By DAVE BELCHER
Moapa Valley Progress
Southern IA – Sunrise
Virgin Valley at Sunrise Mtn.
The Bulldogs from Virgin Valley lost to Sunrise Mountain last Thursday night. It was a week after Moapa Valley blew out the Miners that Virgin Valley was hoping to come away with the win and a share of first place in the Sunrise. It didn’t go so well.
Virgin Valley must now go through the toughest part of their schedule. They have to beat Boulder City and at least one of the other three: Desert Pines, Moapa Valley or Chaparral if they want a shot to make the playoffs.
At Sunrise Mountain the Bulldogs scored in the final minute to tie the game at 14-14 and send it into overtime.
Sunrise Mountain was leading the Dawgs 14-7 with under two minutes to play in the game when, instead of keeping the ball on the ground to run off time, they put it in the air. That’s when Josh Bishop picked off the pass and returned it to the Miners 33 yard line with 1:25 to play. Virgin Valley’s first pass resulted in a sack, then quarterback Hogan Fowles found Jarron Linge for 28 yards followed by a pass to Nick Cox for an 18 yard touchdown. With the point-after the score was tied with 36 seconds remaining in the contest. The Miners knelt on it sending it into overtime.
Virgin Valley scored first when Fowles ran it in from a yard out. The extra point gave them a 21-14 lead. Sunrise Mountain then scored when Xavier Wright caught the touchdown pass to close the gap to 21-20.
Sunrise chose to go for two points and converted it when Pytrysson caught the ball for the win. Virgin Valley had 348 total yards of offense while holding the Miners to 296. With the win the Miners are 1-2 in league play while Virgin Valley drops to 1-1 in league play.
Chaparral at Del Sol.
This game wasn’t even a contest as the Cowboys scored three touchdowns in the first quarter, then three more times in the second quarter, for a 42-0 lead by half time. The Cowboys had 347 yards of total offense while holding the Dragons to just 142 yards. Ninety-nine yards were from passing for the Cowboys as they improve the league record to 2-1 in the Sunrise.
Del Sol comes to Moapa Valley this Friday night for homecoming. Chaparral travels to Rancho this Friday night.
Boulder City at Desert Pines
The Desert Pines Jaguars devoured the Eagles 64-0. The Jaguars racked up 359 yards in the game while holding the Eagles to a grand total of 38 yards.
Needless to say the second half was played with a running clock as the Jaguar ran just 22 plays on offense for the game.
Boulder City is 0-2 in league play with Sunrise Mountain coming to town this Friday night. Desert Pines remains undefeated at 3-0 in league play with a trip to Mesquite planned for this week.
Southern IA – Sunset
Spring Valley at Western
Another shut out as the Grizzlies beat Western 34-0. Spring Valley finished with 394 yards total offense with 233 yards passing and 161 yards rushing. Western finished with 136 yards total offense.
Spring Valley moves to 2-1 in league play and will host Mojave while Western is 0-3 and will travel to Faith Lutheran this week.
Clark at Pahrump Valley
The Trojans pounded the Chargers in Pahrump as TJ Milk threw for 3 touchdowns in the win. Pahrump Valley got their first win at home this season and improves their record to 2-1 in the Sunset. Clark drops to 0-3 in league play. Clark will host Sierra Vista this week while Pahrump Valley will travel to Cheyenne.
Faith Lutheran at Mojave
In the game of the week in the south, a matchup of the undefeated teams the Crusaders clobbered the Rattlers 30-2 to take over sole possession of first place in the Sunset.
Faith Lutheran’s Christian Marshall scored three touchdowns in the game on a 2 yard run, a 1 yard run and a 39 pass play. Faith Lutheran had 173 yard total offense with 112 of that coming on the ground while holding Mojave to 134 yards of their own. The Rattlers had 81 yards rushing with 48 yards passing and 2 interceptions.
Marshall finished with 63 yards rushing for the game with 2 receptions for 49 yards for the Crusaders. Brenden Joyce threw the ball 6 times completing 4 passes for 61 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Taiwan Braden was just 2-11 passing for the Rattlers for 48 yards and an interception.
Faith Lutheran is 3-0 in league play and will host Western this week.
Mojave drops to 2-1 in league play and will travel to Spring Valley this week.
Cheyenne at Sierra Vista.
Cheyenne destroyed Sierra Vista 50-6. A week after Faith Lutheran handily beat Cheyenne the Desert Shields rebounded by dominating offensively with 437 yards of total offense while holding Sierra Vista to 109 yards of total offense.
Cheyenne ran the ball for 362 yards on the ground with David Walker carrying the ball 25 times for 262 yards and 2 touchdowns. Cajun Jackson also scored twice for the Desert Shields in the win.
Cheyenne is 2-1 in league play and will host Pahrump Valley. Sierra Vista has only 1 win this year and travel to Clark this week.
Northern IA
Spring Creek at Wooster
Spring Creek got a score in the first quarter as the Wooster Colts took a 13-8 lead by the start of the second quarter. The Spartans then scored two touchdowns in the second and third quarters to take the lead and get a 47-29 win at Wooster. Spring Creek had a 24-13 lead at half time.
Lowry at South Tahoe
The Buckaroos continued to struggle last week as they travelled to South Tahoe and were shut out 27-0. It was South Tahoe’s first win of the season. It was South Tahoe’s first shut out in more than a decade. South Tahoe recovered a Lowry fumble and drove 43 yards for the first score of the game. A 13 yard pass to Noah Jackson gave the Vikings a second touchdown. A score from a screen pass and a sweep gave the Vikings two more touchdowns in the win.
Fernley at Sparks
Fernley scored 14 points in the first quarter then followed that up with 14 more points in the second quarter as the Vaqueros came away from Sparks with a 40-7 win.
Truckee at Elko
This was a game between two 2-1 teams with the winner taking sole possession of fourth place which is the final qualifying spot for the northern playoffs. Elko came away with a 30-21 win at home to claim it.
Elko was the first to score, after a punt which hit a Truckee player then recovered by the Indians gave the Tribe the ball at the Truckee 33.
Puentes found Nick Smiley in the end zone for the touchdown and a 7-0 lead.
Elko scored again after their own fumble was picked up in the backfield by Puentes where he found a seam and ran it in from just inside the five yard line 14-0.
Truckee got on the board late in the first half when runningback Cole Harrity finished the drive with a 15 yard run to cut the Indians lead to a touchdown. Truckee regained possession after holding the Indians to punt with 2:11 to play in the half. The effort failed when a long pass was picked off at the 2 yard line. Elko kicked a 40 yard field goal and scored a touchdown from 23 yards in the final minutes of the third quarter for a 24-7 lead going into the fourth quarter.
Truckee scored in the fourth quarter when Sean Bokinskie caught a 10 yard pass. They scored again when Jack Englert picked a pass and returned it 30 yards to cut the lead the 3 points with seven minutes remaining in the game.
On the Truckee kick-off Kyrin Allen fielded the ball then carried it 90 yards for the final score of the game. Elko will travel this Friday to Fallon while Truckee will continue a road swing at Sparks.
Fallon at Dayton
Fallon shut out Dayton 52-0 in Dayton last Friday night. Dayton has yet to score a single point this year.
