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Roosvelt Rough Riders Dreidan Rose (2) scores a touchdown In the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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After getting blown out in its first two games, Roosevelt knew it was going to have to fix a few things to turn its season around.<\/p>\n
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Whatever fixes Roosevelt made seem to work for quarterback\u00a0Xavion Chambers and the rest of the squad as the Rough Riders trampled Jay 55-6 for their first win of the season Saturday at Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe message in practice was \u2018fix us,\u2019\u201d Roosevelt coach\u00a0Darnell Barnes said. \u201cFix us, fix our mistakes, fix what we\u2019ve been doing wrong. We\u2019re not going to look out and start pointing fingers, blaming referees and all of that stuff. We got to fix what we can control, so I felt like we really did that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
In losses to Clemens (50-22) and East Central (40-14), Barnes said Roosevelt hurt itself with turnovers. Against Jay (0-3), Roosevelt flipped the script by forcing the Mustangs into five turnovers, three of those miscues leading to Rough Rider scores.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came out in the first two games and in two games we had six turnovers and a blocked punt,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to win football games in (Class) 6A football period. But when you\u2019re spotting good teams 21 points every game and being sloppy with the football, it\u2019s impossible to win. In practice we harped on it, ball security, all the way to the ground, take care of the football. We harped on striking the hip, climbing the ladder, making good tackles and then if we got them stood up in the crowd, punching the ball out, ripping it out, giving more opportunities for our offense and then being explosive in the special teams. So, it was just a complete flip of what the last two weeks have been and I\u2019m very proud of these guys because we talked about it in practice, we harped on it and then they came on the field and executed today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chambers, a junior, led Roosevelt (1-2) as he threw for 236 yards on 17-of-22 passing and four scores, including two to\u00a0Dartanyon Brown and one each to Aurice Perry, Dreidan Rose and Ernest Smith.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWell tonight, it was just basically executing,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cThe offense, we turned the ball over too many times. Defense wasn\u2019t getting off the field on third downs. But today we just did our job. Everybody believed in each other. We had a good talk on Friday about personal issues with the team, bonding with the team, getting better. So, I feel like today we played for one other.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Ernest Smith (3) leaps over defenders In the second half for a touchdown on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Ernest Smith (3) hurdles over Jay Mustangs defenders In the first half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Avery Barlowe (87) catches a pass as Jay Mustangs Christopher Allen (5) hangs onto prevent his scoring on the play In the first half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Jay Mustangs QB Ezekiel Lara (12) throws a pass In the first half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders J\u2019Anthoniie Ruiz (10) strips the ball loose from Jay Mustang Ezekiel Lara (12) on a quarterback sneak In the first half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Dreidan Rose (2) alludes a Jay Mustangs tackler In the first half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Jay Mustangs Wallace Wellington (3) catches a pass for his team\u2019s only touchdown in the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Ernest Smith (3) races beyond defenders In the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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Jay Mustangs Ted Davis (21) returns a kick-off In the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Rayne Russell-Fields (1) returns a fumble for a touchdown In the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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Roosvelt Rough Riders Ray Diaz (23) celebrates a defensive stop In the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at Heroes Stadium. Roosevelt defeated Jay 55-6.<\/p>\n
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Rose finished with five catches for 118 yards, most of which came on the 71-yard scoring reception in the fourth quarter, while Brown caught scoring tosses of 17, 16 and 17 yards, all of which came in the second quarter, including a scoring toss from Perry. Smith also had a rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got a lot of good athletes on my team,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cThey make me look good. Honestly, I don\u2019t really have to do too much. I can get the ball to my guys and let them do what they got to do to go score and that\u2019s how we were very successful on offense today.\u201d<\/p>\n
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After stopping Jay on downs deep in its own territory, Roosevelt marched down the field on a 71-yard scoring drive ending as Chambers threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Perry with 1:45 in the first.<\/p>\n
In the second quarter, Roosevelt scored on three of four possessions in the frame to take a 28-0 lead at halftime. The first score came on a trick play, as Perry took a toss from Chambers and found Brown in the end zone for a 17-yard score. The Rough Riders\u2019 next two scores were set up by two fumble recoveries by\u00a0Isiah Chavez, resulting in Brown\u2019s final two touchdown receptions of the game.<\/p>\n
Roosevelt tacked on 21 more points in the third quarter, with running back Ernest Smith getting two of those touchdowns on a 14-yard scoring pass from Chambers and a 27-yard run.<\/p>\n
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Jay finally put points on the board in third quarter on a 13-yard scoring pass from Ezekiel\u00a0Lara to Wallace Wellington.
Roosevelt linebacker Rayne Russell-Fields came up with two turnovers, including an interception and a scoop and score 53-yard fumble return in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Both teams have an open week before starting district action. Jay begins District 14-5A-1 play against South San on Sept. 24 at\u00a0Gustafson Stadium, while Roosevelt faces a surprising Madison team that is off to a 3-0 start in its District 28-6A opener at Heroes Stadium on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roosvelt Rough Riders Dreidan Rose (2) scores a touchdown In the second half on Saturday, Sept.12, 2026 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-434567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}