The Mustangs have opened the 2007 football season 0-2.
It is the first time in coach Greg McClendon’s 10-year tenure he has had a team sitting at 0-2.
What’s worse for the Mustangs is there is a real possibility they could be 0-3 as they travel to face Monahans at 7:30 tonight.
Midland Christian dropped its opener 36-6 to Andrews and lost 24-23 in overtime last week to Vernon, which was a Class 3A Division II semifinalist last season.
“We played a lot better,” McClendon said, “but we have to maintain that consistency and stop giving up the big play.”
The Mustangs have struggled with allowing the big play in recent games against the Loboes.
Midland Christian has consistently taken the lead against the Loboes only to watch them rally.
“I guess the moral of the story is to get ahead and finish the job,” McClendon said.
One of the few bright spots for Midland Christian is it has no injuries heading into tonight’s game.
The Mustangs also may catch the Loboes rusty. Monahans had its bye in Week 1 and has played just one game this season.
“That was just the way the schedule worked out,” coach Mickey Owens said. “We didn’t want it there, but we couldn’t find a game.”
Generally, Owens likes to have his bye the week before district begins so he can rest his players and let them heal up, but it wasn’t an option during this scheduling period.
“We just continued working,” Owens said. “We increased conditioning and tried to get better.
“Sometimes you try to catch your breath during a bye, but this early we didn’t do that.”
The Loboes opened the season with an impressive 41-32 victory over Snyder and showed off new running back Stephen Neel in the process.
Now, though, they are preparing for a Midland Christian team which is facing a rare crossroad.
“They were disappointed last week losing a heartbreaker,” Owens said of Midland Christian. “With them being 0-2 it is probably the worst thing that could have happened to us."