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The bottom lineOregon 22Wilmington 21

Luther North 8Eastland-P.C. 54

Newman 41Fieldcrest 0

Yorkville 0Richards 44

Antioch 24Sycamore 48

Genoa-Kingston 0Geneseo 24

Rochelle 60Payton 18

Blmington C.C. 8Stillman Valley 29

Alden-Hebron 20Stockton 40

Galena 20East Dubuque 0

Aquin 44Rfd. Christian L. 26

Lena-Winslow 24Forreston 10

Momence 13Clifton Central 6

Hall 20Bismarck-Hen. 7

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OREGON 22, WILMINGTON 21

Hawks convertedBY LARRY BRENNAN

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W I L M I N G T O N – T y l e r Blume’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Pierce Dhaese pulled Oregon within a point with 9.6 seconds to play. Sawyer Reyn-olds’ two-point run gave the Hawks a miraculous first-round playoff win.

The late-game heroics result-ed in a 22-21 Oregon win over Wilmington on Saturday night at Becker Field.

“We have a really good passing game, but we haven’t shown it all year,” Dhaese said. “We finally got it going. It felt great. Tyler put the ball in perfect spots, allowing me to go get it.”

“It all went so fast,” Blume said. “I thought we were done when we had that last turnover on downs. It all came together tonight.”

Trailing 21-14 with just 1:27 remaining after turning the ball over on downs, things looked bleak for Oregon (6-4).

But the Hawks held state-ranked Wilmington (8-2) to a three-and-out and used their timeouts. They got the ball back with 50.6 seconds left at their own 43.

On Oregon’s second play of their final drive, Blume hit Chris Jordan for 14 yards, then con-nected with Dhaese for 30 to the Wilmington 9.

Blume spiked the ball to stop the clock with 13.6 ticks left. Blume then drilled the 9-yard TD to Dhaese on a slant from the right. Suddenly, it was 21-20 with 9.6 seconds on the clock.

The Hawks did not flinch, deciding to go for the win-ning two-point conversion. Reynolds scored relatively easi-ly on a dive play off the left side.

“That’s one of the greatest feel-

ings ever,” Reynolds said. “This is probably the best night of my life. That’s Oregon Hawk foot-ball right there. That’s what we’re known for, is cramming it.”

The final score was Oregon’s only lead.

Wilmington went up 7-0 on a 56-yard drive on its first posses-sion.

The Hawks, who did not have a first down in the first quar-ter, hit a big play, as Blume and Dhaese connected on a 70-yard TD pass. The point after was botched because of a high snap, and it was 7-6 with 10:20 left in the second quarter.

The Wildcats took advan-tage of a controversial turn-over when it was ruled that a Wilmington punt hit returner Nick Newman, and the Cats recovered at the Oregon 15. On the next play, Wilmington’s Nick McWilliams scored. The point after made it 14-6 with 10:20 left in the third quarter.

The Hawks pulled even when Garrett Rude busted a 71-yard run, and Reynolds scored from 7 yards out on the next play. Blume then hit Josh Cook for the two-point conversion, and it was 14-all with 52 seconds left in the third quarter.

Wilmington went up 21-14 with a 65-yard TD drive that was capped with a 19-yard pass.

Star of the game: Pierce Dhaese, Oregon, 136 receiving yards, 2 TDsKey performers: Tyler Blume, Oregon, 150 passing yards, 2 TDs; Nick McWilliams, Wilmington, 131 rushing yards, 2 TDs; Garrett Rude, Oregon, 108 rushing yardsUp next: 3A second round, Oregon (6-4) at Aurora Christian (7-3), 6 p.m. Satur-day

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]’s Matt Crandall celebrates a recovered fumble Saturday against Wilmington during a Class 3A playoff game. Oregon rallied late to win 22-21.

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BY LARRY [email protected], ext. 550

WILMINGTON – Resil-ient. That’s what the Oregon Hawks are.

They could have gotten deflated by not getting a first down in the first quarter.

They could have hung their heads when one of their top running backs left with an injury in the second quarter.

They could have gone down the tubes over an apparent bad call. A Wilm-ington punt was ruled to have touched Oregon’s Nick Newman and was recov-ered by the Wildcats deep in Hawks territory. The call resulted in a quick touch-down.

They could have gone away quietly when they turned the ball over on downs with 1:27 to play and trailing 21-14.

They didn’t do any of those things. The Hawks just kept fighting and kept believing.

“That’s the one thing that this group has done. They haven’t got down,” Oregon coach John Bothe said. “It’s

a pretty persistent group. That’s probably the biggest difference from last year to this year. It’s not talent. They just don’t get dejected. They don’t give up.”

That belief led to the win-ning two-point conversion decision and execution.

“You want to make sure the kids are on board with that,” Bothe said. “It’s going to decide the game. You’re going to win or lose right there. The kids wanted to go for two, and we as coaches decided to go for two.”

The team lost starting run-ning back Ashton Rutherford during the second quarter to an ankle injury.

Senior Sawyer Reynolds, who scored the winning two points on a run, wasn’t going to be denied, with his and many of his teammates’ sea-son and career on the line.

“Everybody believed, and we did it,” Reynolds said. “My feet were chopping until I got in that end zone. There was no way I would let my team down like that. There was no stopping me.”

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]’s Pierce Dhaese hauls in a long pass with seconds to spare to set up an Oregon touchdown against Wilmington on Saturday. The Hawks scored a touchdown with 9.6 seconds left, and the two-point conversion clinched a 22-21 win.

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PEARL CITY – On Eastland-Pearl City’s first offensive play from scrimmage on Saturday, fleet-footed Donny Groezinger raced around the far-side tackle and found open ground.

In a blink, he was in the end zone, but walking back to the huddle looked dejected as a yel-low flag for a block in the back negated his touchdown.

Seconds later, quarterback Deven Heeren mishandled a snap, and Luther North’s Alex Roberts fell on it.

For those few precious moments, memories of a slow start a year earlier in the first round of the playoffs danced in the Wildcatz’s heads.

But like every bad dream, those thoughts didn’t last long. As it turned out, the Wildcatz scored touchdowns on their next seven possessions en route to a 54-8 victory.

The Wildcatz (10-0) advanced to the 2A second round for the fourth time in the last five sea-sons. Waiting for them will be the Newman Comets (9-1), champions of the Three Rivers North. Newman beat Fieldcrest 41-0 on Saturday.

“All the way back to the first few weeks of practice, we’ve had it as a dream to play against Newman in the playoffs,” East-land-Pearl City lineman Boden Brandt said. “The biggest reason for that, is that would mean that we were in the second or third round of the playoffs, because we knew they’d be good. Now, we’ve got what we wanted.”

While Newman was a goal, winning a first-round game was the main objective. Last year, an undefeated Wildcatz team was upset 31-24 by Orion in the first round.

“We remembered how slow we started against Orion, and it went wrong from there,” Eastland-Pearl City’s Sky-lar Paulson said. “We were embarrassed by that. Today, we wanted to start strong and make sure that didn’t happen again.”

After the Wildcatz’s fumble, Luther North was forced to punt after three plays.

The Wildcatz took over on their own 30-yard line. Two runs by Eric Shaney moved the

ball forward 40 yards to the Luther North 30. Three plays later, Groezinger sprung loose for a 17-yard touchdown.

Luther North responded with its most productive series against the EPC starters, in terms of earning a first down. But after the first down, Luther North went backwards 16 yards, thanks to two movement penal-ties and a sack by Austin Fisch-er.

A punt yielded a 48-yard punt return for a touchdown by Cody

Kluck, but that TD was also brought back by a penalty.

It didn’t matter, as EPC only needed four plays to find the end zone.

This score came on a 15-yard pass from Heeren to Groezinger with 4 minutes, 20 seconds left in the quarter.

Luther North then turned the ball over for the second of nine times in the game. Tylor Wolf grabbed this fumble and rumbled 35 yards to the Luther North 15.

“Our defense does a great job,” Heeren said. “We don’t really need to score as many points as we do, because we know they aren’t going to allow many.”

After losing a yard on a play, Schaney plowed his way 16 yards for a touchdown. Schaney fin-ished the game with 134 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

Heeren followed with three more touchdown passes: another one to Groezinger for 35 yards with 10.7 seconds left in the first quarter, and then two to Paulson for 29 and 20 yards in the second quarter.

Heeren completed all five of his attempts for 102 yards and four touchdowns.

The EPC defense continued to force turnovers, as Kluck had two interceptions and Walter Ollie had a pick.

Schaney wrapped up the first-half scoring with a 6-yard run with 1:28 left to put EPC up 48-0.

The second half was played with a running clock and mostly backups for EPC.

Felix Loja, who had 91 rushing yards, scored Luther North’s lone TD on a 35-yard scamper in the third quarter.

Deven Steen scored on 1-yard run for EPC with 5:12 left in the third quarter to wrap up the scoring.

EASTLAND-PEARL CITY 54, LUTHER NORTH 8

Star of the game: Deven Heeren, EPC, 5 completions on 5 attempts, 102 passing yards, 4 TDsKey performers: Eric Schaney, EPC, 143 rushing yards, 2 TDs; Donny Groezinger, EPC, 91 rushings yards, 1 TD, 50 receiving yards, 2 TDsUp next: 2A second round, Eastland-Pearl City (10-0) at Newman (9-1), Saturday

Philip Marruffo/[email protected] City fullback Eric Schaney drags Chicago Luther North’s Sylvester Pydych into the end zone during the Wildcatz’s 54-8 victory Saturday afternoon in Pearl City. Eastland-Pearl City advanced to face Newman in the second round of the 2A playoffs.


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PEARL CITY – There’s a very clear difference between prolif-ic passing attacks and effective passing attacks.

The Rock Falls Rockets had a prolific passing attack this sea-son.

Starting quarterback Jacob Mammosser completed 213 passes on 259 attempts for 2,218 yards and 21 TDs. There’s no official comprehensive Sauk Valley record book, but there’s a good chance that Mammosser set an area record with that sea-son.

The Eastland-Pearl City Wild-catz have an effective pass-ing game. Deven Heeren, who stands 6-5, 175 pounds, had thrown for 832 yards on 55 completions and 15 TDs before Saturday’s first-round playoff win over Luther North.

One can bet, though, that Mike Papoccia, the coach of the New-man Comets, who will meet the Wilcatz in the second round, will spend time this week warn-ing his players about the EPC passing game.

“We have quite a few passing plays in our offense, we just don’t use them that much or often because we don’t have to,” tight end Skylar Paulson said. “It’s something we can do, and other teams have to pre-pare for.”

Paulson, who is known for his staunch defense on the hardwood, stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 225 pounds. Luther North defenders found out Saturday that it’s no fun trying to tackle him when he catches the ball. Paulson had a pair of catches that he turned into touchdowns by making vic-tims of Luther North defensive backs.

“When he catches the ball, you know that he’s going to fight for more yards,” Heeren said. “He’s a big target with good hands.”

“Both the touchdowns were plays where Deven throws it to a spot, and it’s my job to get there and make a play,” Paul-son said. “I made the catch and just kept going.”

The opposite of that is Donny Groezinger, who also caught two TDs against Luther North.

Groezinger is listed at 5-9 and

160 pounds. He’s shifty and quick, and the most likely to catch the deep ball.

On Saturday, he also showed his hands. In the first quarter, he positioned himself between a defender and the back of the end zone for a pass from Heeren. The ball floated and Groezinger jumped, caught the ball over the defender and then tapped his toes inside the line just like an NFL receiver.

“That first touchdown pass was pretty ugly,” Heeren said, “but Donny saved me by mak-ing the catch. I’d trust my life in his hands. He catches every-thing that you throw anywhere near him.”

Heeren finished with a tidy line of five completions on five attempts and four TDs and 102 passing yards.

The passing prevented Luther North from stacking the box to stop bruising fullback Eric Schaney.

That makes Schaney more effective.

Now, only time will tell if all of it will be effective enough to topple the Comets – a 3A semi-finalist a year ago.

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NEWMAN 41, FIELDCREST 0

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MINONK – Any wrestling coaches getting a head start on scouting for the Class 1A tour-nament have a tough decision to make:

Do you watch the film of New-man’s 41-0 rout of Fieldcrest on Saturday in the opening round of the 2A football playoffs?

It would behoove said coach-es to get a better grip on Jake Snow’s mind-numbing bal-ance and center of gravity. But watching the Knights’ utter inability to grip the Newman senior would make the most confident grappler a bit uneasy.

With Newman (9-1) up 8-0 on Dillan Heffelfinger’s 1-yard plunge and 2-point run, Snow scored from 15 yards out with 7:18 left in the first half. But it’s how he got there that defied logic.

Sweeping left, the 5-foot-5, 155-pound back was sand-wiched by Colton Pettit, a 5-foot-9 linebacker, and 4-year starting lineman Dakota Park, who checks in at 5-11, 240.

It appeared Snow was bound for the grass but, at the last second, exploded out of both Knights’ grips, back to his feet and sauntered into the end zone. The look on both Knights’ faces could only be described as utter disbelief.

“Wrestling does a lot of it,” said Snow, a senior who won a state wrestling title at 112 pounds as a freshman. “You need to have that balance. Wrestling is all about being shifty and staying low. When you come into big piles, you need to lower your center of gravity so you can break some of those tackles.”

Did somebody say piles? Snow left a mound of Knights (8-2) in his wake on the third play of the

fourth quarter. Again sweep-ing left, Snow was swarmed by five Knights. About three Missis-sippi’s later, he emerged and ran untouched the rest of the way for a 50-yard score that capped a 14-carry, 133-yard performance.

“That pile was a lot of work,” Snow said to Newman Meteors coach Jube Manzano on the sideline afterward.

What exactly happened in there?

“I don’t know,” Snow said. “Mac [Olson] and Dillan [Hef-felfinger] went through and hit their guys, a few people got in there. You just kind of started jumping and pushing people.”

“Unbelievable, isn’t he?” New-man coach Mike Papoccia said. “He was in that last pile, and I said to Andy Accardi, ‘He’s gonna come out of there.’ All of a sudden, there he goes.

“He has a run like that every game.”

When Brady Rude left with a right ankle injury on the first Newman drive of the second half, Olson filled in nicely with runs of 13 and 6, the latter put-ting him in the end zone and putting Newman up 27-0 after Brandon Ahlgrim kicked one of his three extra points.

Heffelfinger added a 1-yard

score on a toss left on fourth-and-goal with 37.3 seconds left in the third. Snow’s 50-yard run made it 41-0 less than 2 min-utes later.

Newman racked up 257 yards on 48 carries, and its defense held Fieldcrest to 36 yards, 18 of them rushing and 18 of them passing.

“Our defense dug their feet in the trenches and held their ground for a while,” Fieldcrest coach Nate Lorton said. “But we just spent too much time on the field as a defense. It wore our guys out, and that’s what the playoffs are about.”

A.J. Sharp was 4-for-8 for the Comets, including a belated birthday gift to Shayne Allen.

On third-and-6 at the Field-crest 24, Sharp lofted a ball into Allen’s hip pocket on a post flag, the 6-2 junior hauling it in at the goal line before leaping and pumping his fist.

The Newman defense was dominant. Snow was pleased with the offense drawing first blood and giving the “D” an emotional boost.

“This was a little different today,” Snow said. “The offense started, and we haven’t done that this whole year. I think this time it was us getting them going.”

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Star of the game: Jake Snow, Newman, 14 carries, 133 yards, 108 after contact, 2 TDs; 1 reception, 13 yardsKey performer: Dillan Heffelfinger, Newman, 13 carries, 41 yards, 2 TDs; Trevor Bolin, Newman, inter-ception, 3 passes defensedUp next: No. 1 Eastland Pearl City at No. 5 Newman, 2 p.m. Saturday

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]’s Jake Snow leaps over a pile of blockers and defenders during Saturday’s 2A playoff game against Fieldcrest in Minonk. Newman won 41-0.

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BY CHRISTOPHER [email protected]

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MINONK – The Comets’ defense made an opening state-ment. And Trevor Bolin made sure it wasted little time.

Factoring offensive penalty yardage, Newman held Field-crest to negative-16 yards Sat-urday afternoon.

After Dillan Heffelfinger notched the first of his two 1-yard touchdown runs to cap a 12-play, 65-yard scoring drive to open the game, Bolin set the tone for the afternoon.

On Fieldcrest’s first play, Drew Barth put a pass right between the 2s on Billy Moline’s chest.

But Bolin exploded out of his backpedal and drilled Moline the moment the ball arrived, sending the pigskin flying.

“There’s no way he’s catching that ball,” Bolin said. “I’m not letting him catch that ball.”

Two plays later, Bolin broke up another pass to finish off the first of three Fieldcrest three-and-outs in the first half. There would’ve been a fourth, but Bolin leaped to pick off Barth on a deep ball down the left sideline with less than a minute

to go in the first.“That was awesome. Fabulous.

Nothing better,” Bolin said.Less than 2 minutes later, Jake

Snow scored the first of his two touchdowns. But the human wrecking ball had just as much fun watching the defense play.

“Every week, I have so much fun watching them,” said Snow, who played safety last season but was forced to pick one or the other because of ankle issues.

“Especially those big hits. They get really excited out there, and that carries over to our offense.”

You want a big hit? It would be harder to find a more bone-jarring one than Bolin’s snot-knocker on running back Grant Jochums.

Using one of the pages toward the back of their playbook, Fieldcrest rolled Barth right and, just as he neared the side-line, he threw a screen back

across the field to Jochums.Jochums pulled the ball in, but

before he could make a football move, Bolin stuck him between the ribs, popping the ball free for an incompletion.

Jochums averaged 146.5 yards per game this season but had 13 yards on eight carries through three quarters. In the fourth, few starters remained in the Newman defense.

It seemed the deeper the Knights went into their play-book, even revealing several wrinkles for the first time this season, the more the Comets impressed their coach.

“Our defense played fan-tastic,” Newman coach Mike Papoccia said. “Look at all those dipsy-doodle plays they ran, and we were there. They didn’t gain anything on them. And we were out of position for a cou-ple of them. All of a sudden, we were there. I’m just proud as heck of them.”

Brandon Ahlgrim had the third interception of Barth, another leaping snare that set up Snow’s 50-yard Houdini touchdown scamper at the start of the fourth.

Mac Olson and J.P. Neisewan-

der led Newman with eight tackles apiece, and both earned a tackle for loss. Neisewander nearly earned a safety, hauling down Barth for a sack at the half-yard line early in the fourth.

But the backers quickly paid credit forward. As in to the guys in front of them.

“Everyone just did their job,” Olson said. “The linemen con-trolled the line of scrimmage, and the linebackers had no one on them. They were freed up and got there.”

Any momentum the Knights stood to gain after halftime was muted when safety Nolan McGinn outran fleet-footed Jack McDonough down the right sideline and hauled in a deep ball over his shoulder.

It was the first play of the second half, during which the Knights would gain 18 yards for the second straight half. Eight of their 10 possessions were comprised of three plays or fewer. The Knights’ offense averaged 391 yards per game going in.

“That Newman Central Catho-lic defense,” Fieldcrest coach Nate Lorton said. “That’s Mike Papoccia defense.”

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]’s Trevor Bolin runs back an interception during Sat-urday’s 41-0 win over Fieldcrest in Minonk. Newman’s defense stymied the Knights.

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LENA-WINSLOW 24, FORRESTON 10

BY ANDY COLBERTShaw Media

FORRESTON – The For-reston Cardinals did exactly what they wanted to do in the third quarter of Saturday’s 1A playoff game.

They controlled the clock. The moved the ball. The only problem was that the effort resulted in only three points.

The final result was a 24-10 loss to the Panthers in a matchup of NUIC Northwest rivals. Lena-Winslow won the regular-season game 38-33 in Week 6.

After trailing Lena-Win-slow 10-7 at halftime, For-reston held the ball for 10 minutes and gained 130 yards, compared to 6 yards for the Panthers in the third quarter.

“After the long drive they had and all they got was a field goal, I was the happiest guy in the place,” Lena-Win-slow coach Ric Arand said.

A 22-yard field goal by Ross Williams tied the score at 10-10 after a 60-yard drive. Two plays later, it was Wil-liams recovering a Lena-Winslow fumble, and the Cardinals went on another 60-yard plus drive.

With the Panthers reeling, a fumble at the 3-yard line by quarterback Robert DeVries kept Forreston from taking the lead.

Hank Holm, who didn’t play in the regular-season contest, forced the fumble and Colton Drye recovered it.

“DeVries is so shifty and

strong. He’ll run right through you,” Holm said. “You need to wrap him up.”

“I’m glad to have [Holm] back,” Arand said. “He’s so physical.”

Forreston forced a three-and-out and advanced back into Le-Win territory on a 14-yard pass from a limping DeVries to Max Barkalow.

“I hurt my ankle on the play before I fumbled,” DeVries said.

However, a stingy Le-Win defense and costly Forreston penalties stymied that pos-session.

“It felt like an avalanche of things piling on out there,” Forreston coach Denny Diduch said.

Besides DeVries not being at full strength, the game was stopped for 15 minutes for an injury to running back Aaron Shelton, a long Cardinal gain was nullified by a clipping penalty, and field position started working in Le-Win’s favor.

Taking over at Forreston’s 45-yard line after a poor punt, the Panthers and feature running back Tyler Oakley advanced to the 9-yard line.

Sophomore Brendon Eilders gave Le-Win a 17-10 lead one play later on a sweep right.

Midway through the fourth quarter, Oakley made it 24-10 on a 19-yard run, after a failed Cardinal fourth-down play.

“We had to shut down their running game,” Le-Win’s Luke Schubert said. “We were flying to the holes.”

Andrew Beasley gave For-reston a chance to get into the game with a 42-yard pass reception.

“That was a broken play,” DeVries said. “It was sup-posed to go to the other way, but he made something out of it.”

Forreston had a first-and-goal, but the 6-foot-3 Schubert intercepted DeVries in the end zone on a despera-tion fourth-down pass, mak-ing it twice that Forreston came up with no points after advancing inside the 10-yard line.

Le-Win made the best of its opportunities. On a fourth-and-10 near the goal line, quarterback Ben Moest found Oakley on a perfectly executed waggle screen for a 10-0 second-quarter lead.

With 2 1/2 minutes left in the first half, DeVries drove his team 57 yards for a score, the key plays a 20-yard pass to Dalton Lewis and a 12-yard pass to Williams. DeVries took it the final 7 yards on a keeper to cut the lead to 10-7.

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Philip Marruffo/[email protected] City’s Eric Schaney bounces off Luther North’s Jeremy Jensen on Saturday in Pearl City. Schaney rushed for 134 yards in a 54-8 win.

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected] Newman defense takes down Fieldcrest running back Grant Jochums during Saturday’s game in Minonk. The Comets’ defense stifled the Knights’ offense in a 41-0 win.


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Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]’s Dillan Heffelfinger runs during Saturday’s 41-0 win over Fieldcrest. The Comets advanced to the second round of the 2A playoffs, and will host unde-feated Eastland-Pearl City next Saturday at Roscoe Eades Stadium.

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]’s Garrett Rude dives for an extra yard during the Hawks’ 22-21 win over Wilmington on Saturday.

Philip Marruffo/[email protected] City’s Donny Groezinger catches a pass during the Wildcatz’s 54-8 win over Luther North on Saturday in Pearl City. Groezinger caught two touchdown passes in the victory.

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Philip Marruffo/[email protected] City’s Austin Fischer wraps up Luther North’s Dane Carter during Saturday’s play-off game in Pearl City. EPC won 54-8.


CLASS 2Aat Fieldcrest

NEWMAN 41, FIELDCREST 0 N FFirst downs 16 3Total yards 314 36Rushes-yards 48-257 17-18Passing yards 57 18Passing (C-A-I) 4-8-0 4-16-3Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-yards 6-58 8-67Punts-average 1-49 7-24.13rd conv. 7/14 1/74th conv. 3/4 0/0Time of poss. 31:36 15:54Newman 8 12 14 7 — 4 1 Fieldcrest 0 0 0 0 — 0

First quarterN – Dillan Heffelfinger 1 run (Heffelfinger run) 6:09

Second quarterN – Jake Snow 15 run (kick missed) 7:18 N – Shayne Allen 24 pass from A.J. Sharp (kick blocked) 2:59

Third quarterN – Mac O l son 6 r un (B ran -d o n A h l g r i m k i c k ) 7 : 4 2 N – Heffelfinger 1 run (Ahlgrim kick) 0:37.2

Fourth quarterN – Snow 50 run (Ahlgrim kick) 10:58.2

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Newman: Snow 14-133; Hef-felfinger 13-41; Olson 5-41; Brady Rude 10-38; Nate Terveer 2-5; Mike Ely 1-2; Sharp 1-0; Elliot Jensen 2-(minus-3); Fieldcrest: Grant Jochums 11-24; Drew Barth 6-(minus-6)PASSING – Newman: Sharp 4-8-0 57; Field-crest: Barth 4-16-4 18RECEIVING – Newman: Allen 2-37; Snow 1-13; Rude 1-7; Fieldcrest: Jake Griffin 2-18; Billy Moline 1-0; Jochums 1-0Records: Fieldcrest 8-2, Newman 9-1

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OREGON 22, WILMINGTON 21 O WFirst downs 13 15Total yards 354 313Rushes-yards 40-204 44-223Passing yards 150 90Passing (C-A-I) 5-9-0 3-5-1Fumbles-lost 0-0 3-1Penalties-yards 4-25 3-20Oregon 0 6 8 8 – 22Wilmington 7 0 7 7 – 21

First quarterW – McWilliams 2 run (Kulpa kick), 6:26

Second quarterO – Pierce Dhaese 70 pass from Tyler Blume (kick failed), 10:20

Third quarterW – McWilliams 15 run (Kulpa kick), 10:20O – Sawyer Reynolds 7 run (Josh Cook pass from Blume), :52

Fourth quarterW – Zlomie 19 pass from Southall (Kulpa kick), 6:11O – Dhaese 9 pass from Blume (Reynolds run), :09.6

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Oregon: Garrett Rude 9-108, Ashton Rutherford 3-33, Reynolds 11-32, Nick Newman 13-28, Chris Jordan 2-4, Blume 2-(-1). Wilmington: McWilliams 21-131, Hawkins 6-35, Southall 8-22, Zlomie 5-18, Skoryi 4-15.PASSING – Oregon: Blume 5-9-0-150. Wilmington: Southall 3-5-1-90.RECEIVING – Oregon: Dhaese 4-136, Jor-dan 1-14. Wilmington: Zlomie 3-90.Records: Oregon 6-4, Wilmington 8-2

at Pearl City

EASTLAND-PEARL CITY 54, LUTHER NORTH 8

LN EPCFirst downs 9 19Total yards 174 385Rushes-yards 33-148 37-283Passing yards 26 102Passing (C-A-I) 1-7-3 5-5-0Fumbles-lost 9-6 3-2Penalties-yards 4-21.5 5-50Punts-average 2-31 0-0Luther North 0 0 8 0 – 8Eastland-P.C. 28 20 6 0 – 54

First quarterEPC – Donny Groezinger 17 run (Skylar Paul-son kick) 9:15EPC – Deven Heeren 15 pass to Groezinger (Paulson kick), 4:20EPC – Eric Schaney 16 run (run failed) 2:38EPC – Heeren 35 pass to Groezinger (Paulson run), 3.8

Second quarterEPC – Heeren 29 pass to Paulson (kick failed), 7:01EPC – Heeren 20 pass to Paulson (Silas Jacobs kick), 6:09EPC – Schaney 6 run (Jacobs kick), 1:28

Third quarterLN – Felix Loja 35 run (Jeremy Jensen pass to Sylvester Pydych), 10:40EPC – Blake Steen 1 run (kick failed), 5:12

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Luther North: Loja 15-91, Dane Carter 9-32, Peter Anton 3-15, Jensen 5-8, Pydych 1-2; EPC: Schaney 12-134, Groez-inger 9-91, Shawn Larak 6-42, Steen 4-15, Heeren 1-3, Tristan Schubert 2-1, Walter Ollie 1-(minus-3).PASSING – Luther North: Jensen 1-7-3, 26 yards; EPC: Heeren 5-5-0, 102 yardsRECEIVING – Luther North: Carter 1-26; EPC: Groezinger 2-50, Paulson 2-49, Cody Kluck 1-3. Records: Luther North 5-5, EPC 10-0

at Chicago Payton

ROCHELLE 60, PAYTON 18 R PFirst downs 22 10Total yards 562 236Rushes-yards 43-439 22-69Passing yards 123 167Passing (C-A-I) 4-5-0 8-18-4Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-yards 2-23 2-45Time of poss. 26:19 21:41Rochelle 24 24 6 6 – 60Payton 6 6 0 6 – 18

First quarterR – Evan White 51 run (Adam Ricketts run) 11:40P – Myles Davis 25 pass from Eric Seward (run failed) 6:57R – Keegan Akers 33 pass from Angel Bur-ciaga (White run) 4:21R – Tommy Sprowl 13 run (Jordan Bernardin run) 1:04

Second quarterR – Akers 14 pass from Burciaga (Marquez Felix run) 9:49P – Christopher Herrera 59 pass from Seward (run failed) 8:34R – Felix 77 run (Akers pass from Burciaga) 6:47

Third quarterR – White 50 run (Bernardin run) 4:41

Fourth quarterR – Tyler Teske 1 run (run failed) 11:48P – Michael Kalanik pass from Seward (pass failed) 3:46

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Rochelle: White 9-161, Felix 5-117, Ricketts 7-68, Dakota Swadinski 4-31, Sprowl 6-30, Blaze Willis 8-22, Teske 2-5, Kevin Christensen 1-5, Burciaga 1-0; Pay-ton: Michael Kalanik 9-41, Seward 7-17, Max McMahon 3-14, Myles Davis 1-1, Christopher Herrera 2-(minus-3)PASSING – Rochelle: Burciaga 4-5-0 123; Payton: Seward 8-18-4 167RECEIVING – Rochelle: Akers 4-123; Pay-ton: Herrera 1-59, McMahon 3-53, Davis 2-28, Kalanik 2-27

at Forreston High School

LENA-WINSLOW 24, FORRESTON 10

L FFirst downs 12 15Total yards 220 274Rushes-yards 47-188 45-141Passing yards 83 133Passing (C-A-I) 4-7-0 8-26-1Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-0Penalties-yards 7-50 7-65Time of poss. 25:27 22:33Lena-Winslow 3 7 0 14 – 24Forreston 0 7 3 0 – 10

First quarterL – Wright 21 field goal, 8:27

Second quarterL – Oakley 14 pass from Moest (Wright kick) 8:31F – DeVries 7 run (Williams kick) 0:33

Third quarterF – Williams 22 field goal, 8:20

Fourth quarterL – Eilders 9 run (Wright kick) 7:50L – Oakley 19 (Wright kick) 4:52

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Lena-Winslow: Oakley 26-130, Oleson 9-32, Schubert 5-13, Eilders 2-10, Moest 5-3; Forreston: DeVries 17-86, Cruthis 12-24, Barkalow 4-26, Williams 7-3, Lewis 1-3, Shelton 2-1, Reining 1-1PASSING – Lena-Winslow: Moest 4-7-0 32; Forreston: DeVries 8-26-1 133RECEIVING – Lena-Winslow: Oakley 2-47, Greene 1-14, Schubert 1-12; Forreston: Bea-sley 1-42, Lewis 2-35, Rogers 1-22, Barkalow 2-16, Williams 1-13, Reining 1-5

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