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Hoisington, Macksville, Stafford cruise into playoffs
Area football roundup 10-21
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HOISINGTON 35, CIMARRON 0

HOISINGTON — Hoisington scored five first-half touchdowns to roar past Cimarron 35-0 in Friday's 2A, District 7 football game. The second half was played with a running clock.

Quarterback Tony Moore scored on a 31-yard run and rushed for 129 yards. He completed a 67-yard scoring pass to Chase Steinert and a 31-yard touchdown to Teron Kraft. Kraft and Ian Smith scored rushing touchdowns. Hoisington (6-2, 4-0 District) plays Phillipsburg (3-5) in the 2A football playoffs.

Cimarron 0 0 0 0 — 0

Hoisington 14 21 0 0 — 35

H—Tony Moore 31 run (Taylen Morales kick); H—Teron Kraft 31 pass from Moore (Morales kick); H—Chase Steinert 67 pass from Moore (Morales kick); H—Ian Smith 12 run (Morales kick); H—Kraft 30 run (Morales kick)

RUSHING—C—Kopper 13-55; Seifried 8-21; H—277; Moore 9-128; Smith 6-87; Kraft 1-30; Reif 2-15; Alderdice 2-6; Morales 2-5; Russell 1-3; Kaiser 1-1; Galla 1-(-6)

PASSING—H—Kopper 2-16-0, 17; Moler 1-1-0, 21; H—Moore 4-7-1, 129

RECEIVING—C—Seifried 2-17; H—Steinert 2-79; Kraft 1-31; Alderdice 1-19 

MACKSVILLE 62, KIOWA CO.  0

MACKSVILLE —Macksville scored on nine of 18 offensive plays to power past Kiowa County 62-0 in Friday's Eight-Man 1, District 7 football game.

Hector Gomez rushed three times for three scores and 106 yards. Ryan Kuckelman rushed three times for three scores and 67 yards. Jason Cleveland, Gavin Rose and Rogelio Ibarra also scored touchdowns. 

Leading tackler Ervey Triana contributed six tackles and six assists.

Macksville (8-0, 5-0) plays South Gray in Friday's Eight-Man 1 playoffs.

Kiowa County 0 0  — 0

Macksville 44 16 — 62

M—Gomez 25 run (Gomez run); M—Kuckelman 36 run (run fails); M—Kuckelman 8 run (Katz pass from Kuckelman); M—Kuckelman 23 run (Ibarra run); M—Gomez 51 run (Grippin run); M—Gomez 30 run (pass fails); M—Ibarra 14 pass from Grippin (run fails); M—Cleveland 19 run (run fails); M—Rose 17 run (pass fails)

RUSHING—KC—36-(-9); Hassiepen 10-14; Thompson 18-5; Titus 8-(-28); M—14-220; Gomez 3-106; Kuckelman 3-67; Rose 6-23; Cleveland 1-19; Marquez 1-5

PASSING—KC—Titus 0-1-0; Thompson 0-1-0; M—Grippin 1-4-0 14

RECEIVING—M—Ibarra 1-14

STAFFORD 38, KINSLEY 34

KINSLEY — Stafford quarterback Dylan Gantz threw for two touchdown passes and rushed for two scores in a 38-34 District football victory over Kinsley. Gantz scored on runs of 2 and 5 yards. Colson Minks caught 30 and 60-yard touchdown passes. Cody Knoche scored on a 2-yard run.

Stafford (8-0, 4-0 District) plays Bucklin in the Eight-Man 2 playoffs.

Stafford 16 6 16 12 — 38

Kinsley  0 0 0 — 34

S—Knoche 2 run; K—Chamberlain 5 run (run fails); S—Gantz 5 run (Minks pass from Gantz); K—Lemuz 40 pass from Schmidt; K—Chamberlain 12 run (Lemuz run)

K—Lemuz 50 pass from Schmidt (Chamberlain run); S—Minks 60 pass from Gantz (Chamberlain run); K—Lemuz 1 run; S—Minks 30 pass from Gantz (run fails); S—Gantz 2 run (Knoche run)

RUSHING—S—44-210; Knoche 20-109; Gantz 15-46; Nickelson 9-55

PASSING—S—Gantz 12-20-0, 207

RECEIVING—S—Minks 6-165; Hildebrand 1-9; Oleson 3-31; Knoche 2-2

CENTRAL PLAINS 46, WILSON 12

WILSON  — Central Plains back Blaine Hickel scored three touchdowns and rushed for 197 yards to spark the Oilers past Wilson 46-12 in Friday's Eight-Man 2, District 5 football game. Hickel scored on 65- and 72-yard runs and caught a 30-yard scoring strike from Evan Stratmann.

Joel Schreiber scored on a 12-yard run and 30-yard pass from Stratmann. Schreiber, Peyton Dody and Aiden Hekele intercepted passes. Ethan Miller recovered a fumble. Stratmann contributed 15 tackles and six assists.

Wilson's Connor Charvat scored a rushing TD and threw a touchdown pass to Noah Crawford.

Central Plains (2-6, 2-2) travels to Sharon Springs-Wallace County (5-3) in Friday's Eight-Man 2 playoffs.

Central Plains 0 24 14 8 —46

Wilson 6 0 0 6 —12

W—Charvat 1 run (run fails); CP—Schreiber 12 run (Klima pass from Stratmann); CP—Hickel 30 pass from Stratmann (Hickel run); CP—Hickel 72 run (Klima pass from Stratmann); CP—Hickel 65 run (run fails); CP—Stratmann 1 run (Hickel run); W—Crawford 19 pass from Charvat (pass fails); CP—Schreiber 31 pass from Stratmann (Klima pass from Stratmann)

RUSHING—W—41-83; Charvat 19-23; Thrasher 17-50; Brokes 5-10; CP—26-237; Hickel 11-197; Stratmann 8-15; Schreiber 4-14; Klima 3-11

PASSING—W—Charvat 11-16-3, 123; Eberhart 0-1-0; CP—Stratmann 5-8-0, 105

RECEIVING—W—Crawford 5-74; Eberhart 4-46; Thrasher 2-3; CP—Hickel 1-37; Schrieber 1-31; Dody 1-25; Klima 2-12

STERLING 38, ELLINWOOD 14

ELLINWOOD — Ellinwood's Logan Panning ended the regular-season on fire with a 90-yard kickoff return in a hard-fought 38-14 District football loss to Sterling Friday. Koy Behnke scored on a 6-yard pass from quarterback Drew Heinz for Ellinwood (2-6, 0-5).

.Sterling's Adam Schweizer grabbed a punt in the air blocked by Ian Yancey to spark the Black Bears. Braxton Linden, Jaiden Diasio, Logan Isaac and Zane Farney also scored touchdowns for Sterling (3-5, 1-4 District).

Sterling 8 8 16 6 — 38

Ellinwood 0 0 0 14 — 14

S—Adam Schweizer 13 blocked punt return (Braxton Linden run);S—Linden 3 run (Linden run); S—Jaiden Diasio 35 run (Wyatt Newberry run); S—Logan Isaac 14 pass from Zane Farney (Linden run); E—Koy Behnke 6 pass from Drew Heinz (Cooper Hosman pass from Heinz); S—Farney 5 run (run fails); E--Logan Panning 90 kickoff return (pass fails)

LAKIN 44, LARNED 36

LAKIN — Lakin's Colter Oldham scored three rushing touchdowns as the Broncs edged Larned 44-36 in a wild 2A, District 7 football game.

Carson Shaver threw for 154 yards and two scores for Larned (3-5, 1-3 District). Lakin (6-2, 3-1) scored six rushing touchdowns.

Larned 14 8 0 22 — 38

Lakin 14 8 14 12 — 44

LAK—Beltran 18 run (run); LAR—Ortivez 26 pass from Shaver; LAK—Oldham 2 run; LAR—Fischer 89 run; LAK—Beltran 1 run (Rider run); LAR—Fischer 3 run: LAR—15 run; LAK—Oldham 6 run; LAR—Auble 26 pass from Shaver; LAK—Oldham 2 run (Beltran run); LAK—Rider 22 run; LAR—48 run

RUSHING—LAR—28-220; Shaver; Fischer; LAK—56-295; Oldham 32-149l Granado 8-76; Beltran 13-48; Rider 3-22

PASSING—LAR—Shaver, 16-21-0, 154; LAK—Beltran 5-6-0, 72; Oldham 0-1-0

RECEIVING—LAR—Ortivez 6-84; Auble 7-59; Fischer 4-26; LAK—Granado 1-27; Rider 2-19; Gomez-Esquibel 1-15, Oldham 1-11

VICTORIA 52, OTIS-BISON 0

OTIS — Unbeaten Victoria converted four turnovers into touchdowns to roar past Otis-Bison 52-0 in Friday's Eight-Man 2, District 5 football game. Landon Schmidtberger recovered two fumbles.  Vance Hockersmith recovered a fumble and Wyatt Griffin returned an interception 48 yards for a touchdown for Victoria (8-0, 4-0 District).

Landon Schmidtberger scored two touchdowns and completed a scoring pass to Seth Schwien. Chase Schumacher scored two rushing touchdowns.

Victoria 44 8 — 52

Otis-Bison 0 0 — 0

V—Landon Schmidtberger 8 run (run fails); V—Seth Schwien 14 pass from Landon Schmidtberger (Lane Schmidtberger run); V—Chase Schumacher 4 run (run fails); V—Landon Schmidtberger 1 run (Kendall Braun run); V—Wyatt Griffin 48 interception return (Carson Werth run); V—Schumacher 3 run (Schwien run); V—Braun 4 pass from Griffin (Matt Pfeifer run)

RUSHING—OB—25-7; Schwartz 13-5; Juno 9-3; McVey 1-0; Cortez 1-0; Blackburn 1-(-1); V—20-107; Werth 3-31; Riedel 4-20; Lane Schmidtberger 2-17; Schumacher 4-15; Pfeifer 4-12; Landon Schmidtberger 2-9; Griffin 1-3

PASSING—OB—Hoopingarner 3-7-1, 68; V—Landon Schmidtberger 4-4-0, 51

RECEIVING—OB—Juno 2-60; Maier 1-; V—Schwien 3-45; Tyler Anderson 1-6

SOUTH CENTRAL 94, ST. JOHN 46

COLDWATER – South Central’s Jaden ended the 4-hour marathon with a 45-yard interception return as the Timberwolves defeated St. John 94-46 in an Eight-Man non-district football showdown. The game featured 21 touchdowns, two halfback scoring passes and touchdowns on a fumble and an interception.

St. John’s hard-running Caden McCandless scored on 5, 37 and 49-yard runs. Quarterback Joe Drake threw touchdown passes to Alan Llamas and Marco Ibarra and scored on a 2-yard run. Ethan Son threw a 26-yard halfback pass to Connor Gillespie.

South Central quarterback J.T. Prusa scored six rushing touchdowns, passed for three scores and scored on a 23-yard fumble return. Sawyers caught three touchdown passes from Prusa and ended the game on his interception return. Gavin Uhl scored three rushing touchdowns.

St. John 0 22 12 12 — 46

South Central 14 32 26 22 – 94

SC—Jaden Sawyers 30 pass from JT Prusa (pass fails); SC—Gavin Uhl 46 pass from Prusa (Sawyers pass from Prusa); SC—Prusa 2 run (run fails); SC—Prusa 1 run (run fails); SJ—Caden McCandless 37 run  (Connor Gillespie pass from Joe Drake); SC—Sawyers 9 pass from Prusa (run fails); SC—Prusa 38 run (pass fails); SC—Prusa 23 fumble return (Prusa run); SJ—Marco Ibarra 43 pass from Drake (pass fails); SJ—Connor Gillespie 26 pass from Ethan Son (Son pass from Drake); SJ—McCandless 49 run (run fails); SC—Sawyers 32 pass from Uhl (Prusa run); SJ—McCandless 5 run (pass fails); SC—Prusa 44 run (run fails); SC—Prusa 1 run (pass fails); SC—Prusa 5 run (run fails); SJ—Alan Llamas 22 pass from Drake (pass fails); SC—Uhl 5 run (Prusa run); SJ—Drake 2 run (pass fails); SC—Uhl 5 run (Uhl run);  SC—Sawyers 45 interception return


PAWNEE HEIGHTS 52, NATOMA 32

NATOMA — Pawnee Heights standout Davin Hamby rushed for 282 yards and four touchdowns and passed for 146 yards and a touchdown in a wild 52-32 Six-Man, District 2 football victory over Natoma. Pawnee Heights (3-5 3-3 District) plays Altoona-Midway at home Friday in the 6-man playoffs.

Hamby's 75-yard rushing touchdown highlighted a banner night. Hamby completed 10 of 11 passes with Jimmy Gardner catching a touchdown pass. Gardner rushed for 95 yards and completed a 15-yard scoring pass to Hamby. Dakota Ryan scored a rushing touchdown.

Hamby and Ryan recovered fumbles. Hamby contributed 12 tackles and four assists. Gardner had eight tackles and six assists.

Pawnee Heights 18 7 14 13 — 52

Natoma 20 6 0 6 — 32

N—Ian Mayberry 32 pass from Latsch; PH—Dakota Ryan 1 run (run fails); N—Conlin 17 pass from Ricky Mayberry; PH—Hamby 10 run (run fails); N—Latsch 2 run (run fails); PH—Hamby 15 pass from Gardner (run fails); N—Latsch 53 run (run fails); PH—Gardner 1 run (Ryan pass from Hamby); PH—Hamby 75 run (run); PH—Gardner 13 pass from Hamby (Hamby run); N—Latsch 3 pass from Ricky Mayberry (run fails); PH—Hamby 10 run (Ryan pass from Hamby); PH—Hamby 8 run (run fails)

RUSHING—PH—40-373; Hamby 23-282; Gardner 15-95; Ryan 2-(-4)

PASSING—PH—Hamby 10-11-1, 146; Gardner 3-5-0, 50

RECEIVING—PH—Gardner 5-80; Ryan 5-57; Gilliland 2-44; Hamby 1-15