Lake Worth (3-3, 1-0) is coming off a win over the Castleberry Lions (0-6) 21-7. Picked to finish 4th in District 5-4A, the Bullfrogs have already improved over last year?s record of 2-9, both of those wins came in district play. {{more}}
This season besides Castleberry, their other wins have come against FTW Trimble Tech (3-4) 28-13 and Godley (2-4) 32-21. Their losses have been against FTW Country Day (4-3) 49-27, Bowie (3-3) 27-21 and Dallas Lincoln (4-2) 32-27.
Lake Worth mixes up the run and the pass game. On the ground they have rushed for 889 yards and passed for 942 yards for a total of 1831 yards (305 yds per game). This puts Lake Worth 3rd in the district behind Kennedale (498 yds) and Alvarado (365 yds). Lake Worth is 3rd in the district in scoring defense allowing 25 pts per game behind Kennedale (17 pts) and Alvarado (20 pts).
Freshman quarterback Monta Kimble is a dual threat rushing for 362 yds and 7 TDs and he has completed 65% of his passes with 4 TDs (4 INT). Lake Worth spreads the passes around with at least 4 receivers having 100+ yards for the season. Mikiel Johnson (Sr) leads with 20 receptions for 275 yds followed by Dusty Aaron (Sr) with 18 catches for 252 yds and Simon Flores (Sr) with 14 for 177 yds. Johnson also has 187 yrds (6.2 av) rushing.
Over the years, Kennedale has played Lake Worth 21 times, leading the series 11-9-1. Last year Kennedale defeated Lake Worth 71-0.