





Cole Chapman remembered it. Chances are, it might sneak back into his mind Friday.
There’ll plenty of familiar characters around to spark a recall of his game-winning, last-second catch in the back of the end zone that gave Muskogee a stunning come-from-behind 25-22 road win over Broken Arrow at Tiger Stadium in week 5 of the 2008 season.
Across the field, he’ll look at the guy who threw the pass. Archie Bradley was at Muskogee last year as a sophomore. He’s now the starting QB for the Tigers.
Chapman can look at his own huddle and see Mitch Stevenson, Bradley’s replacement, who ironically, in Chapman’s reflection this week on the play, was the intended receiver when Muskogee lined up on the BA 24-yard line with seconds remaining.
“It was supposed to go (short) to Mitch and he would then get out of bounds, getting us closer and with one more shot,” he said. “Instead he wound up lobbing it up to me and I came down with it.”
It kept Muskogee in line for a District 6A-3 title shot against Jenks. BA, meanwhile, was ranked No. 1 at the time, having began the season with a win over Union. But the Tigers wound up third in the district.
On the play before the TD pass, the Roughers were whistled for a delay of game penalty. It came on the end of an 80-yard drive that also had a holding penalty in it.
It reminds Muskogee coach Matt Hennesy about the tendencies of his former quarterback who made the move after his mother Pam Bradley took an administrative job with the Broken Arrow school system.
“He likes crunch time. There’s nothing you’re going to do that is going to rattle him,” he said.
And as far as finding weaknesses in a kid he knows well when the teams meet tonight in Muskogee’s first home game since the season opener against Owasso?
“Coaches usually watch enough film to know everybody and everything a team is going to do except for the stuff they haven’t showed in film,” he said. “He’s no different.”
Hennesy thinks the No. 3 Tigers are the best of the top three 6A teams in the Associated Press rankings, the others being No. 1 Jenks and No. 2 Union. The Tigers were beaten by Union in the season opener, a game Bradley didn’t start.
“Archie’s the least of our worries. They’ve got the three best linebackers in the state as a tandem. Their defensive line is unbelievable, their offensive line is talented,” Hennesy said.












