Friday Night Meal Fund Raiser

    The sophomore class will have a fundraiser during the football game this Friday night.  They will be selling "smoked pulled pork sandwiches" along with potato salad, chips, pickle, desert, and drink (can of pop or bottled water) for $5

Offensive Line Leads Rossville

Fron the Capital Journal:

Such a household name for anyone who follows Kansas high school football.

The Bulldawg senior quarterback is coming off of back-to-back huge seasons and already is off to a big start in 2015. In fact on Friday night against Rock Creek, Horak enjoyed the greatest statistical game of his career, rushing for a whopping 359 yards and five touchdowns on a mere 13 carries, while also completing 9 of 10 passes for 100 yards and two touchdowns.

A game like that will make a name for a player. But Horak would just as soon it make a name for some of his teammates who typically toil in anonymity: his offensive line.

“They’re doing an amazing job of making good things happen for us,” Horak said. “When you have an offense as explosive as ours, they don’t get near the credit that they deserve. They sure make things easy for me.”

So who are “They?” Well, here you go.

At left tackle is Kole Davoren. At left guard Gabe Marney. At center Zach Jensen. At right guard Tyler Sage. And at right tackle Jackson Reeves.

Four of the five are seniors with Reeves the lone junior. Four of the five are returning starters, again Reeves the only newcomer to the group.

Rossville has gone 29-1 over the last two-plus years, and these guys are a major reason why.

“I think everything starts with the offensive line,” Rossville coach Derick Hammes said. “I think the playmakers that we’ve had and the kids that are playing with us now all recognize that it doesn’t get done without those guys.”

Not only is the unit senior-heavy, but there’s plenty of experience in those seniors. Sage and Jensen are both three-year starters, while Davoren and Marney are two-year starters. Marney was the only member of the group to earn All-Mid-East League honors last year, getting an honorable mention nod.

That experience has been invaluable, Hammes said, as has been the influence of former Hayden standout Dan Schneider as the team’s line coach.

“I think there’s a chemistry and things offensive linemen have to do in terms of working together that make it very important,” Hammes said. “The fact that we have four of these linemen back from last year is big because they’ve seen and done a lot of things together.

“(Schneider) has done a great job and to me he’s so valuable because he can take those guys and make them adjust to do the things they need to do when they see it. That happens a lot for us as people change their schemes and try to figure out a way to get the ball out of (Horak’s) hands and stop our running game. What we see on film may not be what we see on Friday nights.”

The days of Rossville’s undersized lines also seem to be a thing of the past. Four of the five starters are 220 pounds or bigger, as are key senior reserves Eric Ebert and Chayne Hulbert, whom Hammes said would start for most 3A programs but merely provide great depth for the Bulldawgs.

Through three games, Rossville is averaging 525 yards and 54 points per game.

“More of it than anything is schematically for the past two years, we’ve been getting off the ball and blocking the right people,” Hammes said. “They’re coached really well and they’re smart kids, too. This group, what they’ve done in the weight room, they really had to work to get there. The last couple of years, we’ve seen their strength numbers go up and they’ve just been really good for us.”

Witchita Eagle 3A Football Rankings

Wichita Eagle Class 3A Football Rankings.   Seems unusual that there were no changes in the top 5 here,  but there were in the other publication's rankings. Wichita Collegiate's impressive win should have impressed the Witchita media.

1. Rossville 3-0 (1)
2. Halstead 3-0 (2)
3. Scott City 3-0 (3)
4. Wichita Collegiate 3-0 (4)
5. Silver Lake 3-0 (5)

Others: Beloit 3-0 (NR), Caney Valley 2-1 (NR), Centralia 2-1 (NR), Chaparral 3-0 (NR), Conway Springs 2-1 (NR), Galena 2-0 (NR), Garden Plain 3-0 (NR), Hesston 2-1 (NR), Hoisington 3-0 (NR), Humboldt 2-1 (NR), Kingman 3-0 (NR), Nemaha Central 3-0 (NR), Neodesha 3-0 (NR), Norton 3-0 (NR), Osage City 3-0 (NR), Pittsburg Colgan 2-1 (NR), Riley County 2-1 (NR), Washington County 3-0 (NR), Wellsville 2-1 (NR)

Catch It Kansas 3A Football Rankings

1. Rossville (3-0) W 55-21 Rock Creek (LW: 1)
2. Collegiate (3-0) W 46-45 OT Andale (LW: 7)
3. Norton (3-0) W 27-7 Oakley (LW: 2)
4. Halstead (3-0) W 55-7 Hillsboro (LW: 3)
5. Scott City (3-0) W 42-14 Goodland (LW: 4)
6. Silver Lake (3-0) W 40-6 Riley County (LW: 5)
7. Garden Plain (2-1) W 27-17 Conway Springs (LW: 9)
8. Hoisington (3-0) W 34-14 Pratt (LW: 8)
9. Conway Springs (3-0) L 27-17 Garden Plain (LW: 6)
10. Colgan (2-1) W 37-0 Riverton (LW: 10)

CJ 3A Football Rankings

Capital Journal CLASS 3A Football Rankings 

Team (last week)  record

1. Rossville (1) 3-0

2. Halstead (2) 3-0

3. Scott City (3) 3-0

4. Silver Lake (4) 3-0

5. Wichita Collegiate (5) 3-0

Others — Beloit 3-0, Chaparral 3-0, Cherryvale 3-0, Colgan 2-1, Conway Springs 2-1, Galena 2-0, Garden Plain 3-0, Hesston 2-1, Hoisington 3-0, Kingman 3-0, Nemaha Central 3-0, Neodesha 3-0, Norton 3-0, Riley County 2-1, Washington County 3-0.

Notes — Wichita Collegiate was in big trouble, trailing Class 4A Division II No. 3 Andale by 16 midway through the fourth quarter. But the Spartans got two touchdowns and two two-point conversions in the last five minutes and then stuffed a game-winning two-point conversion try by the Indians in overtime to pull out the 46-45 win.

Dawgfeed 4 On Line

    Dawgfeed 4 is now on-line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxmdnOCKzNA

Dawgs Roll To Easy Win Over Rock Creek

    The Dawgs took nearly three hours to do it,  but after two power outages they secured a 55-21 victory over the Rock Creek Mustangs.    Tucker Horak had over 350 yards on the ground after the first play of the fourth quarter.

Rossville (3-0)        7   21 13 14    =   55

Rock Creek (1-2)    7     0   0 14    =   21

Rossville — Horak (5), 87 run, 10 run, 66 run, 38 run, 78 run; Bradshaw 20 run; Roduner 16 pass from Horak; Hammes 23 pass from Horak. PAT — Nascimento 7 KicksFailed kick.

Rock Creek — Becker (2) 4 run, 57 run; Fike 1 pass. PAT — Niemeyer 3 Kicks.

There is video of the game at the 4:24 point of:  http://ksnt.com/2015/09/18/football-frenzy-091815/

The WIBW viedeo is at:  http://www.wibw.com/sports/ksprepzone/headlines/KPZ-Week-3-Rock-Creek-at-Rossville-328235051.html

Other Mid-East scores were:

Silver Lake 40, Riley County 6

St. Marys 14, Wabaunsee 6

Osage City Invitational Golf

       The RHS girls golf team competed in the Osage City Invitational at the Osage City Country Club on Sept. 17 coming in 8th of 8 teams.  However,  the RHS team was made up of girls that normally do not get to play.
       The team standings were:

1.  Spring Hill               209
2.  Jeff West                215
3.  Silver Lake              228
4.  KC Piper                 240
5.  St. Marys                241
6.  Council Grove         250
7.  West Franklin          297
8.  Rossville                304

The Rossville team consisted of:
Mary Stillion                  69
Jamie Brockamp           74
Sidney Murray               79
Danielle Mason              82
Morgan Reed                 82
Makayla Lane                86

Hayden Invitation Golf Tourney

   The RHS girls golf team played in the Hayden Invitational at the Shawnee Country Club on Sept. 15.   Rossville had a handicap in that they only played four girls and most of the other teams had six girls and the four best scores made up the team score.

Hayden                   185
Topeka High            203
Piper                       223
Shawnee Hts.          228
Rossville                 240
Seaman                   248

The scores for Rossville were:
Emily Woodcock    53
Jessee Sowers      58
Kathleen Schuler    61
Dawn Ledeboer      68

Logan McCrory Meets Royals

    Logan McCrory from Rossville got to meet several KC Royals baseball players and came home with some autographed souvenirs recently.
    Here is video of Logan at the stadium.
http://www.kmbc.com/dreamfactory/logan-mccrory-has-dream-visit-to-kauffman-stadium/35191698

Football Game On Line

    Watch the RHS-Rock Creek football game on-line at 7:00 PM CDT.  Go to the below URL and look for and click on WATCH LIVE.
http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/index.html

Onaga Cross Country Meet

The Girls Cross Country team WON the Onaga meet!

Individual medalists: Iana Catana 25th, Laura Gillum 21st, and Taylor Bittner 5th.

Boys medalist was Kyle Parr 27th.

Spirit Days

RHS SPIRIT DAYS PLANNED FOR  WEEK OF SEPT 21-25: 

Monday - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - Wear Tie Dye or Neon
Tuesday - "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" - Dress the opposite of someone
Wednesday - "If I only had a brain" - Dress Wacky and Mismatch
Thursday - "The Great and Powerful Oz" - Wear Green and Bling
Friday - "There's no place like home" - Wear Red and Black

Garrett Jones Is New Music Director

    Mr. Garrett Jones is the new music director this year for RHS.  New is the key word as he just graduated from K. U. in Music Education  and this is his first teaching assignment.  He is the 5-12 Band Director and 7-12 Choir Director, as well as Assistant High School Track Coach.  

    The junior high band is at 35 students, the largest it has been in years,  and the junior high choir has 31 members, nearly double the normal enrollment.