The Salem Wildcats are 2-1 after a 29-7 beating of visiting Mattoon Friday night. Trey Clark rushed 18 times for 176 yards and 1 touchdown. Kaeden Bevolo went 12-of-17 for 210 yards and 2 touchdowns, both to Kyler King from 57 and 24. King caught 5 balls for 140 yards. Andrew Greene also had a rushing touchdown. Salem’s defense was very good, as Max Vincent was in the backfield most of the game, and helped Salem with a safety and another sack. Salem outgained Mattoon 448-151 in total yards as the Cats will play their first ever SI River to River game next week at Harrisburg.
The Centralia Orphans are 3-0 after their 50-7 pounding of visiting Jerseyville to Evers Field. Centralia scored the first 23 points of the game. Ja’Shawn Staples and Coooper Green had 2 touchdowns each on the ground and Archie Goewey was 16-25 for 124 yards with 2 scoring passes, one to Dre Hooper and the other to Kenny Bratton. Centralia outgained the Panthers 363-131 in total yards. Centralia improves to 2-0 in the Cahokia Conference with a showdown against 3-0 Freeburg next Friday in Freeburg.
Friday Scoreboard:
- Belleville East 54 Althoff 14
- Benton 28 Murphysboro 13
- Cahokia 20 Mt Zion 7
- Carlyle 47 Havana 35
- Carmi 16 Hamilton County 14
- Carterville 42 Charleston 28
- Centralia 50 Jersey 7
- DuQuoin 35 Herrin 20
- East St Louis 24 Gainesville, Georgia 21
- Flora 31 Christopher 0
- Freeburg 54 EAWR 0
- Greenville 28 Carlinville 21
- Harrisburg 49 Red Bud 13
- Highland 56 Mascoutah 52
- Hillsboro 67 Gillespie 0
- Johnston City 67 Edwards County 0
- Marion 60 Belleville West 20
- Massac County 34 Anna 6
- Morgan Park 32 Edwardsville 15
- Mt Carmel 29 Robinson 13
- Nashville 42 Wesclin 7
- Triad 41 Sycamore 7
- Troy Buchanan, Missouri 21 O’Fallon 0
- Waterloo 31 Columbia 7
