The Salem Wildcats fell to 0-2 on the football season losing at Benton 56-0. Salem’s opening drive of the game was their best, driving inside Rangers territory only to turn the ball over which led to the first of many Benton scores. After a 7-0 first quarter, the Rangers exploded for 34 points in the 2nd quarter setting up a running clock for the entirety of the 2nd half.
Marquis Ettress earned the start at tailback for the injured Trey Clark. The sophomore carried it 13 times for 46 yards. That was most of Salem’s offense on the night. The Rangers were led by senior quarterback Tiffin Kouzoukas who rushed for a touchdown and threw for 3 more.
Salem will open up their home schedule next week at Jim Finks Field when they host Mt Zion.
Orphans Fall Just Short After Dominant 2nd Half At Collinsville
The Centralia Orphans trailed 14-0 at the halftime break and 21-6 in the 2nd half at Collinsville, but CHS never gave up and cut the deficit to 21-19 with a chance to take the lead with under 40 seconds left, but missed a 31 yard field goal and dropped to 1-1 with the 21-19 loss. The Orphans only had 33 yards of total offense at halftime. In the 2nd half they had 182 yards rushing and 85 yards through the air to finish with 311 yards of total offense. Collinsville had 199 yards in the first half and only 58 yards in the 2nd half. Orphans junior Mike Brown broke rushes for 65 yards and then a 49 yard run with a couple of touchdowns. Archie Goewey was 10-20 for 126 yards, Brown finished with 26 carries and 176 yards with 2 touchdowns. Xavier Koch had 8 catches for 98 yards. The Orphans will head to Waterloo next week.
In other Friday night action, Althoff shutout St Teresa 61-0 with Oregon commit Dierre Hill Jr scoring 3 times on rushes of 92 and 71 yards as well as a 97 yard kickoff return for a score.
Wood River lost to Civic Memorial 21-8.
In the Milk Bowl 2024, Breese Central routs Mater Dei 49-13.
Carterville beat Nashville 20-16, Flora beat Christopher/ZR 27-24, Freeburg over Jerseyville 41-7, Mount Vernon over Carbondale 31-20 to open the South Seven, Olney nipped Mattoon 24-22, Triad upset Mt Zion 17-10, Roxana over Red Bud 57-26 and in the Route 3 Rivalry, Waterloo beat Columbia 31-14.
Scoreboard:
Ballard Memorial, Ky 44 Massac County 28
Althoff 61 St Teresa 0
Belleville East 28 Pekin 21
Benton 56 Salem 0
Bethalto CM 21 EAWR 8
Breese Central 49 Mater Dei 13
Carmi 52 Hamilton County 29
Carterville 20 Nashville 16
Casey 28 El Paso-Gridley 14
Charleston 25 Paris 18
Chester 56 Pinckneyville 6
Collinsville 21 Centralia 19
Confluence, Mo 26 Sparta 6
DuQuoin 28 Harrisburg 14
Effingham 26 Mt Carmel 22
Fairfield 28 Eldorado 12
Flora 27 Christopher/ZR 24
Freeburg 41 Jerseyville 7
Greenville 41 Hillsboro 7
Highland 42 Mahomet Seymour 41
Johnston City 56 Edwards County 0
Lawrence Central, Ind 22 Edwardsville 21
Litchfield 30 Piasa 6
Marion 51 Granite City 0
Mount Vernon 31 Carbondale 20
Olney 24 Mattoon 22
Pana 26 Carlinville 14
PBL 42 Newton 7
Quincy 42 Alton 13
Roxana 57 Red Bud 26
SHG 43 Mascoutah 22
Taylorville 34 Robinson 0
Triad 17 Mt Zion 10
Troy Buchanan, Mo 55 O’Fallon 20
Vandalia 36 Staunton 14
Waterloo 31 Columbia 14
West Frankfort 34 Herrin 12
