NRC falls to Konawa; home opener this week

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North Rock Creek took its third road loss of the season Friday at Konawa by a 40-14 count, but the Cougars finally get to line up under own lights this Friday.

It will be the first-ever varsity football home game for NRC, which is in the third year of its high school.

The opponent will be the Holdenville Wolverines, who are 0-1 after a loss to neighboring Wewoka in the opener and a cancelled game against Wynnewood last weekend.

Friday against Konawa it was a case of the Class A Tigers being too “-er” for the Cougars.

“They were bigger, faster and stronger than us,” said NRC head coach Jason Murray. “It was a tough one.”

Konawa got out to a 33-0 lead in the third quarter, but Carter Harvey for the Cougars on the board with a 58 yard run.

Konawa countered with a touchdown of its own, but Harvey scored on a 7-yard run. That and a two-point conversion accounted for the final score.

Harvey finished with 140 yards rushing. NRC had 190 total yards.

“We’re seeing some improvement,” Murray said. “The backs are finding the holes and the cutback lanes.

“We had a couple of linebackers stepping, getting off their blocks.”

Getting ready for Holdenville this week, Murray said, is a case of North

Rock Creek staying focused on what it does.

“We have to get better at what we’ve been doing,” he said. “They run a different kind of offense, which is an odd stack.

“We’ll have our hands full. They are a senior ballclub. They’ll line up and run the ball at us.”