The numbers speak volumes for the Southside Mavericks’ football team.

Defensively, the Mavs have kept their team in all three conference games.

Offensively, it has been a mixture of misses, near-misses and blown assignments.

Southside missed a couple of potential scoring chances in last week’s 28-14 loss to North Little Rock. The Charging Wildcats flipped the game, and momentum, with a 50-yard fumble return for a touchdown.

“I thought we executed better than the Cabot game,” Southside quarterback coach Justin Key said. “The fumble return was huge because it swung all the momentum back to North Little Rock.”

Quarterback Parker Wehunt has had his moments. He threw a dime to Jay Washington in last week’s game that went for naught.

He’s also missed some plays, too.

“We knew coming in to North Little Rock that we would be getting a lot of man coverage, and we did a decent job scheming and making some plays against some of it,” Key said. ”(But) I thought we were two or three plays away from scoring 21 or even 28 (points).”

Wehunt is 61-for-123 (49.59 percent) for 713 yards and nine touchdowns. He’s been intercepted just four times.


Jake Tyler leads the team with 23 receptions for 271 yards.

The Mavericks’ Jackson Morawski caught two passes for 40 yards, his first two career receptions. He’s among nine different players who’s caught at least one pass this season.

“Jackson Morawski is one of our more improved players from last year,” Key said. “He has continued to improve each week. He had two big catches and he will continue to get on the field in our spread packages”

Southside II

The Mavericks’ defense had one bad play in last week’s loss to North Little Rock — a run around right end that went for an 80-yard touchdown.

Aside from that run, however, the Mavericks held the Charging Wildcats to just 203 yards, including just 34 yards through the air on 5-of-11 passing.

Dakota Wareham had 11 tackles and recovered one of three fumbles in the Mavericks’ loss.


Shawn Rogers, Leighton Johnson and Jeremiah Van Hook recorded quarterback sacks for the Mavericks. Southside’s mostly youthful defense has 11 quarterback sacks in six games.

They had just six in a dozen games in 2018.
