WEATHER: Friday, mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Friday night, partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
HOMECOMING: Coronation of the 2009 homecoming queen will begin at 6:30 p.m. prior to Friday’s game against Thayer.
TIGER TIDBITS: Jacob Case will slide into the starting tailback slot vacated by Justin Schmidt, who will sit out of Friday’s game after taking a hard hit against Mountain Grove. Joe Wallace will move from wideout to Case’s running back position, and Brian Hunter wil take Wallace’s spot at wide receiver. …Starting offensive lineman and linebacker Kyle Williams (knee) will return Friday night after missing one game. …Senior Kyle Poynter, who started at safety in his first game of the season, had a team-high 14 tackles in just over two quarters of action.
ABOUT THAYER: The Bobcats improved to 3-1 with a 21-0 victory last week against Liberty. Thayer’s lone loss was a 35-9 defeat to Mountain Grove in Week 2. …Thayer has won the last three meetings with Houston by a combined score of 108-20. The Tigers’ last victory was 30-24 in 2005.
