigers defense kept
the Wildcats caged all night. Quan Juan had an interception
and Devonta Greenleaf recovered a fumble for L-K who are now
the Bi-District champions.
Linden-Kildare will
play West Rusk next weekend.
The game will be
carried live on KPYN AM and FM and on KPYN.net.
Listen to the Jerry
Bennett coaches show with coach Bennett, The LK head coach
Monday morning at 10 a.m. On KPYN )AM and FM and KPYN.Net.
10/30/09
LINDEN, TX- The Linden-Kildare Tigers (5-4, 3-1) defeated the
Jefferson Bulldogs (4-5, 2-2) last Friday (10/30/09) 43-22 to
earn a playooff spot and a victory for head coach Jerry
Bennett over the team he once led to a state Championship and
where his former team named their filed after him.
The Tigers will wrap up
their season on the road at last place Ore City next Friday.
If Linden-Kildare wins, they'll finish in sole possession of
second place in district 17-2A.
You can listen to the Linden-Kildare game live on KPYN.Net Friday
night and replayed Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. on KPYN AM
and FM with Jon West providing the play-by-play.
10/16/09
MT Pleasant, TX- The defending 2-A state champion Dangerfield
Tigers defeated the upstart Linden-Kildare Tigers in Mt.
Pleasant 35-8.
Dangerfield quarterback Tyler Boyd threw 3-touchdown passes to lead
the Dangerfield Tigers who are now 6-1 overall and 1-1 in
district 17-3A tied for first with the Jefferson Bulldogs.
Linden-Kildare dropped to 3-4 overall and 1-1 in the distrcit
and still very much in the play-off hunt.
The
Linden-Kildare Tigers next game is this Friday at home in Jack
Hetherington Tigers Stadium against cross-county rival Hughes
Springs. You can listen to the Linden-Kildare Vs. Hughes
Springs live on our web site at
www.KPYN.Net and replayed on KPYN 900-AM and 95.5 FM
Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.
10/9/09
LINDEN, TX- Friday in Linden at Jack Hetherington Tiger
Stadium; the Linden-Kildare Tigers celebrated their homecoming
with a 45-0 victory over the Queen City Bulldogs. Tigers
quarterback Kenneth Harrison ran for two tourcdowns and threw
for one while Greg Gaston ran for two touchdowns and
RaShodrick Linwood and Xavious Alled rushed for another. The
Linden-Kildare Tigers are now 3-3 overall and 1-0 in district
while the Bulldogs fell to 1-5 overall and 0-1 in district.
The Linden-Kildare Tigers next game is this
Friday at #2 Daingerfield. The Daingerfield Tigers are 1-0 in
district after beating Hughes Springs last Friday 35-6.
You can listen to the Linden-Kildare Tigers vs.
Dangerfield game this Friday live on our website at
www.kpyn.net, kick-off at 7:30 with Jon West bringing you
the play-by-play, replay Saturday morning at 9:30 on KPYN AM
and FM and KPYN.net.
You can listen to the Jerry Bennett coaches
show live on KPYN AM-FM and KPYN.net this Tuesday morning at
10 a.m. till 10:30 a.m. with Coach Bennett the head coach of
the Linden-Kildare Tigers.
9/25/09
NEW BOSTON, TX-On paper, you would think that
the 25th ranked 3-A team in the state, the New
Boston Lions would have no trouble beating the 51st
ranked 2-A Linden-Kildare Tigers. After all, the Lions were at
home and L-K was a 13-point underdog.
The Lions raced to a 19-point half time lead
and it appeared the game would play to form, but you can’t
underestimate Jerry Bennett’s Tigers who scored 14 second half
points and the New Boston Lions (3-1) barley held on to
beat Linden-Kildare 19-14.
Kenneth Harrison scored both Linden-Kildare
(2-3) touchdowns with a 1-yard and 5-yard run.
Greg Gaston led all rushers with 105 yards on
16 carries.
9/11/09
LINDEN, TX- The Linden-Kildare Tigers (1-2)
were trailing at half-time but Harleton learned that there are
four quarters in a football game as the Linden-Kildare Tigers
stomped Harleton 40-21 in front of a soaked Jack Hetherington
Tiger Stadium crowed who weathered a lengthily weather delay
before finally tasting the thrill of victory.
The Tigers offence was led by running backs
RaShoderick Linwood and Greg Gaston who each ran for two
touchdowns. Gaston’s touchdown scampers were from 1 and 24
yards while Linwood’s were from 28 and 40 yards. Gaston
finished with 150 yards on the ground and Linwood with
eighty-nine.
Kenneth Harrison also had a touchdown run for
Linden-Kildare and DeMarius Love completed a 21-yard touchdown
pass to Xavious Allen.
Defensively, the L-K Tigers compiled 19
tackles, Colton Watson had 11 and Allen had ten.
The Tigers next game is at Maude next Friday.
Maud beat Waskom last Friday 30-14.
You can listen to the Tigers Cardinals game
live on KWXI.Net with kick-off at 7:30 p.m. Friday; John West
will call the game which will be replayed on KPYN AM and FM
Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.
For more on the Linden-Kildare Tigers football
team, listen to the Jerry Bennett head coaches show Tuesday
morning at 10 a.m. on KPYN AM-FM and KPYN.Net.
8/28/09
LINDEN, TX- The Linden-Kildare Tigers (0-1) got out to a
26-0 half-time lead but Clarksville (1-0) came back and
stole a 47-44 victory out of the jaws of defeat spoiling The
L-K Tigers 2009 home opener at Jack Hetherington Tiger
Stadium.
What went wrong?
"Turn overs, let them
run a kickoff back, they picked a fumble up, everything,"
Jerry Bennett, Linden-Kildare Tigers head coach said.
The game lasted over
4-hours and ended close to midnight.
The Linden-Kildare
Tigers next game is @ Harmony.
You can listen to L-K
football games live on
www.kpyn.net and replayed on KPYN 900 AM and 95.5 FM
Saturday mornings @ 9:30.
The Jerry Bennett Show
airs on KPYN AM, FM and Dot Net Tuesday mornings @ 10 a.m.
L-K wins final
scrimmage and gets ready for Friday season opener
The Linden-Kildare Tigers football team scrimmaged at DeKalb
last Thursday night and it was all L-K as the Tigers routed
the Bears 6 scores to one. It’s obvious that the spread
offense at L-K is working as the Tigers were able to score at
will without star wide-out Colton Watson who sat the scrimmage
out with a20sore ankle. Watson will start in the season opener
this Friday when the Tigers host Clarksville at Jack
Hetherington Tiger Stadium in Linden. You can listen to the
game live on the internet at
www.kpyn.net and replayed on KPYN AM and FM Saturday
morning at Nine-Thirty.
You can also listen to the Coach Bennett program every Tuesday
morning at 10 a.m. on KPYN AM-FM and
www.kpyn.net beginning this Tuesday morning August 26th,
2009.
“I think that offensively we’re ahead of the defense,”
Linden-Kildare Tigers head coach Jerry Bennett said. “Ha, ha,
that’s kind of interesting.”
Despite only giving up one score to DeKalb, Coach Bennett was
not happy with his defenses play in the scrimmage.
“They (DeKalb) are not as good this year. But I did not think
that we were good on defense but I’m not going to gripe. I’m
happy. Colton Watson didn’t play and that hurt us on defense,
he would have made some of the tackles on their runs around
end.
Coach Bennett watched Clarksville scrimmage and he said that
they’re a lot like they were last season.
“They got speed, their quarterback is quick and they have some
questions in their offensive line and they didn’t have a lot
of kids come out but they’ll be a good opponent for us,”
Bennett said.
Coach Bennett said that he thinks that Clarksville believes
that they can run the ball on his Tigers.
“I
think that they think that they’re going to have to play good
defense against us,” Bennett said. Bennett also said that he
thinks that they can out score Clarksville with their highly
potent spread offense.
Pre Season Preview by Robert Del Giorno
The
Linden-Kildare Tigers are going into the 2009 season better
and older according to their second year head coach Jerry
Bennett and Coach Bennett says that they’re poised and ready
to challenge Daingerfield and Jefferson, the two teams to beat
according to the ole ball coach, for the District 17 2-A
title this year.
“Were better, I think that’s obvious,” Bennett said. “The kids
know what we want and that’s going to help out.”
According to Bennett, the players to watch on offence are
obviously junior quarterback Kenny Harrison (5-11, 170, 4.6),
senior running back Greg Gaston (5-8, 220, 4.6) and senior
wide receiver Colton Watson (5-9, 170, 4.5). L-K will run the
spread offense and their new offensive coordinator this year
is Derek Simmons. Simmons was the offensive coordinator for
the Atlanta Rabbit’s football team that won the state
championship.
Defensively the Tigers will run out of the 4-3 with a new
defensive coordinator, last year’s secondary coach Mike Berry.
Players on defense that Coach Bennett said are leaders are
junior Cody Beleu (5-11, 165, 4.7) and Sanwon Bennett, no
relation to the coach. Obviously, Gaston at linebacker and
Watson at defensive back are also leaders on the defensive
side of the ball. However, the player that Coach Bennett calls
the premier player and someone who is new and who has improved
over the off season is sophomore center and defensive end D.J.
Dawson (5-11, 191).
“He’s (Dawson) worked extremely hard in the summer and off
season to get better,” Coach Bennett said.
Watson will punt, kick field goals and extra points for the
Tigers this year and LaShodrick Linwood will kick off. Watson
and Linwood will also return the punts and kickoffs.
The
Tigers had their first scrimmage last Saturday (August 15th,
2009) at Jack Hetherington Tiger Stadium in Linden against the
Pleasant Grove Hawks and even though the Tigers 2nd
and 3rd strings couldn’t match up against a deep
roster of 3-A Hawks, the L-K first string matched the PG first
string 2 scores to 2 scores.
“Offensively we were a lot better but we gave up a couple of
big pass plays with blown coverage’s,” Coach Bennett said.
In
the scrimmage, Colton Watson suffered a minor ankle injury and
he will probably be out for the Tigers final scrimmage this
Thursday night at DeKalb but Coach Bennett felt like he’d be
ready for the pre-district season opener against Clarksville.
In
the scrimmage against PG, Coach Bennett told KPYN that he was
most impressed defensively with the play of Gaston, Devonte
Greenleaf, and Nigel Brown.
Bennett thought that Harrison did well offensively and
receiver sophomore Quantavious Warren did a good job.
“I
think that our offensive played better too. I thought that
they did a good job,” Bennett said.
Can
L-K beat Dangerfield this year?
“I
think that we’ve got a chance,” Bennett said. I think we
played them hard last year until we let them run the kick-off
back and I think that we’re a lot better this year.
The
Tigers scrimmage at DeKalb will get underway Thursday at 5
p.m. with the JV and be followed by the varsity and the Tigers
first game is Friday August 28th at Clarksville.
In
the scrimmage against DeKalb, Coach Bennett said that his
Tigers will begin preparing for Clarksville.
You
can listen to all the Linden-Kildare Tigers games live on our
website at
www.kpyn.net and replayed live on KPYN AM and FM, Saturday
mornings at 9:30 a.m., Jon West will provide the play-by-play.
To view the
Linden-Kildare 2009 schedule
click here.
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