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Published November 04, 2009 12:51 am - Houn’ Dawgs, Cassville kick off Class 3 playoffs By Jim Fryar
jfryar@joplinglobe.com A fellow conference program which Rick Scholten admires now stands as the first playoff opponent for Aurora in six years. The Houn’ Dawgs visit Cassville, in a rematch of Big 8 Conference opponents, to kick off the Missouri Class 3 playoffs tonight. Other playoff games for Big 8 teams tonight have Seneca at Springfield Catholic in Class 3 and Lamar at home against El Dorado Springs in Class 2. Aurora at Cassville The Houn’ Dawgs, winless a year ago, earned their way into the playoffs with an 8-0 victory over rival Mount Vernon in the Bell Bowl last Thursday. “I’m glad to be in the playoffs,” Aurora coach Scholten said. “It’s a big deal in the rebuilding process. There were a couple of games along the way that I felt like we should be able to step up and win. ... But our kids really kept their eyes on the district race.” Cassville, 9-1, won the regular-season meeting 38-7, pulling away in the second half after Aurora starting quarterback Garret Ormsby was knocked out of the game. Cassville coach David Large understands where Aurora is coming from. Large’s first Cassville team went winless. “Aurora is a much-improved team,” Large said. “Rick is a good coach and they’re doing the right things. “They’re good up front. (Waylon) Doty (a 6-foot-4, 240-pound senior defensive end) is really good and they have another athletic end in (senior Dustin) Hedrick. Their offensive and defensive lines play physical and that’s what you have to do in the Big 8. “They’re not a whole lot different than us. We want to be a physical, running team and play sound defense and that’s what I see in them.” Cassville, the defending Class 3 state champion, has won nine games in a row after an opening loss to Branson. “We’re not a whole lot different (from the first game against Aurora),” Large said. “We just have more games under the belt. We had a lot of new starters. And you can coach them all you want, but getting that game experience is the best thing for them, especially on the defense side. (Experience) goes a long way in high school football.” 
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