Prep Football Area Recap - Week Six

The Missota Conference
Farmington 35, New Prague 7
* The Tigers remained one game up on Hutchinson in the chase for the Missota title with the win. After a scoreless first quarter, Farmington put up 28 points in the next two quarters. New Prague stacked the box early and often in an attempt to slow down standout running back Derek Waldbillig Friday night and quarterback Brent Beenken took advantage, lighting up the Trojans' thin secondary for 212 yards and a career-high four touchdowns

Northfield 42, Red Wing 14
* The Raiders led 25-0 in the second quarter and 39-7 after three quarters, spoiling Red Wing’s homecoming. Cody Schmidt had a field day, rushing for three touchdowns for Northfield. Three other backs had rushing scores. Dan Roschen scored the lone offensive score for the Wingers, who are 0-6.

Holy Angels 21, Shakopee 0
* Stars quarterback Peter Brinkhaus threw two touchdowns – 84 and 58 yards – as Holy Angels won their second game of the season. Javan Rogers also scored a 13-yard rushing touchdowns. AHA was up 14-0 at halftime. Shakopee is 2-4 heading into next week’s game with Hutchinson.

Section 2AAAA
Sauk-Rapids Rice 35, Willmar 14
* The Cardinals first touchdown — a four-yard pass from Alec Saunders to his tight end John Sawatzky — made it 14-7. With just 1:26 left in the second quarter, it looked like anyone’s game as halftime neared. But the Storm’s number two quarterback, Jarrod Mauren, directed a six-pass, 60-yard drive in 60 seconds to score again and it was 21-7 at half.

With the rushing game getting just 88 yards in 33 tries, the long, arching passes were Willmar’s best weapon. Dunham and Saunders combined for 219 yards passing with Filipek nabbing 6 for 126.
Sauk Rapids piled up 367 yards of offense.

Marshall 43, Worthington 0
* Bring on the Luverne Cardinals. The Marshall High football team improved its record to 6-0 after a dominant 43-0 win over Worthington Friday night in Marshall's homecoming game at the new Mattke Field. Marshall will take to the road to take on the No. 1 ranked Class AA team in the state in the Luverne Cardinals. Marshall lost last season's contest 32-7 after carrying a 7-6 lead going into halftime.

"We're out of this win, we'll enjoy it this weekend, but all I remember is 32-7 last year after we led 7-6 at halftime," Coach Bahlmann said. "Our kids will be ready to go."

New Ulm 33, Waseca 18
* Garrett Fischer caught three touchdown passes from Kyle Fischer and then returned an interception 68 yards for a touchdown with less than two minutes left in the game as the New Ulm Eagles played their best all-around game of the season, downing Waseca 33-18 Friday night in South Central Conference action.

Garrett Fischer's touchdown catches came on passes of 58, 19 and seven yards from brother Kyle Fischer.
Kyle Fischer scored a touchdown on a 1-yard run. For the game, Kyle Fischer was 13-of-22 for 214 yards and three touchdowns. Garrett Fischer caught nine of those aerials for 193 yards and three scores.

Mankato West 32, Winona 7
* Paul Berndt rushed for 114 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns Friday night to lead No. 2-ranked Mankato West to a 32-7 Big Nine Conference win over Winona before a huge homecoming crowd at Todnem Field. West, known for its explosive passing offense, relied on the ground game to dominate the Winhawks from start to finish and improve to 6-0 overall and 5-0 in the Big Nine. The Scarlets totaled 328 total yards, 185 through the air on 143 via the run.

“They were putting six in the box, so we liked our run look and took advantage of it,” West coach Mark Esch said. “We struggled a little bit with our pass blocking, and that’s one of the reasons we went away from it. It turned out well because we were running the ball. When teams are going to take the pass away, we have to be able to run. They were brining a lot of pressure, and we were picking it up good in the run game. It just shows we can run the football when the pass isn’t there.”

West scored on its first three possessions to build a 19-0 halftime lead.

Austin 38, Mankato East 21
* The Packers (2-4 overall, 1-4 Big Nine) scored on four of their first five possessions to take a commanding lead early on. The Packers rode the legs of Jerrad Ryks, who racked up a season-high 220 yards rushing in the win. Ryks capped off a 26-yard first quarter drive with a four-yard scoring run and he added a two more short distance runs to put Austin up 21-0 late in the second quarter.

Waconia 49, Minneapolis Edison 8
* The Wildcats are now 5-1 on the season – five in a row – with a non-conference win over the Teddies of the Mpls City Conference. Safe to say Chris Leivermann (who entered the game with 10 touchdowns) scored a few last night.

Watertown-Mayer 41, Mound-Westonka 18
* Watertown-Mayer running back Jacob Wilson scored two rushing touchdowns and also returned a punt for a touchdown as the Whiteawks fell to 0-6 on the season.

Other games
New Ulm Cathedral 28, McLeod West 8
* What figured to be a great football game between two of the top teams in Class A turned out to be a tragic night for the Falcons. Wide receiver/safety Brody Nelson was taken by ambulance with a dislocated shoulder, quarterback/cornerback Spencer Glaeser sustained a concussion and lineman Sebastion Smith had to be taken by stretcher with a serious neck injury. This was all in the first half.

Cathedral got three touchdowns from Frank Johnson as the Greyounds led 21-0 at halftime and 28-0 before Dan Rosenau found Tyler Knick on a 15-yard strike for the final score. NUC proved to be just too big and fast and the team of 19 had its worst fears come out.

Hats off to the heart of the Falcons. Watching three of your leaders go off and still outscore NUC 8-7 in the second half was pretty awesome. Let’s keep these kids, especially Sebastion, in our thoughts and prayers.

Sleepy Eye 20, Buffalo Lake-Hector 6
* BLH running back Joe Nutter rushed 39 times for 197 yards, but was only able to find the end zone once for the Mustangs (3-3), who lost for the second straight week. Derek Skovbroten scored twice for the Indians. BLH hosts McLeod West next Friday.

Orono 48, Litchfield 20
* Tyler Hartlein threw for 237 yards and four touchdowns as Orono (5-0, 6-0) sank Litchfield (3-3, 3-3). Ricky Smalley caught touchdown passes of 12, 52 and 68 yards for Orono. Litchfield’s Dominic Devine caught scoring passes of 25 and 10 yards from Aaron Solbrack. Steve Hendrickson scored the other Dragon touchdown on a 20-yard run.

Annandale 30, Dassel-Cokato 6
* The Cardinals led 23-0 before D-C running back Jaibyne Braatz scored on a four-yard run. It was the Chargers’ homecoming game. D-C travels to Delano next wek. Without starting quarterback Tyler Irvin, the Chargers are 1-3.

Glencoe-Silver Lake 35, Delano 14
* The Panthers led the Tigers 28-0 in the second quarter on two touchdown runs from Aaron Lueders, a one-yard run by sophomore quarterback Kyler Anderson and an interception return from Tom Halligan. Kaine Dummer added a 19-yard receiving touchdown in the third quarter for the final difference.

G-SL travels to Watertown-Mayer next week before hosting rival Waconia in week eight.

ACGC 41, BOLD 7
* Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City’s defense shut down BOLD’s prolific ground attack en route to a 41-7 victory in a key West Central South Conference football game Friday night. The teams entered the contest unbeaten. BOLD was ranked No. 5 in the recent Class AA poll and ACGC was No. 10.

Friday’s win marked the first time ACGC has beaten BOLD on its home field in Grove City in 10 years. Kurtis Huisman rushed for 141 yards and three touchdowns and Deron Buboltz carried for 132 yards and scored twice to power the Falcons. Jordan Tanner completed 6-of-7 passes for 83 yards and two touchdowns.