Mansfield Timberview stays perfect in District 5-5A D1 with drubbing of Carrollton Smith

Mansfield Timberview scored on all six of its first-half drives to open a big lead then cruised to a 56-8 win over Carrollton Smith in a District 5-5A Division 1 football game on Thursday night at Newsom Stadium.

Timberview (5-0 overall, 3-0 district) scored on its second snap of the game on a 56-yard scoring run by running back Javeon Madison and never looked back.

“What I saw was the two defenders that went outside following the linemen trying to block,” said Madison, a senior, who finished with 86 yards on seven carries and added a 7-yard TD run in the third quarter. “I just shot the gap as hard as I could and just ran down and scored.”

The Wolves, No. 2 in both the state Class 5A Division 1 poll and the Star-Telegram Class 5A area rankings, have outscored its first three district opponents 189-31 or 63-10 on average.

“We know that we can come in and win, but we just have to execute to get better,” said Tyler Madison, Javeon’s younger brother who finished with three catches for 91 yards and two scores. “We’re really just focused on ourselves and work to get better each week. We enjoyed this one because we got locked in this week in practice and ramped it up knowing that we have Birdville coming up next.”

Smith (2-2, 0-2) played well early. The Trojans got a 64-yard return of the kickoff, following Javeon Madison’s early score, by Demonte Greene down to the Wolves 27-yard line.

A pass interference penalty on Timberview put the ball at the 8, but Smith lost the ball on downs there.

After the Wolves raced down for a score on a 27-yard pass from quarterback Cameron Bates to Tyler Madison to up the lead to 14-0, Smith marched down for a score of its own.

The Trojans took eight plays to cover 72 yards capped by a nice pitch and catch from Pierson Rougeau to Greene to cut the lead to 14-8 with 57 seconds left in the first quarter.

But it was all Timberview from that point.

The Wolves answered 14 seconds later when Tyler Madison hauled in a 60-yd pass from Zuric Humes, who alternates at quarterback with Bates.

“Right now we’re battling for the quarterback job,” said Humes, who completed 8 of 11 passes for 198 yards and tossed four touchdown passes. “We’re going to be doing this for a little while until one of us steps up and takes the job.”

Humes additional scoring passes were 36 yards to Titus Evans, 23 yards to D.J. Hill, and 45 yards to running back Jarvis Reed. Evans (No. 94) and Reed (No. 42) are members of the Star-Telegram Top 100 area players.

But Bates played extremely well as well hitting 9 of 15 passes for 110 yards.

“Zuric’s a guy who is football intelligent, he’s a coach’s kid, actually both are coach’s kids,” said Timberview coach James Brown. “They’re both doing a really good job, but I think in today’s day and age, not necessarily where we are now, we need two quarterbacks to get through.”

Brown pointed out that both have really good attributes and are both the same age being juniors. The two are competing every week to see who grades out better to start and both get plenty of playing time in games.

“We’re going to alternate and continue to do that because I like where they are,” said Brown. “We’re not afraid of either one of them going out there.”

The Timberview defense was smothering, led by 4-star Texas Tech commit Jordan Sanford, No. 10 in the S-T Top 100, who ranks as the 23rd best safety in the country and 46th best player in the state.

The Wolves allowed 274 total yards (139 rushing and 135 passing) with Greene accounting for 122 on five receptions.

Reed led all rushers with 158 yards on 11 carries behind Texas commit Andre Cojoe (No. 23 S-T Top 100) and the rest of the Wolves offensive line. Timberview rolled up 607 yards of total offense with 299 coming on the ground on just 25 carries...almost 12 yards per rush.

Reed’s 82-yard TD run gave the Wolves a 33-8 lead with 3:40 left in the second quarter.

“Having the lopsided games that we’ve had the past couple of weeks hasn’t really helped us get better, I don’t think, but it’s ok as long as our kids know how to focus on what we’re doing,” said Brown. “It’s been good for us as coaches because it allows us to focus on what we do right and what we do wrong, but a lot of the times right now we’re just athletically better.”

This story was originally published September 22, 2022 at 10:11 PM.