Tigers' mark final home game with loss to Hawks

For 18 Mountain Home Tiger football players, Friday night marked their final game in front of the home crowd, as Mountain Home honored them with pre-game Senior Night festivities.

The night ended with a 67-18 loss to the Skyview Hawks at Tiger Field.

Skyview scored on its first possession, going 82 yards in eight plays. The point-after try was no good but the Hawks led by six with 7:02 left in the first quarter.

Mountain Home, which had picked up only one first down on its opening drive, that on a roughing the punter penalty, answered with a scoring drive of its own on the second possession. Jesse Cobos capped off a 67-yard, five-play drive with a 28-yard pass to Tyler Park. The PAT was blocked but the score was tied at 6-6 with 5:07 left in the first quarter.

From there, things went downhill for the Tigers, as it would be almost 14 minutes before they would score again. Meanwhile, a fumble and four pass interceptions helped Skykview run out to a 47-6 lead before Jesse Cobos scored on a 28-yard run to make it 47-12, with 3:12 left in the first half.

Skyview would score again less than a minute later to take a 53-12 lead into the locker room at halftime.

Mountain Home kept Skyview out of the end zone on its first two possessions of the third quarter, but a Tiger fumble set up the Hawks on Mountain Home's 34-yard line. The Hawks scored in three plays to up their lead to 60-12 with 4:29 left in the third quarter.

The Tigers then had a good drive going until a fumble stopped it and Skyview turned the Mountain Home miscue into points, to go up, 67-12, with 9:42 left in the ball game.

Mountain Home capped off the scoring on the night on its next possession, as Jesse Cobos passed to AJ Daniels for a 32-yard touchdown to make it a 67-18 final.

"Obviously, we could have played much better," said Tiger head football coach Aaron Rodney.

"We were hit with big play after big play by Skyview's big receivers, and we were not able to recover.

"We made several key mistakes on offense and defense. I felt we could have competed better than we did.

"I felt the kids played hard as they've done every week. Every Friday night is an opportunity and we have another one this week when we travel to Kuna."

The Tigers take the field at Kuna Friday night against the Kavemen. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.