The bottom lineSterling 32LaSalle-Peru 0

Geneseo 17Rochelle 0

Byron 21Stillman Valley 7

Dixon 23Mendota 44

Lutheran 42Oregon 14

Rock Falls 22Winnebago 44

Amboy 21Morrison 0

Bureau Valley 25Erie-P’town 36

Fulton 6Newman 52

Lena-Winslow 14Eastland-P.C. 40

West Carroll 14Dakota 60

Aquin 63Polo 40

Pecatonica 6AFC 40

River Ridge 6Milledgeville 55

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Mendota pulls away from Dukes’ grasp late in a 44-23

BNC West win. Page FB7.

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Abingdon 54, South Fulton 0Addison Trail 20, Hinsdale South 16Alden-Hebron 15, Westminster Chris-tian 13Althoff Catholic 39, Centralia 36Alton 56, Granite City 0Alton Marquette 44, East Alton-Wood River 0Amboy-LaMoille 21, Morrison 0Amundsen 26, Chicago Little Village 20Antioch 37, Grant 12Aquin 63, Polo 40Arcola 48, Arthur-Lovington 22Ashton-Franklin Center 40, Pecatonica 6Athens def. River Valley, forfeitAuburn 28, Riverton 0Aurora West 34, Bartlett 28Batavia 21, St. Charles North 7Belvidere North 40, Rockford Guilford 10Bishop McNamara 34, Aurora Christian 28Bismarck-Henning 48, Oakwood 6Bloomington Central Catholic 39, Pon-tiac 21Bradley-Bourbonnais 40, Thornwood 8Breese Mater Dei 45, Breese Central 12Brother Rice 34, St. Laurence 7Buffalo Grove 21, Elk Grove 20Bunker Hill 20, Mount Olive 15Burlington Central 33, Genoa (Genoa-Kingston) 12Byron 21, Stillman Valley 7Cahokia 44, Carbondale 22Camp Point Central 34, Brown County 6Carlinville 55, Staunton 19Carmel 28, St. Patrick 20Carrollton 21, North Greene 15Carterville 55, Anna-Jonesboro 21Cary-Grove 42, Huntley 14Champaign Centennial 47, Blooming-ton 21Chatham Glenwood 43, Springfield Lanphier 19Chicago (Lane Tech) 36, Chicago Voca-tional 22Chicago (Noble Charter/C. Bulls) 30, DuSable 24Chicago (Solorio Academy) 47, Corliss 12Chicago Christian 33, Walther Christian Academy 20Chicago Marshall 22, Robeson 6Chicago Mt. Carmel 49, De La Salle 7Chicago Roosevelt 42, Lake View 8Clifton Central 35, Dwight 13Coal City 49, Sandwich 14Columbia 38, Carlyle 19Crystal Lake South 41, McHenry 28Dakota 60, West Carroll 14Decatur Lutheran (LSA) 21, Argenta-Oreana 6Decatur MacArthur 40, Springfield 28Decatur St. Teresa 54, Clinton 18Deer Creek-Mackinaw 28, Downs Tri-Valley 25DeKalb 37, Kaneland 34Downers South 14, Leyden 10Dunlap 26, Morton 21DuQuoin 22, Pinckneyville 18Edwardsville 48, Collinsville 0Effingham 54, Salem 21

Eldorado 48, Hamilton County 0Elmwood-Brimfield 41, West Prairie 12Erie-Prophetstown 36, Bureau Valley 25Evergreen Park 48, Oak Lawn Com-munity 28Fairfield 38, Carmi White County 14Farmington 64, Havana 26Fenwick 38, DePaul College Prep (Gor-don) 0Fieldcrest 62, Colfax Ridgeview 0Fisher 48, Lexington 6Forreston 42, Durand 0Freeburg 40, Red Bud 6Fremd 48, Hoffman Estates 17Galena 56, South Beloit 18Geneseo 17, Rochelle 0Geneva 56, Elgin 6Georgetown-Ridge Farm/Chrisman 17, Milford High School 15Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley 22, Paxton-Buckley-Loda 16Glenbard South 41, Fenton 0Glenbard West 42, Hinsdale Central 7Glenbrook North 56, Maine East 6Grayslake North 47, Prairie Ridge 27Greenfield-Northwestern 66, Calhoun 28Greenville 42, Roxana 34Gurnee Warren 42, Mundelein 12Hampshire 22, Urbana 20Harrisburg 35, Massac County 14Herrin 41, Murphysboro 26Herscher 35, Reed-Custer 7Highland 31, Triad 28Highland Park 17, Deerfield 14Hillsboro 49, Gillespie 30IC Catholic 30, Aurora Central Catholic 23Illini West (Carthage) 50, Macomb 7Iroquois West-Crescent-Iroquois 24, Westville 13Jacksonville 42, Eisenhower 20Jacksonville Routt 43, Unity-Payson 6Jacobs 56, Dundee-Crown 16Jerseyville Jersey 34, Mascoutah 28Johnsburg 35, Richmond-Burton 13Joliet Catholic 31, Woodstock Marian 21Knoxville 22, Beardstown 6Lake Forest 29, Libertyville 20Lake Park 35, Naperville North 21Lake Zurich 40, Zion Benton 6Lanark (Eastland)-Pearl City 40, Lena-Winslow 14Lawrenceville 28, Casey-Westfield 25Lemont 54, Bremen 6Lewistown 68, Peoria Heights 14Lincoln Way Central 29, Thornrige 13Lincoln Way North 49, Harvey Thorn-ton 34Lincoln Way West 41, Andrew 21Lincoln-Way East 43, Homewood-Flossmoor 40Lockport 12, Stagg 7Loyola 48, St. Ignatius 0Machesney Park Harlem 32, Belvidere 21Mahomet-Seymour 20, Illinois Valley Central 0Maine South 42, Glenbrook South 7Manteno 41, Peotone 21Marengo 41, Harvard 6Marion 42, Mount Vernon 33Marist 21, Benet 7

Marmion def. St. Francis de Sales, for-feitMarshall 22, Paris 6Martinsville 44, Palestine-Hutsonville 22Mattoon 41, Charleston 14Mendota 44, Dixon 23Metamora 54, Canton 14Milledgeville 55, River Ridge 6Minooka 16, Plainfield Central 12Moline 48, East Moline United 13Momence 41, Watseka 6Monmouth United 42, Annawan/Wethersfield (FB Coop) 7Montini 56, Leo 6Mt. Carmel 48, Washington, Ind. 14Naperville Central 28, Glenbard North 14Naperville Neuqua Valley 69, East Aurora 27Nashville 54, Sparta 14Nazareth 56, Marian Catholic (Chicago Heights) 17Niles North 65, Maine West 26Niles West 47, Evanston Township 42Nokomis 40, Vienna-Goreville 0Normal Community 29, Champaign Central 20Normal University 45, Fairbury Prairie Central 20Normal West 48, Danville 28North Boone 45, Rockford Christian 6North-Mac 22, Pleasant Plains 14Oak Forest 38, Thornton Fractional North 34Oak Lawn Richards 36, Blue Island Eisenhower 7Oak Park River Forest 49, York 0Olney East Richland 42, Flora 34Oneida (ROWVA) 39, Cambridge-AlWood 2Orion 12, Sherrard 6Oswego 37, Romeoville 28Ottawa Marquette 26, Kirkland Hiawatha 0Palatine 19, Conant 14Pawnee 38, South Fork 0Pekin 46, East Peoria 7Peoria (H.S.) 63, Rock Island 15Peoria Notre Dame 49, Galesburg 21Piasa Southwestern 35, Pana 27Pittsfield-Griggsville-Perry 47, Peters-burg PORTA 12Plainfield East 27, Plainfield North 26Plainfield South 13, Oswego East 12Plano 35, Streator 6Pleasant Hill 1/8P.H.-Western Coop3/8 19, Winchester-West Central 14Princeville 42, Biggsville West Central 22Prospect 19, Hersey 15Providence 41, St. Rita 27Quincy 9, Rock Island Alleman 7Quincy Notre Dame 34, Hamilton (West Hancock) 6Raby 48, Chicago (Urban Prep Charter/Bronzeville) 6Rantoul 37, Champaign St. Thomas More 21Reavis 28, Shepard 7Red Hill 46, Edwards County 0Rich East 34, Rich Central 29Richwoods 49, Peoria Manual 20Ridgewood 25, Elmwood Park 6Robinson 20, Newton 14

How they stand Around the stateNIB-12 West

Conf. AllGeneseo 2-0 5-0Sterling 1-0 4-1Ottawa 1-0 1-4Rochelle 0-2 2-3LaSalle-Peru 0-2 0-5

Friday’s results• Geneseo 17, Rochelle 0• Sterling 32, LaSalle-Peru 0 • Sycamore 42, Ottawa 0

Friday, Oct. 3• Rochelle at LaSalle-Peru, 7• Yorkville at Geneseo, 7• Ottawa at Sterling, 7:15

NIB-12 East Conf. AllDeKalb 2-0 5-0Yorkville 2-0 5-0Sycamore 0-1 3-2Morris 0-1 2-3Kaneland 0-2 2-3

Friday’s results• Yorkville 29, Morris 28• DeKalb 37, Kaneland 34• Sycamore 42, Ottawa 0

Friday, Oct. 3• Kaneland at Sycamore, 7• Morris at DeKalb, 7• Yorkville at Geneseo, 7:15

Big Northern West Conf. AllRkfd. Lutheran 3-0 5-0Mendota 3-0 4-1Byron 2-1 3-2Dixon 1-2 3-2Oregon 1-2 2-3Winnebago 1-2 2-3Stillman Valley 1-2 1-4Rock Falls 0-3 0-5

Friday’s results• Byron 21, Stillman Valley 7• Mendota 44, Dixon 23• Winnebago 44, Rock Falls 22• Lutheran 42, Oregon 14

Friday, Oct. 3• Byron at Oregon, 7• Mendota at Rockford Lutheran, 7 • Stillman Valley at Rock Falls, 7• Winnebago at Dixon, 7

Three Rivers North Conf. AllNewman 3-0 5-0Erie-P’town 3-0 4-1Amboy 2-0 4-1Fulton 1-2 2-3Bureau Valley 0-3 1-4Morrison 0-3 0-5Riverdale 0-2 0-4

Friday’s results• Amboy 21, Morrison 0• Erie-Prophetstown 36, Bureau Valley 25• Newman 52, Fulton 6

Saturday’s game• Riverdale at St. Bede, 2

Friday, Oct. 3• Amboy at Erie-Prophetstown, 7:30 • Fulton at Princeton, 7:30• Morrison at Bureau Valley, 7;30• Newman at Riverdale, 7:30

NUIC Northwest Conf. AllEastland-P.C. 5-0 5-0Forreston 4-0 5-0Lena-Winslow 4-1 4-1Dakota 3-2 3-2Galena 2-2 3-2Durand 1-3 2-3Pecatonica 1-3 1-4West Carroll 0-4 0-5South Beloit 0-5 0-5

Friday’s results• Eastland-Pearl City 40, Lena-Win-slow 14• Forreston 42, Durand 0• Galena 56, South Beloit 18• AFC 40, Pecatonica 6• Dakota 60, West Carroll 14

Friday, Oct. 3• Forreston at Lena-Winslow, 7:15 • Dakota at Galena, 7:30• Durand at Pecatonica, 7:30• Polo at Eastland-Pearl City, 7:30 • West Carroll at South Beloit, 7:30

NUIC Upstate Conf. AllWarren 4-0 4-1Polo 4-1 4-1Stockton 4-1 4-1Aquin 4-1 4-1Milledgeville 2-2 2-3AFC 1-3 2-3River Ridge 1-4 1-4East Dubuque 0-4 1-4Orangeville 0-4 0-5

Friday’s results• Aquin 63, Polo 40• Stockton 22, East Dubuque 7• Warren 42, Orangeville 0• AFC 40, Pecatonica 6• Milledgeville 55, River Ridge 6

Friday, Oct. 3• AFC at Orangeville, 7:30• Milledgeville at Stockton, 7:30• Polo at Eastland-Pearl City, 7:30 • River Ridge at East Dubuque, 7:30 • Warren at Aquin, 7:30

MAIN CLINIC

Warriors handle Cavs’ best Something was in the air Fri-

day night at Howard Fellows Stadium.

What had been a desultory sea-son thus far for the Cavaliers could be saved – at least for a night – at Sterling’s expense.

An overtime fresh-soph win for LaSalle-Peru got the Cavs’ crowd into it. Musical selections that included YMCA, Thank God I’m a Country Boy, and Jump Around had people dancing in the aisles.

A crowd already in a good mood, courtesy of wearing t-shirts to raise awareness for childhood cancer, was further inspired by L-P’s on-field performance.

Three times Sterling got into the red zone in the first half. Three times the Warriors were turned away.

L-P, outscored 186-16 in four games entering Friday’s game, was going toe-to-toe with Sterling, and holding its own. One defensive breakdown, on a 50-yard TD run by Warriors’ QB Sterling Thornton, was the difference between the teams in the first half.

In the second half, however, both teams reverted to previous form.

L-P tried an onside kick to start the half, and the ball traveled just 6 yards. It gave Sterling a short field, and the Golden Warriors took advantage with their second touchdown.

Two more touchdowns soon fol-lowed, and the icing on the cake was a 39-yard field goal by sophomore Tony Diaz to up the margin to 32-0, the eventual final.

The Golden Warrior defense was airtight all night, and when the offense also raised its level of play, the game was over.

For a half, however, Sterling hardly looked like the team that rallied to knock off NIB-12 cross-over foe Morris the previous week.

It was a lesson learned.“I don’t think we came out like

we did against Morris,” Thornton said, “and that’s a big deal for us. We can’t let that happen. I’m just glad we got it going in the second half.”

“We’re not good enough to overlook anybody,” Sterling coach Jon Schlemmer said. “I think we’re getting closer to where we want to be, but we’ve got a ways to go.”

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com Sterling’s Sterling Thornton gets tackled Friday night against LaSalle-Peru at Fellows Stadium. The Warriors had to fend off a pesky group of Cavaliers to get a 32-0 win. Read more about the game on FB5.

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EASTLAND-PEARL CITY 40, LENA-WINSLOW 14

BY ROB LAIRDSpecial to SVM

PEARL CITY – As the clock wound down to the 4-minute mark in the first quarter of Fri-day night’s marquee matchup between two state-ranked arch rivals, the Lena-Winslow foot-ball team could take satisfac-tion in knowing they had just eclipsed a rare milestone: the Panthers had played their first 200 game minutes of the 2014 season without allowing a sin-gle point.

The Panthers could have taken that satisfaction, that is, had Eastland-Pearl City’s Wal-ter Ollie not been jogging into the endzone that exact moment for the first of his three touch-downs. While Lena-Winslow was leading 7-6 at the time, and would hold a lead for much of the first half, the host Wolves’ crisp, dangerous passing game eventually wore the Panthers out in a 40-14 thrashing.

“We’ve got to practice better; we were terrible in practice all week long, and it showed out there today,” Lena-Winslow coach Ric Arand said.

The highly anticipated show-down, dubbed the Route 73 Rumble, pitted the Illinois Asso-ciated Press’ top-ranked team in Class 1A - Le-Win - against

the fourth-ranked team in the Class 2A poll.

The football field at Pearl City is somewhat bowl-shaped, flanked on one side by a corn-field and a small grass-covered hill on the other. It provided a perfect setting for Friday’s showdown, with nary an open spot to be found over the entire circumference of the field.

For much of the first half, the crowd was treated to a battle that lived up to the hype, as

the two sides traded haymak-ers like prizefighters in their prime. A botched punt snap put the Panthers in prime position for a touchdown pass from Joe Robinson to Luke Schubert less than 3 minutes into the game. After Ollie made it a one-point game at the 4-minute mark with a 61-yard touchdown recep-tion, Le-Win running back Jace Oleson broke off a 25-yard run to the Wolves’ 1-yard line, set-ting up a Robinson touchdown

sneak to make the score 14-6.From that point on, however,

EPC was the only team to land any punches, pouring on a 20-point onslaught in the second quarter that included touchdown drives of 80, 53, and 51 yards on consecutive possessions, to take a 26-14 lead into halftime.

Athletic Wolves sophomore wideout Brighton Haverland, nine inches taller at 6-foot-5 than any cornerback cover-ing him, proved to be an espe-

cially dangerous weapon, with EPC quarterback Deven Herren going to him as a security blan-ket during those three drives. He caught two passes for 20 yards, including a touchdown, in the quarter, and drew two pass interference penalties.

“I think our kids just made plays. We’ve got some playmak-ing kids, and they made plays,” said EPC coach Randy Asche. “[Lena-Winslow] will bounce back. That’s an awful good team over there.”

Lena opened the third quar-ter with an inspired drive and looked poised to pull within one possession, but a 15-play drive stalled at the 25-yard line with a turnover, one of three in the game for the Panthers.

“We needed that one,” Arand said. “We needed to put togeth-er a good drive and get a score, and it didn’t happen.”

Eastland-Pearl City (5-0) out-gained Lena-Winslow (4-1) 349 to 185 in yardage, with Her-ren finishing 14-for-23 passing for 248 yards and two touch-downs. Ollie was also a thorn in Le-Win’s side, finishing with a rushing touchdown and an interception return for a touch-down to go with his first quarter receiving TD.

Craig Lang/Shaw MediaEastland-Pearl City’s Donny Groezinger goes up for a catch against three Lena-Winslow defend-ers during Friday’s game in Pearl City. EPC won 40-14.

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STERLING 32, LASALLE-PERU 0

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LASALLE – Sterling spent the first half of Friday’s game against LaSalle-Peru giving the Cavaliers some hope.

It didn’t take very long in the third quarter to extinguish those hopes.

The Golden Warriors scored on each of their four third- quarter possessions to pull away for a 32-0 victory against the Cavs at scenic Howard Fellows Stadium.

Junior quarterback Sterling Thornton led the second-half onslaught. He finished with 15 carries for 154 yards and two touchdowns.

“We just didn’t finish drives in the first half, but our defense kept us in it,” Thornton said. “Then we finally got going after halftime.”

“I give L-P a lot of credit,” Ster-ling coach Jon Schlemmer said. “They were playing for their playoff lives out there, and they made some plays. The second half, we talked about getting back to what we do fundamen-tally, and our kids made some big plays.”

After coming up empty in

three trips to the red zone in the first half, Sterling was vir-tually unstoppable in the third quarter. L-P’s failed onside kick to start the half put the Golden Warriors in business at

the Cav 46.Five plays later, Brandon Den-

nis crashed in from 2 yards out, and Sterling (4-1, 2-0 NIB-12 West) was off to the races.

The Golden Warriors started

both of their next drives in L-P territory, and each ended in touchdowns – a 24-yard scam-per by Rafael Escalante, and a 22-yarder by Thornton.

Sterling’s special teams also

got into the act. Tony Diaz, who was wide right on a 35-yard field goal attempt in the sec-ond quarter, connected from a career-best 39 yards late in the third quarter.

The boot put Sterling ahead 32-0, and wrapped up the scoring.

The Golden Warrior defense was equally impressive. It turned away two L-P drives into the red zone in the first half, and completely shut down the Cavs after halftime.

L-P (0-5, 0-2) managed just 68 yards in the second half, and 42 of those came against Ster-ling reserves in game’s final minutes.

The only score of the first half was a 50-yard run by Thornton. He faked a toss to Escalante on a jet sweep, cut upfield, and scored untouched.

Star of the game: Sterling Thornton, Sterling, 15 carries, 154 yards, 2TDKey performers: Brandon Dennis, Sterling, 9 carries, 73 yards, TD; Tony Diaz, Sterling, 39-yard field goalUp next: Ottawa at Sterling, 7:15 Friday

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.comSterling’s Jordan Asbury gives a stiff-arm to a LaSalle-Peru defender during Friday’s game at Fellows Stadium. The Warriors scored four times in the third quarter to win 32-0.

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NEWMAN 52, FULTON 6

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STERLING – Quick-strike scoring drives are becoming habit-forming for the Newman Comets.

A week after the Comets had seven scoring drives of five plays or fewer in a win over Morrison, they tallied seven possessions of six plays or fewer that ended up in touchdowns Friday night in a 52-6 victory over the Fulton Steamers at Roscoe Eades Sta-dium.

“I feel like we have the quick-est power backs around, and we know on the line that if we pick up blocks and open the holes, those guys are going to make some big plays,” Newman senior lineman Noah Leffel-man said. “It’s awesome to see them running downfield, know-ing they got there thanks to our blocking at the line of scrim-mage.”

Brady Rude was the biggest culprit this week, rushing for 218 yards and four touchdowns on 10 carries. His scoring runs came from 6, 71, 65, and 37 yards .. and that was on top of his 13-tackle, 1-sack performance from his linebacker spot.

Nolan McGinn added 144 yards and two scores – all in the first half – and Dillan Heffelfinger ran for 86 yards and a TD. McGinn’s scores came from 53 and 25 yards out, while Heffelfinger’s was a 36-yard scamper.

The Comets racked up 501 yards on the ground, on 40 car-ries, an average of 12.5 yards per carry.

“The line is the real deal, and

they’re everything for us,” Rude said. “We all have full faith and trust that they’re going to get the job done. We know the holes are going to be there, we just have to hit them hard and not stop running.”

Newman (5-0, 3-0 Three Riv-ers North) opened the game with a 6-play, 69-yard touch-down drive for a quick 8-0 lead. Fulton (2-3, 1-2) answered right

back, as Rodney Gossard’s 79-yard return on the ensuing kickoff set the Steamers up at the Newman 10-yard line.

Tyler Sweenie’s 14-yard TD pass to Brevin Mason on fourth down cut the Steamer deficit to 8-6, then the Fulton defense recovered a Newman fumble at its own 37-yard line.

But the Newman defense got a stop on fourth-and-1, then

scored two plays later. After forcing a Steamer three-and-out, another two-play TD drive made it 22-6.

Fulton again turned it over on downs early in the second quar-ter, and the Comets had their third consecutive two-play scoring drive for a 30-6 lead. After the Steamers came up empty on an eight-play series, Newman took a 36-6 lead with 2:49 left before halftime after a five-play possession led to a touchdown.

The Steamers closed the first half with a seven-play drive that came up empty, then opened the second half with a 10-play drive that didn’t produce any points.

“We talked before the game that opportunities were going to present themselves, and we had to take advantage of every one of them,” Fulton coach Patrick Lower said. “We did have a few chances to change the momen-tum in our favor, and we weren’t able to capitalize on them.”

Newman put together consec-utive four-play scoring drives around a Fulton three-and-out, with Rude breaking off long TD runs to cap both of them. The running clock was in use for the entire fourth quarter.

Ryan Gaines/Shaw MediaFulton’s Tyler Sweenie tries to break the tackle of Newman’s Brady Rude during Friday’s game at Roscoe Eades Stadium. The Comets won 52-6.

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MENDOTA – The Dixon Dukes looked to Friday night’s game at Mendota as a big one as far as maintaining its place toward the top of the Big Northern West standings.

Unfortunately, the only big moments came at the Dukes’ expense on defense.

The Trojans punched in on key third- and fourth-down plays, which took the life out of prior big defensive plays. One big play became too many for the Dukes to handle in a 44-23 loss.

The Trojans (4-1, 3-0 BNC West) started the game off with a 10-0 lead, as Ryan Reeder punched one in on the ground 5 minutes into play. Reeder fol-lowed with a successful 29-yard field goal. Both scores came as a shock to the Dukes, who spent all night unsuccessfully playing catch-up.

“Them scoring and getting 10 points on us early, I saw some of the guys laying back on their heels going, ‘Oh man,’” Dixon senior JD Gieson said.

Gieson found Kyle LeBlanc on two passes – the only attempts

between the two in the game – and both went in for second-quarter scores.

LeBlanc made room near the Dukes sideline for Gieson’s air-mail, and went in for a 51-yard completion with 8:19 to go in the first half. The second get-together came just over 7 min-utes later on a 21-yard strike through the middle – almost

losing control on the catch at the 15-yard-line.

The Dukes, down 24-15 at halftime, looked to make better use of the running game in the second half after a handful of tries only churned out a couple of yards. Gieson turned to Quin-ton Douglas on the ground, and he delivered. Douglas broke tackles down the Mendota

sideline and rushed in for a score from 56 yards out. Then he made good on the two-point conversion to get the Dukes to within one.

Its lead now uncomfort-able, the Trojan offensive line stepped up to push the Dukes away and create holes for Wyatt Martinson in the red zone. Martinson had little difficulty

getting through the Duke defense in the Power-I, posting scores from 2, 6, and 72 yards to break the game open.

“Our offensive line really stepped up in the second half,” Martinson said. “I was kind of weary about halftime, because I hadn’t been getting that many touches. Once I started getting my touches, I just saw what I could do. I told them the game’s on them, and they stepped up.”

Gieson passed for 134 yards, but was stymied on the ground in 12 attempts; six of them went for sacks. The Dukes were not able to get their composure together to mount a comeback, being flagged for three 10-plus-yard penalties to push drives back too deep.

“We came out expecting to do a lot different than what we did in the first half,” Gieson said. “I thought [Douglas’ score] was a momentum swinger, but we came out on the next series and tried the goal-line stand. But they got the screens. Those screens have killed us. We kept stopping them and stopping them, but all of a sudden, boom, a big play. So we’ve just got to limit those big plays, and every single down we’ve got to stop them.”

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MENDOTA 44, DIXON 23

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.comDixon’s JD Gieson (left) gets pushed out of bounds by Mendota’s Joseph LaShonse during Friday’s game in Mendota. The Dukes fell behind early, forcing them to play catch-up in a 44-23 loss.

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AQUIN 63, POLO 40

BY ANDY COLBERTShaw Media

POLO – Aquin senior Dominic DeMichele might have played his last high school football game, but his teammates sent him out in grand style with a 63-40 NUIC Upstate win over previously unbeaten Polo.

“We were playing for number 88 tonight,” said Aquin quarter-back Aiden Chang, who passed for 478 yards and six touch-downs. “We won’t see him [on the field] again.”

DeMichele has been diag-nosed with lymphoma cancer, and begins chemotheraphy on Wednesday. He played most of the game against Polo (4-1) before asking to be taken out in the second half due to fatigue.

“There was a lot of emotion,” Aquin (4-1) coach Todd Kramer said. “Not one kid on this team couldn’t look Dom in the face and say he didn’t give it all. It was a total team effort.”

Three different Aquin players had over 10 catches, including Dean Sopcic with 15 for 237 yards. James Gustafson added 144 on the ground, as the Bull-dogs piled up 645 yards of total offense.

“We didn’t play well, and

they took advantage of our mistakes,” Polo coach Andrew Hofer said. “It’s a learning experience.”

After Chang quickly drove his team for an early score, Brody Grobe found Brad Cavanaugh for a 50-yard touchdown, and Polo took its only lead of the

game at 8-7. Grobe countered another Aquin touchown with a 44-yard run to close within 15-14.

In the first 7 minutes, the quick-strike Marcos only took four plays for their two touch-downs, and Aquin had 241 yards of offense.

“It took us a couple series to adjust to their speed,” Kramer said.

A 90-yard pass from Chang to Sopcic on third-and-10 advanced the Bulldog lead to 22-14. Early in the second quar-ter the Chang-Sopcic combi-nation made it 29-14, and Polo

would play catch-up for the rest of the nearly 3-hour marathon contest.

The closest the Marcos would come would be a 2-point differ-ential early in the third quarter. Cavanaugh made an acrobatic interception, and ran it in from 35 yards out to cut the Aquin lead to 36-34.

Richie Bartnick then stripped the ball from Sopcic, giving Polo possession at its own 27-yard line. Two plays later, Krisean Coffee intercepted Grobe and returned the ball to the 3-yard line. Michele caught a 1-yard touchdown pass for a 42-34 Aquin lead.

“That interception and his return was the turning point in the game,” Kramer said.

Chang added three more touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, while all Polo could muster was another Grobe-to-Cavanaugh scoring strike.

“Defensively, they really start-ed putting the pressure on us. We struggled moving the ball in the third quarter,” Hofer said.

Juan Dominguez, who was all over the field on defense for Polo, had 12 tackles, including four for loss.

Chris Johnson/Shaw MediaPolo’s Jesse Ditzler and Braxton Stamm combine to make a tackle during Friday’s game against Aquin. The Marcos suffered their first loss of the season, 63-40.

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WINNEBAGO – As Nathan Alldritt’s cleats spewed grass in his wake, the Rock Falls coaches and players could only watch with their hands on their heads in disbelief.

Alldritt, Winnebago’s kick return-er, had just doused the Rockets’ comeback attempt with a 67-yard touchdown return midway through the third quarter, after the Rockets scored 16 straight points.

“That was tough,” Rockets coach Scott Berge said. “Our guys fought hard, but we made some mistakes that put us in a hole that we couldn’t seem to get out of.”

The Indians never trailed in the game, and used that big return to to get back on track for a 44-22 win over the Rockets at Colborn Stadi-um on Friday night in Big Northern West play.

The Rockets (0-5, 0-3) trailed 20-0 at halftime, but put together touch-down drives on two of their first three possessions to open the sec-ond half and bring the score within 20-16.

But Rock Falls couldn’t limit the Indians on the ground. After watch-ing film, Berge was concerned with Winnebago’s offensive size and the Indians’ ability to run the ball. In

all, the Indians (2-3, 1-2 BNC West) gained 253 yards on the ground.

The Indians used their size and muscled in touchdown runs of 3, 6, 2, and 5 yards.

But what the Rockets had an advantge in was speed.

Friday marked Week 5 of the foot-ball season, and the Rock Falls play-ers were still feeling the effects of the offseason and game-week condi-tioning programs.

So was Winnebago.“We want to be fast,” Berge said.

“We want to push the pace and be quick. We try to be as fast as the offi-cials let us play.”

The two quick scores to open the second half were exactly how the Rock Falls offense is supposed to function. Fast and efficient.

The Rockets moved quickly after running plays and receptions, and the Indians were flagged for illegal substitutions three times after Rock Falls hurried to the line.

“I wouldn’t say we were surprised by it, but they did a nice job of snap-ping the ball and moving quickly,” Indians coach Mark Helm said. “They moved fast and were able to get the ball to their playmakers.”

The hurry-up also made it so receivers Connor Cain and Tanner Dean had mismatches.

“Defenses don’t like that,” Berge said of the hurry-up. “They have to stay with the same set they’ve been rolling with, and if they get tired or get caught, we can find ways to get the ball to our athletes.”

Quarterback Noah Junis found Cain streaking down the sideline often in the second half.

Cain, who had three receptions for 15 yards in the first half, finished with eight catches for 227 yards, while Dean added 5 for 96. Both receivers set up scoring key scoring plays.

“There is a confidence thing going against single coverage,” Cain said. “My eyes light up when it’s just me and a corner. Junis threw some great balls and put me in a position to make some plays.”

Cain caught a 76-yard pass from Junis for the Rockets’ third touch-down, bringing the deficit to 34-22. Junis also scored a rushing touch-down of 3 yards, and running back Braeden Westfall punched in a score from the 1-yard line.

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WINNEBAGO 44, ROCK FALLS 22ERIE-PROPHETSTOWN 36, BUREAU VALLEY 25

Star of the game: Nathan Alldritt, Winnebago, 3 TDs, 67 rush yards Key performers: Connor Cain, Rock Falls, 8 catches, 227 yards, TD; Austin Leitzinger, Winnebago, 2 TDs, 23 rush yardsUp next: Stillman Valley at Rock Falls, 7:15 p.m. Friday

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Panthers pull away from

pesky StormBy SVM Sports Staff

Dylan Binion ran for a pair of second-half touchdowns to help the Erie-Prophetstown Pan-thers pull away in a tight game at the break to beat the Bureau Valley Storm 36-25 on Friday in Prophetstown.

Binion, Philip Coers, and Jordan Chandler all had scoring runs in the first half for the Panthers (4-1, 3-0), who led 20-7 early in the second quarter.

But BV (1-4, 0-2), which scored on a long pass on the first play from scrimmage, answered with long touchdown runs by Josh Mead and Parker Neuhalfen to cut the deficit to 20-19 at halftime.

Binion scored from 46 yards out early in the third quarter, then tacked on an 8-yard scoring scamper with 5:35 left in the game to finally put things out of reach.

The Storm scored once more with 2:32 to play, but the Panthers recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock.

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The Amboy Clippers scored two touch-downs in the third quarter to pull away from Morrison for a 21-0 win Friday at Bud Cole Field.

The Clippers (4-1, 2-0 TRAC North) scored on touchdowns runs by Chris Jones and Dallas Appleman in the third quarter. Jones had 148 yards on 22 car-ries in the game.

The Clippers’ other score came on a 40-yard pass to Ryan Leffelman from Liam Ohlendorf with 2 seconds left in the first quarter.

Morrison (0-5, 0-3) has not scored in 12 quarters, and the Mustangs are elimi-nated from playoff contention with their fifth loss.

Rockford Lutheran 42, Oregon 14: The Hawks drew first blood, but the Crusad-ers dominated after that in a Big North-ern West victory at Landers-Loomis Field.

Oregon (2-3, 1-2) scored first, taking a 7-0 lead on Brayton Finch’s 4-yard TD run 53 seconds into the second quarter. Finch led the Hawks with 45 yards on 10 carries, and Garrett Rude finished with 41 yards and 13 rushes.

But Lutheran (5-0, 3-0) answered in the form of two James Robinson touchdown runs sandwiched around a 79-yards scoring pass from Jailen Horton to Mar-cus Hayes to take a 21-7 lead into the locker room at halftime.

Robinson scored 59 seconds into the

second half, then Horton answered Rude’s scoring plunge with one of his own, as the Crusaders led 35-14 after three quarters. Hayes added a 24-yard TD catch from Nicholas Brighton to close the scoring.

Horton threw for 284 yards, and Hayes caught four passes for 187 yards. Robin-son, an all-stater who is on pace to break the IHSA career rushing record, finished

with just 33 yards on eight carries.AFC 40, Pecatonica 6: Jake Hageman

ran for 81 yards and two touchdowns, and the Raiders improved to 2-3 with an NUIC crossover victory at Mel Barron Field.

Luke Hageman added 68 yards and a score, and David Zinke and Jacob Hil-liker each threw a touchdown pass for AFC. Zinke completed his only pass for a

61-yard TD to Trevor Ramsey, while Hil-liker finished 4-for-5 passing for 56 yards and a scoring strike to Kaywan Palmer.

James Talley (61 yards), Zinke (55 yards) and Palmer (40 yards) all ran for at least 40 yards as the Raiders outgained the Indians 447-123 in total yards.

Milledgeville 55, River Ridge 6: After the Wildcats scored on their open-ing possession, the Missiles answered quickly and put away an NUIC Upstate victory before halftime.

Nick DeVito ran for two second-quar-ter touchdowns, Jordan Harris added a touchdown run and scoring passes to Buddy Bibler and Zach Taylor, and the Missiles scored 56 unanswered points after falling behind 6-0.

Brexton Flynn and Troy Litwiller added TD runs for Milledgeville (2-3, 2-2), which added a second-half score after taking a 48-6 lead into the locker room for halftime. The entire second half was played with a running clock.

Dakota 60, West Carroll 14: The Thunder stayed even with the Indi-ans through the first half, but a Dakota touchdown right before halftime turned the momentum in West Carroll’s NUIC Northwest loss on the road.

The score was tied 8-8 after one quar-ter, and the Thunder (0-5, 0-4) scored midway through the second period to cut the deficit to 22-14. But the Indians (3-2, 3-2) took a 30-14 lead into the lock-er room and never looked back.

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FRIDAY NIGHT ROUNDUP

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at Sterling Chevrolet FieldRoscoe Eades Stadium, Sterling

NEWMAN 52, FULTON 6 F NFirst downs 9 19Total yards 185 509Rushes-yards 40-139 40-501Passing yards 46 8Passing (C-A-I) 5-10-0 1-2-0Fumbles-lost 2-0 4-1Penalties-yards 5-51 3-15Punts-average 4-30.3 0-0.0Fulton 6 0 0 0 — 6Newman 22 14 16 0 — 52

First quarterN – Brady Rude 6 run (Rude run), 9:45F – Brevin Mason 14 pass from Tyler Swee-nie (kick wide left), 7:39N – Dillan Heffelfinger 36 run (Rude run), 2:22N – Rude 71 run (run failed), :17.0

Second quarterN – Nolan McGinn 53 run (Heffelfinger run), 8:52N – McGinn 25 run (run failed), 2:49

Third quarterN – Rude 65 run (Heffelfinger run), 4:58N – Rude 37 run (Heffelfinger run), :55.0

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Fulton: Michael Pidde 16-60, Sweenie 13-43, Trey Simmons 9-41, Rod-ney Gossard 1-1, Kenny Ramig 1-(minus-6). Newman: Rude 10-218, McGinn 7-144, Heffelfinger 9-86, Regan Todhunter 1-27, Hunter Webb 2-14, Kyle Decker 4-13, Trevor Bolin 1-5, Eli Monier 2-3, Logan Whitman 4-(minus-9).PASSING – Fulton: Sweenie 5-10-0-46 yards. Newman: Whitman 1-2-0-8 yards.RECEIVING – Fulton: Gossard 2-2, Devon Ballard 1-22, Mason 1-14, Seth Sanderson 1-8. Newman: Rude 1-8.Records: Newman 5-0 (3-0 TRAC North), Fulton 2-3 (1-2)

at Fellows Stadium, LaSalle

STERLING 32, LASALLE-PERU 0 S LPFirst downs 17 12Total yards 404 187Rushes-yards 40-315 44-121Passing (C-A-I) 5-14-0 8-18-0Passing yards 89 66Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-1Penalties-yards 6-37 5-57Punts-average 1-30 5-34Sterling 0 7 25 0 — 32LP 0 0 0 0 — 0

Second quarterS – Sterling Thornton 50 run (Tony Diaz kick) 8:13

Third quarterS – Brandon Dennis 2 run (Thornton run) 10:25S – Rafael Escalante 24 run (Diaz kick) 7:19S – Thornton 22 run (Diaz kick) 4:37S – Diaz 39 field goal :53.9

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Thornton 15-154, Dennis 9-73, Escalante 6-49, Brian Folsom 3-27, Keegan Kaye 2-11, Terrance Bruce 1-3, Grant Jacoby 1-2, Turner Morse 3-(minus 4). L-P – Zachary Barr 16-58, Kobey Fusi-netti 12-57, Trestyn Lazzarotto 4-6, Jordan Baker 2-2, Derek Salas 1-0, Jake Doyle 9-(minus 2).PASSING – Sterling – Thornton 5-14-0, 89 yards. L-P – Doyle 8-18-0, 66 yards.RECEIVING – Sterling – Logan Cheshire 2-63, Jordan Asbury 1-12, Morse 1-8, Dennis 1-6. L-P – Lazzarotto 4-43, Jake Obermiller 1-8, Jacob Murphy 1-8, Cam-eron Mignone 2-7.Records: Sterling 4-1 (1-0 NIB-12 West), LaSalle-Peru 0-5 (0-2)

at Mendota

MENDOTA 44, DIXON 23 D MFirst downs 8 24Total yards 212 468Rushes-yards 22-78 38-288Passing (C-A-I) 9-23-2 13-17-0Passing yards 134 180Fumbles-lost 2-0 0-0Penalties-yards 9-85 10-85Punts-average 3-55 3-53Dixon 0 15 8 0 — 23Mendota 10 14 6 14 — 44

First quarterM – Ryan Reeder 18 run (kick blocked) 6:54M – Reeder 29 field goal, 2:12

Second quarterD – Kyle LeBlanc 51 pass from JD Gieson (kick good) 8:19M – Reeder 4 pass from James Carroll (kick good) 5:44M – Garet Zinke 30 pass from Carroll (kick good) 3:378D – LeBlanc 21 pass from Gieson (Quinton Douglas 2-point good) 1:05

Third quarterD – Douglas 56 run (Douglas 2-point good) 11:51M – Wyatt Martinson 2 pass from Carroll (kick failed) 4:14

Fourth quarterM – Martinson 6 run (kick good) 8:30M – Martinson 72 run (kick good)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Dixon: Quinton Douglas 5-86, Cody Mighell 5-5, JD Gieson 12-(minus 13). Mendota: Wyatt Martinson 18-165, Ryan Reeder 3-64, James Carroll 11-27, Garet Zinke 2-11, Abram Green 3-15, Joseph Meyer 1-6.PASSING – Dixon: Gieson 9-23-2, 134 yards. Mendota: Carroll 12-16-0, 165 yards; Joseph LaShonse 1-1-0, 25 yards.RECEIVING – Dixon: Kyle LeBlanc 2-72, Matthew Coffey 2-28, Ryan Webb 2-28, Nathan Gascoinge 1-12. Mendota: Reeder 4-82, Martinson 5-28, Tyler Anderson 1-24, Shane Kruse 1-19, Zinke 2-6, Green 1-(minus 5).Records: Dixon 3-2 (1-2 BNC West), Mendota 4-1 (3-0)

at Colborn Stadium, Winnebago

WINNEBAGO 44, ROCK FALLS 22 RF WFirst downs 12 14Total yards 370 311Rushes-yards 21-47 56-253Passing (C-A-I) 13-34-3 7-11-0Passing yards 323 58Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-0Penalties-yards 5-36 15-108Punts 2 3Rock Falls 0 0 22 0 — 22Winnebago 6 14 14 8 — 44

First quarterW - Austin Leitzinger 3 run (run failed), 1:40

Second quarterW - Nathan Alldritt 6 run (pass failed), 9:08W - Leitzinger 2 run (Alldritt run), 5:15

Third quarterRF - Noah Junis 2 run (Junis run), 5:03RF - Braeden Westfall 1 run (Jacob Mam-mosser pass from Junis), 1:58W - Alldritt 67 kick return (Leitzinger run), 1:47W - Grant Spelma 81 interception return (pass failed), 57.3RF - Connor Cain 76 pass from Junis (pass failed), 10.7

Fourth quarterW - Alldritt 5 run (Michael Booth pass from Jess Smith), 9:20

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Rock Falls: Braeden Westfall 21-47. Winnebago: Austin Moore 17-72, Nathan Alldritt 14-67, Jess Smith 11-63, Austin Leitzinger 8-23, Jace Warkentien 3-14, Devan Heslop 3-14.PASSING – Rock Falls: Noah Junis 13-34-3, 323 yards. Winnebago: Jess Smith 7-11-0, 58 yardsRECEIVING – Rock Falls: Connor Cain 8-227, Tanner Dean 5-96. Winnebago: Justin Spickler 4-22, Even Mack 3-20, Jace Warkentien 1-16.Records: Rock Falls 0-5, Winnebago 2-3

at Bud Cole Field, Morrison

AMBOY 21, MORRISON 0 A MFirst downs 19 11Total yards 353 150Rushing yards 301 60Passing (C-A-I) 2-4-1 90Passing yards 52 8-17-2Fumbles-lost 1-1 4-1Penalties-yards 11-80 6-40Punts-average 0 3-19Amboy 7 0 14 0 — 7Morrison 0 0 0 0 — 0

First quarterA – Ryan Leffelman 40 pass from Liam Ohlendorf (Alex Gutierrez kick), 0:02

Third quarterA – Chris Jones 1 run (Gutierrez kick), 9:42A – Dallas Appleman 3 run (Gutierrez kick), 4:45 Records: Amboy 4-1, 2-0 TRAC North; Morrison 0-5, 0-3

at Mel Barron Field, Franklin Grove

ASHTON-FRANKLIN CENTER 40, PECATONICA 6

P AFCTotal yards 123 447Rushes-yards 40-109 49-330Passing (C-A-I) 2-9-1 5-6-0Passing yards 14 117Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-1Penalties-yards 6-55 14-130Punts-average 3-26 2-31.5Pecatonica 0 0 6 0 — 6AFC 8 8 8 16 — 40

First quarterAFC – Jake Hageman 3 run (Luke Hage-man 2-point good) 9:27

Second quarterAFC – L. Hageman 15 run (Kaywan Palmer 2-point good) 5:09

Third quarterP – Thsyer 11 run (2-point failed) 10:01AFC – Trevor Ramsey 61 pass from David Zinke (L. Hageman 2-point good) 4:33

Fourth quarterAFC – J. Hageman 2 run (Jacob Hilliker to Ramsey 2-point good) 11:30AFC – Palmer 7 pass from Hilliker (Hilliker to Palmer 2-point good) 3:44

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Pecatonica: Elliott 10-53, Thsyer 14-36, Swanson 8-16, Racine 4-14, Mulcahy 2-3, Kimes 2-(minus 13). AFC: J. Hageman 11-81, L.. Hageman 7-68, James Talley 13-61, Zinke 6-55, Palmer 2-40, Hilliker 10-25.PASSING – Pecatonica: Kimes 2-9-1, 14 yards. AFC: Zinke 1-1-0, 61 yards; Hilliker 4-5-0, 56 yards.RECEIVING – Pecatonica: Mulcahy 1-8, Heckman 1-6. AFC: Ramsey 1-61, Zinke 3-49, Palmer 1-7.Records: Pecatonica 1-4 (1-3 NUIC Upstate), AFC 2-3 (1-3)

at Landers-Loomis Field, Oregon

LUTHERAN 42, OREGON 14 L OFirst downs 10 12Total yards 402 172Rushing yards 95 172Passing (C-A-I) 13-17-2 0-5-1Passing yards 307 7Fumbles-lost 2-0 0-0Penalties-yards 6-65 4-30Lutheran 0 21 14 7 — 42Oregon 0 7 7 0 — 14

Second quarterO – Brayton Finch 4 run (kick good) 11:07L – James Robinson 3 run (kick good) 6:18L – Marcus Hayes 79 pass from Jailen Hor-ton (kick good) 2:32L – Robinson 3 run (kick good)

Third quarterL – Robinson 6 run (kick good) 11:01O – Garrett Rude 1 run (kick good) 2:41L – Horton 1 run (kick good) 1:41

Fourth quarterL – Hayes 24 pass from Nicholas Brigham (kick good) 8:33

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Lutheran: Nicholas Brigham 3-39, James Robinson 8-33. Oregon: Brayton Finch 10-45, Garrett Rude 13-41, Maverick Good 8-29.PASSING – Lutheran: Jailen Horton 12-15-2, 284 yards; Brigham 1-2-0, 23 yards. Oregon: Jerrick Orsted 0-5-1, 0 yards.RECEIVING – Lutheran: Marcus Hages 4-187, Tim Koehler 3-56.

at Pearl City

EASTLAND-PEARL CITY 40, LENA-WINSLOW 14

LW EPCFirst downs 13 20Total yards 185 349Rushes-yards 44-154 28-102Passing (C-A-I) 4-11-2 14-23-0Passing yards 31 248Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1LeWin 14 0 0 0 — 14EPC 6 20 0 14 — 40

First quarterL – Schubert 11 pass from Robinson (Drye kick) 9:37E – Ollie 61 pass from Herren (pass failed) 3:59L – Robinson 1 run (Drye kick) 1:12

Second quarterE – Herren 1 run (Haverland pass from Her-ren) 8:57E – Haverland 10 pass from Herren (pass failed) 3:37E – Schubert 5 run (pass failed) 1:26

Fourth quarterE – Ollie 6 run (Jacobs kick) 11:54E – Ollie 65 interception return (Jacobs kick) 10:35

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Lena-Winslow: Oleson 15-68, Eilders 9-39, Stockton 12-32, Robinson 6-8, Packard 1-6, Holmes 1-1. Eastland-Pearl City: Groezinger 7-33, Ollie 3-30, Schubert 7-24, Heeren 11-14.PASSING – Lena-Winslow: Robinson 4-11-2 31. Eastland-Pearl City: Heeren 14-23-0 248.RECEIVING – Lena-Winslow: Drye 2-15, Schubert 1-11, Eilders 1-5. Eastland-Pearl City: 5-130, Haverland 3-58, Groezinger 3-24, Kluck 3-21.

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Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.comDixon’s Kyle LeBlanc breaks away from Mendota defenders on his way to a touchdown Friday night in Mendota. Dixon lost 44-23.

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