Cy Ranch filled their section of Pridgeon Stadium with white in our school’s White-Out game against Cy Woods, which coincided with Ranch’s annual Coach to Cure game. The purpose of this Coach to Cure game is to raise money and awareness for Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy.

Muscular dystrophy is a hereditary condition  in which the muscles of the body get weaker and weaker and slowly stop working. This is because people who have muscular dystrophy have genes that can’t make protein properly. Without these proteins, the body begins to break down and weaken over time.

Cy Ranch’s experience with the disease is especially personal. The team’s honorary varsity players, sixth graders Nicholas Buellers and Wyatt Keenan, suffer from MD.

“Our football program’s relationship with Nicholas Buellers and Wyatt Keenan has made the fight against Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy very personal,” head coach Gene Johnson said.

Buellers and Keenan have been a core part of the Cy Ranch football team for years, and Coach Johnson was touched by the community’s response to Coach to Cure.

“How our community and team has rallied around the boys in supporting their fight against this terrible disease is incredible,” he said.

As part of the Coach to Cure game, Buellers and Keenan led the team onto the field. After that, the team huddled around the two youngsters just before the kick off of the biggest rivalry game of the year for Ranch.

The game started without a hitch for the Mustangs on both sides of the ball as the team accrued a pair of touchdowns off runs from seniors Collin Rock and Dylan Proske. Cy Woods tried to answer with a touchdown of their own (with extra point blocked). That was met with another rushing touchdown for Proske and an incredible punt return touchdown by junior RJ Sneed.

Our Mustangs headed into halftime boasting a 28-6 lead. This was unusual for a series that was always close and hard fought.

Woods came out of the locker rooms with purpose. They were able to drive for three minutes and find themselves in the end zone for the second time of the game.

It was an entire quarter before another score which was made by Cy Woods in the form of a touchdown. The wildcats were hoping to move within eight with an extra point, but the Mustangs continued to dominate as the extra point was blocked and senior Brayden Stringer scooped the ball up and ran into the endzone. That play earned the Mustangs two points, making the score 30-19.

With Woods’ fans quiet and the team’s morale at an all-time low, our boys in blue capitalized. Junior EJ Thompson ran one in from 12 yards out and Terrence Shaw broke out for an incredible 72 yard touchdown on the way to a 44-25 win.

This makes it two years in a row that our Mustangs have defeated rival Cy Woods. The team will now prepare to take on Jersey Village this Friday, Oct. 2.