The Platte County Pirate Quarterback Club
NEXT MEETING Monday
April 21st 6:30 PM at the Pizza Shoppe in Platte City
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The Platte County Pirate Quarterback Club NEXT MEETING Monday
April 21st 6:30 PM at the Pizza Shoppe in Platte City
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2006 Season ReCap: There will be additional history as we get pictures, etc.
Pirates end at 10-1 The Pirates finished their season with a tough 17-14 loss to St. Pius. Uncharacteristic turnovers and untimely penalties gave the Warriors too many chances to hang in the game and it finally led to a late fourth quarter field goal which put St. Pius ahead. We want to thank all of the Seniors this year for making a great contribution to Pirate Football and salute them on how they helped develop the underclassmen and bring along a young team. Media Coverage: www.MECSports.COM will do an Internet broadcast. TimeWarner cable will broadcast the game on Friday night at 7:00 as their game of the week on Kansas City Metro Sports.
Week 10: A Perfect "10" Pirates crush Smithville Warriors to move to 10-0!!! Sets up Sectional Rematch against St. Pius on Wed. Nov. 8th In a game that everyone going in thought would be a close defensive struggle, the Platte County Pirates got going on both sides of the ball in the first quarter and ended any dreams that the Smithville Warriors had of upsetting the surging Pirate team. MECSports.com decided to broadcast the game on-line live. It is available at this link. Several media outlets had TV coverage of the game in limited highlights. The best 2 seemed to be KMBC 9 news that led their high school segment with the Pirates. NBC Action News41 also had good footage of several Pirate touchdowns including Eric Barmann's punt return in the 2nd half. KMBC has their coverage online, watch the video here: So far, no link for the Channel 41 Action News coverage. The team seems to continue to improve and play big when it counts as they now face St. Pius in a rematch of last year's close sectional win. Last year, the St. Pius team got away with a hold on a PAT attempt only to be called for it on a crucial field goal try by the Pirates. That defensive holding call for interfering with the center on a kick snap allowed the Pirates to come back and win last year. This year's team will need to play well. We will need all the fan support possible for this big sectional game.
A summary of the next level in the Playoffs: November 8th (Wednesday) 7:00 PM
District 13 Champion, Grain Valley(9-1, Winners of the Missouri River Valley)
District 15 Champion, St. Pius X (8-1, 2nd in the West Central) Click Here for a MSHSAA Class 3A Football Playoffs Bracket The two winners will meet. Location
of the game depends on who wins. If Grain Valley wins, they will host the
winner of St. Pius and Platte County. Week 9: Redemption in Dragon land! Pirates move to 9-0 with a 39-14 domination of Cameron Dragons. MECSports has some great pictures HERE Sets up one game for MEC and District 16 Championship. The Pirates mixed up the defense a bit and confused the Cameron offense enough to use two first quarter interceptions that were returned for touchdowns. Platte County jumped out to a 21-0 first quarter lead and never looked back. Excellent offensive play from Jake Crawford and Kyle Knox kept the Dragons from ever stopping the Pirate offense. Knox ended up with eight catches for 200 yards to lead the Pirates. First quarter interceptions by Cody Hunt and Nick Maxwell both returned for 6 points quieted the Cameron crowd and helped the huge Pirate following to keep up the load cheering all game long. District 16 play comes down to a one game with Smithville. On the line will be the Missouri Class 3A district championship as well as the Midland Empire Conference Title. Here's a rundown of the district and conference so far: Friday, Oct. 20th
Platte County 39 Savannah 13 Friday, Oct. 27th
Platte County 39 Cameron 14 Thursday, Nov. 2nd
There will be no tie breaker or point differential in the district this year, as the winner takes all on Thursday night. Click Here for a MSHSAA District assignment page. MECSPORTS.com has a broadcast of the 39-14 victory over Cameron at their website. Click Here to link to the broadcast. Week 8: Pirates move to 8-0 with big District 16 win over Savannah 39-13 The Pirates started out scoring touchdowns on 2 out of their first 3 offensive plays and cruised to a 39-13 victory over the Savannah Savages. Platte County is now 1-0 in District 16 play going into a big matchup with Cameron next Friday. District 16 play continues for the next 2 games: Here's the run down: Friday, Oct. 20th
Platte County 39 Savannah 13 Friday, Oct. 27th
Platte County (8-0 / 1-0 District) at Cameron (6-2 / 0-1 District) Thursday, Nov. 2nd
Smithville at Platte County If anyone can find on-line where the rules are regarding District Tie-Breakers, I'll post it here. Just e-mail the link at the bottom of the page. Click Here for a MSHSAA District assignment page. MECSPORTS.com has a broadcast of the 39-13 victory over Savannah at their website. Click Here to link to the broadcast.
Week 7: Pirates overwhelm Lafayette 41-6 St. Joseph Lafayette seemed to be overmatched against the Pirates as they coasted to an easy 41-6 victory. The varsity starters played less than two quarters and the JV got some good game experience. The KC Star continues to ignore the Pirates. A new High School sports writer there has yet to even have a game capsule up on their pages. We'll post news as we can find it on-line JV Wins in Double OT at Kearney 22-20 Freshmen lose to Lafayette 18-8 Week 6: Pirates blowout Maryville 35-0, move to 6-0 for the first time since "The Streak" Maryville turned the ball over early, and unlike last week, the Pirates capitalized on the Spoofhound mistakes and rolled to a relatively easy 35-0 victory. Maryville's only real success came on a reverse inside handoff which garnered them some yardage early, but the Pirate defense adjusted and began to stop the hounds on the ground and through the air. Coverage in the local papers was again limited. The Star is going through some changes in their coverage, so we'll see. The St. Joe Paper had some coverage, but they want paid subscriptions for on-line access. Maryville's Northwest Missourian had an article: You can click here to get it. Week 5: Too Close at Benton: Pirates win 14-13 What started with Benton giving up several turnovers early in the game could have turned into a Pirate rout; but it ended up being a frustrating evening as our Pirates didn't capitalize and never really got into any rhythm barely squeaking out a tough 14-13 win. Benton had a chance to go for 2 after a touchdown with 44 seconds remaining in the game, but opted finally to try to tie the ballgame at 14 only to have the kick hook wide to the left. The ensuing onsides kick failed and the Pirates knelt down to end the game. Coverage at the KC Star: (may require a registration which is free) http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/high_school/15644809.htm Listen to the broadcast at
MECSports.com
Week 4: Pirates Dominate Hornets 35-10 In a game that was supposed to be much closer, the Pirates dominated on both offense and defense on their way to a 35-10 pounding of Chillicothe. Chillicothe could not muster much offense and only scored 3 points until late in the fourth quarter when the JV was playing. The Pirates used a balanced attack to score on the ground and through the air. The only negative was the number of holding calls the Pirates had, which threatened to stop several drives, but seemed only to motivate the offense to buckle down and work that much harder. You can listen to the entire game, archived by MECSports.com by clicking on this link. To download it for listening later, right click on the link and choose "Save Target As" and then select a location to save the Windows Media file: The broadcast is here: MECSports Also, MECSports.com has a gallery of 10 great pictures from the game here: Pictures Here's a link to the Chillicothe Consitution-Tribune article on the game: http://www.chillicothenews.com/articles/2006/09/25/sports/sports1.txt JV lose to Chilli 14-8 Freshmen win their first game 20-14! Week 3: Pirates WIN AT MARSHALL! A long drive to Marshall and a great start to the game. The Pirates recovered an early Marshall fumble and converted it to a touchdown in the first quarter. After another Marshall turnover, it looked like the Pirates may roll, but a blocked pass that was ruled a lateral was scooped up by an Owl player and returned for a touchdown setting up the first time this year that the Pirates have trailed in a game. That set the tone for a game where it appeared the Pirates were in control, only to give up a wild broken play and allow the Marshall team a glimmer of hope. Coverage of the game on the Platte County Citizen website: http://www.plattecountycitizen.com/Sports1.htm
JV defeats Harrisonville 22-6: This is the second straight year that the Junior Varsity has defeated Harrisonville. Freshmen lose to Harrisonville 26-0: In an away game at Harrisonville. Week 2: Despite giving up 3 big play touchdowns to the outmanned Westport Tigers, the Pirates rolled to a 68-28 victory on Friday night at the Interscholastic League East stadium. No press coverage, although there was a short clip on the Metro Sports football roundup Friday night on Time Warner Cable. If anyone has a copy of it, please let the webmaster know and we'll see if we can put it up on the site. Upcoming Marshall Team struggles in loss to
Warrensburg JV drops home game against Pleasant Hill,
Freshmen lose on road to Pleasant Hill.
Week 1:
Here's the Platte County
Citizen story: Here's the coverage at the Kansas City Star On-line: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/high_school/15423046.htm JV Dominates, Freshmen Struggle Platte County Junior Varsity beat O'Hara's JV Team in a game at O'Hara on Tuesday, Sept. 5. The Pirates dominated and came out on top with a 36-0 score. In the Freshman game, held at Platte County, O'Hara scored often in a 46-16 win over the Pirate Frosh. Pre-Season DVD Orders are now closed. Click on the Season DVD Package link above if you still want to order a set of Season DVD's2006 Posters are still available. These make great keepsakes for your player to frame. If you are a business owner, show your support for the Pirates by putting up a poster at your business. Click on the 2006 Poster link above.Pirate QB Club coordinates Pre-Game MealsClick the Meals link above to find information on how you can help our team play well by being fueled right!
Recent Media Coverage of the Platte County Pirates Football Program:Several interviews and stories are in the works. We should be seeing some coverage soon. Kansas City Star's Sam Mellinger comments on Platte
County in his Q&A column: You can catch the Star's coverage of HS Sports at http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/high_school/ Sam has some knowledge of PC and last year was definitely on the bandwagon, but then went to the Cameron game and lost a bit of confidence. Here's one of his recent answers on PC.
Q: What is your
thoughts on the football team this year from Platte County? Also
is the rumor that Mike Winchell from "Friday night Lights" fame
taking a job at Blue Springs South really legit?
A: The Winchell
thing was a well-circulated prank. About Platte County, that's a
tough one to call. On the one hand, they went 11-2 last year,
which is great, right? But they've been so ridiculously good for
so ridiculously long I know there's some looking at that
(especially with the two losses being blowouts) as nothing too
special. I think they lose something like 19 or 20 seniors from
a class that Sherman called one of the best he's ever had, so
there is some work to be done. But until Platte County ever
plays out a stinker season, I think you have to assume they'll
be one of the best teams around.
Kansas City Star High School Preview: Capsules of
All the KC Area Teams Kansas City Star High School Top 5 Teams Large and
Small Class MEC Sports website has a recorded audio of the
Conference preview: Their site is
www.mecsports.com You can get to the preview by clicking below:
It is an hour and 45 minutes long!
If you see any pre-season polls, coverage, etc. Please forward them to the webmaster. The link is below. Watch this space develop as we link to relevant stories on-line regarding Pirate Football and follow players. If you've seen an article on-line that mentions the Pirates or a Pirate player, forward it along to webmaster@PirateQBClub.com and we'll link it here.
Coverage of Teams that the Pirates play: (Only links that are publicly available will be posted here. Subscription links or fee-based links will not be posted.) Chillicothe defeats Maryville in opener: Click here for the coverage: http://www.chillicothenews.com/articles/2006/09/02/sports/sports1.txt
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