And Community Christian v. Destiny Christian
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@Oklahoman.com
#2 Community Christian vs. #3 Destiny Christian (Th @ 7:30 at CCS)
Three weeks ago, Community Christian put a 55-34 beating on its brothers to the North. For Destiny Christian, is it revenge or repeat?? Community Christian led by Brooks Mosier is sparked by the potent running game of Bryan Owen. Second to only Wesleyan Christian’s Zeb White, Owen has racked up 1,299 yards (couldn’t someone just add 1 yard for the even 1,300?) with 19 touchdowns.
When he doesn’t handle it, Parker Burnett handles the duties to the tune of six touchdowns and 399 yards. Burnett at QB has produced some interesting results. His completion percentage is below 50 percent, he thrown for 9 interceptions, but he’s managed to loft 13 scores as well. Feast or famine may be over-simplifying it, but Burnett needs to come up big Thursday.Burnett has completed 81 passes with 46 going to Taylor Daniels. The star wideout has garnered 751 yards and 10 touchdowns.
As covered in Wednesday’s Oklahoman, Destiny Christian is the surprise entrant to this year’s postseason.
Whether or not DC is able to pull off the upset, something tells me Rusty Stone’s kids will be back. Destiny Christian only has one senior on its roster.
Stone has coached just about everywhere, and his philosophy has been one of the main reasons for the turnaround.
“I don’t try to fit a certain system to the group of kids we have,” Stone said. “It’s key to just fit your personnel to the system.”
And that he has with Gil Davilla (410 yards, 4 TDs) and RB Arthur Mahoney. Mahoney upstaged WC’s Zeb White last week with three scores and 176 yards and has released some of the pressure off Davilla.
Levi Jones directs the DC offense and has thrown two interceptions in 124 attempts while throwing for 11 touchdowns.
This is not the same team that lost by 20 though it was just three weeks ago. Stone said his team is playing at its best right now. And you know what? I believe him.
The pick: Destiny Christian 47, Community Christian 42.
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