Week One Summaries

Week Five-Auburn and Pawnee Remain Undefeated
Both Teams Qualify for the Playoffs

Pawnee 14 Girard 12
The Indians played their closest game of the season and came back in the final quarter to improve to 5-0 on the season.
Girard jumped out to a quick lead off the strong running of Cody Thompson who once again topped 100 yards rushing in a game this season for the Big Red. He finished a Big Red drive with a 9-yard TD run. Thompson scored again in the first quarter on a 21-yard TD run. Girard failed to convert on either 2-point conversion and the Big Red led 12-0.
Pawnee got on the scoreboard in the 2nd quarter when Justin Cole plunged into the endzone on a 1-yard run. The Indians didn't convert on the 2-point conversion and trailed 12-6 at halftime.
The defenses continued to dominate throughout the 2nd half. Pawnee finally got a drive going in the 4th quarter and eventually capped the drive on a TD run by Pat Donahue. Justin Cole then took the 2-point conversion passed the goal line to give Pawnee a 14-12 lead and the ballgame.

Auburn 35 Riverton 7
Michael Bates had another strong passing night for the Trojans with 295 passing yards and 2 TD passes. Both TD passes went to Josh Sergent with one pass-and-run going for 80 yards. Ryan Gardner stepped in at running back for the Trojans and scored twice on the night.
Bobby Vanderwal scored a TD in the 3rd quarter for Riverton to cut the lead to 21-7. After a 3-and-out, the Hawks marched back down the field, but they fumbled on the 1 and Auburn had a long return the other way to take away the Riverton momentum and ice the game.

New Berlin 31 Williamsville 21
The Pretzels picked up their 2nd win of the season as New Berlin had their best offensive game of the season. On the first Pretzel drive, New Berlin took the ball right down the field and eventually scored on a 2-yard Aaron Crossin TD run. New Berlin missed the extra point.
The two teams traded possessions and Earl Hollinshead then took a New Berlin punt 90 yards to paydirt. After the extra point, the Bullets led 7-6. The Pretzels misfired on the next special teams play when the kickoff was muffed and covered by the Bullets. Williamsville marched down a short field and eventually scored to lead 14-6 early in the 2nd quarter.
The New Berlin offense then began to get on track as Konner Beer scored on a 15-yard TD run on the next possession. Williamsville had a turnover and short punt that led to two more NB touchdowns. Crossin scored his 2nd TD of the game and Kody Kirkpatrick connected with Kyle Crow on a 14-yard TD pass before halftime. At the half, the Pretzels led 24-14.
Williamsville cut the lead to 24-21 halfway through the 3rd quarter on a 1-yard TD pass from Josh Gentile to Travis Combs. The score stayed the same until New Berlin scored with about 4 minutes remaining when Konner Beer escaped on a 30-yard TD run. The Pretzels had a strong ground game all day with over 300 rushing yards on the day.

Auburn 21 New Berlin 19
The Auburn Trojans came into New Berlin on Friday night with the #2 ranking in 2A, but the Pretzels came ready to play against Auburn; however, the Trojans still held on to victory in their closest game of the season.
New Berlin took a 6-0 lead on their first drive of the game. Aaron Crossin was steady the entire drive with big carries for the Pretzels. The Pretzels finished the drive when Kody Kirkpatrick hit Chris Traindl in the endzone for a 13-yard TD. The extra point was missed.
Auburn got on the scoreboard in the 2nd quarter with their quick score offense. Michael Bates hit Cole Busch for passes a couple of times on the drive, including an 11-yard TD pass in the corner of the endzone. The next New Berlin drive stalled at midfield and Auburn took possession on a short field and added another score right before halftime with another Bates to Busch pass. Auburn missed the extra point, but led 13-6 at halftime.
To begin the 3rd quarter, the Trojans got a big gain on the kickoff. They finished the drive on an Eric Cerve 21-yard TD run. Cerve also ran in the 2-point conversion and led 21-6. It appeared the rout was on, but the Pretzels battled the rest of the evening and kept Auburn out of the endzone for any more scores.
Aaron Crossin keyed another Pretzel drive with key runs down the field. He finished the drive with a 2-yard TD plunge. The Pretzels could not convert on the 2-point conversion. The Pretzels made another strong drive with 8 minutes to go in the contest. Kirkpatrick finished the drive by hitting an open Devin Bergschneider in the middle of the endzone and trail 21-19. New Berlin had a great defensive series on the next possession, but the Trojans proved to just as strong on their defensive side of the ball to hang onto victory.

Pawnee 49 Nokomis 7
The Indians improved to 4-0 on the season and are now one game from making the playoffs. The Pawnee ground attack was in full gear again on the evening. Justin Cole scored the first 3 TDs of the game for Pawnee, including a 44-yard TD run. He finished the night with 181 yards on 14 carries. Josh Benitone had two TD runs for the Indians as well.
Nathan Rhodes had another TD run for Nokomis on the evening.

Mt. Olive 35 Riverton 20
The Wildcats running game was at it again Friday night, but they also added a pass perspective for teams to worry about with the Wildcats.
Paul Rademacher had 80 yards rushing and 4 touchdowns on the evening with Adam Osmoe also scoring a TD. Osmoe had 90 rushing yards. Quarterback Nick Eickmeyer threw for 125 yards including 4 passes to Codey Martin for 94 yards.
The Hawks were led on the night by Brandon Barney who had over 100 yards rushing along with two TDs on the night.

Girard 49 Kincaid 6
The Big Red picked up their 2nd straight victory of the season with a big win over the Ponies.
Cody Thompson keyed the win with over 170 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns on only 10 carries. Kole Fitzgerald gained 105 yards on the night and scored a TD.
Kwain Karrick had a 90-yard TD run at the end of the game for Kincaid.

Virden 29 Williamsville 19
The Bulldogs got back on the winning track with a come-from-behind victory against the Bullets.
Williamsville got on the scoreboard first with a 1-yard TD run from Andy Phillips. Virden came back with a Wesley Graham to Mark McGlothlin 66-yard TD pass to tie game a 7 apiece.
Willliamsville took a 13-7 lead in the 2nd quarter when Josh Gentile scored from one yard out. The Bulldogs answered again when Zak Allen scored on a 1-yard TD plunge. Gentile scored his 2nd TD of the quarter for Williamsville and gave the Bullets a 19-13 halftime lead.
Virden owned the 2nd half as they shut out the Bullets and added two more TDs of their own. Zak Allen escaped the Bullet defense twice in the 2nd half on big runs. He had a 68-yard TD run in the 3rd quarter and added his 3rd TD of the night on a 31-yard scamper.

Pawnee 22 Virden 6
The Pawnee Indians improved to 3-0 for the first time since their current group of senior were in kindergarten. These Indians are ready to change that tradition and head back to the playoffs. With their win this past Friday, they are well on their way.
The Indians and Bulldogs battled to a scoreless first quarter. Pawnee jumped on top early in the 2nd quarter when Quarterback Drew Thompson scored on a 1-yard QB Keeper. Justin Cole scored on the 2-point conversion for an 8-0 halftime lead.
At the end of the 3rd quarter, Patrick Donahue punched in a 3-yard run on a time-consuming drive by the Indians. The Indians have an excellent ground game and will certainly melt the time away if they get a chance.
In the 4th quarter, Dillon Pearce added the final TD for the Indians and gave Pawnee a 22-0 lead. Tyler Stanton broke free on a 73-yard TD run for the Bulldogs with about 8 minutes left, but that was as close as Virden would get.

Mt. Olive 22 New Berlin 0
The Wildcats got back to their winning ways as they salted away the Pretzels with their punishing ground game. Adam Osmoe and Paul Rademacher led the attack for the Wildcats as some key passes early helped open up the ground game for Mt. Olive.
On their first drive, the Wildcats marched right down the field on the Pretzels. A key pass play loosened up the Pretzel defense and then the Osmoe-Rademacher show went to work. Rademacher eventually punched in the first TD on a 4-yard run.
A good kickoff pinned New Berlin deep in their own territory. On 3rd-and-long, Mt. Olive got to NB QB Kody Kirkpatrick and got the sack in the endzone to give Mt. Olive a 9-0 edge. The Pretzels then had to kickoff from the 20 and the Wildcats started with a short field. Rademacher eventually scored and Mt. Olive went on top 15-0.
Osmoe later scored on the Wildcats first drive of the 2nd quarter to take a 22-0 lead. A number of penalties killed Wildcat drives throughout the evening. New Berlin moved the ball well at times in the contest, but couldn't put together a consistent drive against an aggressive Wildcat defense.

Girard 12 Riverton 0
The Big Red picked up their first win of the season against the Hawks. Girard controlled the ball possession throughout the evening against Riverton. Taylor Hays and Mitch Snyder the touchdowns for Girard.

Auburn 49 Williamsville 0
The best team in the conference continues to plug along with a 49-0 win over the Bullets. Michael Bates had a great game for the Trojans with 4 TD passes and over 250 passing yards on 21 of 32 passing. James Dambacher had two TDs (one rushing and one interception return). Josh Sargent and Collin Bushnell both had over 100 yards receiving with Sargent picking up 2 TDs and one for Bushnell.

Auburn 42 Mt. Olive 14
The Trojans have been preparing for this season for a long time, and they weren't about to let the Wildcats be a spoiler to them again this season.
Michael Bates passed for four touchdowns on the evening and James Dambacher ran for two TDs to lead a balanced Trojan offensive attack. The Trojan Defense proved just as large in limiting Mt. Olive to two 4th quarter TDs and only allowing Mt. Olive's all-everything Paul Rademacher only rush for 27 yards on 7 carries.
Auburn got the scoring going with two first quarter TD passes to Cole Busch and Josh Sergent. Bates connected with Busch on a 52-yard TD pass. Dambacher started the scoring in the second quarter with two TD runs. Bates also connected with Cerve later in the quarter and then hit Busch for his 2nd TD catch of the night.

New Berlin 12 Girard 8
The Pretzel defense gave up an early TD to Girard, but stood tall the rest of the evening as New Berlin picked up their first win of the season.
Taylor Hays scored on Girard's first possession after New Berlin fumbled to give the Big Red a short field to begin the game. Hays then converted on the 2-point conversion to give Girard an 8-0 lead. New Berlin marched right back down the field and scored when Aaron Crossin plunged into the endzone from 5 yards out.
The Pretzels scored on their first drive of the 2nd quarter. Crossin finished the run when he bulled over 6 Big Red on an 11-yard TD run. New Berlin didn't convert on either conversion, but took a 12-8 lead.
Both teams traded possessions throughout the 2nd half, but neither team could find the endzone.

Riverton 44 Nokomis 12
Brandon Barney led an explosive offensive attack for the Hawks as he scored 3 touchdowns in Riverton's first victory of the season. Barney found the endzone three times in the Hawk first half.
Nathan Rhodes scored two TDs on the night for Nokomis. He now has 4 TDs on the season.

Pawnee 38 Williamsville 18
The Indians picked up their second win of the season with an impressive win over the Bullets. Pawnee ran for nearly 350 yards on the evening. Rob Boarman had two touchdowns in the Pawnee attack and Justin Cole ran for 115 yards and added a touchdown.

Virden 49 Kincaid 14
the Bulldogs won their second straight game with a pasting of the Ponies. Eric Colvin ran wild against Kincaid and finished the night with three touchdowns. Kwain Karrick scored twice for the Ponies on the evening.

Pawnee 19 Riverton 8
There was a lot of excitement all summer around the Indian program with a new coach, a returning player, and plenty of enthusiasm. Pawnee took all of this to the playing field and picked up an upset victory in Week One of the season.
Justin Cole, who had an injury that kept him out of the 2007 season, led a Pawnee attack with 83 rushing yards. Pawnee opened the scoring in the 2nd quarter when Drew Thompson connected with Pat Donahue on a 21-yard scoring strike.
The Indians added to the scoring in the 3rd quarter when Dillon Pearce took the opening kickoff of the half all they way to the endzone for a 81-yard TD return. Riverton scored later in the quarter when Bobby Vanderwal threw a 41-yard TD pass to Josh Trader.
The scoring ended in the 4th quarter when Rob Boarman nailed a 31-yard field goal.

Auburn 63 Nokomis 12
The Auburn Trojan was in fine fashion in Week One as they scored the first 49 points of the game.
James Dambacher and Ryan Gardner ran for 3 touchdowns apiece in the first half. Michael Bates also had a 66-yard scoring strike to Josh Sergent.
Nathan Rhodes had two huge scoring runs of 60 and 84 yards in the contest.

Virden 20 New Berlin 15
The Bulldogs scored 20 fourth quarter points and capped the game with a TD pass with 1.8 seconds on the clock.
The Pretzels appeared to be in control of this contest as they led 15-0 after three quarters. Konner Beer and Chase Bergschneider had touchdown runs for New Berlin and Aaron Crossin rumbled for over 100 yards in the contest.
However, Eric Colvin entered the game in the 2nd half and added an extra dynamic for the Virden offensive attack. Colvin had a rushing TD in the game and caught the TD winning pass from Wes Graham.

Williamsville 42 Kincaid 14
Williamsville opened in fine fashion against the Ponies with Josh Gentile and Chase Alexander having two touchdown runs in the contest.

Mt. Olive 35 Girard 8
Paul Rademacher and Adam Osmoe led the Wildcat attack with two touchdowns on the night. Osmoe ran for 229 yards on the evening.

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