On a night when nothing seemed to go right for the Jersey Village Falcons, Sam McGuffie and the Cy-Fair Bobcats could do no wrong.

If anybody had any doubts about Cy Fair and McGuffie rising to the challenge after last week’s disappointing loss to Strake Jesuit, they got their answer in the first half as McGuffie scored early and often to lead Cy Fair to a 62-7 thrashing of the Falcons in a District 17-5A game on Friday night.

In only his second game back after suffering an ankle injury, McGuffie eluded the Jersey Village (1-4, 1-1) defense for six touchdowns in front of a maroon-clad homecoming crowd.  Before being lifted from the game early in the third quarter, he had rushed for 272 yards. That he was named Cy Fair’s homecoming king at halftime was icing on the cake.

The Bobcat (3-2, 1-1) defense wasn’t bad either, as Austen Wozniak and company held the potent ground game of Lewis Crawford and Anthony Bibbs to a single score on the night.

It took the Bobcats only two plays to hit score.  A 13-yard pass from Gavin West to John Leonhardt was followed by a 67-yard TD run by McGuffie.  Chris Patrick’s first of eight extra points was good.

Following a Brian Davis 42-yard punt, Cy-Fair was back in business on its own 41 and took just three plays to notch another touchdown. A 12-yard run and a seven-yard scoring scamper by McGuffie sandwiched a 33-yard run by Wesley Cobb to give the Bobcats all the scoring they would need for the win.

Jersey Village countered with an eight-play drive of its own, moving the ball to the Cy-Fair 35 behind a 22-yard quarterback keeper by Crawford and a 10-yard pass to Nicholas Muery. But Cy-Fair’s Peter Hand intercepted a Crawford pass after it was tipped by the receiver, ending the threat. 

The Bobcats then drove 63 yards for their third score, 21 coming on a McGuffie run with 2:28 remaining in the first.  A 21-yard pass play from West to Leonhardt helped keep the drive going. 

Cy-Fair added three more scores in the second quarter, all on big plays.  Cobb ran 61 yards for one of the scores, while McGuffie scored on runs of 55 and 12 yards. 

In between, Jersey Village added a touchdown of its own on a 10-play drive. Crawford rushed for 26 yards on the drive and passed to Jeremy Friedrichs for 15 more, while Bibbs and Tyler Bench ran for 13 each, and Lance Siragusa added the score on an 11-yard run.

That was all the Falcons got, however, as Wozniak, Hand, Michael Daronch, Garrett Tompkins, Travis Ashford and the rest of the Bobcat defense kept the Jersey Village offense hemmed in all game. Cy-Fair forced five turnovers, including four fumbles recovered by Zach Stegent, Ryan May, Donavon Guidry and Wozniak.

Wozniak also recorded a sack.

Cy-Fair added three more scores in the second half.

McGuffie scored his final TD with 6:13 left in the third period on a 22-yard run. Tevin Champagne’s 10-yard TD run gave Cy-Fair a 56-7 lead with 5:49 left in the third, while Mike Pasek, who replaced West at quarterback, ran in from five yards for the final score.

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