Football Playoffs Nov. 9

From the Capital-Journal:

RILEY COUNTY (8-2) AT SILVER LAKE (10-0)

Riley County avenged one of its two losses with a 33-14 win over Southeast-Saline last week in the Class 2A second round. Now the Falcons get a shot at the other team that beat them in Mid-East League rival Silver Lake. The undefeated and No. 2-ranked Eagles led just 10-0 at halftime of the first meeting, but shut down Riley County’s explosive offense, allowing just a pair of second-half touchdown runs by Mikey Waggoner and Deon Barnes. Mason Griffin, meanwhile, threw for 243 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-12 Silver Lake win. Griffin has thrown for 1,758 yards and 25 touchdowns while getting picked off just once and Christian Stoner has run for 1,062 yards and 16 touchdowns. Waggoner has run for 962 yards and 15 touchdowns, while Falcon quarterback Garrett Harmison has thrown for 1,445 yards and 19 touchdowns.

Prediction: Silver Lake over Riley County

HUMBOLDT (10-0) AT ROSSVILLE (8-2)

Last week’s playoff wins couldn’t have gone any differently for Rossville and Humboldt. Rossville started strong, building a 21-7 halftime lead on Maur Hill before holding on for a 21-14 win thanks to a last-minute defensive stop inside its own 10. Humboldt, meanwhile, led Osage City just 8-0 at halftime before exploding in the second half for a 30-6 win. Conor Haviland ran for 192 yards and two touchdowns in the win for the Cubs in their first big test of the season. For the year, Haviland has rushed for 1,533 yards and 30 touchdowns. Quarterback Dagen Goodner has added 1,817 combined rushing and passing yards with 31 touchdowns. Garrett Carver ran for 150 of his 195 yards in the first half last week against Maur Hill and for the season has run for 1,163 yards and 18 touchdowns and thrown for 1,181 yards and nine touchdowns. Humboldt has allowed just 65 points all season, but Friday’s win was the first over a team with a winning record.

Prediction: Rossville over Humboldt

Miracles For Mallory

Miracles for Mallory Continue: 8th Annual Bear Backer Auction

Mallory and Kyle's journey is our journey as well. As Miracles for Mallory continue, we (Mallory's Besties), in conjunction with the St. Marys Bear Backers would like to invite our friends and families to the 8th annual Bear Backer Auction.

Friday, November 9th,  George J. Perry Memorial Armory in St. Marys
Doors Open:  5:30 pm
Soup/Chili Dinner: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm (or until it runs out)
Admission - $10.00 per person, $5.00 suggested for soup/chili dinner
Live Auction: 7:00 pm
BrickHorse Band performance: 8:30 pm - 11:30 pm

All proceeds from the night will go to Mallory and Kyle.   We will have auction items for both Rossville and St. Marys fans!

Harold Rogers Passes Away

     Harold Gene Rogers, 90, passed away at home on October 27, 2018 in Middleton, Idaho. 

     Harold was born on October 10, 1928 to Albert and Evelyn Rogers in Kearney, Nebraska. He married Marcia Hagerty in 1952. While living in Nebraska and Iowa they had three sons. The family moved to Rossville, Kansas in 1959, where Harold was the manager at an alfalfa dehydrator plant for over 10 years. Harold loved to raise pheasants and peacocks, hunt and fish. In 1970, the family moved to Winnemucca, Nevada where he worked as a mechanic for the Humboldt County School District. While working for the school district, he met and married Marilyn Lesh in 1976. Harold and Marilyn later moved to Middleton, Idaho where Harold continued to work as a mechanic until he retired.
     Harold is survived by his wife, Marilyn Rogers, brother, Frank (Janet), sons William (Brandis) and Michel (Karen), step-daughter Kay (Blaine) and numerous nieces, nephews and grandchildren
Harold is preceded in death by his parents, son Gary Rogers, step-sons Brian and Carson Clelland, and his sisters Betty, Elaine, Pat and Marlene. 

     Condolences may be given at www.flahifffuneralchapel.com

     Published in Idaho Press Tribune on Nov. 4, 2018

Basketball Training For Elem. Students

Turcker Horak Scores For PSU

      Tucker Horak scored on a seven yard run for Pittsburg State on Sat  in their 23-40  loss to Washburn U.  PSU had a big advantage in the offensive statistics,  but not in points scored. 
https://www.cjonline.com/sports/20181103/james-brania-hopps-99-yard-return-in-fourth-quarter-helps-washburn-football-upset-pitt-state

Video of Maur Hill Game

WIBW sent a camera to Maur Hill and they have highlights of the Maur Hill-Rossville game at: 
https://www.wibw.com/content/news/KPZ-Rossville-Maur-Hill-499444671.html

KSNT did not have any video of the game.

Rossville Defeats Maur Hill 21-14

From the Capital-Journal:

ATCHISON — Rossville football coach Derick Hammes knew full well there would come a point in Friday’s Class 2A playoff clash with Maur Hill that his pass defense was going to have to come up with a big stop.

Sure enough, that situation presented itself with the season on the line for both teams.

With Rossville clinging to a 21-14 lead with 1:16 left in the game, Maur Hill lined up for a fourth-and-goal at the Bulldawg 7. A Raven score likely would have forced overtime. A Rossville stop would seal the victory.

“Our backs were against the wall,” Hammes said. “The field shrinks down there, so that was to our advantage. (Jack) Caudle does such a good job of buying time and that’s one of the most impressive things about him. We had to pressure him because if we gave him too much time, you can see what he did with the football.”

Having already thrown for 301 yards in the game, Caudle couldn’t quite find his mark on the fourth-down play. His pass to a heavily guarded Parker Mispagel fell incomplete and Rossville held on for the 21-14 victory.

With the win Rossville (8-2) advances to the 2A quarterfinals where the Bulldawgs will take on undefeated and No. 4 Humboldt (10-0), which beat Osage City 30-6. The game will be at Rossville.

Maur Hill finished the season 8-2.

“I knew my guys were going to come out and fight to the very end,” Maur Hill coach Jermaine Monroe said. “It’s tough and this game is a matter of inches. Being that far away from tying this thing up ... We practice scenarios like this, game’s on the line, this is the play we’re going to call. We just fell a little short.”

Maur Hill’s defense gave the Ravens a chance to get back in the game after Rossville threatened to run away with things at the end of the first half. The Bulldawgs scored twice in the second quarter on Garrett Carver touchdown runs of 1 and 58 yards to take a 21-7 halftime lead.

But the Bulldawgs squandered a chance to put the Ravens away as Maur Hill picked off Carver twice inside the Raven 30.

Maur Hill finally capitalized with a score when Tate Vowels made a spectacular 40-yard catch to set up a 7-yard scoring run by Caudle. After the Ravens forced a three-and-out, Vowels broke a tackle and scampered 41 yards to the Rossville 5.

Three plays resulted in a loss of two yards, setting up Maur Hill’s final chance. Rossville smothered Vowels, forcing Caudle to go elsewhere, and Kaleb Badura blanketed Mispagel to force the incompletion.

The teams traded touchdowns on their first two drives with Rossville needing just three plays to get on the board on a Trevor Johnson 28-yard run. Maur Hill answered with Mispagel making a diving catch in the end zone for a 19-yard score on a fourth-down play.

After Carver put Rossville back up 14-7 on a 1-yard run set up by a 51-yard burst, Maur Hill had a shot at tying it. But Vowels dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone and Rossville came up with a fourth-down sack.

Carver went 58 yards for a TD on the next play and it looked like the Bulldawgs were in firm control. But after rushing for 150 first-half yards, Carver managed just 45 in the second half and Maur Hill rallied.

“I felt like there were several times from being a play away from being comfortable,” Hammes said. “But there’s never a comfort level when you have a difference-maker at quarterback, which is what they’ve got.”

Caudle finished 19 of 36 for 301 yards with Vowels catching 10 passes for 170 yards. The eight wins were the most by Maur Hill in several decades and the most during Monroe’s tenure.

“We thought this might be a rebuilding year for us,” Monroe said. “It’s very satisfying, but also a little bittersweet because we thought we could keep going.”

ROSSVILLE 21, MAUR HILL 14

Rossville    7    14    0    0  -  21

Maur Hill  7      0    0    7  -  14

Rossville — Johnson 28 run (Lovisi kick)

Maur Hill — Mispagel 19 pass from J. Caudle (Folsom kick)

Rossville — Carver 1 run (Lovisi kick)

Rossville — Carver 58 run (Lovisi kick)

Maur Hill — J. Caudle 7 run (Folsom kick)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — 
Rossville: Carver 22-195, Sowers 4-27, Johnson 5-58, Reeves 2-6, Brown 2-7. 
Maur Hill: Smith 7-7, J. Caudle 14-38, Taft 3-2, Schwinn 6-40, Vowels 1-minus 1, Mispagel 1-minus 3.

PASSING — 
Rossville: Carver 1-8-3, 21 yards
Maur Hill: J. Caudle 19-36-0, 301 yards.

RECEIVING — 
Rossville: Horak 1-21. 
Maur Hill: Vowels 10-170, Schwinn 1-7, Mispagel 4-80, Regan 2-40, Ligget 1-8, Taft 1-minus 4.

Round Two Playoff Results

Class 2A football results for Nov. 2

East

Humboldt 30, Osage City 6
Rossville 21, Maur Hill 14
Silver Lake 63, McLouth 12
Riley County 33, Southeast-Saline 14

West

Hutchinson Trinity 16, Garden Plain 7
Hoisington 41, Cimarron 18
Conway Springs 21, Chaparral 14
Phillipsburg 41, Lakin 0

Rossville-Maur Hill FB Game Progress

In the first quarter,  Maur Hill tried an on-side kick which didn't go ten yards.  The Dawgs scored in less than one minute.  Maur Hill then used a long drive, including two 4th down conversions to tie the game at 7-7.

The Dawgs added two TDs in the second quarter with drives that took less than a handful of plays on each.  The Ravens had long many play drives that eventually faltered on the fourth down.  Time of possession was dominated by the Ravens,  but not so the score as the half ended with the Dawgs up 21-7.

No scoring in the third quarter.  The high scoring Raven offense has been brought back to earth by the Dawg defense and the teams traded possessions for the duration of the quarter.

In the fourth quarter,  the scoring drought was broken by the Ravens with 6:18 remaining.  The Ravens defense stopped the Dawgs after 3 plays and a punt and started their march to the Dawgs goal line.  With less than two minutes remaining,  the Ravens had the ball first and goal from the six.  But, the Dawg defense kept them from gaining even a yard and took possession with just over a minute left.   At that point they could run the clock out for the 21-14 win.

The Dawgs received theBi-District championship plaque.

CJ Maur Hill Game Prediction

From the Capital-Journal:

Both Maur Hill and Rossville survived stern tests in last week’s playoff openers with the Ravens rallying past Mission Valley 27-18 and Rossville outlasting Pleasant Ridge 36-14. The Bulldawgs were up just 16-14 in the third quarter before Garrett Carver broke a 28-yard touchdown run and then hit Bo Reeves on a 42-yard scoring pass to break the game open. Carver finished with 249 rushing and passing yards and Tyree Sowers added 123 yards rushing. Maur Hill, meanwhile, was in even bigger danger of being upset, down 18-7 at halftime to Mission Valley. But the Ravens outscored Mission Valley 20-0 in the second half to record their eighth win, the most during Jermaine Monroe’s tenure. Dylan Smith had a rushing and receiving touchdowns and Jack Caudle threw for 118 yards. For the season, Caudle has thrown for 1,584 yards and 20 touchdowns, while Carver has led Rossville with 1,160 yards and 9 touchdowns passing and 964 yards and 16 touchdowns rushin.

Prediction: Rossville over Maur Hill

Isaiah Luellen At FHSU

   Isaiah Luellen is a freshman at Ft. Hays State U. and is on the wrestling team.  Their season will begin Nov. 1.  Their schedule and roster can be read at:  https://fhsuathletics.com/schedule.aspx?path=wrestling

Dawson Hammes At Emporia State

    Dawson Hammes is a red-shirt freshman playing linebacker on the Emporia State U. football team this year.    His bio can be read at:  https://esuhornets.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3166&path=football

Week Two 2A Matchups

This Friday,  the playoffs get tougher as the weaker seeds were mostly eliminated in week one.    Only two teams with less than 7 wins remain.

East

Osage City (8-1) at Humboldt (9-0)
Rossville (7-2) at Maur Hill (8-1)
McLouth (5-4) at Silver Lake (9-0)
Southeast-Sailne (8-1) at Riley County (7-2)

West

Garden Plain (6-3) at Hutchinson Trinity (8-1)
Hoisington (7-2) at Cimarron (8-1)
Chaparral (7-2) at Conway Springs (9-0)
Lakin (8-1) at Phillipsburg (9-0)

You can view the complete bracket at:    http://kshsaa.org/Public/ScoreCenter/Brackets/Football/2A.cfm?Activity=1

Czech History Told At Bohemian Hall

EVERYONE HAS A STORY TO TELL

On Sunday November 4^th at 3 P.M., Moravan Lodge 128 at the Bohemian Hall at 86^th and Crawford Rd is beginning a new series of informative family stories from the Czech community.  Juanita Kendall will be the first to get to tell her interesting family story that began in Czechoslovakia.  Juanita is 92 years young and has many tales to tell to make the day very interesting.  The Lodge will feature a new family story every month following their monthly business meeting held the first Sunday of the month.  The family stories will be recorded and will be included in the lodge archives for future generations.  A new camcorder has just been purchased to record these stories.  Everyone is invited and encouraged to come to see these exciting stories.