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The bottom lineSterling 14Metamora 29

Johnsburg 7Oregon 13

Rock Falls lateHarvard result

Mon.-Roseville 0Dixon 25

Amboy 15St. Bede 14

Bureau Valley 13Hall 23

Erie-P’town 45Kewanee 19

Fulton 26Orion 33

Morrison ppd. Princeton Sat.

Newman 20Rockridge 14

AFC 15Aquin 31

East Dubuque ppd.Polo Sat.

Warren ppd.Milledgeville Sat.

Eastland-P.C. 62West Carroll 0

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Newman, Rockridge avoid weather delay. Comets avoid second straight

loss to Rockets. Page FB6.

ABOVE: A Rockridge player walks off the field Friday as Newman celebrates a 20-14 road win. – Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]

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MAIN CLINIC

Wakeup call – just in time EDGINGTON –

For 24 minutes of football, a couple

of colleagues and I were shaking our heads in the press box.

This football team, with a host of seasoned seniors returning, won a state championship last year?

Consider these statis-tics about Newman.

It rushed 13 times in the first half for 33 yards – and 25 of those came on one play.

On the second play of the game, the Comets’ normally stout defense gave up a 73-yard touchdown run to Rockridge quarterback Luke Johnson, who was making his first start at that position.

Johnson rushed 18 times for 132 yards in the first half, and the Rockets amassed 182 yards on the ground as a team.

Newman looked dead in the water, much like it did in a 21-9 loss to the Rockets in last sea-son’s opener.

The second half, how-ever, Newman looked

like the team that ran the table in its final 13 games a year ago.

The ground game got untracked a bit, with 106 yards rush-ing, highlighted by a 39-yard TD run by Brady Rude.

Special teams got into the act. A 42-yard punt by Regan Todhunter pinned Rockridge on its own 2 midway through the third quar-ter, and that was fol-lowed by a nifty punt return by Trevor Bolin to set up Newman’s go-ahead score.

Most important, a leaky defense stifled Rockridge for all but one play in the second half. That one play was a 56-yard run by Rocket quarterback Luke John-

son with just under 7 minutes to play.

Johnson, how-ever, was caught from behind by Rude, and the Comets were able to keep the Rockets from scoring.

“We raced him in the 4 by 2 down at state,” Johnson said of Rude, “and I saw his speed first-hand. I actually knew it was him behind me, so I was trying to kick it into whatever gear I had left. I knew he was coming. He was probably the fast-est kid on the field. If I had it in me, I thought I could beat him, but I fell about 10 yards short.”

Last season’s loss to Rockridge was a wake-up call for the Comets, and they recovered in time to win it all in 2A.

This season’s wakeup call came at halftime Friday night, and New-man will now have this victory to draw upon when facing adversity down the road.

One down – 13 to go, the Comets hope.

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected] Newman quarterback Logan Whitman is pressured by Rockridge’s Frederik Urban dur-ing Friday’s game in Edgington. After a slow start, the Comets offense got rolling in the second half. For more coverage of the game, see FB6.

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OREGON 13, JOHNSBURG 7

BY ANDY COLBERTShaw Media

OREGON – Execution and ball control were the difference in Oregon’s 13-7 victory over Johnsburg on Friday at Land-ers-Loomis Field.

“They were efficient in their execution and precise in their blocking,” Johnsburg coach Mike Maloney said. “And the running backs hit the holes they were designed to hit. That’s a sign of great coaching.”

It was classic Oregon ground attack with a slight twist that led to the first score. Toward the end of an 18-play, 68-yard drive, the Hawks faced two f o u r t h - d o w n s i t u a t i o n s . Both times, it was first-year quarterback Jerrick Orsted con-necting with Chris Jordan for pass completions, the second time for an 11-yard score.

“That was the key, eat-ing up the clock,” Oregon fullback Garrett Rude said. Oregon took 10 and half min-utes off the clock on its first drive and another seven on its second.

After mistake-prone John-sburg had 95 yards of pass completions called back for penalties on the next drive, the

Hawks got the ball back on their own 39-yard line.

Fourteen plays later, sopho-more Caleb Mennen crashed into the end zone from 3 yards out for a 13-0 Hawk lead.

“Overall, I was pretty pleased,” Oregon coach John Bothe said. “With its quarterback and skilled kids, Johnsburg is on par with the best in the Big Northern. This is a

good team we beat.”“They were quick,” Hawk line-

backer Josh Cook said. “Our defensive backs did a good job of contain.”

With 41 seconds left in the first half, officials sent both teams to the Blackhawk Cen-ter because of lightning. After the weather delay, the Skyhawks closed the gap to 13-7

midway through the third quar-ter on a Brengman 14-yard run.

“Nobody in Johnsburg wants to win more than him,” Malo-ney said.

The drive was aided by a first-time (non-warning) sideline violation by Oregon, which prevented the Skyhawks from a fourth-down situation.

Johnsburg appeared to have

momentum on its side, forcing a Hawk punt on the next pos-session.

That punt was fumbled by Johnsburg’s Blake Lemcke. Ore-gon’s Kole Mowry, one of two starting sophomore linemen, recovered the miscue at mid-field.

“Al l three sophomores [Mowry, Mennen and Anthony Marchetti] had good games,” Bothe said.

Oregon managed to put together a 10-play drive before turning the ball over on downs.

Taking over at its own 11-yard-line, Brengman made a gutty 9-yard run on fourth-and-8 to keep the drive alive. Johnsburg faced another fourth down at midfield, and this time 300-pound Matt Crandall stopped Brengman for no gain.

“Maybe we got the better of them in the line,” Bothe said. “I was also pleased we didn’t give up the big play.”

The Hawks ran the clock out to preserve the victory. On third-and-8, Orsted faked out the Skyhawks, and ran nine yards on the option to keep the drive alive.

“Orsted was very poised. He’ll allow us to expand,” Bothe said.

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METAMORA – All 22 helmets on the field looked to the sky as they watched the ball soar toward its target.

It was a lob pass that had a hump like a camel, and two Sterling defensive backs found their way to the landing zone. Unfortunatley for the Golden Warriors, that zone was in the arms of Metamora receiver Jacob Mitchell.

Mitchell completed the acrobatic catch and ran for the end zone, fin-ishing a 60-yard play that capped the scoring as the Redbirds defeated the Warriors 29-14 at Malone Field.

“Those big plays kind of take the wind out of you,” Sterling lineman Tanner Massey said. “But we just have to learn to get right back at it.”

It was the defensive line that gave the Warriors hope on the score that put the game out of reach. The unit put pressure on Redbirds quarter-back Nick Holman throughout the game, and got to him as he heaved the deep ball on third-and-18.

The Warriors (0-1) found them-selves down a score, 22-14, with 3 minutes and change on the clock, and quarterback Sterling Thornton took control of the offense.

The Warriors started on their own 29

and were able to get two first downs in an 11-play drive. On a fourth-and-5, Thornton tucked the ball and ran when the designed pass play was sniffed out, and went for 5 yards.

Sterling opted to pass the next four plays, but all were dropped.

“It’s going to rain in games,” Thornton said. “People will say the ball was wet – it was a bit – but I have to be able to get a better grip on it and make better throws so the guys don’t have to reach for it.”

A lightning display followed by heavy rain delayed the game nearly 45 minutes before starting again, and the referees had numerous towels on the field wiping the ball after each play.

While Thornton took most of the blame, he and running back Bran-don Dennis controlled the pace of the game offensively, but they lacked the big play.

Dennis ran the ball 26 times and gained positive yards on all of them, but finished with 34 yards on the ground. Thornton rushed 24 times and racked up 61 yards.

Metamora was also limited offen-sively, but came through on sev-eral big plays. Seven players ran the ball for the Redbirds (1-0), as they attempted to figure out the War-riors’ aggresive defensive line.

Eventually, Tim Brennan was able to find holes and pick up yards in chunks. He finished with 118 yards on 14 carries.

“That is going to happen,” Ster-ling coach Jon Schlemmer said. “We have to find a way to get our guys off the field. But if you look at what we did outside of those big plays, there are some positives to feed from.”

The Warriors had three defensive takeaways in the first half, includ-ing two fumble recoveries and an interception by Logan Cheshire when the defensive line hit Holman as he threw a pass to the sideline.

Sterling won the field position battle early, and took advantage of the short field as Thornton scored twice on 1-yard touchdown runs – one coming in each half. But the Warriors never found the end zone again, as the Redbirds were able to bottle up Thornton and Dennis.


METAMORA 29, STERLING 14

Michael Krabbenhoeft/[email protected]’s Connor Sperling catches a touchdown pass from JD Gieson during the third quarter of the Dukes’ 25-0 victory Friday night over Monmouth-Roseville at A.C. Bowers Field. Gieson threw four TD passes, and Dixon held the Titans to 52 yards of total offense in its first win at home since 2010.

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EDGINGTON – The one thorn in Newman’s side a year ago was a loss to Rockridge.

Consider that thorn removed.The Comets overcame a slug-

gish first-half performance to rally for a 20-14 victory over the Rockets on Friday night in a battle of state-ranked teams. Newman entered the game No. 1 in Class 2A, while Rockridge checked in at No. 3.

Newman’s win helped take some of the sting away from a 21-9 loss to the Rockets in 2013, the only blemish in a 13-1, state championship campaign.

“Most of us knew the feeling we had last year,” junior running back Brady Rude said, “and we were determined not to have that feeling again. We’re not satisfied, though. It’s on to Week 2.”

Rude was involved in the game’s biggest plays. His 25-yard run was the lone offen-sive highlight in the first half for the Comets, and kept the team within 14-8 at the time.

A 39-yard TD run by Rude to open the second half drew the Comets even at 14-14.

Newman took the lead for

good on its only completed pass of the night, a 12-yard strike from Logan Whitman to Dillan Heffelfinger with 3 minutes, 16 seconds left in the third quarter.

After that, it was a matter of hanging on. The Comets did that, largely because of Rude.

With 6:56 left to play, speedy Rockridge quarterback Luke Johnson got loose up the right sideline and appeared head-

ed for the tying score. He was tracked down at the 12, howev-er, by Rude after a 56-yard gain.

Newman’s defense then stiff-ened, turning away the Rockets on four straight plays.

“I looked at it like a runway in track,” Rude said of tackling Johnson. “You’ve just got to get him. I did it for my team. You’ve got to cover, because people were covering for me out there.

I wasn’t just going to give up.”Johnson rushed 18 times for

132 yards and a touchdown in the first half. In the second half, he had 10 carries for 75 yards, but most of them came on that one play.

Newman went away from its 3-5 defensive alignment to a 4-4 in the second half, with Noah Leffelman joining Jacob Barnes, David Rowzee and Maxwell

Grove up front. It clogged up the middle, where Johnson did a lot of damage, and freed up Rude to make plays.

“They made some fantastic adjustments at halftime,” John-son said, “and we couldn’t find anything to work against them the second half.”

After being held to 33 yards of offense the first half, Newman was able to put up 118 in the second half. The Comets had no turnovers, though, and just five penalties for 45 yards.

Barnes credited head coach Mike Papoccia with lighting a fire under the team.

“We had the normal Newman pep talk by our great coach, Coach Papoccia,” Barnes said. “He knows exactly what to say to motivate us, and we just came together as a team. We all started doing what we were doing in practice.”

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DIXON – After waiting for near-ly 2 hours, the Dixon Dukes were chomping at the bit to get onto A.C. Bowers Field on Friday.

They wasted no time once they stepped between the lines.

JD Gieson threw touchdown passes to Kyle LeBlanc on the Dukes’ first two drives, and the defense was all over Mon-mouth-Roseville from the start in a 25-0 victory in the season opener – Dixon’s first win at home since 2010.

“We wanted to make some plays early, never let them get any momentum from the get-go,” said Gieson, who amassed 317 yards of total offense. “It felt like forever while we were wait-ing in the cafeteria before the game, but we started hot bright and early once we got on the field.”

A lightning delay between the sophomore game and the varsity contest left students, parents, coaches, players, and officials milling around. Sev-eral lightning flashes resulted in the clock for the mandatory 30-minute waiting period being reset a half-dozen times.

Finally, at 8:40 p.m., word came down that the players would take the field in 10 min-utes, have 10 minutes to warm up, then the game would get underway. To accommodate the late start, halftime was shaved to 10 minutes, as well.

Dixon warmed up, received the opening kickoff, then scored six plays later. Gieson, who found LeBlanc for 30 yards on third-and-10 to kick-start the drive, connected with the junior wideout for a 28-yard scoring strike just 2 minutes, 4

seconds into the game.After shutting down Mon-

mouth-Roseville following an initial first down, the Dukes (1-0) struck even more quickly the second time they had the ball. On the second play from scrimmage, Gieson lofted a pass down the near sideline, and LeBlanc leapt over the defender and snatched the ball out of the air. As the defender fell down, LeBlanc scampered into the end zone to complete a 76-yard scoring play.

“It really helped to get the momentum early on,” senior Quinton Douglas said. “It feels pretty good to share this win with the home crowd.”

The defense was as stingy as the offense was explosive. Mon-mouth-Roseville had 38 total yards at halftime (all on the ground), and just 42 total yards – again, all on the ground – through three quarters. The Titans (0-1) also lost four of their five fumbles – including three in the first four plays of the fourth quarter – and finished with just five first downs – two on their final drive of the game against Dixon’s second-stringers.

“Our coaches have been preaching shutouts to us,”

Douglas said, “and we knew if we limited their rushing, we’d get the job done. We knew our assignments, and did what the coaches told us to.”

Dixon, which had 330 total yards – but also 11 penalties for 101 yards – had the chance to put the game away before half-time, but came up empty on two second-quarter drives into Titan territory.

But after the short halftime, when they didn’t even go into the locker room, the Dukes took care of busi-ness in the third quarter. After the defense sniffed out a fake punt on Monmouth-Roseville’s open-ing drive, Gieson orchestrated an eight-play drive, running for a first down on third-and-20, then con-necting with Matt Coffey twice, the second time a 26-yard scoring strike on fourth-and-8.

After one Titan first down, Josh Wiseman returned a 24-yard punt 25 yards, then Gieson hit Coffey for 26 yards before find-ing Connor Sperling on a roll-out pass for a 14-yard TD.

On the touchdown, Gieson rolled to his right, looked as if he’d try to run for it, then pulled up short of the line of scrim-mage and found Sperling at the goal line.

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Well before fans, coaches, and officials whipped out their

phones and became weather experts, Sterling’s defense looked like experts on the field.

The defensive line of Joe Brouilette, Brett Gould, Tanner Massey, Jason Wolber, Brady Hall, and Kyler Beck got pres-sure into the backfield on near-ly every snap in the first half.

Those players, a rotation that coach Jon Schlemmer used to keep them fresh, dicated the pace of the game. Metamora received the openeing kick to a deafening roar from a fan base that had been spoiled in recent seasons with state champion-ships in 2007 and 2009, and strong play from its traditional-ly smash-mouth football team, only to hand it over to Sterling.

The Golden Warriors brought the physicality from the first snap. After the Redbirds grabbed 4 yards on a stretch run play, the Warriors got into the backfield and forced a fumble.

Jacob Heffelfinger hit scram-bling Metamora quarterback Nick Holman, and stripped the ball and recovered the fumble.

“It was great to play like that

from the start,” Massey said. “It really gets the team going from the start.”

The Warriors gave Metamora a geography lesson Friday night, sticking the Redbirds in a sliver of their home field, and reaped the benefits of good field position.

Six plays and 23 yards after the first fumble, Warriors quar-terback Sterling Thornton got into the end zone for an even-tual 7-0 lead.

Despite what the weather did to many games in the Sauk Valley and elsewhere, Sterling made sure football was back, at least for the first half.

The defensive backs kept the passing game in check, and filtered down into the box when Metamora went with its

big formations. With lightning dancing around in the sky like cameras flashing, Sterling danced around on the field.

The Warriors looked fast and physical. The defense had three takeaways in the first half. On the Redbirds’ second possesion, Sterling forced a punt, and on the third play of Metamora’s next drive, Logan Cheshire picked off Holman.

So much attention is paid to offenses because scoring is exciting. But it was the defense that kept the Warriors close throughout.

The offense was muddled by protection issues. The Warriors ran a lot of designed quar-terback rushes, and Sterling Thornton had to be aware of the Metamora linebackers.

On jet sweeps and other out-side run plays, the Redbirds’ outside linebackers would find a way into the play to stop potential big gains.

“It’s just a matter of being able to read that linebacker,” Thornton said. “It’s something that will come with playing more at full speed, and some-thing that we can fix.”

Running back Brandon Den-nis said that since Sterling likes

to run the ball, timing is every-thing.

“The holes were definitely there,” Dennis said. “Then they would disa-pear. It’s just going to take time with the timing, and knowing when to hit those holes.”

The defensive display wasn’t without cost.

For the second consecutive season, Warriors defensive back Ty Shetter suffered a seri-ous injury that will likely see him missing time.

He was on crutches on the sideline before being wheeled off in a wheelchair with an apparent knee injury. Schlem-mer hopes that it will be just a few weeks.

Shetter was injured in Week 2 last season, and missed the rest of the year.

“I really hope this is some-thing that he can come back from,” Schlemmer said. “It just breaks my heart to see him like that. He worked so hard in the weight room and in practices to get himself back to a high level.”

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HARVARD – After a 3-1/2 hour weather delay, the Rock Falls Rockets (0-1) lost to the Harvard Hor-nets(1-0), 41-0. The delay did not allow for a full game

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The Rockets failed to score after multiple trips into the red zone.

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The offensive line gave up seven sacks, making things difficult for the team. The Rockets attempted to get the ground game going with junior Braeden West-fall. He rushed for 153 yards on 14 attempts.

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Lightning storms across Illinois wreaked havoc on the first night of high school football games for the sec-ond year in a row on Friday night.

Some games started, only to be stopped part of the way through.

A few games never got started.

Polo and East Dubuque started to warm up at about 9:50 p.m., but after a few moments, the teams left the field for good.

Morrison at Princeton was in the same boat. The weather never cleared, and the game was moved to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

The Milledgeville Missiles will also host Warren at on Saturday. Neither Polo nor Milledgeville had set times for the makeups as of SVM’s press time. Both schools were looking for officials.

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SPRING VALLEY – Hall Red Devils head Coach Randy Tieman knew he’d have to rely heavily on his defense to contain Bureau Valley’s shifty quarterback Parker Neuhalfen, if he wanted to start to avenge last year’s 42-21 defeat at the hands of the Storm.

The Red Devils defense stepped up in a big way, holding the BV offense to just 13 points en route to a 23-13 victory Friday night at Richard Nesti Stadium.

“I said we’re going to hang our hat on our defense, and I’ll tell you what, those guys came to play,” Tieman said. “They played their assignments. We got beat on a half-back pass, and on a broken down run play that we had tied up in the backfield, so our kids came to play, and we shut down a good offense. They’re a very good offense.”

Each team had trouble getting their feet under them in the first quarter, as they traded punts and struggled to get going offensively.

“We didn’t start off real well. We didn’t move the ball on the run, a lot of that’s my fault, and we just need to do a better job of play calling. It was a good physi-cal football game, they’re a tough team. They’re running back [Hammonds], he’s a horse, and he did a good job. We have those kind of players too, and a lot of it’s just my fault,” Bureau Valley coach Spencer Davis said. “Obviously being a first-year coach, I wasn’t as organized as we needed to be,

and I just didn’t make the necessary adjust-ments throughout the game.”

The first points came after a late hit by the Storm defense set up Hall inside the red zone. Hall would eventually settle for a 13-yard field goal by Matt Krolak to take a 3-0 lead with 8:39 to play in the half.

Another 15-yard penalty would again set the Hall offense up in the red zone as senior

back Tyler Taber caught a corner, and raced 14 yards down the left sideline and suffered a blow to the head.

Less than 2 minutes later, senior running back Chris Hammonds would hit pay dirt on an inside handoff from the 2-yard line, extending the Red Devil lead to 10-0.

After keeping Nuehalfen in check for the entire first half, the always opportune quar-terback took advantage of a broken play with 24.8 seconds in the half. As he spotted a hole on the right side and dashed down the sideline, outracing the Hall defense for 74 yards for a touchdown. The run cut the deficit to 10-6.

An interception by junior Jake Merkle set up the second Hall touchdown, as senior Andrew Kerr muscled his way in from a yard out at the 8:12 mark to make the score 17-6.

Hammonds showed signs of cramping early in the game, but didn’t come out until he scampered for a 27-yard gain and imme-diately grabbed for his calves.

Hammonds would again break free for another touchdown, and he dashed through the heart of the BV defense and raced 45 yards for his second TD of the game.

“I see us playing harder and harder every-day,” Hammonds said. “There’s not one guy on this team that wasn’t helping anoth-er person out, and that’s team chemistry.”

BV continued to battle in the late stages of the game, as senior Josh Meade completed an 84-yard flea-flicker to receiver Tommy Johnston down the right sideline with 2:32 to play to end the scoring at 23-13.

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Phillip Coers, Dylan Binion, and Jack Bauer combined for six rushing touchdowns in guiding the Panthers to a 45-19 Three Rivers Con-ference crossover win in Kewanee.

The Panthers (1-0) used a 26-point fourth quarter to break the game open after leading 19-13 after three quarters. Dvaree Thompson also added a 75-yard inter-ception return in the fourth quarter.

Austin VanVynck had two touchdowns for Kewanee.

Amboy 15, St. Bede 14: With his team down 14-8 at halftime, Drake Barlow ran for a 68-yard touchdown with 7:14 remaining in the third quarter to put the Clip-pers ahead in a Three Rivers Conference crossover win.

Dallas Appleman added a one-yard touchdown in the second quarter to comple-ment the scoring for the Clippers (1-0). He was the Clippers’ lead rusher with 102 yards on 20 carries. Bar-low added 109 yards on eight carries.

St. Bede (0-1) passed for 192

yards on the night.Aquin 31, AFC 15: The

Raiders enjoyed a 15-14 lead going into the fourth quarter at Freeport in NUIC Upstate play, but the Bulldogs scored 17 unanswered points in the final 8 minutes to seal the win.

All of the Raiders’ points came in the third quarter. Kevin Kurz recovered a fum-ble for a 30-yard touchdown, while Jacob Hilliker found Trevor Ramsey for a 48-yard connection.

Jake Hageman led the Raid-ers (0-1) in rushing with 45 yards on 16 carries. Hilliker passed for 57 yards on seven attempts, both to Ramsey.

Orion 33, Fulton 26: The Steamers dropped their sea-son opener on the road in Three Rivers Conference crossover action.

Tyler Sweenie and Jason Osborn each scored two touchdowns for the Steam-ers (0-1). Sweenie’s runs were both in the third quarter and tallied 46 and 40 yards. Osborn had a 2-yard run in the third quarter and caught a 45-yard pass from Sweenie in the fourth.

Chris Johnson/Shaw MediaSenior running back Garrett Rude runs through the tackle attempt of Johnsburg’s Bailey Stefka on Friday night at Landers-Loomis Field. Oregon won 13-7.

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at A.C. Bowers Field, Dixon

DIXON 25, MONMOUTH-ROSEVILLE 0

MR DFirst downs 5 13Total yards 330 52Rushes-yards 47-52 37-104Passing (C-A-I) 0-2-0 10-20-0Passing yards 0 226Fumbles-lost 5-4 2-1Penalties-yards 1-5 11-101Punts-average 6-26.0 3-34.0Mon-Rose 0 0 0 0 — 0Dixon 13 0 12 0 — 25

First quarterD – Kyle LeBlanc 28 pass from JD Gieson (Cody Mighell kick), 9:56D – LeBlanc 76 pass from Gieson (kick wide left), 5:49

Third quarterD – Matt Coffey 26 pass from Gieson (run failed), 7:50D – Connor Sperling 14 pass from Gieson (pass failed), 4:08

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – M-R: Wesley Burris 17-62, Dan Hillman 6-20, Caleb Empson 1-17, Dee Coleman 5-4, Tucker Shepherd 3-2, Charlie Bertelsen 2-(minus-3), Josh Weber 4-(minus-7), Tommy Simpson 9-(minus-43). Dixon: Gieson 13-91, Coffey 3-13, Quinton Douglas 6-8, Beny Mayes 1-2, Nathan Gascoigne 3-(minus-3), Josh Wise-man 1-(minus-3), Mighell 10-(minus-4).PASSING – M-R: Weber 0-1-0-0 yards, Simpson 0-1-0-0 yards. Dixon: Gieson 10-16-0-226 yards, Gascoigne 0-4-0-0 yards.RECEIVING – Dixon: LeBlanc 4-150, Cof-fey 2-52, Sperling 2-17, Ryan Webb 2-7.Records: Dixon 1-0, Monmouth-Roseville 0-1

at Malone Field, Metamora

METAMORA 29, STERLING 14 M SFirst downs 8 10Total yards 263 165rushes-yards 42-200 53-97passing yards 63 68Passing (C-A-I) 3-5-1 8-20-0Fumbles lost 2 0Penalties-yards 8-69 1-5Punts 4 7Sterling 7 7 0 0 — 14Metamora 0 8 14 7 — 29

First quarterS – Sterling Thornton 1 run (Antonio Diaz kick), 8:56

Second quarterS – Thornton 1 run (Diaz kick), 7:55M – Nick Holman 2 run ( Armstrong run), 5:38

Third quarterM – Jalen Armstrong 18 run (Holman run), 8:46M – Jacob Mitchell 3 pass from Holman (run failed), 5:38

Fourth quarterM – Mitchell 60 pass from Holman (Parker Stokes kick), 1:19

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Sterling: Thornton 24-61, Dennis 26-34, Morse 1- minus 1, Brian Fol-som 2-3; Metamora: Zach Rohrbach 7-17, Matt Callear 4-8, Holman 8-1, Tim Brennan 14-118, Brady Fairfield 3-17, Jacob Mitch-ell 1-7, Jalen Armstrong 5-32.PASSING – Sterling: Thornton 8-20-0, 68 yards; Metamora: Holman3-5-1, 63 yards.RECEIVING – Sterling: Morse 6-56, Jordan Asbury 1-6, Dennis 1-6; Metamora: Mitch-ell 3-63 Records: Sterling 0-1, Metamora 1-0

at Edgington

NEWMAN 20, ROCKRIDGE 14 N RFirst downs 7 11Total yards 151 331Rushes-yards 33-139 43-270Passing yards 12 61Passing (C-A-I) 1-3-0 4-8-0Fumbles-lost 0-0 7-0Penalties-yards 5-45 10-70Punts-avg. 6-26.3 3-28.3Newman 8 0 12 0 — 20Rockridge 6 8 0 0 — 14

First quarterR – Luke Johnson 73 run (run failed) 10:48N – Brady Rude 25 run (Logan Whitman run) 4:58

Second quarterR – Nolan Stevens 15 pass from Johnson (Stevens pass from Johnson) 10:35

Third quarterN – Rude 39 run (pass failed) 9:55N – Dillan Heffelfinger 12 pass from Whit-man (run failed) 3:16

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing

Newman – Rude 12-105, Heffelfinger 9-22, Whitman 7-9, Nolan McGinn 5-3. Rock-ridge – Johnson 28-207, Dalton Woeber 10-46, Jerry Ruddell 1-11, Dylan Peterson 2-4, Stevens 2-2.

PassingNewman – Whitman 1-3-0, 12 yards. Rockridge – Johnson 4-8-0, 61 yards.

ReceivingNewman – Heffelfinger 1-12. Rockridge – Stevens 2-39, T.J. Martens 1-14, Peterson 1-8

at Freeport

AQUIN 31, AFC 15 AFC AQFirst downs 5 12Total yards 176 377Rushes-yards 39-119 36-152Passing (C-A-I) 2-8-1 19-31-3Passing yards 57 225Fumbles-lost 3-3 2-2Penalties-yards 7-60 7-55Punts-average 4-30.8 4-25.8AFC 0 0 15 0 — 15Aquin 0 7 7 17 — 31

Second quarterAQ – James Gustafson 1 run (Jeremy Wil-liams kick) 0:33

Third quarterAQ – Josh Buisker 23 pass from Aiden Chang (Williams kick) 4:36AFC – Kevin Kurz 30 fumble recovery (Bryan Dewey kick good) 3:23AFC – Trevor Ramsey 48 pass from Jacob Hilliker (James Talley 2-point good) 0:43

Fourth quarterAQ – Dominic DeMichelle 4 pass from Chang (2-point failed) 11:07AQ – Josh Buisker 1 pass from Chang (Chang 2-point good) 6:04AQ – Williams 22 field goal

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – AFC: J. Hageman 16-45, L. Hageman 6-36, Talley 8-21, Zinke 5-19, Hilliker 4(-2). Aquin: Gustafson 32-138, Chang 3-14.PASSING – AFC: Hilliker 2-7-1-57, Zinke 0-1-0-0. Aquin: Chang 13-21-3-225.RECEIVING – AFC: Ramsey 2-57. Aquin: Buisker 6-129, Stoval 4-49, DeMichele 3-30, Sopcic 6-17.

at Landers-Loomis Field, Oregon

OREGON 13, JOHNSBURG 7 J OFirst downs 13 9Total yards 183 215Rushes-yards 14-91 30-189Passing (C-A-I) 12-19-0 2-3-0Passing yards 92 26Fumbles-lost 2-1 0-0Penalties-yards 6-38 5-45Johnsburg 0 0 7 0 — 7Oregon 7 6 0 0 — 13

First quarterO – Chris Jordan 11 pass from Jerrick Orsted (Skyal Short kick good) :00

Second quarterO – Caleb Mennen 4 run (2-point failed) 0:41

Third quarterJ – Nick Brengman 14 run (Bryan Stockwell kick) 1:41

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Johnsburg: Peete 7*-47, Brengman 7-18. Oregon: Finch 13-55, Jor-dan 12-53, Mennan 5-35.PASSING – Johnsburg: Brengman 19-12-0-92. Oregon: Orsted 3-2-0-26.RECEIVING – Johnsburg: Franzen 7-33, Stefka 2-32.

at Savanna

EASTLAND-PEARL CITY 62, WEST CARROLL 0

EPC WCFirst downs 13 6Total yards 350 86Rushes-yards 23-345 15-64Passing (C-A-I) 1-5-0 3-14-22Passing yards 5 22Penalties-yards 10-115 5-30EPC 35 21 6 0 — 62West Carroll 0 0 0 0 — 0

First quarterEPC – Devin Herren 2 run (kick failed) 8:52EPC – Donny Groezinger 25 run (Brighton Haverland 2-point good) 8:00EPC – Eric Schaney 3 run (Jacobs kick good) 2:29EPC – Devin Herren 5 run (kick good)EPC – Groezinger 46 run (kick good)

Second quarterEPC – Eric Schamy 20 run (kick good) 9:09EPC – Cody Kluck 5 pass from Herren (kick good) 7:45EPC – Walter Ollie 6 run (kick good) 1:31

Third quarterEPC – Ollie 19 run (2-point failed) 4:06

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – EPC: Schaney 8-128, Groez-inger 7-122, Ollie 8-95. WC: Ritenour 12-57, Miller 2-5, Hartman 1-2.PASSING – EPC: Herren 5-1-0-5. WC: Mangler 14-3-2-22.RECEIVING – EPC: Kluck 1-5. WC: Miller 2-8, Sontoramo 1-14.

at Peru

AMBOY 15, ST. BEDE 14 A SBTotal yards 289 357Rushes-yards 51-275 21-65Passing (C-A-I) 1-5-2 13-26-1Passing yards 14 192Fumbles-lost 2-0 2-1Penalties-yards 8-75 6-42Punts-average 3-39 4-35.8Amboy 2 6 7 0 — 15St. Bede 6 8 0 0 — 14

First quarterSB – Hopps 18 pass from Brady (kick failed) 7:09A – Safety :10

Second quarterA – Appleman 1 run (kick failed) 6:47SB – Shipp 19 pass from Brady (Shaw run) 2:42

Third quarterA – Barlow 68 run (Guiterrez kick) 7:14

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Amboy: Appleman 20-102, Jones 17-49, Barlow 8-109, Ohlndorf 6-15. St. Bede: Shaw 14-53, Hopps 3-18, Hurr 2-9, Brady 2-(-15).PASSING – Amboy: Ohlendorf 1-5-14. St. Bede: Brady 13-26-192.RECEIVING – Amboy: Leffleman 1-14. St. Bede: Halm 4-58, Shipp 4-43, Hopps 3-32, Shaw 3-59.

at Nesti Stadium, Spring Valley

HALL 23, BUREAU VALLEY 13 BV HFirst downs 17 11Total yards 286 196Rushing yards 258 122Passing (C-A-I) 4-10-1 10-27-2Passing yards 28 74Fumbles-lost 5-2 4-1Penalties-yards 10-95 10-93Bureau Valley 0 10 13 0 — 23Hall 0 6 0 7 — 13

Second quarterH – Krolak 12 field goal 8:39H – Hammonds 2 run (Krolak kick good) 1:13BV – Neuhalfen 74 run (2-point failed) :24.8

Third quarterH – Kerr 1 run (Krloak kick good) 8:12H – Hammonds 45 run (2-point failed) 2:32

Fourth quarterBV – Johnston 84 pass from Mead (Herr kick good) 5:47

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – BV: Neuhalfen 14-106, Mead 3-(-2), Johnston 5-15, Konneck 1-(-4), Davis 3-7. Hall: Hammonds 14-157, Kerr 14-56, Taber 6-32, Merkel 6-32, Smith 1-12, Hill 1-4, Pullam 2-(-4).PASSING – BV: Neuhalfen 5-16-51. Hall: Pullam 4-10-28.RECEIVING – BV: Neuhalfen 3-15, John-son 1-28, Mead 2-14, Johnston 1-11. Hall: Smith 1-14, Merkel 1-9, Taber 1-6, Ham-monds 1-(-9).

at Kewanee

ERIE-PROPHETSTOWN 45, KEWANEE 19

E-P 7 12 0 26 — 45Kewanee 7 6 0 6 — 19

First quarterK – VerVynck 39 pass from Goforth (Claeys kick good) 8:23E-P – Dylan Binion 17 run (Sean Maloney kick good) 4:33

Second quarterE-P – Phillip Coers 32 run (kick failed) 11:51K – Walters 67 kickoff return (kick failed) 11:40E-P – Coers 1 run (kick failed) 4:25

Fourth quarterE-P – Binion 5 run (kick failed) 11:56E-P – Dvaree Thompson 75 interception return (kick failed) 10:24K – VerVynck 3 run (kick failed) 10:03E-P – Jack Bauer 41 run (Maloney kick good) 6:37E-P – Coers 25 run (Maloney kick good) 6:19

at Orion

ORION 33, FULTON 26Fulton 0 0 20 6 — 26Orion 0 14 7 12 — 33

Second quarterO – Edmunds 4 run (kick good) 8:20O – Ellison 19 pass from Seys (kick good) 0:13

Third quarterF – Tyler Sweenie 46 run (Jack Lemke kick good) 11:03F – Sweenie 40 run (Lemke kick good) 6:46O – Edmunds 15 run (kick good) 4:00F – Jason Osborn 2 run (kick failed) 1:20

Fourth quarterO – Schultz 1 run (2-point failed) 10:29F – Osborn 45 pass from Sweenie (kick failed) 8:58O – Seys 2 run (kick failed) 5:19

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