Oasis High’s football team, coaching staff, cheerleaders and more pose with the trophy after winning the second annual Backyard Brawl over Ida Baker Friday night.<\/p>\n
CJ HADDAD<\/p>\n
The Oasis Sharks football team, finally fully heathy this year, turned in its best performance of the season Friday night, taking down Ida Baker 25-11 in the second annual Backyard Brawl.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Sharks team (2-6) found itself with a lead just 11 seconds into the game, as the Bulldogs (3-5) fumbled the opening kickoff, which was recovered in the end zone by Oasis\u2019 Kevin Cisneros.<\/p>\n
That early lead would never be relinquished throughout the contest, and the Sharks raised the Backyard Brawl trophy for the second consecutive year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got a lot of guys back (this week), and it\u2019s been a tough schedule, but we\u2019re going to keep fighting always,\u201d said Oasis head coach Brice Bearman. \u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve had our offensive line together since the first week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Shark offensive line being fully healthy, as well as having two week to prepare, certainly showed Friday night. Oasis ran for 273 yards on the ground collectively, lead by Cisneros who collected 118 yards rushing on 18 attempts.<\/p>\n
Following the opening kickoff touchdown for Oasis, its next score would come on the last play of the first quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Jaxon Reese interception got the Sharks the ball back, and the team broke off chunk run plays all the way down inside the Bulldog 10-yard line. It was senior Jackson Sabath who took a keeper around the right side and tiptoed inside the pylon to extend the Shark lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ida Baker answered right back with a score of its own, as Aiden Graham knocked home a 35-yard field goal to get his team on the board.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Sharks answered that score on the ensuing possession, with Cisneros taking a handoff 2 yards out and finding paydirt with a little over a minute to go before the break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Receiving the ball to start the second half, the Sharks didn\u2019t miss a beat, as the team continued to run the ball at will. Oasis converted two fourth downs en route to a Kaleb Stengel 6-yard touchdown catch from Sabath.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were huge,\u201d Bearman said of the fourth down conversions.<\/p>\n
Of the way Oasis ran the football on the night, Ida Baker head coach Cullen O\u2019Brien said, \u201cWe\u2019re continuing struggling with the same issues. Simply put, we do not get off the football. Our kids still have not learned to get off the football, and here we are in week nine and we\u2019re still not getting off the football on both sides of the ball. We drill it, rep it, talk about it. I told them it\u2019s the same problems. (Oasis) beat us off the ball and beat us at the line of scrimmage all night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was no quit in the Bulldogs, though, as senior running back Nikolas Korf, who eclipsed the 1,000-yard rushing mark on the season in this game, got his legs churning and put Ida Baker into Shark territory. Korf is the second Bulldog to ever have 1,000 rushing yards in a season, and also set the record for most rushing yards in a season in Ida Baker history with more games to play. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Sophomore quarterback Brody Root found junior wideout Caelum Cragin for a 21-yard touchdown pass to make it a two-possession game with just under 8 minutes to go. Cragin finished the night with seven receptions for 86 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Things got even more interesting as the Bulldogs recovered an onside sick after the touchdown, but were unable to do anything with the short field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s another step forward in our program,\u201d O\u2019Brien said of the team not giving up. \u201cWe saw it against Cape, too. We\u2019re learning to fight, now we have to learn to finish. We\u2019re too emotional and very young. We let the emotion play too much into things.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien said his team had bad week of practice leading up to the game, with players more focused on trash talking the opponent rather than preparing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very flat week of practice and it blew my mind,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re playing for a trophy and a rival that we can hear their practice. Just out here going through the motions. Intensity needs to pick up for us. We\u2019ve got to do some soul searching this week as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bearman, who worked at Ida Baker for 5 years, said both teams did a great job and fought hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI love it. It\u2019s awesome,\u201d he said of the new annual rivalry game. \u201cI know a lot of those guys over there. I\u2019m just thrilled for everyone involved in this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ida Baker takes on Mariner (2-6) at home this Friday, while Oasis doesn\u2019t play next until Oct. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1 2 3 4 F<\/p>\n
IDA BAKER 0 3 0 8 \u2014 11<\/p>\n
OASIS. 12 6 7 0 \u2014 25<\/p>\n
1st Quarter<\/p>\n
O: Kevin Cisneros, fumble recovery (kick fail); 11:49<\/p>\n
O: Jackson Sabath, 9-yard run (kick fail); 0:00<\/p>\n
2nd Quarter<\/p>\n
IB: Aiden Graham, 35-yard field goal; 7:35<\/p>\n
O: Cisneros, 2-yard run (2-point fail); 1:21<\/p>\n
3rd Quarter<\/p>\n
O: Kaleb Stengel, 6-yard reception from Sabath (kick); 2:58<\/p>\n
4th Quarter<\/p>\n
IB: Caelum Cragin, 21-yard reception from Brody Root (2-point good); 7:50<\/p>\n