The Salem Wildcats won their conference finale knocking off Freeburg at Jim Finks Field 21-14. The Cats got on top early when they capitalized on a couple of Midget fumbles to go up 14-7. Salem took a 21-7 lead when Caleb Smith caught a touchdown pass in the 2nd half. The midgets would get to within a score on a touchdown run from Tucker Murphy, but failed twice late deep in Salem territory as the Cats defense came up huge stops to secure just their 2nd win of the season. Salem got touchdown runs from Kason Sullens as well. Salem will finish up their season next week when they honor their seniors and welcome former assistant coach Alex Koebele and the Charleston Trojans to town. The Trojans are coming off a nice 30-27 win over Mt Zion last night.
The Columbia Eagles will share the Cahokia Conference title after their exciting 28-27 win at Breese Central. Senior Eagles quarterback rushed 23 times for an unbelievable 385 yards and 4 touchdowns in the victory. He scored on runs of 60, 82 and 63 yards in the first half, and then snapped a 21-all tie with an 88 yard touchdown with under 10 minutes left in the game. Breese scored with 4:17 left to trail 28-27 but went for 2 trying to grab the lead but Voegele tackled Breese quarterback Conner Freeze 2 yards shy of the end zone to preserve the win. On the season, Voegele has rushed for 1156 yards and following the game Central coach Brian Short said of him, he’s the best athlete in the conference, and probably the best athlete in the area. And he also has a mid-90s fastball who has committed to play at Kansas.
Wood River also saw an opportunity to share their first Cahokia football title, but fell short in a 35-27 loss to Roxana.
The Mount Vernon Rams gained a share of the South 7 Conference title after their dominant 35-7 home win over the host Orphans in the Rams Pink Out Game. The win allows the Rams and Orphans to share the league title and they will also share it with the Marion Wildcats after their 40-7 win over Carbondale. Althoff also had a shot at a share, but fell to Cahokia 56-6.
Scoreboard:
- Benton 31 Murphysboro 19
- Cahokia 56 Althoff 6
- Carterville 49 Pinckneyville 14
- Charleston 30 Mt Zion 27
- Chester 12 Red Bud 7
- Collinsville 15 Champaign Centennial 14 (OT)
- Columbia 28 Breese Central 27
- Dupo 36 Sparta 12
- East St Louis 26 Edwardsville 7
- Effingham 17 Mater Dei 0
- Eldorado 48 Christopher 28
- Fairfield 48 Edwards County 0
- Hamilton County 74 Vienna 30
- Harrisburg 42 Herrin 14
- Highland 56 Mascoutah 0
- Hillsboro 28 Piasa 14
- Jerseyville 42 Civic Memorial 0
- Johnston City 37 Carmi 28
- Lincoln 52 Taylorville 19
- Madison 18 Anna 13
- Mahomet Seymour 47 Mattoon 14
- Marion 40 Carbondale 7
- Mount Vernon 35 Centralia 7
- Nashville 28 DuQuoin 21
- O’Fallon 52 Alton 0
- Olney 28 Newton 21
- Pana 42 North Mac 21
- Red Hill 36 Lawrenceville 12
- Robinson 40 Paris 21
- Roxana 35 Wood River 27
- Salem 21 Freeburg 14
- Sesser 28 Flora 12
- Staunton 27 Gillespie 12
- Trenton Wesclin 20 Carlyle 19
- Triad 28 Waterloo 13
- Vandalia 57 Litchfield 18
- West Frankfort 42 Massac County 21
