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Published October 03, 2007 03:51 pm -

MHS’s Owens understands not getting the ball


By Mike Kays
Phoenix Sports Editor

Click here to watch this week's Rougher Update video with Coach Matt Hennesy and senior DL, Stacy McGee.

Jameel Owens paid close attention to Malcolm Kelly’s travails Saturday.

The Oklahoma wide receiver had no catches in the Sooners’ 27-24 loss to Colorado on Saturday, a reminder to Owens of a game three weeks ago against Union.

OU coach Bob Stoops was at that game too, and for the time he and assistant coach Jackie Shipp were there, Owens had as many catches as Kelly. After Stoops left at the half, Owens would grab a two-point conversion catch — the first throw in his direction all day — and ended up with only two other catches for 33 yards.

And as with the Sooners, the end result wasn’t positive. Muskogee lost to Union 26-11.

Friday night brings another big stage for Owens and a chance at redemption in various ways, starting with receptions, as 6A No. 3 Muskogee plays host to No. 2 Jenks in a matchup featuring a pair of 4-1 teams with the only 2-0 marks in District 6A-4.

Saturday’s game looked familiar to Owens when it came to Kelly, OU’s primary receiver.

“Almost the same (as Union),” he said. “They didn’t get the ball in the hands of a playmaker too much but that’s football. A receiver isn’t going to get the ball in his hands as often as he wants. That’s going to happen and you’re going to have to live with it.”

Muskogee coach Matt Hennesy said some mixes of coverage and Owens overrunning routes were both factors, saying then that the state’s No. 1 recruit “was trying too hard to make things happen.”

Hennesy is also aware that Owens needs to make things happen this week. He enters the game with 562 yards on 27 catches, a 20.8 yard average, and four touchdowns.

“This isn’t a knock to Jameel from the Union game or Randon (offensive coordinator Lowe) or anybody, but I don’t want to be sitting here looking at the stats on Saturday and see that result this week,” Hennesy said.

He’s even got a number in mind, one that appears in the game plan as often as any X or O.

“I’m using the number 15 in several areas of strategy and that’s one of them,” he said. “Whether it’s punt returns, kickoff returns, catches, put him in at quarterback, I don’t know — whatever it is, he needs to have 15 touches and be a big part of this game.”

In all his candor, Hennesy would probably like to avoid putting Owens in at quarterback. Owens had to do that in the regular season matchup between the two teams a year ago because starting quarterback Rell Lewis, now a University of Kansas redshirt, tore knee ligaments in the opening kickoff and didn’t return until the postseason.

Muskogee lost 28-3, compiling 37 total yards. Owens had minus-46 yards rushing on seven carries and completed 2 of 7 passes for 25 yards. Muskogee’s longest play from scrimmage was Owens’ 14-yard pass to Andre Anderson with 5:10 left in the third quarter.



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