This Week in Texas High School Football: May 2

7-on-7 state qualifying begins at The Star in Frisco The 7-on-7 season got off to a fast start Saturday in Frisco as a well-run and very entertaining tournament at The Star in Frisco saw Crowley, Little Elm and Plano Prestonwood punch the first three tickets to the Division I 7-on-7 State Tournament in College Station. All three teams were a perfect 4-0 on the day with Crowley and Prestonwood being fairly dominating in all four wins. Little Elm scratched and clawed its way to the spot winning two of three pool games by a total of eight points, then needing a last second touchdown to beat Lake Highlands in the qualifying round. Full scores from the tournament can be found here: http://www.texasfootball.com/frisco-sqt-scores/ Jack Welch officially steps aside at Copperas Cove After nearly three weeks of rumors and whispers that Jack Welch’s time at Copperas Cove was ending, the CCISD school board made it official on Thursday accepting Welch’s resignation, which read more like a retirement letter. Welch had an incredible run at Cove posting a 193-84-1 record in 24 years leading the Bulldawgs a great run from 2006-2008 when he led Cove to back-to-back Class 4A state title appearances and a run to the state semi-finals in Class 5A in 2008. Copperas Cove posted its vacant coaching position and a new coach should be hired at some point in May. The Bulldawgs are not participating in spring football so the new coach will have the extra week in the summer of practice and the additional scrimmage. Mark Perez steps down at San Antonio Burbank In a bit if a surprise move, on Thursday San Antonio ISD announced Burbank head coach Mark Perez would not return for a seventh season in 2018. Perez is being reassigned to the SAISD athletic office until the end of the school year and led Burbank to the playoffs twice in his tenure, the school’s only playoff appearances since an unbeaten regular season in 1978. Perez’s final year at the helm he led Burbank to a 5-6 record and the playoffs. Dwayne DuBois leaves alma mater to return to Hardin-Jefferson In a bit of an odd twist, Bridge City head coach Dwayne DuBois on Thursday announced he was leaving his alma mater to return to Hardin-Jefferson where he coached the Hawks in 2013-2014 and posted a solid 19-7 mark. Kemp hires Lee Wilkins Thursday morning, DCTF learned that Kemp would name former Princeton head coach Lee Wilkins as its next head football coach/athletic director, replacing Brandon Hankins who departed for Farmersville in early April. Wilkins served has the head coach at Princeton from 2013-2016 posting a 29-16 record in his four years at the helm, before resigning in the spring of 2017. Quincy Williams first ever head coach at Manor New Tech Manor New Tech will play its first season of varsity football in 2018 and what was long rumored finally became reality on Friday as the district formally announced the hiring of former assistant Quincy Williams as the school’s first ever head football coach. Williams is a native of Manor and a graduate of Manor High. He’ll take on the challenge of getting the new program off the ground for the 2018 season. Ryan Gentry resigns at Omaha Pewitt Omaha Paul Pewitt opened up on Friday as Ryan Gentry departed Northeast Texas after three years to take over as the defensive coordinator at Class 5A Magnolia. As with any coaching movement this late in the off-season, it’ll be interesting to see if administration opens this job up or just promotes from within. Groveton promotes defensive coordinator As expected, Groveton stayed in-house with its hire promoting defensive coordinator Richard Steubling to head football coach/athletic director replacing Brandon Crouse who left to take a position on staff at Class 5A Dayton. Shamrock’s search ends After a lengthy search to replace longtime head coach Jody Guy who left in early February to take over at Olney, Shamrock finally has its guy and didn’t have to look for naming Claude head coach Jarrett Vickers its new head football coach/athletic director on April 27. No This Week in TXHSFB next week There will be no new piece next week as I will be out of the country but we’ll be back May 16 with any updates from the coaching world along with updates from 7-on-7 State Qualifiers in Lorena on May 12 and pools for the May 19 7-on-7 State Qualifiers. Spring Football Is Here! Spring football is right around the corner for 6A and 5A programs statewide, we will have a statewide listing of spring football games right here each week until the end of May.  If you’d like your spring game to be listed; send an e-mail to matt.stepp@texasfootball.com.  Here’s a listing of the spring games we currently have! May 4 Edcouch-Elsa, 6:00pm at Edcouch-Elsa HS May 10 Flower Mound, 6:00pm at Wilson Stadium Highland Park, 7:00pm at Highland Park HS Plano, 6:00pm at Clark Field Mansfield Timberiew, 6:00pm at Timberview HS Round Rock Cedar Ridge, 7:30pm at Cedar Ridge HS May 11 Plano East, 7:00pm at Kimbrough Stadium May 14 Katy Cinco Ranch, 6:30pm at Legacy Stadium Lufkin, 6:00pm at Martin Stadium May 15 Denton Braswell, 7:00pm at Braswell HS Fort Bend Travis, 6:30pm at Travis HS Keller Central, 7:00pm at KISD Stadium Laredo United, 6:00pm at United HS Longview, 5:00pm at Lobo Stadium May 16 Amarillo Tascosa, 7:00pm at Bivins Stadium Pearland Dawson, 6:00pm at Dawson HS Victoria West, 6:00pm at Memorial Stadium May 17 Cedar Hill, 7:00pm at Longhorn Stadium Denton Guyer, 6:30pm at Guyer HS Dickinson, 5:00pm at Vitanza Stadium Flower Mound Marcus, 7:00pm at Marcus HS Humble Kingwood, 6:00pm at Turner Stadium Keller, 7:00pm at KISD Stadium Keller Fossil Ridge, 6:00pm at Fossil Ridge HS Little Elm, 5:30pm at Little Elm ISD Athletic Complex Manor, 6:30pm at Manor ISD Stadium Richardson, 6:30pm at Eagle-Mustang Stadium San Angelo Central 6:30pm at San Angelo Stadium Waco Midway, 6:00pm at Panther Stadium Wichita Falls, 7:00pm at Memorial Stadium May 18 Alief Elsik, 6:00pm at Crump Stadium Amarillo Palo Duro, 6:00pm at Bivins Stadium Burleson Centennial, 6:00pm at Centennial HS Cleburne, 7:00pm at Cleburne HS Cypress Fairbanks, 4:00pm at Cy Fair HS Granbury, 6:30pm at Pirate Stadium Houston Westside, 5:00pm at Westside HS Hurst Bell, 6:00pm at Pennington Field Joshua, 7:00pm at Owl Stadium Lake Travis, 7:30pm at Cavalier Stadium Mansfield Lake Ridge, 6:00pm at Lake Ridge HS Mansfield Legacy, 6:00pm at Legacy HS Port Lavaca Calhoun, 6:00pm at Sandcrab Stadium Red Oak. 6:00pm at Red Oak HS Richardson Pearce, 7:00pm at Eagle-Mustang Stadium Victoria East, 7:00pm at Memorial Stadium Weatherford, 6:30pm at Kangaroo Stadium May 22 Abilene, 6:00pm at Shotwell Stadium Allen, 6:00pm at Eagle Stadium Arlington Lamar, 6:00pm at Cravens Field Clear Springs, 6:00pm at Clear Springs HS Conroe Oak Ridge, 6:00pm at Oak Ridge HS Cypress Bridgeland, 6:00pm at Bridgeland HS DeSoto, 7:00pm at Eagle Stadium Ennis, 6:00pm at Lion Memorial Stadium Grapevine, 6:00pm at Cross Timbers MS Mission Veterans Memorial, 6:00pm at Veterans Memorial HS Rockwall, 7:00pm at Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium South Garland, 6:00pm at HBJ Stadium Wylie, 5:00pm at Wylie ISD Stadium May 23 Arlington Sam Houston, 5:00pm at Wilemon Field Arlington Seguin, 6:30pm at Seguin HS Belton, 5:00pm at Tiger Field Colleyville Heritage, 6:00pm at Heritage HS El Paso Pebble Hills, 7:00pm at Pebble Hills HS Saginaw Boswell, 6:00pm at Pioneer Stadium May 24 Alice, 7:00pm at Memorial Stadium Arlington, 6:00pm at Arlington HS Arlington Bowie, 6:30pm at Bowie HS Arlington Martin, 7:00pm at Martin HS Cedar Park, 7:15pm at Cedar Park HS Cibolo Steele, 6:00pm at Steele HS College Station, 6:00pm at CSHS Cougar Stadium El Paso Eastlake, 6:30pm at Eastlake HS El Paso Franklin, 7:00pm at Franklin HS Frisco Lone Star, 6:00pm at Lone Star HS Frisco Memorial, 6:00pm at Memorial HS Haslet Eaton, 6:00pm at Eaton HS Killeen, 7:00pm at Killeen HS Lancaster, 6:30pm at Tiger Stadium Mesquite Horn, 6:30pm at Horn HS Mesquite Poteet, 6:00pm at Memorial Stadium McKinney Boyd, 7:00pm at Boyd HS McKinney North, 6:30pm at McKinney North HS Midlothian, 6:30pm at MISD Stadium North Forney, 6:00pm at City Bank Stadium San Antonio East Central, 6:00pm at Hornet Stadium San Antonio O’Connor, 6:00pm at O’Connor HS Southlake Carroll, 7:00pm at Dragon Stadium Tyler John Tyler, 6:00pm at John Tyler HS Waco, 5:30pm at Waco ISD Stadium Waller, 5:30pm at Waller ISD Stadium May 25 Dallas South Oak Cliff, 7:00pm at Life Oak Cliff HS Dallas Skyline, 5:30pm at Forrester Field El Paso Americas, 7:00pm at Americas HS El Paso Del Valle, 5:30pm at Conquest Stadium El Paso Parkland, 6:00pm at Parkland HS Fort Worth South Hills, 5:30pm at South Hills HS Fort Worth Southwest, 6:00pm at Southwest HS Hallsville, 6:30pm at Bobcat Stadium McAllen Memorial, 6:00pm at Memorial HS Trophy Club Nelson, 6:00pm at Byron Nelson HS May 29 Sachse, 6:00pm at Sachse HS June 1 San Antonio McCollum, 6pm at Memorial Stadium Coaching Clinics With the off-season starting that means it’s also clinic season throughout the state of Texas,  here’s a listing of clinics from around the state, if we don’t have you clinic listed e-mail it to us at matt.stepp@texasfootball.com May 5-6: Best Little Clinic in Texas, Wingate Hotel and Conference Center, Round Rock http://www.hcfc-blc.com May 25-26: Gateway to Mexico Clinic, Laredo June 12-14: Angelo Coaches Clinic, San Angelo http://www.angelofootballclinic.com/index.html June 14-15: Dos Amigos Ranch Football Clinic, Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino-Hotel, Eagle Pass July 22-25: 2018 THSCA Convention & Coaching School, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio http://www.thsca.com/convention