Iowa high school football scores: Gazette area Week 6 roundup

Somehow it’s already October. Somehow it’s already Week 6 of the Iowa high school football season.

Yes, there was an Iowa football game Friday night, but there was also a full slate of prep games around the state and we were following all the area scores and developments.

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5A No. 2 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 42, 5A No. 7 Cedar Falls 14

No, they didn’t play a perfect game.

But the Kennedy Cougars rode the wave in a perfect storm.

Class 5A second-ranked Cedar Rapids forced seven turnovers and drubbed No. 7 Cedar Falls, 42-14, Friday night at Kingston Stadium.

That bears repeating. Seven turnovers.

“We were just there, at the right time, right place, right moment,” said Michael Mulherin, who recovered a pair of Cedar Falls fumbles. “Their quarterbacks threw up some balls, and we were right there.”

The final damage wrought by the Cougars (6-0): Four interceptions — two by Karon Elmore, and one of which was returned 55 yards for a touchdown by Jeron Senters — and three fumble recoveries.

The result was a one-sided outcome that nobody could have expected.

Full story from Jeff Linder: Cedar Rapids Kennedy forces 7 turnovers, routs Cedar Falls

3A No. 9 Davenport Assumption 24, Mount Vernon 12

Trying to empty the clock in the final four or five minutes, Davenport Assumption’s football team went with a power formation offensively and ran, ran, ran the ball right up the middle pretty much every down. To great effect.

The back of choice doing all that run, run, running surprisingly was not John Argo.

“I just felt like he was very spent,” Assumption Coach Wade King explained, after his team’s 24-12 win Friday night.

Which he had every reason to be, quite honestly. Argo rushed for 217 yards and three touchdowns and recovered a fumble from his middle linebacker spot as the Knights took this key Class 3A District 4 matchup.

Full story from Jeff Johnson: Big running plays send Davenport Assumption past Mount Vernon

Williamsburg 24, Mid-Prairie 21

Williamsburg was competitive in its first three games of the season, only to see opponents pull away for victories.

This time, in a close game the Raiders made the plays needed to earn the victory.

Williamsburg scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns, thwarted a Mid-Prairie theat and burned the final 90 seconds off the clock for a 24-21 Class 2A District 6 win Friday night at Bob Murphy Stadium. The Raiders have won three straight games and both teams moved to 3-3 overall.

“I was having flashbacks of the first three weeks, losing close games,” Williamsburg Coach Curt Ritchie said. “It was good to see our guys make a play at the end. They got it turned around, because we’ve been on the other side of it.”

Full story from K.J. Pilcher: Williamsburg powers past Mid-Prairie with big second half and late stop

Iowa City Liberty 56, Mount Pleasant 0

After grinding through an early-season gauntlet, it’s safe to say the Lightning finally had some fun.

Iowa City Liberty began its season 0-5. Its opponents during the opening stretch — 5A No. 5 Iowa City High, 5A No. 9 Linn-Mar, 2019 3A state champion Western Dubuque (the Bobcats also received four votes in The Gazette’s most recent 4A poll), 4A No. 9 Clear Creek Amana and 4A No. 1 North Scott — entered play this week with a combined 22-3 record.

Woof.

But Friday night, on Homecoming, Liberty (1-5) unleashed some built-up frustration and tallied its first “W” of the season in a 56-0 rout of Mount Pleasant (1-5) in Class 4A District 3 action.

The win was James Harris’ first as Liberty head coach.

Full story from Ryan Pleggenkuhle: Iowa City Liberty ends early-season skid against Mount Pleasant

5A No. 8 Cedar Rapids Prairie 55, Waterloo West 7

The Hawks erupted for 41 first-half points and rolled to a victory over Waterloo West at Memorial Stadium.

Makelle Taylor scored runs of 21 and 26 yards and Trey Peterson and Brandon Vicko also had rushing scores for Prairie. Moses Each returned a fumble 44 yards for another touchdown in the first half.

Elijah Ward had a pair of touchdown receptions, covering 10 and 36 yards.

— Waterloo Courier

1A No. 5 Sigourney-Keota 50, Cardinal 26

Special teams were just that for the No. 5 Cobras in a Class 1A unbeaten showdown with Cardinal.

Cardinal struck first on a touchdown pass from Maddux Jones to Griffin Greiner for a 6-0 lead, but the Cobras responded with 21 quick points.

A short touchdown run by Cade Molyneaux gave Sigourney-Keota a 7-6 lead after the point after. The Cobras blocked a punt on the ensuing Cardinal position and Bo Schmidt fell on it in the end zone, and it was 14-6.

Sigourney-Keota recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, and Molyneaux scored on the very next play. It was 21-6 after the first and the Cobras never looked back.

Sigourney-Keota led 37-12 at the half and 43-12 after three quarters.

Molyneaux finished with three rushing touchdowns. Levi Graber scored on a touchdown run and a punt return.

— Andy Krutsinger, Southeast Iowa Union

3A No. 4 Solon 44, Washington 21

It did not take long for the visitors to assert their abilities at Case Field.

The Spartans’ Sean Stahle scored on an 80-yard bomb on the first play from scrimmage and Blake Timmons ran for a 55-yard touchdown on the Spartans’ second play. The Spartans did not need a play from scrimmage to make it 21-0. Stahle returned a punt 74 yards with 5:17 remaining in the first quarter.

Washington finally had an answer when Lucas Kroll got free for a 73-yard touchdown reception for a 21-7 score at 4:04 of the first quarter.

— Doug Brenneman, Southeast Iowa Union

Decorah 19, Western Dubuque 14

Keenan Tyler threw for 199 yards and two touchdowns, and led Decorah to four crucial first downs on a clock-killing drive in the final minutes as the Vikings won for the third straight week.

Decorah improved to 4-2 overall, 2-0 in Class 4A District 2. Western Dubuque (3-3, 1-1) saw its three-game winning streak come to an end and fell a game behind in the district championship race.

After Jack Clemens hit Tucker Nauman on a 23-yard TD pass, Tyler hit Joe Bockman on a 14-yard TD pass, then connected with Jacob Pipho for an 18-yard TD to give Decorah the lead.

The Vikings added two Brody Young field goals covering 34 and 32 yards.

— Tim O’Neill, Dubuque Telegraph-Herald; Randy Iverson, correspondent

1A No. 6 Dyersville Beckman 35, 1A No. 9 Waterloo Columbus 34 (OT)

The Blazers overcame a rare first-half deficit — one where their defense was exposed for the first time all year — and rallied with an epic performance in the final 24 minutes to win in overtime.

Owen Huehnergarth rushed for four touchdowns, and the ferocious Beckman ‘D’ rose to the challenge in the second half for the comeback victory.

“There’s a grit to this team,” Beckman Coach Mark Atwater said. “We are just some gritty kids working really hard. We’re not the fastest, we’re not the flashiest, but we’ve been ably to come out on the right end of these games the last couple years — and I won’t apologize.”

— Dubuque Telegraph-Herald

3A No. 6 Independence 40, Hampton-Dumont-CAL 13

Marcus Beatty rushed for 253 yards and four touchdowns on 30 carries as the Mustangs won at home.

Mitchell Johnson completed 12 of 17 passes for 149 yards and two TDs, including one to Keegan Schmitt, who had four catches for 73 yards.

West Branch 28, Durant 14

Andy Henson rushed for 226 yards as the Bears rolled at home.

Peyton Miller (25 yards) and Kinnick Boelk (11 yards) hauled in touchdown passes for the Bears.

— Jason Miller, correspondent

Monticello 55, Camanche 13

Monticello scored on all four first-half possessions to take a 28-7 halftime lead, then used a 69-yard pick-6 from Gage Guilford and a 70-yard punt return to pull away at Camanche (3-3, 2-1).

Preston Ries passed for 211 yards and rushed for 129 yards and two scores. Tate Petersen had 151 receiving yards and Caleb Sauser scored four touchdowns for the Panthers (4-2, 2-1).

— Pete Temple, correspondent

3A No. 4 West Delaware 50, South Tama 0

Wyatt Voelker rushed for 60 yards and three touchdowns as the Hawks strolled at home.

Voelker scored on runs of 25, 12 and 5 yards and went over 2,000 career rushing yards in his career.

Kyle Cole added 82 rushing yards and scored on a 24-yard run and Blake Engel returned an interception 27 yards for a TD. Logan Peyton — on a 33-yard pass from Conner Funk — and Haze Seibert (2 run) also scored for West Delaware.

— Bill Logan, correspondent

Anamosa 16, Tipton 14

Grahm Humpal scored the tying touchdown and the game-winning 2-point conversion for Raiders.

Humpal rushed for 203 yards, including a tying 7-yard run with 20 seconds left. He also completed 10 of 17 passes for 143 yards, including an 11-yard TD to Kole Dietiller.

Carter Hull completed 10 of 15 passes for 117 yards and a TD for Tipton, and Kaleb Nerem rushed for 106 yards and a TD.

— Daryl Schepanski, correspondent

A No. 6 North Linn 43, Starmont 0

Tate Haughenbury completed 11 of 13 passes for 311 yards and three touchdowns as the Lynx blanked the Stars, 43-0.

Austin Hilmer completed his only pass for 65 yards and had three receptions for 107 yards and a TD. Lance Miller caught two passes for 108 yards and a TD, and Cade Haughenbury had four receptions for 106 yards and a TD, plus two rushing TDs.

5A No. 5 Iowa City High 42, Davenport North 0 (Thursday)

Iowa City High rattled off three touchdowns in about a six-minute span of the second quarter and then struck for two more scores in the first 77 seconds of the third quarter to wallop North 42-0 at Brady Street Stadium.

“Early in the game, we were discombobulated from the beginning,” City High coach Mitch Moore said. “We could not get going, did not have very much momentum, enthusiasm or energy and we play that way. We settled down and had a lot better detail in the second quarter.”

The Little Hawks’ defense was relentless throughout, limiting the Wildcats to 18 rushing yards on 26 attempts.

After an erratic start, City High’s offense hit its stride as it pushed the tempo against a depleted North squad. Joey Bouska had a 14-yard touchdown run to break the ice midway through the second quarter. Darren Richardson scored from 4 yards on the next drive and then Gable Mitchell hauled in a 29-yard touchdown pass from Drew Larson to punctuate 21 points in a span of 6:19.

City High delivered the dagger right out of halftime.

North attempted an onside kick to start the third quarter but couldn’t corral it. On the ensuing play, Larson found Richardson in the flat and he darted 54 yards for a touchdown. Then after a Wildcat punt, Quinton Tran hit Mitchell from 38 yards on the first snap to extend the lead to 35-0.

“They’re very good and it shows,” North coach Adam Hite said. “They’re probably the biggest turnaround and biggest surprise in the state of Iowa. That coach has them believing and fighting hard for what his vision is and it shows on the field.”

— Matt Coss, Quad-City Times

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