The Salem Wildcats dropped their final road trip of the season, losing at Columbia 38-8. In the loss, Salem senior Miking Ettress had a career game catching 8 balls for 193 yards including a 74 yard catch and run for a score in the 3rd quarter that made it a 2 score game. That would be most of Salem’s offense as they only rushed for 57 yards. Kaeden Bevolo finished the night 13-of-24 for 237 yards and that one score. For the Eagles, quarterback Mason Voegele was impressive on both sides of the ball, as he was 11-of-15 throwing the ball for 111 yards and he also had a pair of interceptions on defense. Jase Nelson and Logan Hicks combined to rush for 310 yards; with Nelson going for 158 and 3 touchdowns, Hicks 152 yards and a 66 yard score. Voegele even added 46 yards on the ground as the Eagles rushed for nearly 400 yards. Salem returns home for the final two weeks as they will honor 100 years of Wildcats football next Friday against Freeburg before hosting Charleston in Week 9 for Senior Night.
Breese Central improved to 7-0 for the first time in school history as the #1 ranked Cougars beat Roxana 35-6. Freeburg knocked off East Alton Wood River 40-16 as the Midgets will head to Jim Finks Field next week.
Orphans Fall On Senior Night, Head To Rival Mount Vernon Next Week
Centralia lost to Cahokia in a South 7 Showdown 28-17 on Senior Night. With the Comanches up 8-0, the Orphans would get a 21-yard field goal from Caiden Taylor and it was 8-3 after the first quarter. After Cahokia took a 14-3 lead 3-minutes into the 2nd quarter, neither team would score again until the 9:52 mark of the 4th when Cahokia made it 20-3. Centralia got their first touchdown of the night when Keaton Morgan ran it in from a yard out and then 3 minutes later Xavier Koch would score on a 69 yard TD reception cutting the deficit to 20-17. Cahokia though got a score 15 seconds later to put it away. Centralia falls to 4-3 on the year and 2-1 in the league. They will play at rival Mount Vernon next Friday night. Cahokia is 6-1 overall and 4-0 in the Conference.
Jashawn Staples rushed for 305 yards with 5 touchdowns in a school record performance as Mount Vernon routed Granite City 42-18.
Also in the South 7, Carbondale stepped out of conference and beat Soldan, Missouri 53-8.
Althoff tailback Dierre Hill Jr had first half touchdown runs of 99 and 85 yards as the #1 ranked Crusaders routed Mater Dei 46-6.
Brody Diekemper had 214 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns in Carlyle’s win over Sparta 34-22.
Flora beat Hamilton County 20-8, Olney and Paris were tied 20-20 at the half, but Olney exploded in the 2nd half for a 64-36 win and improved to 7-0.
Friday Scores:
Althoff 46 Mater Dei 6
Benton 62 West Frankfort 18
Breese Central 35 Roxana 6
Cahokia 28 Centralia 17
Carbondale 53 Soldan, Mo. 8
Carlyle 34 Sparta 22
Carmi 48 Edwards County 6
Carterville 50 Massac County 18
Chester 48 Dupo 14
Collinsville 48 Marion 38
Columbia 38 Salem 8
DuQuoin 49 Anna 8
East St Louis 41 Alton 0
Edwardsville 20 Belleville East 10
Fairfield 68 CZR 7
Flora 20 Hamilton County 8
Freeburg 40 EAWR 16
Greenville 28 Carlinville 0
Highland 14 Triad 7
Mahomet Seymour 49 Effingham 0
Marshall 33 Lawrenceville 10
Mascoutah 42 Jerseyville 35
MEL 33 Hutsonville 8
Mt Vernon 424 Granite City 18
Mt Zion 42 Charleston 10
Murphysboro 47 Harrisburg 13
Nashville 49 Pinckneyville 17
North Mac 27 Piasa 20
O’Fallon 18 Belleville West 15
Olney 64 Paris 36
Pana 41 Gillespie 14
Robinson 35 Newton 28
Sesser Valier 40 Eldorado 14
Staunton 14 Litchfield 13
Taylorville 21 Mattoon 7
Trenton Wesclin 28 Red Bud 22
Vandalia 47 Hillsboro 20
Waterloo 41 Civic Memorial 0
