Last-second pick preserves Goats’ first win

  • LEFT, Arturo Sotelo looks for running room against Marlin during Friday night’s 22-19 home victory.
    LEFT, Arturo Sotelo looks for running room against Marlin during Friday night’s 22-19 home victory.
  • TOP: MaQua Smith (23), 10 Cole Shugart (10) and Drae Bennett (12) clear space for Beau Pagel (20) to pick up some yardage.
    TOP: MaQua Smith (23), 10 Cole Shugart (10) and Drae Bennett (12) clear space for Beau Pagel (20) to pick up some yardage.
  • ABOVE: Brian Correa, Rowdy Good, Casen Crane and Coker Holloway surround a Marlin player who had no room for escape. Photos by Thomas Leffler/The Fairfield Recorder
    ABOVE: Brian Correa, Rowdy Good, Casen Crane and Coker Holloway surround a Marlin player who had no room for escape. Photos by Thomas Leffler/The Fairfield Recorder
The Groesbeck Goats won their first football game of the season under a full Harvest moon on a Friday the 13th, a phenomenon which will not occur again until 2049 — the full moon on a Friday the 13th setting, not the Goat football win. Instead, Groesbeck’s hard fighting to stay in this game may have signaled a turning point on the learning curve being taught to the Goats by Coach Jerry Bomar and…

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