Badgers earn state berth
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October 28, 2013 |
By Coach Don Alt
On Friday, the Bonners Ferry Badgers hosted the
Kellogg Wildcats in an Intermountain League
football game, and earned a trip to state with a
59-13 romp.
The Badger defense started the game by limiting
Kellogg to three plays and out. This was a start
of a long first quarter for the Wildcats.
The Badgers took over on their own 35 yard line
and immediately struck with a 60 yard pass from
Christian Trocke to Matt Sabin to the Kellogg
five yard line. On the next play, Anthony Skeen
went in untouched off the right side behind the
blocks of Quinn Cummings, Matt Kramer and Matt
Sabin for the score. The PAT was
blocked and the Badgers led 6 to 0.
Kellogg was unable to do anything on offense and
was forced to punt after three downs. Kylar Rice
ran the punt back 25 yards to the Kellogg 20
yard line. On the Badger's first play, Bryan
Yeoumans ran a counter play 20 yards for a
touchdown following the blocks of Jay Gasbar,
Chase Hannahs, Jake Rossi and Connor
Bennett around the left side.
Kellogg was able to make a first down on their
next drive, but was forced to punt again.
Bonners was able to drive the ball on the legs
of Yeoumans, Rossi and Skeen to the Kellogg 35
yard line. From the 35, Trocke dropped back and
hit Bennett for a touchdown. Jason Schutes added
the PAT and the Badgers led 19 to
0.
On the next Kellogg series, Kellogg surprised
the Badger secondary with a reverse pass. Blake
Ivie threw to Anthony Kitchen for a 65 yard
touchdown and Jared Job kicked the PAT to make
the score 19 to 7.
On the dreaded ensuing kick off, Yeoumans
returned up the right sideline for 45 yards to
the 50 yard line. Yeoumans would rip off another
20 yard gain on this drive before sticking the
ball in the end zone from one yard out. Schutes
added the PAT and the Badgers led 26 to 7 at the
end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Kellogg responded with a
drive to the Badger 10 yard line. Kellogg used a
Badger pass interference penalty and a 20 yard
throw from quarterback James Red to Jerome Casey
to set up first and goal at the 10 yard line.
The Badger defense stiffened with good run
defense by Quinn Cummings and
Parker Davis. On fourth and goal from the five,
Kylar Rice came up from his safety position and
tackled running back Jared Job for a five yard
loss as the Badgers took over on downs.
The Badgers would score quickly, as Trocke threw
to Sabin on a play action pass for 65 yards.
Schutes added the PAT and the Badgers led 33 to
7. The Badgers would score two more times in the
second quarter on a Skeen 15 yard run and a
Yeoumans six yard run, ending the first half
with the Badgers 45-7.
Rossi and Skeen would score two short touchdown
runs in the third quarter and Kellogg would add
one in the fourth quarter for the final score of
Bonners Ferry 59, Kellogg 13.
The Badgers end the regular season at 5-4 and
2-1 in league. The Wildcats drop to 1-7 and 0-2
in league. Kellogg will end their season at
Timberlake on November 1.
Bonners Ferry will advance to the Idaho State 3A
playoffs on November 9. The Badgers will play
the winner of a play-in game between Homedale
and Buhl. |
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