Worth County vaulted past Sacred Heart into first place following their 56-14 victory over previous #1 Stanberry two weeks ago. Sacred Heart is #2, while Rock Port is #3. These are the three teams that remain unbeaten this year following the completion of the regular season. Stanberry dropped to fourth after the loss. Rounding out the top ten were Mound City, Greenfield, King City, North Andrew, East Atchison, and Chilhowee.
Worth County took advantage of the week off last week, having light practices from Monday through Thursday. This week, they will return to full practices as they prepare to take on East Atchison this Friday at home. Game time is at 7 pm.
East Atchison advanced with their 78-20 win over North/West Nodaway. The Wolves scored the first 50 points of the game before North/West Nodaway scored right before halftime to keep the game going. Briacin Bywater ran 11 times for 161 yards in the win, including a 65 yard run in the third quarter. Ian Hedlund added a 36 yard scoring run. Keevan Baker has emerged as another running option for the Wolves, getting 11 carries for 84 yards. The Wolves bring their Triple Option and their deep passing threat in receiver Gage McAdams to Worth County Friday. The Wolves average 39 points per game. McAdams is the leading receiver in eight man football with 37 catches for 791 yards and 13 touchdowns.
The Wolves will have to find a way to slow down Worth County’s potent offense. Worth County leads the league after nine games with 65.6 points per game. They will have to take care of the ball against the Tiger defense, which now leads the league with 10.4 points allowed per game. Worth County forced a bunch of early turnovers against North Andrew and Stanberry to take them out of their game. East Atchison is one of the better defensive teams in the area, only giving up 28.4 points per game. Worth County will have to block Gage McAdams (94 tackles, 7th in the league) and Shae DeRosier (90 tackles, 9th); the latter is also one of the biggest hitters for the Wolves.
For Worth County, Tevin Cameron is third in the league in rushing yards; the Tigers did not play last week, while both Stanberry and Hardin-Central did. Cameron starts off at 1,353 yards, behind Trey Schieber of Stanberry (1,469 yards) and Zach Pearon of Hardin-Central (1,531 yards). Cameron leads the league in rushing touchdowns with 31, ahead of Schieber (26) and Cole Durbin (22). There is a chance for Cameron and Schieber to move up on the rushing yardage board, since Hardin-Central will invade Sacred Heart. Rock Port, the second-rated defense behind Worth County, will face a stiff challenge for Schieber and Stanberry.
Other scores:
Stanberry 78, Albany 26 – Albany shocked Stanberry with a 62 yard pass from Harrison Kerchner to Shay Cooper for the lead early. The Warriors returned Colton Coburn for the game after he had battled injuries all year. He torched Stanberry with 13 carries for 197 yards, including runs of 69 and 70. The game was 46-26 in the third before Stanberry, always a strong second half team, hung 32 points in the fourth quarter for the victory.
Trey Schieber ran 18 times for 219 yards in the win for Stanberry and added a 65 yard kickoff return. He scored on runs of 53 and 30. John Shanks scored off a 53 yard run and Ruben Gage scored off a 65 yard run. Stanberry invades Rock Port this Friday, while Albany licks their wounds after only winning one game this year.
St. Joseph Christian 60, DeKalb 6 – The Lions, who dropped their first four games of the year, are now nearly back to .500 with their latest victory. Braden George has been on a tear for the Lions; he picked up 162 more yards for them Friday to pick up 400 for his last two games.
South/Nodaway-Holt 52, Platte Valley 6 – The Spartans are back to .500 at 5-5 after things looked grim at the start of the year. Wes Williams had 8 carries for 146 yards.
Osceola 56, Chilhowee 6 – A disappointing end for Chilhowee, which still posted its first winning season in quite some time, winning six games this year.
Hardin-Central 68, Northwest Hughesville 8 – Hardin-Central faded in the second half after a promising start, but showed some life against the Hughesville squad. Zach Pearon rushed 17 times for 218 yards in the win to move into the rushing lead.
Pattonsburg 70, North Shelby 30 – The Panthers continued to be on an offensive tear, having scored 88, 94, and now 70 in their last three games. Worth County is the only team to have grounded the Panther air attack. Cole Dilley has completed 109 of 178 passes for 1,230 yards, 21 scores and 8 interceptions. North Shelby tried to keep up, but threw four picks in the loss.
Braymer 80, Stewartsville 42 – Stewartsville was coming on strong towards the end of the year, but Braymer suddenly exploded for their second win of the year to end the Cardinals season.
All the main teams will jump in and resume football after a bye week. Hardin-Central has the first chance to try and stop the Sacred Heart juggernaut in Sedalia. Greenfield has only lost two games in the past two years, but faces the task of cooling down a suddenly red hot Osceola squad. King City must do the same with Braymer. Christian will travel to Mound City to face the Panthers; the two have frequently met in the State Championship, but never in the regular season or districts. North Andrew will try and stop Weston Williams and the South/Nodaway-Holt Spartans, who fought their way back to .500. Stanberry will invade Rock Port, never an easy task; however, they won in Rock Port 76-22 last year on their march to the State Title game. Southwest Livingston has a higher seed than Pattonsburg, but has the unenviable task of trying to ground the Pattonsburg air attack. Worth County will try and stay on track after exorcising bad memories of the last few years against Stanberry and North Andrew.
Eleven man scores:
South Harrison 38, Polo 20 – South Harrison lost a 26-24 heartbreaker to Polo during the regular season in a game in which the Panthers scored on a last-second drive to win. Some teams go in a slump following such a loss; however, South Harrison has been playing excellent football since then, winning five out of their last seven to stay alive. Now, they seek to slow down Princeton, who has been the kind of force that took the GRC by storm during the late ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and early ‘80’s. Princeton has only been seriously challenged twice this year, a 52-32 barnburner over Trenton and a 20-6 battle with South Harrison. They won handily over Maysville in their first round game 55-8.
Hamilton 35, Milan 0 – Hamilton normally starts off slow, but this time scored all 35 points in the first quarter to open district play. LaTroy Harper continued to tear up his opponents, getting 13 carries for 105 yards and getting a 65 yard punt return as well. He also threw a 13 yard pass to Derek Dixon. Everyone is awaiting a showdown in The Pit at Princeton, but first, Hamilton must get by an improving Putnam County squad.
Lafayette 35, Excelsior Springs 34 – Bart Hardy’s squad had its second nailbiter in as many weeks, and this time, they came out on top. It looked like Lafayette would run away with it at first, as Trey Washington struck twice to make it 14-0. They held a 1-2 score lead until the third quarter, when Diego Bernard’s pass to Ja’den King made it 35-14. But then Excelsior Springs rode the back of Peyton Soria, who scored three times to get the Excelsior Springs squad to within one. But instead of kicking the extra point, Excelsior Springs elected to go for the win and put it in Soria’s hands. But he was stopped short and Lafayette got the win.
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