Humboldt Rallies For Win Over Dawgs

ROSSVILLE — On a field dotted with snow, Rossville was done in by a two-headed attack of Humboldt, its season ending with a 24-22 defeat in the sectional round of the Class 2A playoffs.

Enduring a 20-degree temperature at kickoff, the Humboldt Cubs saw senior quarterback Dagen Goodner and junior tailback Conor Haviland account for all but 35 of their yards from scrimmage.

Rossville jumped to an early 10-0 advantage, but the visitors kept chipping away. After the Bulldawgs went up 16-8 early in the third period, Humboldt answered with a scoring drive, seized momentum and held on.

The teams traded two touchdowns apiece in a wild third quarter. The difference in the game turned out to be Humboldt’s ability to succeed on two-point conversions, while Rossville failed on both extra point attempts in the period.

Goodner carried the Cubs for the first half and finished with 116 yards rushing and two touchdowns. But it was Haviland, quiet in the first half with just one yard on seven carries, who turned the game around. When Goodner was shaken up on a carry, Haviland took direct snaps for runs of 27 and five yards, scoring on the second rush. He then ran in for the conversion to tie the game at 16-16.

On the ensuing Rossville possession, Haviland picked off a pass and returned it to the 18. Humboldt scored on the next play and never relinquished the lead. Haviland ran for 70 yards on six carries in the second half.

Rossville, which saw its six-game win streak snapped, finished the season with an 8-3 mark. The Bulldawgs were led by senior quarterback Garrett Carver’s 101 yards rushing and 83 yards passing.

Sophomore Tyree Sowers, who opened the game with a 5-yard touchdown run, caught an 18-yard scoring toss from Carver late in the third period that pulled the Bulldawgs within two. But Rossville failed to run in the conversion and the third quarter ended 24-22 in favor of the Cubs.

Rossville only possessed the ball twice in the fourth period, and failed to pass midfield on each possession. Humboldt chewed up the clock with a long drive that stalled at the Rossville 39. The Cubs then threw Rossville for losses on three consecutive plays and the Bulldawgs failed on a fourth-and-27 attempt.

Humboldt, one of four teams with perfect 10-0 records entering the sectional round, will take on Riley County, which upset Silver Lake in overtime.

Humboldt fumbled on its first two possessions, staking Rossville to an early lead. Sowers scored from 5 yards out following the first turnover. But a penalty wiped out Sowers’ second scoring run, forcing the Bulldogs to settle for a 23-yard field goal by Joao Lovisi.

Trailing 10-0, the Cubs rallied to block a Rossville punt late in the second quarter. Humboldt seized the momentum and mounted a 49-yard drive, highlighted by a 27-yard toss from Goodner to Tucker Hurst and capped by a 5-yard scoring run by Goodner. A two-point conversion narrowed the Rossville lead to 10-8 just seconds before halftime.

HUMBOLDT 24, ROSSVILLE 22

Humboldt (11-0);0;8;16;0;—;24

Rossville (8-3);10;0;12;0;—;22

Rossville — Sowers 5 run (Lovisi kick)

Rossville — Lovisi 23 yard field goal

Humboldt — Goodner 5 run (Hurst pass from Goodner)

Rossville — Johnson 21 run (kick failed)

Humboldt — Haviland 5 run (Haviland run)

Humboldt — Goodner 9 run (Goodner run)

Rossville — Sowers 18 pass from Carver (run failed)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING­ — Humboldt: Goodner 19-116, Haviland 13-71, Allen 1-4; Rossville: Johnson 7-42, Carver 22-101, Sowers 5-14, Reeves 3-8.

PASSING — Humboldt: Goodner 3-10-0 50 yards; Rossville: Carver 9-15-1 83 yards.

RECEIVING — Humboldt: Haviland 1-19, Hurst 1-27, Allen 1-4; Rossville: Reeves 4-47, Johnson 1-8, Horak 2-14, Sowers 2-14.

PUNTING — Humboldt: Hurst 1-36.0; Rossville: Carver 1-24.0.

Video of Game

KSNT has video of the Rossville-Humboldt game which begins at the 4:30 point of the video

https://www.ksnt.com/sports/football-frenzy-110918/1585308946

There is also video of the Rock Creek overtime win over Silver Lake at the beginning of the video.

WIBW also was at the game and their video is at:
https://www.wibw.com/content/sports/KPZ-Sectionals-Rossville-Humboldt-500161441.html

There is video of the complete game at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAg-r1D_1c&feature=em-lbcastemail
The game actually begins at the 33 minute mark of the video.

Progress Of Dawg-Humboldt Game

First quarter:
Humboldt received the oening kick-off but fumbled during their first two drives.  With the temperature around 20 degrees, handling the ball was problematic.  The Dawgs scored a TD with 3:49 remaining in the first.  In their second drive,  Rossville scored a TD that was called back with a penalty and the Dawgs had to kick a field goal right at the end of the quarter to lead 10-0.

Second quarter:
Rossville's defense was stout against the run stuffing the Humboldt ball carriers for loss or short gain nearly run attempt.  But,  they were able to complete several long passes to keep drives alive and finally scored a TD and 2 pt conversion with 25 seconds left in the half.  Rossville up 10-8 at the half and looking forward to receiving the KO after half-time.

Third quarter:
The Dawgs scored on the second play after they received the kick off  taking only 31 seconds off the clock.  Dags up 16-8.  Humboldt's offense finally started moving the ball on the ground as well as the air and scored and added the 2 point conversion to tie the game,  and then they added another TD to go up 24-16.  The Dawgs added a TD but failed on 2 pt. conversion to end the quarter down 24-22.  A wild quarter with 4 of the game's six TDs scored in that quarter.

Fourth quarter:
The two teams dueled to a standstill during the fourth quarter with neither team scoring.  So the final score remained 24-22 in favor of the Humboldt Cubs,

New Dawgfeed Video

    This is the third Dawgfeed video of this current year.  This one has some excellent coverage of the cross country team competing in the State Meet at Wamego, including portions of the race and interviews after completion of the race.  Go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyklvanJaEY&feature=em-uploademail

All MEL Volleyball Team

MID-EAST All League Volley Team

First team
Laurel Barber, Wabaunsee; Clara Caralt, Silver Lake; Lexi Cobb, Silver Lake; Dallis Golder, Rossville; Alexis Hafenstine, Wabaunsee; Josie Harrison, St. Marys; Reagan Hurla, St. Marys; Daryn Lamprecht, Silver Lake; Alyssa Lohmeyer, Wabaunsee; Ollievia Lowe, St. Marys; Abby Ruder, Rock Creek; Sarah Thomson, Riley County.


Honorable mention
Rachel Allen, Riley County; Jordan Bittner, Rossville; Ellie Hogle, Silver Lake; Jaylee Hurd, St. Marys; Abby Pressgrove, Silver Lake; Jenna Weers, Rock Creek.

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.