Bastrop had eight players touch the football last Thursday. Seven of them scored.
It’s the formula for success of a team that runs the spread offense — spread the ball  around and keep defenses from keying in on one guy.
While Seguin did their best to defend Josiah Monroe, albeit unsuccessfully, the Matadors never seemed to figure Bastrop out.
“The way our offense is set up, if we can spread them out and get that spacing in there, we will be successful,” said head coach Gerald Perry. “The key thing for us is our offensive line is a lot further along than we were last year, so (Josiah) has more protection and more time to find the open receivers.”
Six different receivers touched the football and caught 13 of Monroe’s 23 passing attempts. They scored five times.
Josh Taylor led in yards with 80 on three catches, but he was the only one not to catch a touchdown pass.
Trae Bunton found the endzone twice, once on a 12-yard toss and another on a 39-yard pass.
The average per Bastrop receiver for yardage was 46.4. That’s not a lot when you think about it.
“(Against McNeil), we had a lot of receivers doing blitz adjusting and stuff they really didn’t need to do,” Perry said. “A lot of these receivers were backups or playing junior varsity last year. They all played well (Thursday).”
And field general Monroe’s confidence is building.
“I have confidence in every last one of them,” he said after Thursday’s win. “We are getting our rhythm down.”
That’s impressive
As if anything else could make Monroe’s performance on Friday of 417 offensive yards and six touchdowns any more impressive, the senior quarterback has not thrown an interception all season.
Monroe, who has thrown 14 career interception to his 45 touchdowns, has eight touchdowns this season.
Akins stands no chance
The Bastrop Bears have met their upcoming opponents on Friday (Akins) six previous times.
Each time Bastrop has won.
Akins (0-2) are still looking for their first win after losses to Hays and McCallum.
The Eagles are getting defeated by an average 19 points.
Anyone play defense anymore?
Bastrop’s defense leads Bastrop County by allowing 266.5 yards of offense per game, but are giving up 21.5 points per game.
On Friday, Bastrop County football teams gave up a combined 100 points (33.3 per game).
What’s more interesting is that Elgin gave up 405 yards to Lanier, Smithville gave up 449 yards to Wharton and Bastrop gave up 283 yards to Seguin.
For those not good at math, that’s 1,137 yards of offense against Bastrop County defenses in one night.
And for the season… a combined 2,182 yards have been gained against Bastrop, Elgin and Smithville, coming to a whopping 363.4 yards per game.
Either teams have really good offenses this year or the teams have stopped playing defense.

AKINS AT BASTROP
Records: Akins is 0-2; Bastrop is  1-1
Last Week: McCallum def. Akins 60-43; Bastrop def. Seguin 51-21
Last meeting: Bastrop 35, Akins 21 in 2009

BASTROP VS. AKINS THE HISTORY
Year    Winner    Score
2009     Bastrop    35-21
2008    Bastrop    37-7
2007    Bastrop    15-14
2006    Bastrop    35-14
2005    Bastrop    52-41
2004    Bastrop    29-14
Bastrop leads series 6-0