Football Around The State (November 2, 2022)

The football playoffs are underway. Last week saw the first round of the NIAA 3A Regional quarterfinals. In the South, Boulder

In the North, Spring Creek the four seed beat Hug the five seed 47-7.
The Spartans will play the one seed Churchill County in Fallon Friday
night. Elko the three seed shut out Wooster 36-0 in Elko and will now
travel to the second seed Truckee Saturday.

Boulder City at Moapa Valley
Boulder City is the second seed from the Southern Mountain league. The Eagles are 8-2 this season. Last week, they beat 3rd seed Rancho, 32-7.
Moapa Valley, the #1 Desert League team is undefeated this season.
The Eagles will travel to Moapa Valley this Friday night for a 6 pm playoff matchup.
These two teams last met on September 1 in the third game of the season. The Pirates beat the Eagles in a close-contested game, 26-22.
The Eagles started that game with a kickoff return for a touchdown. The Eagles built a 22-6 lead before the Pirates came back with a touchdown in each quarter including the game winner an 11 yard run by Ethan Stankoski with under a minute to play in the game.
The winner of this game advances to the state semifinal.

Virgin Valley at SLAM
The Bulldogs will travel into Las Vegas this Friday to play SLAM, the #1 seed from the Mountain. The game will be held at Foothill High School at 6 pm.
These two teams have not played each other this year.
Virgin Valley is 8-2 this season and is #2 in the Desert Division. SLAM is 6-3.
A Virgin Valley win in this game will send the Bulldogs north for the semifinal game. In that case, Moapa Valley would host its semifinal if the Pirates beat Boulder City.
If SLAM beats the Bulldogs, the top seed will host the state semifinals. That forces Moapa Valley or Boulder City to the North in the other State Semi-final.
If the Eagles and Bulldogs both win then Virgin Valley would host the state semifinal.

Elko at Truckee
Elko, the #3 seed, shut out Wooster last week 36-0. The Indians will now travel to #2 seed Truckee on Saturday.
In their first meeting at the beginning of the season, the Indians put a whooping on Truckee, 43-11, in Elko. That loss was the Wolverines only loss of the season.
Eli Finlayson of Elko ran for 143 yards and scored two touchdowns. He has run for 1,320 yards with 14 touchdowns this season.
Truckee’s quarterback Julian Hall has thrown for 1,516 yards this year with 16 touchdowns. He has only thrown one interception.
Elko is 8-2 overall and 4-1 in league play. They lost to a team from Idaho then were beaten by Churchill County 7-6 for their only league loss.
Truckee is 8-1 overall and 5-0 in league play this season.

Spring Creek at Churchill County
These two teams last met on September 30 in Spring Creek. Churchill soundly beat Spring Creek 49-19.
Churchill County’s quarterback Bryce Adams threw for 305 yards in that game with 3 touchdowns.
Weston Peterson led the Spartans with 148 yards rushing scoring a touchdown in the loss.