City High/ Ups rush West shows yardage to 1,643 stopping power ► FROM PAGE 3B open a 17-10 halftime game with three third- against Prairie quarter touchdowns and long TD runs from By Andrew Bassman Thompson (75 yards) and Correspondent MVC standings IO W A C IT Y — The Amos Lavela (53 yards) in SCHOOL__________________REC the fourth. flash and dash of the Iowa City West no-huddle of­ Mississippi Division “We definitely had to Iowa City High 4 -0 put out a statement to­ fense strutted its stuff Unn Mar 4 -0 night,” Washington said. again last night, but the Dubuque Wahlert 3 1 “ It all started with the defense forced itself onto Cedar Rapids Kennedy 2 -2 offensive line. They were center stage with the help Cedar Rapids Washington 2 2 blocking hard. They did of the offensive star. Dubuque Senior 1-3 it for us, they blocked for West quarterback Waterloo West 0 -4 Charles Rogers, for the Valley Division us. they blocked (for) the Cedar Falls 4 -0 win. The rest of us just first time this season, lined up on defense at Cedar Rapids Xavier 3-1 did what we had to do.” 3 1 safety and cornerback. Iowa City West City High ran for 415 Waterloo East 2-2 yards to increase its sea­ “The defense stole the Cedar Rapids Jefferson 0 -4 son total to 1,643. A big, show a little,” Rogers Cedar Rapids Praine 0 -4 powerful offensive line said. “ But the offense had Dubuque Hempstead 0 4 led by tackle Nile Banks some big plays ” LAST NIGHT (6-foot-4, 277 pounds) is West bullied Cedar Cedar Falls 42, C R Jefferson 6 the cornerstone. Rapids Prairie for 50-8 C R. Kennedy 33, Dubuque Senior 7 “We knew Xavier was victory in a Mississippi Iowa City West 50. C R Praine 8 a great team, that they Valley Conference Mis­ Iowa City High 52, C R Xavier 24 hadn't had anybody sissippi Division football Dub Wahlert 31, C R Washington IO game at West. Waterloo East 32, Dub Hempstead 23 score on them all sea­ Linn Mar 40, Waterloo West 0 son," Johnson said. “ So Prairie picked up two we wanted to come out first downs in the first and show... that we can half, one aided by a penal­ on its next possession. come out and play smash- ty and the other not until Rogers faked a handoff, mouth football. That’s 1:44 remained in the half. rolled right and ran for 15 what we do.” Prairie went four-and-out yards. On the next play. “ They’re a typical City on six out of eight first- he rolled right and alone High team," said Xavier half possessions. on the left side found Coach Duane Schulte. “ A West sacked Prairie Williams, who danced 31 lot of big, fast strong guys. quarterback Jace Hanna yards for a touchdown. That showed tonight.” six times in the first half West led 15-0. Quarterback Reggie and temporarily knocked him out of the game near West’s offense briefly Schulte threw for 239 halted. Prairie recovered yards and three touch­ the end of the half. Peyton Wagner entered at quar­ a fumble then forced West downs for Xavier (3-1), Cliff Jette/The Gazette to punt on three straight two to Corbin Woods. terback, threw an incom­ A wide-open Kevin Hosch of Cedar Rapids Xavier grabs a pass reception last night against Iowaplete pass and then was possessions. But Prairie ■ Comments: (319) 398 8259; City High at Xavier. In the background is City’s Jeremy Johnson. No. 2-ranked City High defeated sacked for a 10-yard loss. could not score. left johnson@sourcemedia. net No. 7 Xavier, 52-24. West was slowed by Before halftime, Rog­ nine penalties in the first ers struck again, ending a half. Otherwise, Rogers seven-play, 62-yard drive hogged the spotlight. He with an 8-yard touchdown ISU/Huskies’ offense ran out of steamfinished with 158 pass­ run. ing yards and 92 rushing A 55-yard kickoff re­ ► FROM PAGE 3B on third down on the following yards. He threw for two turn by River Whitters Iowa State possession. Jantz was touchdowns and ran for put Prairie into West ter­ take a 14-10 lead, the Cyclones’ first picked off again, this time on a roll­ two touchdowns. ritory to start the second of the game. out to the left on third-and-21 from West scored on its half. Hanna, back over The Huskies responded on the the Cyclone 24-yard line with 3:28 second possession on a center, on the first play next possession, using a 41-yard to play. He would finish a forget­ five-play, 47-yard drive. from scrimmage was pitch-and-catch from walk-on table first quarter with one more Rogers scrambled for a sacked for an 11-yard loss. QB Johnny McEntee to receiver interception, as the ball caromed 10-yard gain, passed to Prairie punted. On the lsiah Moore to set up a 50-yard off the hands of tight end Kurt Mondo Williams for 16 next play, Rogers hooked Dave Teggart field goal. Iowa State Hammerschmidt and into the mitts yards and went nearly up with Williams again fought back on the ensuing posses­ of the Huskies Jory Johnson. untouched for a 16-yard on a 66-yard pass play sion, as a stalled drive stalled on The Cyclones finished the first touchdown run. down the left side for a a three-and-out led to Zach Guyer frame with one more yard (four) West needed two plays touchdown. connecting on his first career field than interceptions (three), with goal from 36 yards out give the C y­ Jantz a ghastly 0-for-4. clones the 17-13 lead. An inconsistent UConn of­ Kashif Moore lept over Jeremy fense that rotated three different Reeves to haul in a 39-yard touch­ quarterbacks throughout opened Kennedy grinds out down pass to give the Huskies the strong, as fleet-footed quarterback 20-17 advantage with 12:51 remain­ Scott McCummings scored on an ing, but the Huskies’ offense ran 11-yard run on the game’s first pos­ a win on the ground out of steam after Reynolds’ win­ session. ning grab. But as Jantz and the offense On the Cyclones’ first play from coughed the ball in enemy terri­ Using the simplest of in Cedar Falls. scrimmage, Jantz underthrew a tory, the defense was able to plug offensive attacks, Cedar Jefferson’s most suc­ streaking receiver on the near side­ the holes, holding the Huskies to Iowa State’s Leonard Johnson (left) and Rapids Kennedy simply cessful drive in the open­ line and was picked off by UConn just IO first-half points and three Jansen Watson celebrate during the imposed its offensive w ill ing half was on its first cornerback Dwayne Gratz. Dave Teggart field attempts — two second half of a 24-20 victory last night upon Dubuque Senior in series when Kyle Mann After taking a drive-killing sack of which missed the mark. at Connecticut. a 33-7 victory over the had gains of 31 and 26 Rams last night at Chalm­ yards on his first two ers Field on the Univer­ carries and the J-Hawks sity of Dubuque campus. (0-4) advanced the ball to The Cougars (2-2) the Cedar Falls 13. Mann, Lions start quickly, roar past Waterloo Westtook a 26-0 halftime lead however, has injured on after gaining 288 yards a second down 2-yard By Jeff Hare first-half possessions. key part of our defense,” the Lions advanced their of offense — 200 on the loss and didn’t return. Correspondent “ We have had some Forsyth said. “ He also record to 4-0, which pleas­ ground. Kennedy accu­ The J-Hawks settled for a MARION — If you ask slow starts in our games knows what he has to es the Linn-Mar coach. mulated 15 first downs. 30-yard field goal attempt Linn-Mar football coach earlier this season,” For­ work on to improve and “ We are happy to be Kennedy finished that missed right. Bob Forsyth about the syth said. “ We have been help the team.” 4-0 at this stage," Forsyth with 463 yards of offense, During the continuous best way to heat up a cool stressing in practice the According to Wahawk said. “The thing that I like including 344 on the clock second half, Jeffer­ night, he would say to need to come out quick coach Lonnie Moore, to see in a game like to­ ground. Alexander Hill- son controlled possession come out blazing hot. and score early. Tonight it was just a case of too night is that we were able yer rushed for 157 yards for nearly the entire third And that’s exactly we were able to do that.” much Linn-Mar. to play a lot of people, and a touchdown, and quarter as Drake Allen what his Lions did last Atwater was 13-of-20 “They are a great team, which is great. Trevor Heitland added capped a 68-yard drive night in knocking off Wa­ passing for 215 yards and and we knew that coming “ From a coach’s view, 132 yards and two TDS. with a 9-yard touchdown terloo West, 40-0. at Linn- two touchdowns. in,” Moore said. ’’They it is nice, as I can sit back CEDAR FALLS 42.C.R. run. Mar Stadium. Running back Mitch executed very well, and and see what we have to JEFFERSON 6 Barkley IOWA CITY REGINA 51, The Lions struck early Wantock ran for two did a great job.