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How the ranked Iowa high school football teams fared in Week 5
8-Player No. 6 Easton Valley hands Central City its first loss, while another top-ranked 1A team falls this week
For the third week in a row, The Gazette’s top-ranked Iowa high school football team in Class 1A lost Friday night.
This time, the Sigourney-Keota Cobras handed No. 1 Pella Christian its first loss, 15-13.
Week 5 of was the start of district play in Class 4A and Class 3A, and 4A offered us two top-10 matchups to get started. No. 3 Bondurant-Farrar fell from the ranks of the unbeaten at fifth-ranked Carlisle, 36-20, while No. 9 Iowa City Liberty rallied to beat No. 8 North Scott, 20-16. Those were two of seven ranked matchups around the state this week.
Here’s how the teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll fared Friday night.
Class 5A
No. 1 Ankeny beat Des Moines Roosevelt, 35-18
No. 2 West Des Moines Dowling beat Council Bluffs Lincoln, 52-0
No. 3 Pleasant Valley beat Davenport North, 49-12
No. 4 Southeast Polk beat Waterloo West, 56-0
No. 5 Cedar Rapids Kennedy beat Dubuque Senior, 38-0
No. 6 Urbandale beat Des Moines East, 48-0
No. 7 Sioux City East lost to No. 9 Ankeny Centennial, 31-28
No. 8 Cedar Rapids Prairie beat Ottumwa, 49-14
No. 9 Ankeny Centennial beat No. 7 Sioux City East, 31-28
No. 9 West Des Moines Valley beat Marshalltown, 35-14
Class 4A
No. 1 Lewis Central beat Council Bluffs Jefferson, 63-0
No. 2 Waverly-Shell Rock beat Waterloo East, 56-0
No. 3 Bondurant-Farrar lost to No. 5 Carlisle, 36-20
No. 3 Cedar Rapids Xavier beat Cedar Rapids Washington, 38-0
No. 5 Carlisle beat No. 3 Bondurant-Farrar, 36-20
No. 5 Indianola beat Perry, 49-0
No. 7 Norwalk beat Boone, 53-20
No. 8 North Scott lost to No. 9 Iowa City Liberty, 20-16
No. 9 Iowa City Liberty beat No. 8 North Scott, 20-16
No. 10 Newton beat Pella, 21-14
Class 3A
No. 1 Harlan beat Saydel, 62-6
No. 2 Humboldt beat Ballard, 26-14
No. 3 Adel ADM beat Atlantic, 56-27
No. 4 Mount Vernon beat Benton Community, 47-0
No. 5 North Polk beat Algona, 55-28
No. 6 Creston beat Knoxville, 39-0
No. 7 Independence beat South Tama, 56-6
No. 7 Nevada beat Gilbert, 25-22
No. 9 Solon beat West Burlington/Notre Dame, 36-0
No. 10 MOC-Floyd Valley lost to Sioux City Heelan, 7-6
Class 2A
No. 1 Central Lyon/George-Little Rock beat Cherokee, 43-8
No. 2 Ida Grove OABCIG lost to No. 5 Spirit Lake, 28-13
No. 3 Williamsburg beat Centerville, 55-7
No. 4 West Marshall beat Iowa Falls-Alden, 42-14
No. 5 Spirit Lake beat No. 2 Ida Grove OABCIG, 28-13
No. 6 New Hampton beat No. 9 Crestwood, 24-14
No. 7 Dubuque Wahlert beat North Fayette Valley, 48-14
No. 8 Red Oak lost to Des Moines Christian, 19-13
No. 9 Crestwood lost to No. 6 New Hampton, 24-14
No. 10 West Lyon beat Sheldon, 29-3
Class 1A
No. 1 Pella Christian lost to Sigourney-Keota, 15-13
No. 2 Van Meter beat West Central Valley, 48-0
No. 3 West Sioux beat Western Christian, 49-22
No. 4 Underwood beat Mapleton MVAOCOU, 68-12
No. 5 Aplington-Parkersburg beat South Hardin, 28-12
No. 5 West Branch beat No. 10 Mediapolis, 35-13
No. 7 Dike-New Hartford beat East Marshall, 62-0
No. 8 Carroll Kuemper beat West Monona, 57-6
No. 8 Durant beat Louisa-Muscatine, 56-0
No. 10 Mediapolis lost to No. 5 West Branch, 35-13
Class A
No. 1 West Hancock beat North Union, 60-27
No. 2 Woodbury Central beat Lawton-Bronson, 42-0
No. 3 Grundy Center beat Ackley AGWSR, 35-0
No. 4 Lynnville-Sully beat Madrid, 36-14
No. 5 Hartley HMS beat Alta-Aurelia, 51-16
No. 6 Avoca AHSTW beat Oakland Riverside, 39-19
No. 7 North Linn beat South Winneshiek, 42-7
No. 8 Le Mars Gehlen beat Akron-Westfield, 48-26
No. 9 East Buchanan beat Maquoketa Valley, 48-12
No. 10 Wapsie Valley beat Hudson, 33-0
8-Player
No. 1 Remsen St. Mary’s beat Fort Dodge St. Edmond, 63-0
No. 2 WACO beat New London, 43-14
No. 3 Don Bosco beat Dunkerton, 64-12
No. 4 Newell-Fonda beat Kingsley-Pierson, 48-28
No. 5 Lenox beat Stanton/Essex, 70-20
No. 6 Easton Valley beat Central City, 49-6
No. 7 Gladbrook-Reinbeck beat Garwin GMG, 76-8
No. 8 Ruthven GTRA beat No. 10 West Bend-Mallard, 38-24
No. 9 West Harrison beat Coon Rapids-Bayard, 35-18
No. 10 West Bend-Mallard lost to No. 8 Ruthven GTRA, 38-24
Comments: nathan.ford@thegazette.com
Easton Valley’s Ayden Huling runs with the ball during a game between Central City and Easton Valley in Central City, Iowa on Friday, September 23, 2022. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)
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