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Kade Houston feels an obligation to be everywhere for his Conroe Covenant Christian team.
“I did my job,” Houston told the Houston Chronicle after his seven touchdowns, 271 total yards performance against Logos Prep in the Cougars 66-20 Friday night win in TAPPS 6-man football. “That’s really it.”
Houston admits feeling a bit under the weather was the furthest thing from his mind once he took the field.
“The first possession, I was still feeling it,” he added. “The adrenaline just kicked in and I just snapped out of it.”
In all, Houston rushed 21 times for 248 yards and added a 33-yard scoring catch in accounting for 79% of his team’s offense. For good measure, the junior star added three tackles and deflected a pass for an interception.
“Overall, he had a great game offensively and defensively,” Covenant coach Wayne Allen said. “The good thing about six-man football is you’ve got to have those kinds of games because you could easily go the other way.”
In spreading the credit around, Houston, who hopes to play at the college level, took it all in stride.
“Coach was definitely making the right play calls against their defense for sure,” he said. “We studied their film a lot this past week. Blockers blocked excellent. I just did my job. That’s really it.”
Coming off a bye week and a loss to longtime nemesis Emery Weiner over the last two weeks, the Cougars made all their bottled up energy work for them in setting the tone early against Logos Prep.
“We had two great weeks of practices,” Houston added. “We were very hungry to say the least. We don’t like playing Emery and we got kicked in the face last year and we got kicked in face again this year. That was definitely a wake-up call to really put us in our place. It showed we definitely have areas we need to get better in.”
On the year, Houston now has 643 rushing yards (an average of 107.2 per game), including a pair of 200-plus yard performances. His six rushing touchdowns against almost doubled his season total of 13.
In addition, the Cougars’ do-everything star has 211 receiving yards with five scores and 18 tackles on defense, evoking memories of former Conroe star Wade Harper, who now plays at perennial NCAA Division III power Mary Hardin-Baylor.
“He’s playing pretty much everything,” Allen added. “He’s our middle linebacker on defense and he does a great job. We put him to a lot more use than we did Wade. Wade was predominately a run guy. But with Kade, we can put him out there and he played a lot of elite 7-on-7 this past summer and played against good competition.”