Prairie outguns Kennedy, 41-33

CEDAR RAPIDS -- If you can see the replay, do so by all means.Local TV. Game film. Youtube. Whatever.Find it. Watch it. Enjoy it.DeMetrius Harper capped a wild, zany first half with a whirling, dancing, 90-yard kickoff return, and Jace Hanna completed his first 13 passes in a 333-yard performance as Cedar Rapids Prairie outscored Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 41-33, in a Mississippi Valley Conference non-divisional football game Friday night at Kingston Stadium."I can't wait to see it," said Harper, who also caught 13 of Hanna's 21 completions. "They said I made six circles. I think it was more like three."It was a breathtaking, ankle-breaking return. It wasn't anything Prairie Coach Mike Morrissey hadn't seen before."In practice, we see stuff like that quite a bit," Morrissey said. "He's a good athlete that has been waiting for this moment."Prairie improved to 2-0 for the first time since 2009. That team stumbled from there, finishing 3-7.This team appears much more solid for the long haul.Hanna completed 21 of 27 passes, including his first 13. He threw four touchdown passes, three in a first half in which he accumulated 255 aerial yards."We put a lot of time in since last season (when the Hawks were 2-7), and it's all paying off," Hanna said.Harper's return capped a second quarter that featured three touchdowns by each team.Kennedy (0-2 for the third straight year), had crept within 28-19 on Riley Fergus' 31-yard touchdown pass to Jacob Frazier-Flores. The Cougars kicked to Harper, who gathered the ball at the left hash on the 10-yard line. The next few moments consisted of a few jukes, a few jives, a couple broken tackles, then a sprint down the near sideline.Watch it. You must."I'm not much of a dancer," Harper insisted.The meeting was the teams' first since 2007, and it will be remembered as an offensive showcase.Prairie finished with 446 yards; Kennedy accumulated 358. Neither team coughed up a turnover.Hanna was virtually perfect in the first half, completing 14 of 15 passes for three scores -- 29 yards to Dellamuth, 22 yards to Harper, then 69 yards to Jarred Edmonds on a play in which four Cougars missed tackles."You can't count on open-field tackling," said Kennedy Coach Tim Lewis. "That's a potent team."Kennedy fell despite 224 rushing yards and two touchdowns by Alex Hillyer. Fergus and Frazier-Flores hooked up for three TDs.Hillyer's final touchdown got Kennedy within one possession at 41-33 with 3:27 to go, but the Cougars never got the ball back.Jesse Vizzini recovered the onside kick, then Prairie twice converted on third-and-9.Kennedy meets fifth-ranked Iowa City West on Thursday in its Mississippi Division opener; Prairie faces Cedar Rapids Xavier on Friday in a Valley Division encounter.

C.R. Prairie 41, C.R. Kennedy 33

AT KINGSTON STADIUM

TEAM STATISTICS

CR Prairie

CR Kennedy

First downs

23

16

Rushes-yards

30 - 113

46 - 295

Passing yards

333

63

Comp-Att-Int

21 - 27 - 0

5 - 8 - 0

Total yards

446

358

Fumbles-lost

0 - 0

0 - 0

Punts-average

3 - 35.3

3 - 51.0

Penalties-yards

5 - 38

4 - 40

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing:

CR Prairie – Jace Hanna 13-85, Trevor Northrup 5-40, Tristan Beyer 8-5, Mitchell Dellamuth 1-2, DeMetrius Harper 2-(minus-18);  

CR Kennedy –Alex Hillyer 29-224, Riley Fergus 8-38, Miles Moa 8-32, Seth Gilmore 1-1

Passing:

CR Prairie – Hanna 21-27-0-333;  

CR Kennedy – Fergus 5-8-0-63.

Receiving:

CR Prairie – Harper 13-135, Jarred Edmonds 4-112, Dellamuth 2-51, Caleb Davison 2-35;  

CR Kennedy – Jacob Frazier-Flores 3-51, Joel Smetzer 1-9, Hillyer 1-3.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

CR Prairie

14

20

7

–

41

CR Kennedy

19

7

7

–

33

SCORING SUMMARYCRP - Mitchell Dellamuth 29 pass from Jace Hanna (Sam Drysdale kick)CRP - DeMetrius Harper 22 pass from Hanna (Drysdale kick)CRK - Alex Hillyer 21 run (Eric Bertroche kick)CRP - Hanna 1 run (Drysdale kick)CRK - Jacob Frazier-Flores 12 pass from Riley Fergus (kick blocked)CRP - Jarred Edmonds 69 pass from Hanna (Drysdale kick)CRK - Frazier-Flores 31 pass from Fergus (pass failed)CRP - Harper 90 kickoff return (run failed)CRK - Frazier-Flores 8 pass from Fergus (Bertroche kick)CRP - Harper 20 pass from Hanna (Drysdale kick)CRK - Hillyer 6 run (Bertroche kick)