Midwest City ready for Friday night lights
Midwest City’s coaches are having a relatively easy time of it this week as the Bombers get ready to host Norman on Friday.
But not because of the opponent.
The Bombers are playing on Friday for the first time in four weeks after playing three consecutive Thursday games (although one wound up moving to Friday afternoon after a lightning storm in Lawton).
“It’s been weird,” Midwest City coach Steve Huff said. “We’ve been rushing around all over the place for three weeks getting ready for games and now, all of the sudden, we have an extra day. It’s nice. Those weeks seem really short when you’re playing on Thursdays.”
Last week, the Bombers blew out Putnam City 56-7 in a game that included a 61-yard interception return by defensive lineman Dominique Jones.
“We thought it was 6,100 yards is what we were telling him,” Huff said. “That was a once-in-a-lifetime type of deal for a defensive lineman.”
A block by linebacker Emmanuel Maxwell played a big role in the touchdown run.
But even though coaches and teammates have given Jones grief over his run, it’s not like he’s not an athletic player. Jones has speed rarely seen in someone his size and at one point was a pretty good baseball player and played some running back in youth football, Huff said.
“I’ve seen him do some things big kids just don’t do,” Huff said.
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