Playing in December has happen 3 times …
Last week the KNews reported that this year?s version of the Kennedale Wildcat football team was the first to go beyond the third round. After being corrected by several readers, the Kennedale was sent back to school to do some research and to eat some online news ink. {{more:Read more …}}
What we found was that there have been eight teams to reach the third round in 1996, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Out of those eight teams, three made it to the 4th round of the state playoffs which has been called the state quarterfinals by some and the region finals by others. Making it to that round puts the team in the top eight teams in the state for the 3A or 4A classification. These teams are the 2001, 2003 and the 2016 Wildcats.
The following is is the playoff record of each of those teams according to Texas Football History
2001 (Overall record 12-2) …
- BI-DISTRICT: Kennedale 28 Glen Rose 27,
- AREA: Kennedale 42 Sweetwater 37,
- REGIONAL: Kennedale 33 Alpine 26,
- QUARTERFINALS: Kennedale 28, Bridgeport 35
Notable: Head Coach was Richard Barrett and the only coach remaining from that staff is Head Baseball and Assistant Football Coach Paul Trantham.
2003 (Overall record 12-2) …
- BI-DISTRICT: Kennedale 60 Sanger 21;
- AREA Kennedale 34 Iowa Park 21;
- REGIONAL: Kennedale 26 Merkel 10;
- QUARTER-FINALS: Kennedale 26 Vernon 33 OT
Notable: Head Coach was Richard Barrett and current coaches on the 2003 staff were Paul Trantham and Head Basketball and Assistant Football Coach Doug Groff Coach. Strength and Conditioning Coach Bryan Barrett was the quarterback for the 2003 team.
2016 …(Current record (10-3) …
- BI-DISTRICT: Kennedale 63 Wilmer-Hutchins 0;
- AREA: Kennedale 15 Terrell 7;
- REGIONALS: Kennedale 49 Midlothian Heritage 47;
- QUARTERFINALS: ?
Notable: Head Coach Richard Barrett has been the head coach for all three of the fourth round team as well as 7 of the eight Wildcats teams that have made it to the third round.
Side note: The first team for the Wildcats to make it to the AREA playoffs was in 1996 and it was coached by Tim Stout. Playing for that team was Cedric James who went on to play for the TCU, playing along side LaDanian Thomlinson. James went on to play for the Minnesota Vikings, the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots. His career was marred by injuries and he retired in 2006.The Wildats (10-3) play Van 12-1) Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Cowboys Frisco Star. The indoor stadium is the Ford Center.
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