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Highland was a winner over Wisconsin Heights, 22-20.
Belmont over Kigaboo Lefarge, 48-0.
North Crawford got the win against DeSoto, 38-6.
High school football on the schedule for tonight.
Salk Prairie at Baraboo.
Reedsburg is at New Berlin West.
Grafton at Mount Hurah, Barnaville.
Edgerton at Broadhead, Judah.
Peccatonica Argyle visits Deerfield.
Southwestern East Abucos, Blackhawk, Warren.
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Benton Co-op is at River Ridge, Cubisity of Potosi, Westby at Royal, Cashton at Wozika, Steuben, Seneca, Dodgeville at Mineral Point, Plantville visits, Mauston.
Prairie Dushina to Aquinas, Lancaster at Belleville, Fenimore at Iowa Grant, Hillsborough is at Bosquebell, Evansville at River Valley, Richland Center visits Verroqua, and Ithaca-Weston is at Riverdale coming up.
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So we got scrimmage film and a couple of coaches and I went up to watch their scrimmage in person.
They're a program that graduated a lot last year.
I think they bring back four returners on O&D, you know, and so they're gonna be a very young team.
Overall, I think their program's got about 25 kids total in it.
You know, and so we've been there before, we know how hard that is, right, to just quality look and practice, but I mean, they're going to put a product on the field that they think that they're going to have success with.
And so I would look for a lot of fullback belly, you know, and then off of that, you're going to have an option look, some sweeps on the outside, right?
And they're going to try to lull you to sleep and then throw the long ball, you know, and anytime a team has a home opener, they're going to be jazzed and they're going to be ready to go and put on a show for their home crowd.
So.
So
we
know that it's not going to be a cakewalk.
We know we're going to have to come in and we're going to have to stay disciplined, right?
And run our schemes and then do what we need to do.
So that's been the message this whole week is, you know, we control what we control, right?
And those are the intangibles that we're going to focus on.
Yeah, absolutely.
So there's a lot of experience that we're going to put back on the field.
And so I think that's the thing that'll be nice for Hornet football is that we're not.
There might be some new guys and new spots or old guys and new spots, I should say, you know, but overall collectively we will be one of probably the most experienced teams we have to receive this year.
Coach Andy Troxell, the Hornets headed to Verrocua tonight for a game in the first night of action, the nine week high school football schedule and then the playoffs for the teams that qualify after that River Valley has a home game tonight against Evansville and here is coach Tyler McClain talking about them.
Again, they're a very good squad as they were last year.
I do know they lost a couple guys up front, but they got some athletes on the outside.
They got their QB attorney who's a good athlete as well.
Again, they'll be a really good competition for us, and I think a really good measuring stick for us as we kind of progress throughout the season.
What do you think the strengths of the team will be this year?
What do you anticipate?
I do think there is a little bit of unknown with our guys right now, and I think that's exciting.
I do believe in our front right now, our offensive line.
We've been really trying to simplify and make things a little bit more consistent for our guys up front.
Each and every day I've seen improvement from them, so I'm excited to see that group kind of develop throughout the year.
Do you name captains at this point in the season?
We haven't named any captains quite yet.
We're potentially looking at potential to do a little bit of rotation just because on our squad now we kind of expect leadership from everybody on our team.
Well said, and injuries have you been able to be healthy in the first couple of weeks of the season?
We had a couple guys just get tweaked up a little bit, but going into this right now we're again fully healthy right now.
You know kind of bugs here and there, but for the most part we're pretty healthy.
Here's the million dollar question.
Southwest Conference, who do you think the teams to beat will be?
I mean, obviously, with Nuglar, it's leaving.
And then you kind of look at the last year's conference winner as well on Prairie to Sheen.
I think everybody kind of circles Prairie to Sheen as well.
But I'm going to kind of sound like a broken record here, as I said last year.
I think everybody in our conference is going to be a good team.
I think in each and every week, it's going to be a highly competitive game.
So I'm just kind of excited to kind of get rolling and do it.
I think there's a little bit of an unknown as well with every team, too.
So it should be some exciting football coming down the line here.
Yeah, absolutely.
makes it even more fun especially for the casual fan is that you know kind of that unknown each and every week and sometimes those scores don't necessarily surprise you right.
Yeah, again, like there's there's a lot of teams that I think lost a lot of guys, but I also think a lot of teams are bringing up some good talent coming up and through.
So again, each and every week when you look at those scoreboards, some might surprise you and some might be kind of the expected as well.
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Tonight Riverdale is playing host to Ithaca Weston.
The game is coming up on WRCE.
I spoke earlier this week with coach Kyle Kelly of Ithaca Weston about how last week's scrimmage went as they traveled to River Ridge.
I thought things went really well.
Like I said, it was awesome.
Good competition.
Obviously in the scrimmage, you don't really get a game plan a whole lot.
So sometimes you're going to go well.
Some things are not going to go so well.
But I thought more things went good than bad.
Overall, I was really impressed by how they went.
No, you don't do special teams or anything bad at the scrimmage, but you don't really have film on their scheme.
You kind of just wing it and hope you guess correctly.
The best they've been in quite a few years.
We have 29 kids out.
It's going excellent.
It's been a lot of fun.
Yeah, it's going as good as it could possibly go.
Well, there's me, and then there's Brett Maxwell, who's the brains behind the operation.
And then there's Marcus McCulley, who's helping from Weston.
And Chad Claire has been helping out some here and there, too, which has been pretty cool.
We're at Weston for the entire month of August and then we'll come back down to Ithaca during the school year in September 1st.
You'll see the other teams ideas from Scrimmage and kind of just go off of what you think is going to work for you.
Yeah, that's always fun.
Like I said, it's a rivalry, but in a good way.
It's good to have those kind of games, but definitely probably a little more fire from both sides.
It's good to start the season off with a good game like that.
How did the team look at the scrimmage last Friday?
You know, we competed against two really good teams with Mawsten and Royal Royal did well last year.
I think they're five and four made the playoffs.
Mawsten struggled a little bit in their league, but they're a Division 4 team.
They gave us everything that we could handle and we rose to the occasion.
When you look at scrimmages, what are some main things that you're looking for from your team?
Well number one every program is going to say this can we come out healthy?
And then we got a lot of the first year kids some younger kids some newer kids some really good meaningful reps Our office looks solid There's some decision-making things that we'd have to do with some of our plays and the defense looked really really good
What about numbers for Riverdale this year?
How do they look
Jeff?
You know, this is probably the largest
Team that we've had in maybe a decade or I think 29 29 kids Showed up for camp.
We had a couple that have kind of gone Their own direction, but we're above 25 We'll have a full varsity reserve team for a couple weeks and then we adjusted some junior varsity scheduling But our varsity team is really solid
Sounds good.
And what do you think the team's strong points will be this year
senior leadership we have seven
returning seniors from last year.
I think we had 15 total positions returning that started last year with a lot of two-way players, but our senior leadership is as good as I've been around in a long time.
Well, a lot of those players be kind of playing the same positions they played last year.
Yes, just almost every single position has a returning kid in the same position except for maybe one or two.
Otherwise, we're pretty solid.
So what will it take for Riverdale to maybe surprise some teams in the league this year and come around?
What's it going to take for you guys to take that next step?
Well, in our league, we have Potosi and Blackhawk are always number one and number two.
Sometimes a team like that can make a mistake and still bounce back.
We have less room for error, less room for mistakes.
We have to be sound in everything we do.
If we control the line scrimmage.
every coach will stay and don't turn the ball over.
I think we'll be in every single game.
And now stay with us.
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From Pickering Park in Muscaday, hello everyone.
It's high school football time again.
We're all fired up.
I'm Phil Meek.
Kirk Thompson's in the booth.
How are you doing, Kirk?
I'm doing great, Phil.
Can't beat this time of year.
I'm sure everybody looks forward to it.
You got opening Friday night, high school football.
Everybody thinks about doing.
And so it should be a great game tonight.
It definitely should.
And you look at both teams a little bit of a contrast.
Riverdale.
as a little bit more of veteran players and how many did you count for Ithaca Weston that are under class?
Well, I thought I counted 19, but math is not my major.
So hopefully I'm close.
But yeah, I think Riverdale has a little more experience coming in.
But Ithaca, of course, Ithaca Weston, I should be saying, they have a solid tradition.
They play well.
They're always well coached.
They're going to play a really good football game.
I think it's really going to be an interesting game, and it's kind of a big test for both teams to see where they stand to start the season.
Even I should have worn our leather jackets, but
I got rid
of mine a few years ago.
Nonetheless, you look at that, and Coach Kelly talked about it on the pre-game show.
Weston coming away from the eight player football and the situation with Wonny Walk and coming to Ithaca, I think there are probably some, especially old timers, they never thought they'd see the day.
Well, for sure.
I mean, if you're from Weston or Ithaca, I'm sure you never thought, you know, whatever number of years ago to Ithaca and Weston would be a co-op in football, just based on things they've done in the past at those schools.
But we're in changing times right now and you got to do what is best for your kids and your program.
And so by hooking up together, I'm sure they're looking to build and continue a solid football tradition.
from what i've learned uh... you know just following the school in uh... in softball and last year in girls basketball and track the students don't care
there's anything and right they don't know about long long ago rivalries
and
exactly and you get together and uh... you know for a common cause that you know wrestling has been very successful for sure for both schools
for sure
so
yeah i'm sure about that once they get the kick going in the pad flying and tackle being made
co-op thing will be second fiddle, I think.
Absolutely.
And then concerning Riverdale, yeah, a lot of players back.
You've got some skill and some speed per coach, Jeff
Jones.
Oh, for sure.
I think, you know, I don't want to pick out certain guys, but having done it that quarterback, you know, is a great athlete.
You got Owen Blankenship, Landon Kenyon, just to name a few in the backfield.
But again, you know, when you're going to see how your season is going to go, it oftentimes is going to come down to offensive line, who's strong up front.
And I think both teams will be solid.
I think Riverdale has some experience coming back on the line.
So that might be the difference here tonight.
You
bet.
Yeah, you bring up a good point.
I mean, you could have Tom Brady back there at quarterback
and
he's prime.
But if you don't have a line,
you know,
tough sledding.
That's one of the things.
And you know this, not to take too much time.
But if you don't have that offensive line, you're not going to have a good football team.
You've got to be strong up front on both sides of the ball on the line.
And the poor lineman never get in.
You don't see a headline like offensive lineman makes a key block.
It's always a kid that scores a touchdown.
Often times get overlooked, but I think they're the difference makers.
No doubt about it.
We're going to take time out here.
Looks like National Anthem time is coming up here prior to game time tonight.
I think the Riverdale Cup band, they
assemble a
little
bit.
Jason Troxel got him going here.
I know it's early in the season for them too, but he's got a crew here and I'm sure they'll do a great job.
It's always great to have music a part of it as well.
Let's join our National Anthem.
Good job by the Riverdale High School Pep Band of the kickoff of the 2026 season of Beck right here on WRCE FM 107.7 in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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teams are being introduced here.
Riverdale Defense is being introduced.
You had to go with them trying to get out there as a team, and they did, and they're huddled up in the middle of the field.
Riverdale announced individually.
So we'll
see.
Did you see who has the ball?
I was going to say that, but I messed up on that.
I've been getting paid at all here.
I should be knowing this joke.
I'm just thinking the same thing.
I never did look at who won the toss and who's kicking off and receiving.
I'm going to guess knowing Coach Johnson that he's probably going to want to play defense first.
So I'm going to guess that Riverdale is going to kick off and I think he's going to receive.
OK, we'll see if I'm right or
not.
And one of the keys, too, is the offseason.
A lot of times, games are one in the weight room, aren't they?
Oh, for sure.
You've got to
put the work in.
I'm sure both teams put a lot of time in.
You do a lot of different programs, a lot of incentives.
But it's tough getting them.
You've got to get your summer.
Yeah, if you can get in the weight room, you can sustain that, make a little bit of progress.
It makes a big difference, especially when you get in that third and fourth quarter.
And you got to reach down a little bit.
And I think that makes a big difference in your game.
Not as many are throwing 15,000 small square bales of hay.
No, that's kind of a thing of the past.
That used to be an easy weightlifting thing back in the day, right?
You just get to come to practice in the morning.
They'd go home, bail a hay, come back, rip, and then you'd have an evening practice.
Absolutely.
That's how it used to be.
And you live and learn because I made a mistake one year of pleading with Dan Rice.
I think it was his first year saying farm kids worked hard all day.
Maybe we can
give him a break tonight.
And of
course he did just
the
opposite.
I would doubt that Mr. Rice, Coach Rice, is going to give anybody a breather.
So live and learn
with that.
His breather would have been maybe one last.
ten-yard sprint after you got done with the hundred
yes
but I was whatever you want to call
yeah you'd run usually it ran up i think one ten and then
you know two twenties got exactly
down to ten hundred or something
yeah that's that would be the old school and here we got the flip so we didn't miss anything oh
we didn't
now they're doing it now if that's
something
new or something different yeah they're doing it they think they change it up here to last year so yeah so
Here they forgot to do it too.
We'll find out again.
That could be.
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Kickoff is coming up
here.
Kurt Thompson, though.
Who's getting the ball?
Yeah, Ithaca will be receiving.
Riverdale actually won the toss, I believe, from up here.
And they deferred.
And so they, Ithaca decided to take the football, which of course they would.
And then Riverdale will be kicking off here.
So we'll see all this game.
I believe Eli Campbell is the kicker.
He is a very good kicker.
I would not be surprised to see him if Coach is allowing him to.
I would not be surprised to see him launch one here down, probably inside the 10 yard line.
He's been kicking since his freshman year.
Yeah, he's good.
I mean, he's gone to a lot of camps, so I believe it.
One of the camps, the attendee at what, a 55 yard field goal?
Oh, well, so he can kick it.
So if
they're
sending
two men back deep to receive, looks like Briggs Maxwell is back.
Caden Keller as well.
They switched players the last minute.
Quintus Banker is back there now.
And so those are the two deep men.
for Ithaca Weston and Campbell circling and will kick off.
Riverdale facing the sunshine a little bit here.
Only briefly though.
Beautiful night.
Absolutely.
Here we go.
The season is underway as Campbell puts the toe in the ball, bounces away a banker, grabs it at the pin, cuts across around the 15 of the 20, spun around
and
upended right around the 26 yard line.
Yeah, Landon Kenyon made the first hit there, fell as he spun him and we're waiting to get the number on the second one.
I believe that was
I'm guessing that Miles Dailey, the freshman, I believe, finished it off, but could be a little off on that.
But Landon Kinney got the trip up and Riverdale followed with the herd to take him down.
Ithica Weston led by sophomore quarterback Jacob Keller.
And the fullback is Liam Rowan, the running back Landon Walmer, wide receivers Caden Keller and Quintus Banker.
And also we'll see, as mentioned, Landon Walmer, the tight end Spencer Nelson and Peyton Brown will set the linemen in just a moment.
First play from the Strimmage for Ithica Weston.
There's this map from center ball to 25.
They run left, going for a couple of yards.
Now, more to the 30, to the 34 yard line on a good, strong run by Liam Rowan.
Hi, Liam.
Ithaca looking to be in like a double-type wing T formation.
They went off tackle that time.
Riverdale had a host of players there led by Owen Blankenship to make the tackle after a gain of about eight.
Ben Otto is the center for the Ithaca Western team.
Hayden Burns, the right guard, the left guard is Isaiah Fargent.
Reed Wabschow and Mason Van Coulter are the left and right tackles.
Here we go, ball with the 33 yard line.
So that was a gain of about eight yards for Ithaca Western.
Blind up on the far hash mark, snap the keller, hands off, running up the gut and pushing for a first down it looks like out to around the 40 yard line if they give him forward progress there.
Yep, I think that was Landon Walmer.
It looked like a little inside trap move there.
A host of Riverdale players there for the tackle.
But if they could watch them picking up the first down.
Lots of experience there for Riverdale as well, as you look at their players on defense, including Ethan Cagle is there.
Coming in, I believe, Blake Dickman was right around the tackle as well, number 68.
Yep,
and Peyton Olson, the defensive tackle, senior number 56, was in on the tackle.
First down at the 40-yard line, Ithaca-Weston, there's flags flying everywhere, and the running back goes to the left side.
Liam Rowan
brought down on the far side.
I think we might have a little false start by Ithaca-Weston here, Phil.
I'm seeing this right.
And that's kind of one of your typical early season flaws, isn't it?
For sure.
You're just getting in the rhythm.
You've had three plays now.
The energy level's up.
You're hustling up to the line.
And oops, I'm not going a little early.
Backs it up five yards and the Ithaca-Weston will start again here with a first and 15 from the 35 yard line Just underway here at Pickering Park Beautiful shape.
I must say the
baseball infield looks good, too Yeah, you got to keep the infield.
You got to keep the baseball infield in shape.
Got to take care of the field the field.
Take care.
Take care you absolutely
first
from the 15, and there's a running back.
Now they're going to keep it themselves.
It's going to be a run from the near side.
Cutting around the right side, Jacob Keller.
And the quarterback is going to be almost to a first down.
Yeah, Bevin Dennis was a nice tackle.
Nice boot-like play by Jacob Keller to sophomore quarterback.
You did a nice job of play-faking.
Riverdale kind of flowed to the right.
He went to his right and picked up a first down.
We saw Jacob running in the left field for the Cousin
over the
Reds this summer, and I said,
that
young man is
fast.
Yeah, he's got some speed.
He made a nice job of play action, I'm sure.
Riverdale evaluating that, hopefully.
They're hoping that doesn't happen again.
Ball is right here on the 49 yard line, as we watch here from right around midfield.
There's the snap, handoff run in the left tackle, and over the pile there is number five, Liam Rowan.
Or a couple of yards to the 46
yard
line.
Bevan Dennis came up again with the tackle.
He was also assisted by junior Parker Bremmer
offensive line.
But again, Ithaca running a lot of traditional wing tee type of play.
That'd be like a little off tackle, what it called it, like I think in the old days, a 183.
But that's in the playbook, so we'll let that go.
Just trying to get a little ground control, I'm sure.
I would not be surprised to play action pass coming here pretty
soon.
Just in the Riverdale territory.
It's a 46 yard line.
It's a second down.
Six yards to go.
Ball between the hashes.
Snap the keller.
He's going to hand off to the fullback.
Cut on the left side.
Put the shoulder down.
Looks like a first down to around the 36 yard line on landed Walmers carry.
Nice job.
Good blocking up front by Ithaca.
They got a solid wall.
They're going a lot to their left, running off tackle there out of a double tight.
Riverdale rallied.
with the numerous guys in on the tackle, led by Ethan Cagle was there, and also Owen Blankenship.
Good job covering that one after the stoppage of play.
But so far, you think
the West didn't keep it on the ground?
Yeah, they are.
They're establishing, like we talked about in the free game, they're trying to get their offensive line rolling and trying to gain a little momentum control of the game.
First down at the Riverdale 37, handoff running up the gut, not much there.
Riverdale stacked some straight up.
and pushes them back right around the 36 yard line.
Nice job inside by Cameron Nelson, just a freshman.
Ithaca-Weston ran a little, if you want to call it a two-trap, a three-trap, a little inside trap where the guard pulls and tries to take the tackle out.
But Cameron stayed low, held a position, then linebackers rallied and held it pretty much one to two yard game.
Good block in the straight ahead there by Isaiah Fargent
for
Ithaca-Weston.
They did get more than I thought.
Looks like a couple
of yards.
Yeah, they did.
36 yard line of Riverdale and awaiting a snap is Keller taking a snap under center and off going to number five Liam Rowan cutting left tackle 35 to the 34 so about three yards.
Yep, nice job again.
Little off tackle to the offensive left Riverdale defensive right that time Chase Bremmer a junior slipped in to make the tackle.
Nice job out there.
There are a couple of Bremmer's
on the right.
Jason Parker.
Parker just happened to be coming out.
No, that's Peyton Olson, my fault.
OK.
I
thought you had new glasses.
I know I got to work on that.
They didn't help the eyes, though.
They're fogging
up.
It's a little muggy here tonight.
Third down play, 32 yard line at Riverdale for Ithaca Weston.
Five yards to go for a first down.
Keller's back to throw, coming to the near side, running into the flat, running, throws it low, and is caught by Ithaca Weston.
It's going to be a completion.
What a great catch by number eight Spencer
Nelson.
Spencer Nelson, a sophomore.
big target 6395 pounds Jacob Keller did a nice job of rolling out the pocket Riverdale has some good pressure and that was a well-defended play as the Riverdale defender was right there but he was able to thread the needle and made a nice two-handed grab and picked up the first down he just have to say hey that was really good play
yeah I you described it well I was gonna say how could Riverdale have defended it any
better
and that almost looked like a
College or pro level
test there by Nelson.
Yeah, you hope that maybe the Packers throw it out while they're
here.
We'll see.
They need some tight
end.
Well, let's not go there.
There's a first down from the 22 and now bootlegging to the near side and cutting into the right end is going to be Keller gets across the 20, down to the 19, it looks like.
That was a nice job.
You like Campbell that time.
He stayed home on the corner, forced the quarterback to cut it back into traffic.
And I believe it was Blake Dickman, then the senior.
who came from his defensive end spot to make the tackle.
I think a Weston has been on the drive.
They're eating up the clock.
2-6-30 remaining in the
first quarter.
Yeah, this is, you know, a lot of people like to throw the ball and all that, which is great and spread it.
But when you can control the ball and run the ball, you're also playing great defense because the other team doesn't have a chance to, you know, to go on offense.
So sure, that's what it's open to do.
Well, just across the 20 down to around the 19 of Riverdale, second down and seven.
That handoff going on the left side.
The Walmer kept the cross up tackle.
Oh,
he's up handed by Bevin
Denix
at
the play.
Bevin came up, again, running a little bit of just a straight off tackle to the left, the weak side.
Landon Kinney did a nice job of coming up and forcing that play.
And then Bevin came up and finished it.
Yeah, you know, at first I thought they were going to get more yardage.
They
only wind up with about a yard or so to the 18.
Riverdale did a good job on the edge there.
Closing that hole down forcing the cutback.
So here we go.
I think that was Cameron Nelson.
Forcing that back in.
So here we go third down in about six fill.
These are two big downs in the game here.
I double you running out of the shotgun.
There's the snap flags everywhere and probably a false start.
That
is the
call.
I think we had a little bit of movement.
I think Weston running on a quicker count.
But I think out here you had a couple of guys ready to go and he may have jumped a little early.
I think a Western running a quarterback squeak at all right at that time.
That's one of the things that just kind of kills momentum.
Yes, it does.
Because now you were in third in, we'll say, sixth.
And now you're in third and 11.
Third and sixth, you probably think we could make two runs here.
Get the first down.
Now you're going to have to maybe throw the ball.
We'll
see.
The ball is backed up to the 23 of Riverdale.
Play comes in.
Jacob Keller runs it in from the far sideline.
I'll get to go west.
And I think we're going to have a timeout.
514 remaining opening quarters.
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Tell
her back to throw Riverdale coming after him and he's going to be sacked all the way back at the 34 yard line.
Wow, good coverage by the Riverdale
team.
Huge play there.
Riverdale, Cale Johnson, their defensive coordinator, great coach.
He anticipated that rollout.
Eli Campbell was there.
put pressure on, force them back to the inside, and then post the Riverdale players there to make the sack, led by Blake Dickman.
So Ithaca Weston at one point was at the 18 of Riverdale, now they're back at the 34, and it's fourth down.
So fourth down, and what about 26 to go, wow.
Here we go.
Ball is going to be snapped.
They're going to go forward, it looks like.
Snap is made.
Keller back.
Pocket breaking down, rolling to the left side.
He's out on the flat, going to run it himself.
Keller is going to be up in it initially, then 30, down to the 25.
And he'll be stopped there by Riverdale.
Nice job by Riverdale forcing that back in.
You had land and canyon providing most of the pressure with Ethan Cagle then coming up and finishing it off around the 25.
So, wow.
You had Ithaca with us.
Ithaca-Weston with a seven over a seven minute drive.
Riverdale stops them around the 26th.
Now Riverdale goes on defense.
These
are
the games that move quickly.
Yeah, exactly.
Keep it
on the ground
alive.
Sure.
And so far it has.
No score in the ball game.
451 remaining.
Riverdale takes over.
On down.
Ball is marked at their own 26 yard line.
Heller did a good job of getting what he got
there.
He did a good job of rolling out.
So Riverdale on the offense.
And looking to throw it here, maybe we'll see.
They're running out of the shot.
I'm going to run it initially.
Devin Dennis is going to the left.
Cut to the 30.
Up to the 34.
Still spouting around.
40.
Cut across the field.
What a run.
He's coming left side.
He's got a lot of green in front of him.
Devin Dennis could go all the way.
Ithacore Weston's got an angle.
Dennis cutting towards the far side line.
Did he make it?
It is a touchdown.
Holy cow.
That happens a lot then.
It's a 74-yard run, basically just a quarterback.
You're running spread, and then you're running a little quarterback trap up inside.
I think there's a flag.
Oops.
Everybody's celebrating, and then on the far side, I saw one of the officials motioning
back.
Oh, no.
So they will come back to the near side.
If nothing else, hopefully they kept that on film.
That was an amazing run.
It's a tremendous run.
Now I got to regroup.
Unfortunately, a holding call around the 35, 36 yard line will have to come back 10.
That hurts.
Yeah,
it does.
And I'm not sure whether it did or not, but sometimes those calls don't have anything to do with the play.
He would have
made it anyway,
because he got out the flat
and did all the
work.
Yeah, he just was a tremendous run.
And now you just got to get your breath here.
That's a tough one to shake off because just executed a great play.
Now you're right back to where you started.
Right back in the 26th, back to 1st and
10.
1st and 10, yeah, just erased everything there.
431 remaining in the opening quarter, scoreless here in Muscaday and Riverdale lining up now.
The Evan Dennis, the QB will run out of the shotgun again.
Three wide receivers set, here is the handoff to the man in motion, Landon Kenyon tries to cut around the left side, spreads it out, going for nearly a first down and he may have gotten it.
Nice job by Landon, great run by Landon, great blocking up front, they steal the edge.
with Eli Campo out there sealing the edge.
Jessica Weston rallied, led by number eight, Spencer Nelson.
Knock him out of bounds, but it'll be second in about eight.
Yeah, Spencer read that really well, kept him out of bounds, about two yards short.
Ball has moved and the chains move a little bit to the 34 yard line now.
And Riverdale setting up here on the near hash mark, the Riverdale fans.
Side line.
Yep.
Evan Dennis has one man wide, now man in motion.
Again, that's Kenyon.
There is the handoff.
Nothing there.
Ithica Weston read it well, and they tackle him in the backfield.
Number 70, Hayden Byrne.
Nice job by Hayden Byrne, the sophomore.
He held his position.
It was a little read there, read option.
Oh, and Blankenship got the handoff, but Hayden Byrne sat in the hole, made the tackle.
Nice play by Ithica Weston.
Now we're at third and five.
So now it's getting back to kind of so far.
It's kind of old school football,
isn't it?
Yeah, just so you can win up front.
Two wide, now two left here and Bevin Dennis in the backfield looks things over awaiting the shotgun snap back to throw and follows it to the far side caught and dropped there.
It was intended for Eli Campbell.
Nice play broken up by Jacob Keller who came across the ball just getting to Eli's hand.
He got hit.
and knocked it loose.
Nice defense to play by Ithaca-Weston.
Riverdale now will probably punt.
Burns was up front again and that's off to Owen Blankenship who was hanging back there to block.
He gave his quarterback a little bit of room there.
For sure.
Was a good throw, just good defense.
So no score in the ball game.
Riverdale is 1-2-3 and a fourth down coming up here and whistles will stop play time out taken by the Chiefs.
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Three minutes, 40 seconds remaining in the opening quarter of football.
Interesting weather today when I was in Jacksonville agreeing to barely regularly for about 25 minutes.
Nothing here
tonight.
We got some around quarter to four.
It came down pretty good, then it stopped and the sun came out.
So it's always nice to have just a nice, no-worry night of football.
We don't have to worry about, we have to get done early, we have to do this and that.
Amen.
Right.
You've had a few of those over the
years.
Oh, for sure.
Awaiting the snap on the punt.
Riverdale on fourth down, there's the snap.
And putting a toe into it is Eli Kepbell.
Wow, a lot of hang time.
And Ithaca Weston back to receive it, caught there by Keller.
He gets by one tackler, then can't get around Devin Dennis who makes the tackle.
Nice job by Bevin, a great pump by Eli.
He got a lot of hang time, like you said.
Put it around the 25 yard line.
So we're looking at what, about a roughly 45 to 50 yard punt.
And then you got your quarterback, Bevin Dennis, up one down the field and making the
tackle.
Yeah.
Did you ever get involved in those punt pass and kick contests when you were
a kid?
No.
Well, we had them unofficially in our little community.
We had our own rules there.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, I never went to the major.
You always would watch them on half times.
Yes.
Eli would do
well.
Yeah, for sure.
All right, we're ready for Ithaca Weston now in offense.
The ball is on the 20 yard line,
their
own.
No score in the game.
Ithaca Weston, time of possession, dominant here so far.
But nothing to show.
There is a running play left flat.
They're going to cut a few up to around the 28 yard line.
I believe that was number four Keller of the quarterback running that ball.
Looks like Ethan Cagle came over to help on the tackle.
Yep, Bob McDonough's there also.
Ithica really like, they really like running to their left.
They see that there's their strength.
It's been really successful for them.
You know, they dominated the clock in the first, you know, the first drive of the game.
So both teams are looking for things to be successful with.
Yeah, good point.
Reed Wabschel out there at
West
Tackle leading the way on that one.
So this is one yard to go for a first down from the 29 and Ithaca-Weston bullying their way to around the 31 yard line for a first down.
Derby there by 34, Landon-Walmer, so it gives
I thought maybe he got it easily,
but there's
no marking of the first down yet.
They're going to measure.
They will.
All right.
Yeah, again,
we're
at
the angle.
I was talking to a couple of people earlier here from both sides, and they're like, it's hard to do stats from the booth
because
you
can't always
see in
the rocket
the yard markers.
I thought you'd have dollars.
NFL line on your radio.
We
should.
We should.
Wouldn't that be cool?
240 remaining in the opening quarter.
Looks like another timeout on the field.
240 remaining, no score.
Opening play, opening quarter of play.
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The measurement looks like Kurt was just a little short.
Just a little short.
Ithaca Weston going right to the line here as the chain gets set.
Third down and a yard.
Ball is marked to the 29 of Ithaca Weston.
You think you could go quarterback?
Sneak here, Phil.
Maybe.
Or you go to your full back.
Yeah, there it is.
Walmer.
And there.
Oh, he's going to get
more than that.
That is Walmer.
And he's going to roll
and slide to the 41 yard line.
Looks like another nice run.
That was really nice.
Sometimes those happen, right, Phil?
On short yardage, he had to pull back, found a crease.
He popped it.
It was miles daily.
Freshman came across with.
James Schramm also there, excuse me, to make the tackle.
It was James Schramm that came off the corner spot to make the tackle.
First down at the 40.
Yeah, Walmer, a sophomore and 190 pounds.
Yeah.
He's solid.
He ran the ball effectively again, going to their left.
Seems to be what they like to do here.
As they place the ball, 208 remaining here in the opening quarter of football.
Onto the field comes Bricks Maxwell, number seven for Ithaca Weston.
They can switch here on the next play.
just the freshman.
Yes, he is.
There are several freshmen for both teams contributing tonight,
and I believe they've taken another time out.
Yeah, you could see that coming.
You're trying to do some different things, and you've got to make sure you're right.
First game of the year.
You know, you had a scrimmage, yeah, but that's a scrimmage.
In the first game, you got a lot of little things ironed out.
No doubt.
Well, we'll keep it here for this one.
153 remaining in the opening quarter of football, no score.
Did you
ever play on this field?
I never played here, not in high school, no.
We never came down this way when I was at Weston.
We'd always be, you know, the northern, you know, the 20 walks and all that, Hillsboro and all that stuff.
It's because sometimes, depending on if you're still in the scenic gloves or the original, you know.
Yeah, that did change for a while.
Scenic central for a while.
Yes, we played here
a
couple of times, would have been here and there.
And basketball, Ithaca and Riverdale played, I think when I was a senior we played three times because you
played in the
first round of the sub-regional,
played two non-conference games.
I have some 16 millimeter football film that go back to 1970, also 1966.
I'd like to see that if somebody wants to look.
Timeout is over and there's Walmart getting the ball going left side.
Not so easy starting this time as it breaks down and he is brought down behind the line.
Nice shot by the Riverdale defense that time, stood their ground.
You're looking at Peyton Olson was there and Cameron Nelson as they stacked it up and they got a little linebacker help and they held that pretty much no game.
Second down and 10 yards to go for Ithaca-Weston.
Minute 25 remaining opening quarters.
Scoreless here on a Friday night.
Lights are now being more effective.
Yep.
It gets to be thumbed down officially.
There's this snap.
Keller takes it, the quarterback runs it
near side,
follows a block from Walmer, goes over the line, only got about a yard or
so.
Nice job by defense.
I know Bevin Dennis is going to get the tackle there, but all-in-blankin' chip does what you want.
He keeps his outside shoulder free, force the rudder, Jacob Keller cut it back inside, Bevin Dennis came up with the tackle.
Nice job.
Third down and about eight yards to go for Ithaca Weston.
Ball is right around the 42 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
45 seconds remaining here in the opening quarter.
This is where the, I know it's the first quarter, but it's a little humid.
Oh, it's 75 degrees.
It's your first game.
So all that energy you had coming in now, it's like, okay, you're gonna have to reach down and kind of get mental toughness.
And now you got three quarters to go.
Four wide receiver set, Keller rolling, he fakes the throw, now tucks it, and now he is spun around and a couple of other Riverdale players bringing down
Right around the line of scrimmage.
Nice job by Ethan Kago.
He got outside, forced a spin back, Riverdale doing a better job of containing, and will probably force a Ithaca-Weston punt as the quarter is going to wind out.
Yeah.
So a good quarter of football and some smash-mouth football back and forth here, and we're down to the final second.
That'll do it.
One quarter in the books.
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It is a fourth down coming up here for Ithaca Weston.
They switched sides and it looks like they will put it
Kurt.
Yep, Briggs Maxwell, the freshman looks to be finding Phil.
He got Bevin Dennis back.
I think you're Ithaca Weston.
You're probably going to try to pun it away from him.
He had a big play in the first quarter that caught called back.
There's the snap and Maxwell hangs went over the left side and it's going to bounce near the out of bounds line and
it's going to stay in bounds.
Bevin gets
away from it down to buy Ithaca Weston number 11 Peyton Brown.
Yeah, nice pun.
Got it off.
Angled it to his left side.
And now Riverdale takeover.
Interesting first quarter.
You had Ithaca Weston pretty much dominating time possession as they moved the ball down the field, but then just came up a little bit short.
And then, of course, Riverdale scoring on the big play, then get back.
It's called back.
So you're back to even, and you're in a new quarter.
And see what happens here.
See what happens.
Yeah, back to it here.
New start.
Riverdale has been but not broken and they've got the ball around 19 yard line.
Seven Dennis looks it over man in motion Dennis takes a snap and kind of does some side roll into the left side.
He's going along the line of scrimmage down to the 30 34 up to the 40 to the 50 and then out of bounds just to the ethical lesson territory.
Nice shot by Bob and I think you'll see in my opinion and I'm not the coach but in my opinion I think you'll see a lot more of that as they spread him out.
It was another nice move, nice blocking out front.
You don't have to open a huge hole for Bevin.
He knifed through it, and then Quintus Banker, the senior, came up and made a nice tackle on the sideline.
May have saved a touchdown.
Yeah, for sure.
Bevin was about one or two steps from breaking the sideline, but a nice play.
Ball is at the 48 yard line of Riverdale, a nice little breather there as they get out and get going here near midfield.
Dennis looks it over standing straight up takes a snap out of the shotgun quarterback option pitches to the right side Cutting here and his blanket ship brought down
right around the
line of scrimmage by Ithaca West.
Yep.
Nice job ran a little option there.
Bevin pitched it Just good defense you had Number eight Spencer Nelson rallying up the sophomore and then you had Briggs Maxwell I believe the freshman and they doubled up out there made a nice tackle an open field
Second down and eight yards.
He did get a couple of yards on that.
Ball at the 46 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
Just into IW territory.
Dennis remains out of the shotgun.
Two men lie to the right.
There's the snap.
Back to throw.
Pocket breaks down.
He's going to whip on over the middle and incomplete.
Intended here for number 11, James Strand.
Yep.
Good idea.
They play actioned at the landing.
Took a shot deep.
James ran a nice route.
But just really nice defense by Caden Keller, the senior.
He is right there and would have taken a perfect throw to hit that one.
Jacob and Caden Keller,
they're not related.
You
know, you might think they're twins, but they're not.
We're both of
them.
No
kidding.
So that will bring up another chance for Riverdale with a third down and eight.
This is where, you know, whatever Coach Johnson's thinking here, but you probably want to pick up a few yards here.
Get yourself in that fourth down position or get it all, I suppose.
Bevin looks it over, he's got SRAM to his right, and then he's got full wide receivers.
Snap from center, and he's back to throw good protection.
Rolls near side, throws it over the middle, almost picks off.
Let's see if he got it.
Diving in there was Caden Keller.
They say he picked it off
one
handed.
Wow.
That was a nice flight, Bevin.
With the James, it came up just a little bit short.
With a tremendous diving catch by Caden Keller, is he able to cradle in with his right arm as he hits the ground.
And now, Ithica Weston picking up the game's first turnover.
We'll take over on their 26 yard line.
Great play.
That's a highlight reel there.
Yeah, for sure.
That was a great play.
But if you're Riverdale, it's almost like a punt.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, it was, you know, your third and eight, you got to do something with the ball.
Went down field, just came a little short this time.
So now you're back on defense.
Ball is marked at the 26 yard line.
Ithica Weston don't hand off running play up the gut as they go at it, as they did early in the
first quarter in a
game of about six yards.
for Liam Rowan.
Yeah, nice job again.
They ran a little trap play.
Just out of the year, textbook, wing key.
And Landon Kinney came up from his linebacker spot and made the tackle.
Second down and about six yards to go for the Ithaca Western team.
We are set for action here all season long.
This is the first of nine games, regular season.
And we're hoping that they're like
13 or 14.
Yeah, that'd be nice.
That means somebody makes a run in the playoffs.
For sure.
Second down, seven yards to go.
Ball around the 30 of Ithaca-Weston, handoff going to Walmer, and he comes around the left side, got a little room with the shoulder down.
First down, bumble, and the ball loose on the field.
And I think he got it back, or somebody
from Ithaca-Weston.
Looks like number 54 from Ithaca-Weston.
That would be Isaiah Barjan, right?
alertly pounced on the ball.
It would have been a first down, but it got kicked back.
So now Ithaca-Weston is looking at about a third and one and a half to.
So right now they'll huddle it up here, third and short yardage.
Riverdale's defense stepping up here, this first half continues.
And Ithaca-Weston in the huddle and breaking out now, heading to the line.
Think fullback to the left, Phil?
That worked
the other time they did it, right?
We'll see what happens.
34 yard line, and they're going to hand it full back left, and he's going to dive across, stretches out to around the 39 for a first down.
Nice tackle by Ethan Cagle, but again, Ithaca-Wesson's offensive line did the job, opened a slight crease, was able to pop it, you wanted a couple yards, you got a couple yards, now you've got a first down, Ithaca-Wesson continues to win the time of possession, just sticking to the ground.
First down from the 39 yard line of Ithaca-Weston and Jacob Keller running the play in from the far sideline.
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Ithaca staying with their pace.
So you notice they're always running around the same almost the same time.
First down play and the handoff up the gut run for number five Liam Rohn doesn't net much maybe to the 41.
Nice job of closing it down.
I think they're a rule he was down now.
Good job by River Hill though playing through the whistle.
Coach Johnson, when I coached with him a number of years ago, he was big in that on defense.
That ball is laying on the ground.
Everybody on defense is down my ball, my ball, my ball.
Maybe the official that time will switch.
Change his mind, but not that time.
You're campaigning
anyway.
Yeah, for sure.
Got to show enthusiasm.
Yep, second down, nine yards to go.
From the 41, Ithaca Weston, sending out a man far side, Kate and Keller, everybody else in tight, and the quarterback under center.
Nap to Keller, Jacob rolling on the option, keeps it himself off right tackle.
Doesn't get much, around the 42.
Good coverage by Riverdale Defense.
Ithaca, I think it was a design quarterback run with the option looked, but just a good job of rallying outside.
You got nice play again by Ethan Cagle out there.
turning it back in, holding this ground and Eli Campbell and the linebacking core rallying up.
Coming in from the far side line, Rowan and Keller, Kate and Keller into the mix for Ithaca-Weston, third down and eight yards to go from the 41 of Ithaca-Weston.
Peyton Brown cuts out to the right side, and under center is Jacob Keller.
Takes the snap, takes the handoff, rolling right side, following a good block.
Bros in the flat, it's caught out there on the left side by Caden Keller.
First down in the Riverdale territory, breaks free to the 40-yard line of Riverdale.
Nice tackle by Bevin.
Nice route run by Ithaca as they did a nice little out route.
And again, like you said, Jacob Keller rolled on time.
Not an easy pass to make, under some pressure, but it put it right on the hand.
and a big play there is that you could convert, you could go west and convert and have a first down around the 40s.
You're
running
game lots
of times.
Compliment
that
game, doesn't it?
I'm sure if you're Riverdale, you don't want him to get, you don't want that quarterback to get outside the pocket.
You want to hold him inside, but that's easier said than done.
First down ball in the 39 of Riverdale.
There's the snap handoff
going to
the far side and down the line.
Walmer into maybe first down territory again.
Again, running off that left side.
Basically a half-back dive, weak side.
I got a nice field block.
Oh, and Blankenship did a nice job of coming up from his linebacker spot to make the tackle.
But that's been the bread and butter so far for Ithaca Weston.
Exactly.
10 yards to the 29.
Yeah,
exactly.
740 remaining in the first half.
No score here at Pickering Park.
These two teams have met many times
over the years.
Well, for
sure.
It's been a lot of good games.
You bet.
There's a snap from center handoff running play.
That is going to be Walmer and he bounces off one gets into the pile for
a
yard or two.
Double on the stop.
That was Cameron in the fresh from that time.
You've read the down block.
So he said he's probably been coached.
That kid blocks down in front of you, squeeze down off the outside.
He came down, made an initial hit, but they still it's a Western.
They'll push forward for a couple more yards, but good play by the defense that time.
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6-50 remaining here in the first half, scoreless in Riverdale, and off going to Walmer.
Breaks one tackle, gets down, they got him by the jersey, and
then they drag him
down around the 21 yard line.
Both the players in on the tackle, Eli Campbell came up.
I think you got James Schramm coming up to make the hit.
But a really nice run by Landon Walmer, just a sophomore.
But like you said, 6'4", 190 pounds.
He was hit in the backfield, but just shrugged it off and got those yards after contact.
Think in the NFL because of the Yacht Yacht yards or whatever.
Yes.
Something like that.
Yacht yard.
Yeah, so nice run.
Now he's got Ithaca Wesson sitting in at all third and two.
Ball is right around the 20 yard line and Riverdale as the drive continues.
Just into the red zone, there's the hand up to Walmer, cutting left tackle.
He'll drag a couple
with him to
around the 18 yard
line.
On blankenship, Riverdale was anticipating that.
I don't know if you saw that, but they took the defensive end, put him inside, they planted down, and then on blankenship came around to make the tackle.
But by that time, it was too late, and it's go west and had the two yards to the first down.
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All right, so here we come to the decision time here, Phil.
This is where Ithaca Weston drove in the first half, right?
Yes.
First quarter, I mean.
And then Riverdale was able to rally, took advantage of a penalty.
So let's see who wins this red zone battle this time.
All right.
Jacob Keller under center, auto set
to
snap
the
ball.
Somebody
moved in the backfield
for Ithaca Weston.
Five yards penalty.
All right.
Those things happen.
Your high school football, you got a little early movement.
If you're the coach,
You're thinking, didn't we just do that?
It's almost since the replay.
So now
you're
sitting in person 15.
Similar thing that happened at the first big drive of the game.
So now you just got to go back to your playbook and say, hey, we've got four downs.
You have 15 yards.
This has to warm your heart.
Some kids playing baseball
out here.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that baseball never ends, right, Phil?
No,
it shouldn't.
All right, here we go.
First and 15 ball around the 21 yard line of Riverdale.
There's the snap.
They're going to throw it quickly.
And Caden Keller can't hang on on
the right
wing.
Yep.
Yep.
Sorry, Phil.
That's all right.
Yeah, they tried a quick little swing pass.
You know, trying to get it out there quickly and just didn't work out.
Second down and 15 stops o'clock with five can remaining.
Coming in with half time.
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That's always fun to look ahead.
Yep.
Every coach that leads the team to the field is optimistic.
Oh, for sure.
Tonight.
Oh, for sure.
You're undefeated.
Yep.
You bet.
Second and 15 for the Riverdale 21, Ithaca Weston.
There is the Keller running back, quarterback running to the left side over one,
and then a
pempted nice play by Riverdale right around the 18 yard
line.
That was James Sram.
James Sram, as you know, came up with two like all that.
two uh... like that i think like they don't know i thought uh... for the wrong part of a lot like that yeah he came in a really nice play it was well-designed play james was the difference between you know uh... four-yard gain in a touchdown he came in a nice tackle good call it could often call play at the west and good defense by riverdale
actually lose a yard third down and eleven yards to go though if it a western is in committee they will break out
at the
head of the line pate brown and kate keller on the right side
Keep an eye on those two guys.
And auto up to snap the ball.
Jacob Keller under center.
There is the snap.
Rolling to the right side.
Follows the block from
Goes left side.
by Riverdale down around the goal line.
Nice hit by Riverdale.
Standing in and pulling it down.
That was number 11, right, James Shram?
15.
15.
It
was hard to see from there because it got the car away.
But yeah, that's Miles Dailey, the freshman.
It was a good throw that, if you would have got it, like you said, like another foot or two.
Maybe it goes for a touchdown, but Miles steps in front, made a nice pick of freshman.
And Ithaca comes up short here around, what did you say, about the five?
Yeah, it was.
As he
caught it, maybe he took a couple of steps, but that's where Riverdale takes back over.
Glad to have the ball.
It's a tough spot to be in, but they like the ball in their hand.
from their own five shotgun snap, Evan Dennis running to his right side, cut along the line, and now out of bounds on the near side.
Yeah, that's that little quarterback straw, or what do you want to call it, out of the spread.
And it's a Weston had a host of players, five, six guys rallying up there, forcing him out of bounds for about a five-year game.
So the quarter and half have been going quickly, 4-11 remaining here in the half.
You look at this, both teams have
put out a lot of energy so far.
Oh, for sure.
I mean, Ithica West, you're Ithica West, and you've had two huge drops in both times.
You just came up a little bit short and Riverdale now trying to put something together
here.
4-11 remaining in the half.
There's the snap from center.
Dennis got to run it himself, going left side, and then brought down immediately by Isaiah Farge in the company.
Yeah, really nice shot by the interior of the Ithica West in defense.
He had a number of guys, like you said, led by Isaiah Farge, and rallying to the football and holding Bevin for maybe a one-yard game.
We're looking at third and four.
Yeah, this is old-fashioned football.
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
Some people like high-scoring games.
You probably like this kind of game.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I'm sure some people that watched when I coached said, oh, let's throw the ball once in a while.
But yeah, we used to do a lot of running the football.
Ball is right around the 11 yard line Riverdale's own and they have about four yards to go.
There's a path
completely behind the line of skimmage and the receiver runs forward, gets all the way to the 20 yard line.
First down for Landon Gignan.
Yeah, well-designed play there.
That's right out of a Green Bay Packard playbook, right?
Yeah.
You put a couple of receivers outside, you put your best, you're one of your fastest guys behind them.
Hope they throw good blocks and you make a cut and you got a first down.
So well-designed, a nice shot by Ithacadol.
also rallying up Ithaca-Weston, rallying up to make the tackle, led by, like you said, number two, that was Quintus Banker.
Awaiting a snap from center, Bevin Dennis looking.
Ithaca-Weston trying to get into position for the motion man, and now Dennis is going to hand off on the near side in a running play around the right side for a few yards for Riverdale
out
for, let's see, about
five yards.
Yup, that was Landon Kenyon on the carry.
Again, Ithaca's done a really nice, Ithaca-Weston has done a really nice job of sealing.
and not letting the Riverdale ball carrier get to the outside.
That time, Caden Keller was able to turn it back, and then Jacob Keller came up and made the tackle.
Riverdale kind of in the up-tempo mode
now
as the clock runs down, back to throw his den of sidearms.
It's
caught by number two, and then broken
out
there.
But a
big hit by Ithaca Weston.
And time is called.
That was number five on the tackle, Liam Rowan.
Yeah, if you did a nice shot, Liam.
Landon had to reach back a little bit for the ball, but then Liam Rowan came flying across at 6'1, 200 pounds a senior and made a nice hit and broke it up.
So now you're looking at third and sixth.
In fact, I think Kenyon came out.
I think his helmet might have had a little issue.
So you bring him to the sideline and I think the timeout has been taken here.
No score.
2-30 remaining in the opening half.
Third down for Riverdale.
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No store in the ballgame, 230 remaining first half here.
They'll lay along with Kirk Thompson for the action here tonight.
And we've been treated to a good ball game.
Oh, really?
I mean, it's two teams.
You know, you can't get much evener than we are.
Both, I think, are showing what they want to do.
And now it's all about, can you get it done?
And so both teams have made some really good defensive plays and offensive plays.
But a big third and six here at 2.30, as a coach, you're thinking, OK, do we put it up in the air?
Do we risk it?
Or do we just punt it and make it to drive it?
So, decision time right here.
We'll see what they do.
And both coaches playing fairly close to the vest here.
This game goes to them.
Bevin Dennis will be operating out of the shotgun.
As Kirk mentioned, third and sixth ball at the 25 in Riverdale.
Dennis takes the snap, rolling right side looking to pass.
Rows
of the
middle caught here by number 11, James
Shravity's brought down near first down.
Nice shot by James.
Nice design play.
Yeah, two people go deep and then James curled underneath.
Bevin rolled out, hit James.
James Slid down, make the catch.
They're moving the chains, and the clock is running.
Hurry up, offense by Riverdale.
Snap to Bevin.
Back to the throw.
It's through the hands, incomplete for Eli Kempbell on the left lap.
Good throw.
Did the cut.
Had it pretty well covered.
He got the freshman out there.
Number seven, Briggs Maxwell was in the area.
Briggs, 176 pound freshman, moved well out there, but the ball was out of Eli's grasp.
He's a graduate of June's Daycare.
There you go.
Good kid, except he's a Bears fan.
Oh, well, what do you do?
I think all the kids there are Bears fans.
She converts
them.
Yeah, I think I thought I heard.
2-11 remaining here in the first half, 34 yard line.
Riverdale zone, trying to move and groove down the field.
There's a snap to Bevin.
Dennis is running the left side.
Then he's going to be upended, brought down after a gain of about three by Ithaca-Weston.
Good rally.
It was led by number eight.
Spencer Nelson he has a lot of big plays just a sophomore 195 pounds came up from his linebacker spot and he filled the hole and now we got a injury there and oh boy
Liberty L will send it looks like Devin Dennis
yeah hopefully it just a helmet to the elbow or something like that Phil don't want to speculate I
Lindsey over there looking at him right now.
Lindsey Tolickson
back to
another seat.
He does a heck of a job.
So I'm sure he'll do a good job over there.
So this will probably change your thinking a little bit now.
Back
quarterback coming in and I'm trying to get an idea.
Oh and Lancashill will go to quarterback.
He quarterbacked last year so he'll probably just pick right back up here.
3rd down and 8 yards to go for the 34-0 and throws it to the near side and is intended to then incomplete for Campbell and it's going to bring up 4th down.
4th and 8th will probably punt it here even though you'd love to go for it.
Maybe you will.
Well, I mean Riverdale's defense has done a good
job.
It stopped Ithaca inside the 2020.
Ithaca not really showing they're going to throw it a lot so do you do that but I would think they're probably going to punt it Phil.
You've played a filed half you want to probably get the half You know it 0-0 and start the second half.
I think Riverdale have the ball So you're probably going to find it away here.
You like Catbell is back down there thinking that anyway.
I think need another alignment out there.
I think With Bevin's injury Bevin was on specialty teams.
That's an important thing is can take you off guard now.
You got to find a sub there
And
it's a lot
of game maybe
yeah, I would imagine
that's the flag on Riverdale So that'll back out of five yards,
but you're willing to take that in this position
because five yards with, you know, Eli's probably going to get off a good punt.
You don't want to burn a timeout or get all frazzled, so just take your time and go ahead and punt it away.
Let's go west and sending two men back deep around the 30 yard line.
They've got Quintus Banker here and Caden Keller.
Eli Campbell,
sideline.
Hi, punt.
Grab there by Campbell.
Let's it go.
Ball bounds around the 30 and out of bounds.
in Ithaca-Weston territory, but it might be coming back.
We'll
see.
So if you're Ithaca-Weston, they're probably going to make them punter it again, because you're going to say, hey, let's make them long snap it.
Let's make them do all that stuff again.
You got them in an 18.
Let's see what happens.
So I'm sure they'll make them punter it again.
They're backing him up.
Make him pun it from deeper in their own territory.
Yeah, for sure.
Maybe get better field position.
Yep.
Plus, you made that.
You've made the punt team run down the field.
Now they got to go back.
They got to run down again.
A lot of these guys, obviously, when you're in a smaller school, are playing offense defense.
And now you're getting your sprints in on specialty teams.
So here comes the punt again.
Eli Campbell, ball is on the 20.
So he's back
around
the 10, takes a nice snap,
long ways, and then gets off a good punt.
grabs it around the 25, then cuts.
to the 26, almost tackled, there breaks it, 30, 35, 40, up to around the 45, to around the 48 yard line.
Had a good return.
Nice return.
Eli did a nice job.
I think he was almost tempted to take off running because from up here, they don't look like there's a lot of people in his way, but he made the right decision and punted it, and had a great return by Iska Weston, putting them right in, what, around the 45 fill, roughly?
Yeah, very close.
48, maybe right around midfield with a minute three remaining.
Now, I'm sure you're thinking, hey, let's go.
Try to get the ball down field and make the big plays.
See if you can get something past Riverdale's line decking coach.
He's done a good job here tonight as
well.
Oh, for sure.
It looks like we got a penalty, Phil.
Oh, OK.
I did not see that fly, but you know, you and I both, you've got the new glasses.
I know.
I've got to work on my bifogal here.
Got to change
the holding call on Devin Dennis's.
74 yards
on
two.
I never saw a play anywhere on the field on
that.
No, I think you get you know, you're get caught up in the watching the play and the runner and who's making the tackle and.
You don't look for that yellow flag.
So the officials chat about it here and will market the ball is currently at the 48 yard line
at
Hittica Weston.
And it's against them, I believe.
Yeah, it looks like
it looks like we got a holding.
All a little bit of confusion, but I'm sure the sordid out
you got a veteran crew out there.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure they're just I'm sure they Are just then you know saying hey you guys know what's going on here.
Here we go But now
The guy in the white hat's been around a long time.
Yeah, Brian slide.
He's been he was officiating when I first started coaching.
Oh, maybe not that early
30, what, 37 years?
Yeah, 37.
Well, it comes back to around the 34 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
So that's a big loss.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah, if you're Ithaca-Weston now, that really changes what you want to do here, I think.
So let's see what goes on.
Here comes the handoff,
and
it's going to Walmer.
And he kept
across
the line of scrimmage out for the top of the 35 to around the 37 yard line.
The old bread and butter, all in blanket ship coming up to make the tackle.
And Ithaca-Weston going with a timeout here, Phil.
So here we go.
Yep, they're going to think about it with 54 seconds remaining.
We'll take a 30 second time out and be back with a conclusion of the first half.
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Welcome back to Pickering Park, big play coming up for Ithaca-Weston, second down from the 38 yard line, second and five.
Think they're
gonna go for it here?
Yeah, I think so.
They got Bevin Dennis back on the field.
That's good to see, you know.
No doubt
he's
at the safety position
for sure that's huge.
There's the snap killer out of the shotgun rolling to the right side He likes that side rolling now going to run it himself to the 40 spins around 45 and then
keep the
shoulder down goes to the 50 and then pushed out of bounds by Riverdale.
Yep nice run By Jacob Keller the sophomore he got out the pocket Riverdale of course not wanting to give up the big play so he gave him his feet his face Then rallied up a new number of guys.
I think
Ethan Kegel probably in on the tackle foot, knocking him out of bounds.
So you got 43 seconds and you're sitting around midfield.
So do you go for a short out, get some more ground, hook and ladder.
I
always like that
play.
We'll see what happens
first
down.
No reverses or anything yet in this game.
So I know it's only the first half, we know.
Good point.
Here's the snap.
Keller back to throw out of the shotgun.
There's legs and then he rolls to the right side, looks and then kind of
Carefully goes to the right side that bounces off
a
tackler gets to around the 46th
of
Riverdale, but the flag will probably stop it all
probably had a little illegal procedure I'd imagine You know you're a receiver you want to get a good jump on the play here a long distance away from the map might get an early start That's what I'm thinking but And again a good decision by Jake Kelly or sophomore quarterback Sometimes you know you get out there you're rolling out
You're like, oh, let's throw it up.
But then you have a turnover, and you lose your momentum.
He made a good decision.
Tuck it away.
Lived off, fight it another day.
You bet.
And I think the other Galician coaches are happy with that.
Oh, for sure.
Showing a little maturity is
his problem.
For sure.
Because you don't so many times you get that pressure, and you want to make a big play, and then you make that throw, and then all of a sudden things are changing.
You got 33 seconds
to burst down and 12 yards to go.
They're going to stop play for Jeff Johnson questioning.
I think the spot of the ball right now.
Box stays at 33 seconds remaining.
It was
a very quick first
quarter, but a
longer second quarter.
Still no score here tonight.
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They do market back against Ithaca Weston.
I think they got a little mixed up where the line of scrimmage was.
Remember, they're opening night, too, so.
Good point.
Now, 45 yard line of Ithaca Weston, 33 seconds remaining.
Shotgun snap.
Keller, good protection.
Going to air one out, cutting it down to the left side, over the
by Ithaca Weston.
And Caden Keller is still on his wheel, down around the can.
What a catch.
Great catch.
A great.
Phil, sitting here.
He thread the needle.
There were two Riverdale defenders right there.
And he put it right between them.
And you couldn't play any better defense.
But he thread the needle.
I'm sure if you're watching NFL football, the Packers, or whoever the Bears, whoever you're a fan of, and you see that quarterback make that throw, all the announcers be going, that's one of the greatest throws of all time.
But he stuck it right between two Riverdale players.
And like you said, just a great catch.
I mean, you just got to say, hey, that's a great point.
That was
second time tonight, where Kevin Keller has made a tremendous catch.
Yeah, and that was right on the
money.
24 seconds, ball at the 13.
Snap, hand off, going to the right side.
Ithaca-Weston trying to make the corner at the 10, down around the 9, nothing happening there for Spencer Nelson.
And now they're going to hurry it up down to 14 seconds, going without a huddle.
And Keller, under center, down to 10 seconds.
And he spikes the ball, stops the
clock.
There you go.
So, you know, it's the first game.
Good job by Riverdale forcing it back inside.
I was almost, I was thinking in my head, are they going to run a fake spike?
know, you come on up, everybody's anticipating you run the spike and you fake it, drop back, everybody's kind of frozen.
Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah, he would do that a lot.
Did that to win a game in
Miami one time?
Yeah, for sure.
And I remember the guy that never liked him on ESPN.
I forget the guy's name.
There's probably a number of them.
Coward.
Yeah, Coward.
He was like, that is the most irresponsible blah,
blah, blah, blah.
I
was like, shut up.
He won the game.
Who cares?
If you're Riverdale, you ought
to keep him in the pocket.
Nine seconds.
Here goes Keller.
Jacob going to run it himself, cutting left side.
He's got a little room.
Jacob Keller going through the goal line,
and he
is in the Western touchdown.
Right at the zero mark.
Yeah, that's the thing you feared the most.
You knew he was probably going to roll out, and you're hoping you can steal the outside.
But he has a lot of speed, and he made a good decision.
He kicked it in, able to clear the corner, get to the end zone, and scoring right before half.
Wow.
That's a big touchdown.
Absolutely.
And
in a game like
this,
it's
almost like a two touchdown.
Oh, for sure.
So 6-0 Ithaca-Weston at the quarter's end, and they will get the chance to kick.
The extra point, Caden Keller is the kicker.
Snap, hold, placement.
Kick is on the way low and off
the bottom
of the bar.
No good.
That was big.
Bevin Dennis came off the edge there, and I think he might have deflected it, Bill.
I think he might have got a hand on that.
caused that to hit the crossbar.
That could be a big point in the game.
So anyway, we had to halftime 6-0 with a big drive there to grab the lead at halftime.
This has been a
great ball game.
And we've only seen two quarters.
Exactly,
for sure.
6-0, get to go west as we go to halftime.
Coming up, we'll have that for you.
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There certainly are.
It's always fun in week one especially because teams can schedule whoever they want.
It's not, you know, you're beholden to whatever the conference schedule says and, you know, you're looking at a lot of number one in the conference versus number seven or eight.
Teams usually schedule for
uh, similar competition.
And that means in a lot of cases, uh, some games that are either a little bit out of the area that you don't get to see often or, uh, matchups you wouldn't get to see in some very good matchups.
So definitely excited to see what week one brings.
Yeah, this is always, uh, you know, it's everything starts anew.
Everybody has a fresh start coming into the year.
Everybody has high expectations.
Everybody has a sense of optimism, whether they have dreams of making it to Madison or winning a state title or challenging for a conference title or for some teams just getting a win.
Everybody's got optimism around a new season and that always is exciting and works in a lot of good directions here in the early part of the year.
Yeah, this is a good barometer in the early going but you do have to sometimes take it for for what it is and that's early non-conference games where Different players are moving into different roles different positions
Um, sometimes there's coaching changes.
Sometimes there's scheme changes, um, that, you know, teams are much different in week nine than they are in week one.
So yes, it's a, it's a barometer.
It's a good test, but it's not the be all end all of how things are going to go for your season.
Well, the Southwest is interesting.
I mean, there's not, um, I don't think anybody that looks like a dominant.
you know, head and shoulders above everybody else type team.
I went back and forth between Prairie to Sheen and Platteville for the top spot.
I ended up going with Prairie to Sheen as the favorite.
They do bring back starting quarterback.
They've got a thousand-yard rusher returning.
So did give them an edge.
But Platteville should be in the mix.
Lancaster should be better, I think, this year.
And, you know, we'll see where the Hornets stack up in the conference as well.
Well, six rivers has been dominated for quite some time by the black, uh, the black clock Warren co-op and the Potosi Castle co-op.
And I don't see that changing this year.
Potosi Castle, um, I gave the edge to, they've got, uh, a couple senior running backs coming back.
Hunter white and river SAR that combined for over 3,300 yards last year.
Now the quarterback returns as well.
Um, the only, uh, you know,
the issue of Patoce Castle is they move up to D6 this year.
That doesn't impact them during the conference season, of course, but come play off time.
That's a different animal.
The Black Hawk Warren should be there.
River Ridge looks to be pretty good.
And Riverdale is an interesting one, whether they can get to a more competitive place.
They have a pretty experienced roster.
They've got some good talent at the skill positions.
it's been a while since they've won and building that winning culture is different, difficult.
Going from, you know, where you struggled and not made the playoffs to where now you're in that position, that can be a challenge.
And that's a very good conference that Riverdale will have to find a way to beat one of those better teams.
Probably not Potosi, Cassville or Blackhawk, Warren, but can they beat River Ridge?
Can they be Iowa Grant?
If they do, then that will be a big help towards potentially getting the Chiefs into the postseason.
The Scenic Bluffs, you know, kind of like the Six River.
It's been cashed in in Bangor that have really been the top teams in that league for a while.
I think it, I think that's how it looks again.
You know, Brookwood I think should be solid.
Ithaca Weston will be in the mix.
Kind of, I would think where they were last year.
You know, they were
I think they finished tied for fourth in the conference last year, but there was a lot of close calls.
I think the three conference losses were combined 23 points or something like that.
So, you know, can they, can they find a way to victory in some of those close games?
That'll be key for you at the Colustinian.
Of course, a really new dynamic with that being a new co-op this year.
How does that work?
How does, you know, how do all those players come together?
How does that co-op mesh?
Obviously they have co-opted a number of sports in the past.
But Weston goes from being part of that Waniwok-Weston Co-op for a long time to now Ithaca-Weston.
So that'll be one of the interesting things to watch this year.
Ridge and Valley, North Crawford should be good again.
They were the best team in that conference last year and I think have a good chance to compete for that league title again.
Belmont will be probably their stiffest competition.
Belmont's
really experienced team that got five starters back on both sides of the ball.
So, North Crawford very much in the mix and we'll see where things go from there.
It was a really good season for North Crawford last year though.
Not only did they go undefeated during the regular season, obviously winning a Rich and Valley Conference title, but they won a couple of playoff games, got to a sectional final and that experience bodes well for the Trojans.
And then...
You know, some of the other local-ish teams, Kickapoo LaFarge, you know, I don't know where things are going to go for them.
They've struggled for a little bit.
Highland, I think, will be in the mix for a playoff spot.
And then Wonnywalk Center, we mentioned them splitting from Weston in that co-op.
It's a challenge for them.
They've already canceled a number of their games.
Has Wonnywalk Center.
I don't know if they're going to play any varsity games this year.
You know, they're just in a rough spot.
They already had low numbers in the co-op and then having to go at a low.
I don't know what the future holds for them.
Well, we're excited to get things going this year.
There's always a sense of excitement, you know, from our end as well.
as we begin a new school year.
And the second year at Bound Wisconsin, we're just excited to continue to build on what we've laid as far as a foundation in the last year or so.
You can head over to boundwisconsin.com, make it your daily destination.
All of our content lives there, all of our written content, including conference previews for all these leagues that we're talking about.
You can find division previews, you can find senior player rankings, all that kind of stuff.
And then we also have links out to kind of the nuts and bolts of things.
Schedules and rosters and scores and stats leaders all that kind of stuff still available at bound As well, and I would highly recommend people download the bound app if you have not done so already many of the conferences in schools in the area will use bound if their official athletic management resource and some of them will be using ticketing through bound and so that bound app will help you as you are getting tickets to some events and then also
You'll just be able to find and follow your favorite team.
You can follow right within the app.
You can see the schedule and the scores, results, all that kind of stuff right there in the bound app.
So definitely highly recommend people download that.
Yeah, you'll want to check out the bound app or bound Wisconsin for scores as they come in every Friday night.
Colton Wilson will once again be hard at work getting those entered in in.
I think there's this week.
There's more Thursday games than we normally see.
There's 48 Thursday games this week, so a little bit smaller Friday schedule.
But either way, you'll want to check out bound Wisconsin or the bound app for those final scores each night.
We'll have them in as soon as they come in and should have all scores in certainly by the end of the evening.
Yeah, we're excited to add boys soccer to our coverage for this fall.
When we got going last year, we didn't have enough time to get everything ready to go when I made the switch over to Bound to have boys soccer available.
But we had some good conversations with the Soccer Coaches Association and the soccer community and actually had girls soccer as a primary coverage sport in the springtime.
And I'm excited to get that going for boys soccer in the fall.
We had a webinar last night actually with coaches.
to be able to introduce them to the system, how they can do things, how they can manage their team.
So beginning next week, when soccer games get underway, you can find all the great information on boy soccer as well.
Unbound scores, schedules, rosters, all that kind of good stuff.
Of course, we'll have basketball in the winter.
And then kind of look and see what we can do from there.
Last year, for spring sports, we had girls soccer and baseball.
and looking forward to doing that again, and then hopefully we can get some more on board.
We'd love to get softball on board.
We'll continue to have those conversations with their coaches and association and just want to expand what we're doing more and more.
Yeah, and again in Southwest Wisconsin, I mean pretty much every conference, pretty much every team.
is going to be using bound as their kind of home resource where that's where they're going to put their official schedule information.
The schools will be managing that, any changes, anything like that.
Some of them are using additional tools within the platform to do ticketing, to manage their transportation, to manage officials, all that kind of stuff.
So there's a lot of great tools in the bound platform that schools are taking advantage of and pretty much every conference and team in Southwest Wisconsin included.
Well, I'm coaching at Reevesburg fourth year at the high school, coming off a state runner up finish last year.
My oldest son graduated, but my youngest son's a sophomore.
So coaching with the Beavers again, so all the Reevesburg games every Friday night kind of limits me on what I can do on getting out to games, but hoping to get out here and there on a Thursday or maybe a Saturday and see what kind of action I can take in.
We have, by the way, we have Reevesburg this week.
Week one, we travel all the way down to New Berlin West to take on a pretty solid biking team.
At least we got a coach bus though.
I do.
Well, I coach JV.
So all of our JV games, whenever we go anywhere, if we go to La Crosse or Holman or Sparta, Tomah, which are our plus bus trips, I mean, those are on a yellow school bus.
So, uh, yeah, it's, it's, uh,
It's very nostalgic back in the day.
Currently
Travis, thanks for your expertise.
We look forward to joining you each and every Friday during the season this year and keep up the good work.
Sounds good.
Thanks so much.
Travis Wilson joining us here on our WRCO Sports Update.
Travis representing Bound, Wisconsin.
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Service like it ought to be.
6-0 at the Go Western in the lead here at halftime.
And Jacob Keller 11-yard touchdown run with no time on the clock here.
That's the only difference in the ball game.
Kirk, what do you see as keys here in the second half?
Well, I think big keys is if you're Riverdale, you just, you know, I had that touchdown right before halftime.
I'm sure that's a tough one to swallow.
But I think what you want to do is you want to reestablish your offense.
I mean, you had the big play by Bevin to start the game.
But you want, I think, a little more consistency on offense.
You want a good offense to drive.
I think defensively, if you're Riverdale, you want to shut off the ground game or something, because Ithaca's been able to control the clock.
Time possession, put some three big drives together, converting on one.
And that's what you want to do.
If you're Ithaca West, then I think you're just saying, hey, we played really good defense.
We had that one play, but there was a penalty.
We want to contain Bevin Dennis and the speed of Riverdale to keep them in the pocket.
Don't let a big place happen.
Then offensively, I think you just want to continue to run the ball.
That off tackle plays work really well.
You want to control the clock.
So I think when we just like in pregame.
It comes down to who's going to win the battle on the line.
Absolutely.
And if you're Riverdale, you think we were close.
We had a touchdown call back.
Exactly.
And we'll see what happens here.
And this opening possession for
Riverdale is really key.
I think so.
I think you want to see where's the momentum.
Who's ready to go here in the second half?
This is a big test right now because you're coming out half time.
And so Riverdale will get the ball first because they deferred.
And we'll see what happens.
Dayton
Keller
is the kicker.
And he is.
Approaching him, the second half will get underway.
Here it is.
And over and going to be caught by Devin Dennis around the 15.
20, 25, 30.
Devin Dennis almost breaks it and gets brought down right around the 34 yard line.
Nice cut.
Just the seam, he's just about to pop that seam.
But then the freshman came flying across.
That breaks Maxwell.
He made a nice tackle, which is not easy to do in the open field.
So here we go.
Riverdale is going to take over first and 10 at 35.
And we'll see you.
What both teams, what adjustments?
Maybe they made it half time or what they're thinking here in the second half.
Kevin Dennis and Eli Campbell and Kenyon getting the ball in the backfield as running backs and Owen Blankenship, James Schram at a wide receiver, Miles Daly as well.
And here we go, Riverdale first and 10 from the 34 yard line, their own.
Man in motion for the near sign of Landon Kenyon.
He gets the ball.
He rolls to the right side.
35, spin to the 39, up to the 41 yard line.
Good run.
Yep.
Nice design play.
Nice kick out by Ohm Blankenship.
Ohm got out, made the kick out.
Landon cut underneath it.
And then Spencer Nelson, the sophomore, came flying up to make the tackle, but not after eight yards.
So her seven yards are second in three.
You know, sophomores have been dominating in freshman two here tonight.
Yeah, they've been playing really well, I mean.
You've got to give them a lot of credit.
You're stepping right into varsity action here.
Second down for Riverdale's short yardage.
About three yards to go from the 41 their own.
And Bevin Dennis takes the shotgun snap.
Hand off.
And the running play going
to the
right side.
Not much there for Owen Blankenshire.
Nice.
And the sophomore Spencer Nelson.
That time Ithico Weston was anticipating some type of run action.
So they sent both their linebackers up the A-gaps.
That's right where the center's at.
And they were able to break up that play.
Oh, and was stopped for no game.
Probably lost one or two like the other.
Yeah, it
looks like it.
Yeah, from the 40-yard line.
Yep.
Third down for Riverdale, just underway in the third quarter.
6-0, Ithaca-Weston in the lead.
Four wide receivers, three on one side.
One on the left for Bevin Dennis, looks to the right.
Ithaca-Weston anticipating showing blitz.
Dennis nowhere to go.
And he's going to be rough down for a loss around the 29 yard
line.
Ithaca going back to the blitz again.
Spencer Nelson for a third straight plays in on the tackle.
He was also helped by number 70.
That's Hayden Burns, the number 54 at Isaiah Fargent.
Riverdale was hoping that Ithaca would spread out to stop that hitch pass to Landon Canyon, which looked like they were setting up in the flat.
But they came with the blitz and five yard loss on the sack.
So Riverdale.
Three and out it appears.
Fourth down play coming up here.
And Ithaca-Weston sending two men back deep to receive.
Six nothing Ithaca-Weston looks like they're going to get the ball back early on in this quarter.
A set for Riverdale that takes less than two minutes.
Long snap.
Eli Campbell now with the punt, which is going to be taken on the fly by Caden Keller.
They fake the reverse.
Caden bringing it to his right.
Bounces off one tackler.
Then he's going to be brought down by a good open field tackle.
Riverdale.
Nice job.
Good job.
feeling that as Riverdale is able to feel it force a cut back inside then look like Blake Dickman the senior came down made the initial hit and then our host of Riverdale players finishing it off so here we go we got Ithaca looking at well first and center on the 35 Phil I can't see from here
I think it's 30 but
somewhere in there yeah right 30 yard line
I'm
I'm your seeing eye
dog.
Yeah, there you go.
Here,
right.
It's on to 30.
I got it.
First is Tim for Ithaca Weston.
Looking at things, sophomore quarterback Jacob Gellert takes a snap.
Handoff going to the big fullback, Landon Walmer,
and he's got a
first down.
That's the play we've seen all night, right Phil?
They're just running left off tackle.
You're taking your left tackle, kicking the end out, you're sealing down, and then you got your fullback who's just running Landon Walmer.
The sophomore, 190 pounds, is running straight through with power, and he broke the tackle and picked up the first down.
That's what you, you know, if you're Riverdale, you want to be able to shut that playoff.
If you're Ithaca, you're just going to keep going back to it until you get stuff.
Right, exactly.
And good blocking up front.
All for sure.
From the Ithaca Lyman, five down Lyman.
Here we go, first in 10, and there is the snap from center, and the handoff going up the middle, not much.
Riverdale reads it well and brought down is Liam Rowan.
Nice job, interior defense.
They ran a little trap action.
Again, this time, the tackles stayed put.
And you got Parker, Bremer, and Peyton Olson fogging that hole, and there was no place to go.
So we're at second and 10.
Keller, the quarterback in the backfield, Rowan and Walmer have gotten the lion's share of the carries.
Wide receivers, Peyton Keller and Quintus Banker, Spencer Nelson and Peyton Brown, the tight ends.
And Ben Otto, the center, right guard.
is Hayden Burns, left guard Isaiah Fargent, Reed Wabashel, the left tackle, Mason Van Coulter, the right tackle, Ithaca West, he left the line with a second down and 10 to go from the 40 yard line, 8.15 remaining in the third, snap from center, Keller, hands off to Keller.
Keller going to the left side, Caden is brought down by Riverdale, gang tackle, behind the line, the scrimmage.
Light by on Blankenship, he was there first, yeah, two of others, Bevin Dennis was there, James Tram was there.
Ithaca went to a different look that time spread and then tried to run the motion tried to get to the wide side Going to their loft Riverdale's right, but that time Riverdale's there for the stop five-year loss You're looking at third and 15.
What a beautiful night.
You
know what
you
like
to take this the whole
season Oh for sure.
I mean this is this what you pay for right you got a beautiful night.
You got Shorten t-shirt.
Yeah, and you got a little breeze
No threats of any thunderstorms or anything.
Third down at 15.
There's the snap to Jacob Keller.
The QB running near side throws a little pass.
There's
a flag and it's caught up for nearly a first down.
Maybe got it at the stand with the catch by Spencer
Nelson.
You're going to have a hold out here, Phil.
I think as Jacob rolled, you had on the outside, you had a grab which slowed down the defense there.
holding the call, so from going from a possible first down, now you're looking at third in roughly 25.
Backs it up considerably.
Well, the officiating crew was up here at halftime.
We had a chance to chat with them.
Yep, for sure.
Good crew, and they were talking about the game, how we spent a good game.
Yeah, for sure.
Yep.
Moves the ball back considerably now.
Papers are flying
everywhere.
Yeah, no kidding.
Boy, talk
about that breeze.
I know, now I got to bend down and pick it up.
That's a tough thing.
Don't
litter.
Third down, all
the way back at the 36.
Is that right?
Yep.
So
third down and Ithaca Weston up to the football.
Seven minutes remaining in the third quarter.
They lead 7-0.
High snap, Jacob Keller goes up to get it.
They're coming after him and they spin
him down for a sack.
That looks like Ethan Cagle to me.
That went from Blake Dickman as they make a big time sack.
And so now you went from that possible first down to fourth down in a country mile.
So you're going to obviously be punting.
If you're Riverdale now, you're hoping to get good field position.
And they put a drive together.
If you're Ithaca, you want a good punt and play some defense.
Big up.
Keller, the stamp was a little high.
He didn't have a prayer because they were right in there quickly.
Somebody shot the gap.
So fourth down, and the punter is Cade and Keller back around the end zone.
takes the snap and hesitates a little bit lower and this bumps right through the right side out of bounds of the Riverdale sideline and the Cheetahs are going to get great field position.
So we'll wait to see where they officially mark that but not a lot of elevation on the punt.
I'll say somewhere around the 40 yard line roughly so maybe it's 35.
Well, the ethical Western defense has been handed this kind of hand before, and they've been able to stop.
And Riverdale hit a little light a day, possibly.
This might be the break they need.
So here you want to capitalize for your Riverdale.
You've got good field position.
You've done some good things here.
You want to put the drive together.
If you're at the West and you're thinking, hey, we played great defense the whole game, we got our backs a little bit to the wall now, but we want to step up here so we'll see.
The real line is down.
Nap to Bevin Dennis running right tackle.
Now, slant across and slide his way into a bunch of Western players.
Yeah, there was at least five or six guys in there, led by a host of guys.
We're going to pick number 77, Ben Otto, who thought a senior was able to step up and I think force that play, making him cut back and limited to about three yards.
You know, besides that first play of the game, obviously, it went for the touchdown.
I think Ithaca Wesson's done a really nice job of plugging that center gap.
So here we go, second down.
Second down for Riverdale and about six yards to go for a first down, awaiting a snap from center man in motion, near side Devon Dennis gets it, runs with
the motion
man, cut back across the field.
He's got about four yards before he is brought down by a host of Ithaca Wesson players.
Did he get a first down though?
That's going to be close.
I think it's going to be about a yard short, maybe half yard.
OK.
Chevrolet on the tackle 66 Reed Wapshaw for Ithaca-Weston.
They did a motion with Landon Kenyon.
They faked at him to spread the defense then Bevin cut back and picked up like you said a good four yards.
Third in about a half a yard.
All right third down to the 27 of Ithaca-Weston Riverdale trying to tie this thing up.
There's the snap.
Bevin rolling to the near side, cuts back across the left side.
Over the
pile, he's got a few, longer than a first down, all the way down to around the 10, there's a flag late.
Oh no.
So we'll wait
and see what that's on.
I should all know, depending on who you're rooting for, Phil.
Yeah, we'll wait and see.
But what a nice run.
Bevin is so shifty.
Yeah, he's a basketball player.
He's doing those three-second slide drills.
Going back
and forth,
left to right.
I think it's going to go against Jessica Weston.
possibly for maybe a light hit.
I didn't really get a signal there, did you?
No, we did not.
But
you know,
you're right, where the flag came in and the timing of
it.
I think maybe a player slid in a little light, made contact late.
This is how it looks to me.
So it looks like Riverdale's found a little gap here, bringing land in, kining in motion.
And Bevin's following him up behind and then cutting back off his block.
430, first in goal, Cheepton's ball is marked up a six yard line in Ithaca-Weston after the penalty.
Man in motion, that's Canyon, there's the snap to Dennis.
Bevan trying to run through initially, there's a pretty good gap to the five, to the four.
Pushback by Ithaca-Weston leading the way, Briggs Maxwell.
And I think, like you said, Briggs and then also Spencer Nelson stepping in there.
But again, Riverdale finding a little crease, nudging closer.
to the end zone.
Looks like they're all roughly on to three.
Wow, so they are inching their way toward tying this thing
up.
So here we go, 350.
It'd be interesting to see if Ithaca-Wesson brings inside blitz pressure here to try to stop that inside game, or we'll see what happens.
Samus out of the shotgun, ball of the four yard line, awaiting a snap from center.
Motion man, Kenyon gets the ball, running to the right side, down around the goal line.
Ithaca-Weston stacks him up.
He didn't make it in.
It did not.
It looks like he got roughly around the 1 to 2 yard line.
That time Riverdale decided, OK, they might come middle Blitz.
We're going to go to the outside.
They gave the ball to Landon.
It's because they were able to rally.
You had, I believe, Quintus Baker again.
Coming up to make a tackle.
Yeah,
he spread the play out.
Oh, we got a penalty, Phil.
We got a legal procedure on Riverdale.
Oh, I didn't see
that either.
Nothing I noticed is Bevin Dennis is still holding his left shoulder in between plays.
So,
okay, so now we're going back to roughly second and nine instead of third and one or third one at the one yard line.
Second and goal from the nine yard line.
Bevin Dennis hurt in the first half, but he's a warrior.
He's out there tonight
and it's a great game.
He has played an awesome game.
Yeah, 305 remaining here in the third quarter, 6-0 Ithaca Weston.
Looking at the ball, now leading the snap from center and Bevin Dennis hands off running play up the gut for Riverdale down around the goal line for Blankenship,
I
believe
it is.
Looks like he got around the five yard line.
Tough to pick up the numbers from here, but just good interior defense by Ithaca Weston as they plugged it.
I think they're thinking, hey, we'll give up four.
It's third and goal from the five.
235 remaining
here in the quarter.
Dan, it's free to do a good one here tonight.
If you don't like scoring, if you like defense, it's your game.
But Riverdale trying to tie it up here and change that.
He could go to Bevan here on the play-action.
I would say so.
Awaiting the snap from center.
Riverdale with a man in motion.
And here's the snap.
Bevin hands off, running play, and not much there on the left side.
Good play by Ithaca Weston as they dragged down the ball
carrier.
Oh, and Blikenship took the handoff.
They had an option, possible option look with Landon Kinney coming in motion, but Bevin gave the ball to Ohan, and then Spencer Nelson, who we talked a lot about, that sophomore comes flying up and makes a really nice tackle, but you also have to get defensive line credit.
They stayed low and held up the line, so.
Fourth and goal from the three yards.
play of the game right
now Riverdale trying to tie it up a minute 43 remaining here in the quarter here we go awaiting a snap from center a man in motion there's a whistle in a flag
everywhere I time out here I think oh yeah I think Riverdale thinking hey let me just a huge play let's make sure we got this straight so we're gonna take a timeout and reshuffle
136 remaining in the third quarter six nothing
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I don't know.
Welcome back to Pickering Park.
We're just sitting here trying to play coach, you know?
What will Riverdale call?
You know, I mean, again, I don't coach.
I don't go to the practices, but...
You got Bevin out there.
You probably want the ball in his hands.
I mean, he could roll him out for a pass.
I mean, pass-run option.
Sure, that's somewhere in there.
Now, if you're Iska West, then you're thinking, well, Bevin's probably the best guy.
Maybe do we blitz in the middle?
Do we put pressure on him?
It comes down.
Who can execute?
It is
fourth down from the three-yard line, fourth end goal.
Snap the Bevin, then it's running right side.
He
slips and
he falls.
He might have had a touchdown.
But Ithaca Weston, make sure he stays down, and then we'll do it for this
Riverdale
drive.
See, good defense by Ithaca Weston.
They're rallying.
Bevin made the cut.
Unfortunately, as you just worded it, he did stumble.
I think if he doesn't stumble, he's probably going to score.
But it just didn't work out for him.
So Riverdale just have to rally back here on defense.
But a good stand by Ithaca Weston defense.
Now they're going to want to.
Obviously, try to push this ball out from underneath their goal line.
And if you're Riverdale, you say, OK, we've got to rally back.
We've got to get a stop here and get the ball back in good field position.
Right.
Defense has to step up for Riverdale and for Ithaca-Weston.
They need a play to kind of get from their back against
the wall
out in the midfield area.
131 remaining, 6-0 here in the third quarter
of
area football on this night, opening night of the season from Pickering Park.
Jacob Keller takes it under center, hand off, running
play.
Bumble, bumble,
bumble.
Both is
right to Ithaca Weston.
And they're going to run it out here with a fortunate play.
They're going to be pushed out of bounds around the 20 yard line.
came out of the hands of Walmer,
into the
hands of Jacob Keller.
You couldn't design that any better.
Oh, and
if you're a
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And as he spun, the ball went back up in the air, and Ithaca happened to be there to catch it on the fly.
And all of a sudden, you go from a turnover possible touchdown to a first down in some field position.
So rooting for Riverdale, you got to shake that off.
Say, OK, we've got a regroup.
Ithaca West, I'm sure you're taking a deep breath.
Let's keep going.
Dodge one there.
Yep.
All right, here we go.
20 yard line, first and 10, Ithaca West.
Looked like somebody could have jumped a running play going to the left side.
They spread it out a little bit further and now running for a first down Ithaca Weston all the way to the 38 yard line.
On the run, that was number five,
Liam
Rowan.
That was just a good run.
I mean, he hurtled one defender, broke another tackle.
Riverdale was in position, but this didn't happen.
It was just a good solid run.
As you said by Liam Brown, he's a 6'1, 200 pound senior.
These are not small guys run the ball, Phil.
I mean, you got a 200 pound senior.
You're in a, you know, in a smaller school atmosphere, and you got two big solid backs.
And I think Ithaca-Weston wants to use that to their advantage.
And I would be surprised if they run a play here, but what do I know?
Bound to 14 seconds
in
the quarter.
I think they could run the clock out, but maybe they got momentum.
They want to keep going.
First and 10, eight seconds.
Yeah,
they're going to take a snap.
Handoff for a running play,
and Riverdale
stacks it up and drives it back.
They're good coverage by the Chiefsons.
Eli Campbell was helping out on that
one.
Yep, it's just again that inside dive.
They've come to that to try to keep you honest, but Riverdale is again there.
So we're heading to the fourth quarter, Phil.
We've got to reach down for all that conditioning and sprinting and all that you did.
Now, who's got who's got her dent on the finish this one off?
This is like a game with leather helmet on
tonight here.
Exactly.
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Ithaca Weston running the ball.
Jacob Keller keeps it himself.
Bricks free down the sideline.
Has one man to beat.
He's still going.
Ithaca Weston, there is a flag back here.
He gets all the way to the end zone, but I believe it is coming
back.
I think it's going to be coming back and then you're going to have a hold out here, Phil.
Wow.
That was a well-designed play.
A nice run by Jacob Keller.
He just took his time.
He waited for his block.
Then he just kind of eased down the sideline.
Then he kicked it into second gear and went to the end zone, but we're going to have a holding.
So you go from that two-score lead to probably
back
to second in 15 or so.
Probably,
at
least.
Yeah, depending on the spot of the foul.
Let's get some other scores.
I'm going to fill in the flip phone.
Aquinas leading probably to Sheen, 12-7, third quarter.
Good one there.
Mineral point, 14-0 on Dodgeville in the third quarter.
Hillsboro 2713 on Boscobel in the third and Richland Center leading Verroqua 266 in the third.
So let's see where they market it is second down back to around the 21
yards.
Yeah, 31 so looking at roughly 17 yards or so.
This drive for Ithaca Western starting on the three after Riverdale turns it over on Dallas.
I think a Western breaking out the huddle 1134 to go in the game.
I think a Western leading.
Chicks nothing ball on the near hash mark.
There's a snap Geller rolling to the near side finds a little room bumps up one man and now he's out of bounds around the 36
same play they ran but this time Riverdale was ready.
Bevin Dennis came up to steal that outside.
He's also helped by miles daily.
So now it because looking at about a third in 14.
Got a little of the yardage back there
out.
Dayton Keller runs in the play from the far sideline, Ithaca-Weston.
At this point, the way this game has gone, and when they scored at the end of the first half,
I
said that it's almost like a two touchdown.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And that huge penalty, bringing that touchdown back.
So if you're Riverdale, you're thinking, well, now we're even, because we had one called back.
So here we go.
I think a Western with the ball in between the hashes and Keller is going to roll out to his right side.
There's a moping on the flat.
He throws it.
It is caught and heading ahead is Nelson Spencer Nelson breaks a tackle to the 50 before
he is brought down.
That was a big time catch by Spencer Nelson.
It was a good roll out.
He was able again to get outside the pocket.
It was a nice catch, but ever bigger in that one.
He was being tackled.
He kept that hand down, was able to get himself that first down.
That's a huge play in the game as we're heading to 11 minute marker now in its first and 10.
So Riverdale, if you're rooting for Riverdale, you've got to look for a stand right here.
Ithica Weston just trying to melt the clock.
First down
right around midfield for Ithica Weston.
Aiden Keller off to the left side wide out.
There's the snap in tight.
And the running back, the fallback is going to have it.
Walmer
over
the pile to around the 45, down to the 44 of Riverdale.
Nice run again.
Just going to that left, running off the left side of line.
Owen Blankenship coming up and filling.
But after he gets five yards, but another nice run by Jessica West, and that's Landon Walmer again.
Like you've said numerous times, you've got to give the offensive line a lot of credit.
They're continuing the battle up there.
So here we go, second and five.
Yeah, overall pretty good protection for Jacob Keller
tonight,
too,
when
he's been back to pass.
Up to the line, he's under center.
There's the snap, handoff to Walmer, the fullback again.
Now check that, it's running on the right side to...
Oh, they're going to be down around the three yard line.
I thought that was Walmer, but it's not.
Yeah, Liam Rowland.
Liam Rowland.
In that time, Riverdale's defensive line took control of that one.
Oh, my fault.
Blake Dickman was there to help stack.
He was also aided by Cameron.
And there did a nice job of spilling the hole.
Third down for Ithaca Weston there at the 43 of Riverdale.
944 to go, 6-0 lead for IW tonight.
Awaiting a snap, there it is, and the handoff.
That is Walmer, and he breaks through a pretty gaping hole
there, right
guard?
First down and then some, down to around the 40-yard line.
Got to give him credit, then we get a nice job of blocking.
That time, Landon Walmer, instead of going to the left like he has been, you described to Phil, he was able to see that cutback, and he cut back across the crease, found a little bit of avenue there.
and then Olin Blankenship again coming up to make the tackle with the help from Ethan Kegel.
So now you're at 1st and 10, you're at 9-13.
Good block by the center
bit, Otto there,
who helped out, helped to seal the deal.
There's the snap, hand off, and they run on the left side to Rowan, and he's got nowhere
Met up with a few cheap dudes right away and brought down.
Tried a little crisscross there.
They had the fullback, Landon Walmart goes one way, and then Liam Rowan came back the other, but Olin Blankenship wasn't going to be fooled.
You sat on the outside and made a nice tackle.
So we're back to second and roughly nine.
8.45 to go.
You start watching the clock
a little bit here.
Yeah, for sure.
If you're Ithaca and it's the slowest thing in the world, if you're Riverdale, it's running faster and you can believe so.
The time of possession for Ithaca-Weston is.
Really heavy.
They have really controlled the ball.
You have to get their line a lot of credit and their offense a lot of credit.
Check it down for the 36.
Here is Keller.
Good protection.
Steps up in the pocket.
Throw into the goal line.
Up in the air.
He's down around the goal line.
And he is caught.
it?
Yeah.
He did get it down around the goal line on the catch.
By Keller, was it?
It's a long ways away.
Peyton Keller.
Yeah.
From Jacob Keller.
Yeah.
It's a nice throw.
There was double coverage.
He was in between two.
He just went up.
We've said this already now.
The first catch was threaded.
That was another.
You go get it.
There's two Riverdale defenders, and he was able to make a really nice catch.
Really good defense, but Ithaca Weston coming down with the ball.
So now you're down to the 10, first and goal.
Your Riverdale, you've got to come up with a stop.
Eight minutes to go.
There's the snap, and running to the left side.
Ithaca Weston, quarterback Keller's got good wheels trying to seal the deal around the end.
Down around the five and then stays in bounds, but he's going to be short of the goal line by about four yards.
Yep.
Good rally by Riverdale defense.
You had a number of guys, but by Bevin Dennis and landing Canyon coming out and stringing that out and forcing the attack, but got all the way down to roughly the three yard line, just going by the scoreboard.
So you got second and goal at the three.
I would not be surprised to see that fullback taking the ball right here, but.
Mr. Walmer, 720 remaining, Ithaca-Weston trying to take a two touchdown lead.
Under center is Keller, and off there is Walmer, and he hit and dropped right away.
He did get a yard maybe, but Riverdale
read
it
well.
Nice job.
Cameron Nelson came slicing down, made initial hit on Blankenship who's been there all day, came up and helped Phil.
But now you're looking at third and goal.
from the
one the one yard line or two
they've got two now on the scoreboard okay we're at the angle where we have we'll take it we'll take their word for
it
you
know so all right play comes from the far side line Ithaca-weston trying to feel it up here with a second touchdown late in the game 650 to play and now they say one yard yeah so down to this for Ithaca-weston trying to put it in there is they hand off hand off up the middle Ithaca-weston fighting for yards
they did not get it
OK, so they picked, I did not realize that they were first down and goal was not first and goal.
They're actually outside the 10.
So they got that initial that was second down.
So now they're first down again.
So it's now second and goal if that makes any sense.
So they got three more downs to play with from the one yard
line.
And
it can
continue.
They don't have to be in a real hurry here either.
Taking the clock down to 6.15 to go.
Ithaca-Weston leading 6-0 here in high school football.
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Down to six minutes as Ithaca Weston gets to the football.
Again, a goal to go from the one yard line.
Quarterback keeper down around the goal line.
Ithaca Weston is
pushing their way
in and they get a touchdown.
Ithaca Weston scoring.
That was Jacob Keller of IW.
The sophomore quarterback scores for a second time
tonight.
He had met a lot of resistance there, but
They went to the safer play, the quarterback's sneak.
If you're the coach, you're thinking, oh, if we hand this thing off, we could always have a mistake.
So I just went quarterback sneak, was able to push it.
Now they're up 12-0 with 5-51 to go.
Sure, they'll probably go for 2, but maybe not.
You would assume so.
Yeah, because 12-13, but maybe want to give your kicker some reps, but they're going for 2.
They're going for 2 to add to it or attempt 2?
Well, nothing at the Covesta.
There's the snap from center and they're gonna throw
it.
Left
side wide open man and in for the two-point conversion.
Good catch there was a breakdown in coverage by Riverdale and
the
catch is made for the two-point conversion.
Yeah, that was a well-designed play.
They actually handed it off to the running back who then handed it back off like a little reverse play to Jacob Keller and then he tossed it out to the flat to I believe I could have this wrong, but I think it was Clint's banker.
who might have caught that for the two-point conversion.
But you can search that one out.
So hard to see
numbers.
They've
been at that end of the field the whole night.
I know.
You and I haven't had a break in our eyes
the whole
play.
Well,
whatever.
We're doing the best we can.
14-0.
If they go west,
they'll have the
two-point conversion.
Really nice.
If they go west, then they made some really good plays there.
They're up 14-0.
You're at 5-51 if you're Riverdale.
You've got to get the ball back.
You've got to obviously pick up the pace.
You're obviously up ten point.
try to get some score on the board as fast as you can and go from there.
So just a really well-played game.
I think on both sides, both teams have done a lot of really good things.
I'm sure there's things as a coach you're going to want to work on.
But it's been a really competitive, hard-fought football game.
Fun one to call, that's for sure.
Yeah,
for sure.
Get to go west and back to kick it off after the recent touchdown.
A couple of things in the ball game.
The fumble that Ithaca-West, it was going to be taken for a touchdown, but Riverdale had bounces back
there.
That
was one of the breaks.
Riverdale having a touchdown called bat that could have given them.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure.
And if you're sitting there on all Saturday morning or the Monday morning quarterback, you're going to be saying, well, they had the one touchdown callback you had.
Like you said, Bevin, you know, looks maybe he's going to score a touchdown then.
You know stumbles a little bit in a nice way west and then you got the fumble that I think that's going to stick out the ball that you could have picked and it just wasn't meant to be at that time.
Dave and Keller with a kickoff after the score is going to be taken around the 10 yard line by the Chieftains and they head straight up the field to the 20 and up to around the 25 yard line on the return maybe more than that looks like to the 35 maybe the 40 tackle is made by Spencer
Nelson.
Nice return by Owen Blankenship.
Nice rally.
on the stop by Ithica Weston.
And the other thing that's impressive for Ithica Weston on that drive, it started at the three yard
line.
Yes.
I mean, and there again, I mean, I think when you really look back on the game, I guess we've got a long time to go here.
But the ability for Ithica Weston to drive the length of the field, you start your three, and you go 97 yards, you're eating clock, and you get that two-score lead now.
You've got to give credit to that offensive line and just the
staying with the ground game and then the big catch they had to
Riverdale
not
done yet though 545 to go and Dennis leaves him out there ball is marked as a 37 yard line he's back to throw
in a
man he's
got a man
over his outstretched hands incomplete at the Ithaca Western 35 yard
line that was my daily the freshman who I've broken free Bevin laid it out there and just off his fingertips really well designed play well executed play just didn't happen that time he had a step
on the
defenders he did he had an opening and just didn't happen but you know you're in high school well executed just didn't happen that time
second down and ten yards to go for Riverdale 526 remaining in the game 14 nothing it took a Weston in the lead three men wide near side the one-man far side of the snap to Bevin Dennis back to throw plants now nowhere to go steps up bro said he's
got a man and he it's incomplete
intended for
Landon Kidion at the 20-yard line.
Just missed.
Landon ran a nice route.
The offensive line did a great job.
His bevel was able to step out of the pocket to his left.
And then he stepped up and made a heck of a throw fill.
That was a long ways.
45-50 yards just out of Landon's outstretched hands.
And tonight so far, just not meant to be.
As you can see from here, they had an opportunity just to happen.
But you've got to give the kids on both sides a lot of credit.
just come out here and practice every day and play a football game that I'm sure they really love and you try to do your best
lots of fun
for sure
third down from the 37 yard line third and 10 for Riverdale let's see if they maybe go for the first down this time instead of the gusto and Dennis back to throw he's flushed from the pocket rolls to the right side nothing there now coming back to the left
Bevin on his wheels, going to throw it, and it is incomplete, threw it a little low, intending it for, that was Kenyan
again.
Yeah, Landon Kenyan, good job.
Ithaca putting some pressure on, but it's tough the corner.
Landon Kenyan, tough the corner, Bevin Dennis, he's able to move out of the pocket.
Ithaca Weston Defense was able to keep everybody in front of him that time and force the incomplete pass.
We're
coming to a big play here for it down in town.
I'm sure Riverdale will probably take a timeout here.
Spencer Nelson has had a great game for Ithaca-Weston.
He's been back there all the time.
He was on that play.
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It is a 14-nothing Ithaca-Weston lead and just a game of inches.
You want to put that out on display.
This would be a good game to show that.
For sure.
I've said this a number of times with two pretty evenly matched teams.
Ithaca-Weston they will convert on a couple big plays.
I think of those two big throws and catches that were made.
You know, I think too, is the time possession as they've been able to control the football quite a bit in the game.
That's the biggest stat, absolutely.
Five minutes, seven seconds remaining here, 14-0 Riverdale trailing there.
They have the ball fourth down from the 37 yard line after the timeout.
Devin Dennis takes the snap and rolls to the far side and he's got great protection, throws it toward Kenyon, overshot him and incomplete
at
the 30.
Good coverage by Ithaca Weston.
This is Jacob Keller.
Jacob Keller was there.
Lanna had inside position.
Bevan made a nice throw, but this wasn't meant to be there.
So you'll have Ithaca Weston taking over.
I'm sure they'll go right to the ground.
Try to run the clock down.
Riverdale is looking to force a turnover.
Get a stop, obviously.
But you want to try to force some type of turnover here.
Five minutes and a second remaining here in the football game.
We'll be starting to get some finals along the way.
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Wake up will have some scores and stories on tonight's game.
If you go west and inside here for this first down play, Keller hands off running play near side.
That's Walt, uh, Walmer and he's going to run to the left side, pushed out of bounds around the seven yards ahead of the line of scrimmage.
I think he made a cut there, Phil.
The crowd is getting in there.
We can't see through the crowd, but I think he cut upfield, picked up the first
down.
He did.
Yeah.
I think so, yeah.
So again, going to that, the left, we talked about this all night long, but that's been their strength.
And that's what they're relying on.
Get these
first games in and teams start to get film.
Yeah,
for
sure.
Things like that.
Learn a little bit more about what the teams have and what their strengths and weaknesses are.
Again, this is not a conference game, but it's obviously a big game.
We've got the rivalry there.
Or
20 remaining in the game, whistles stound.
And I think we may have taken another
time out here.
I think with Oren Blankenship getting hurt before Phil, he was.
had to come out of the game.
So I think you're seeing some adjustments on defense to get that set up.
So both teams go to the sideline.
Good night for some water as well.
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It is a ball on the 23 yard line.
There's a pitch play going for Ithaca-Weston's Quintus banker.
Nice open field tackle, Riverdale's.
Was that Bevin Dennis?
No, I told him blank, and she's back.
Oh, OK.
Holds back in.
I think maybe one reason for the timeout, getting back on the field.
But Owens been all over the field on defense, making a number of great plays for Riverdale.
That time he rallied up, and I think it was Quintus' banker as they toss it.
Again, I think Ithaca-Weston thinking stretch the field, run as much clock as he can.
Make sure you don't run out of bounds.
350 remaining at the western taking time taking the time off.
They've had some ground-consuming drives that opening drive in the
first quarter
They got down to the 18 of Riverdale, but took oh well over half
of that quarter Yeah, it was over seven minutes seven minutes and 19 seconds.
I just jotted it down.
No score Yeah, I did not score,
but still kind of set the tone.
Yeah,
there's the snap handoff Walmer It's bumble loose on the field
and really.
Oh,
I think got it back.
Yeah, no
Didn't they if you go west and I
think you know,
yeah, the Cheepkins were on I thought he like campbell got on
it.
Yeah,
we'll see
I think it was pulled out of there by Liam Rowan Okay, he was able to dive in there and just able to dislodge it We'd be an NFL right now.
I'm sure be looking at number of replays down, but we don't have that here
Well, they're down.
Yeah, 1316
well back around the 30 of Riverdale of 255 to go in tonight's action Next week will be
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Riverdale Homecoming, you host, is it Isla
Grant?
Isla Grant, October 9th, it's Homecoming.
That's a ways away, but it'll be here before you know it.
You think so fast.
They do.
There's another timeout, 233 to play, 14-0 Ithaca Weston in the lead here tonight.
And getting ready for all
the
other sports as
well.
Cross country, I think.
Cross country.
Yep.
Scrimmage is next Tuesday at Ira Grant.
Then they open up at Ira Grant on Invite, the 29th, I think it is, if I got the dates right.
And then you got volleyball started.
They're going to have a really nice team again.
And they'll be going, I think, oh yeah, tomorrow they go to Rich and Center to scrimmage.
And then they head off to the Delve the following week to the.
Big tournament there.
They had a number of teams.
I think they're in it.
Coach Kenny is from Antigo, the Rhineliter.
Antigo is one of the teams in their bracket.
So there'll be a lot of great competition.
So yeah, things will be up and running here before you know
it.
Absolutely.
Look forward to calling as many as we can this fall.
We're down ball at the 30 yard line, third and 19 for Ithaca Weston after the timeout.
Locke will start with 233 to go.
There's this snap, Jacob Keller, hands up,
running
play, that's Rowan, bounces up one and now down around the 27 yard line, gain of about three.
Nice job by Owen Blankenship with the tackle again.
Boy, we've called his name
a lot.
He's got to be 15 to 20 tackles, he's had a really nice game.
Back to the huddle, he had to go west and now with a fourth down coming
up.
He'll probably just run as much time as he can.
Right, exactly
in this situation.
He'll probably run it down and then...
You know, I don't I'm sure keep it on the ground.
You don't want to Take a risk on some turnovers, you know, you got a two-score lead so Yeah, I give a shout out to the football coaches here takes a lot of time and energy to be a football coach and You know a lot of people this you know, you'll see it on Friday night for this two and a half hours or so but These guys that coach football put a lot of time in it.
They watch and film they have
in the mornings and evenings.
You've got meeting after meeting, and then you've got to dissect the film.
And another thing about it too is that you only get one game a week, not like baseball where you lose on Monday playing two things.
Right.
Previously.
Yeah, you've got Friday, and then you've got to wait until another Friday.
So it takes a lot of effort by these guys.
You've got to give them a shout out when you see.
And they cut their summer vacations.
Yeah, you've got to come back and...
Now with unlimited contact, I don't know if there is a summer vacation anymore because you can coach all summer long, but it takes a lot of effort.
And I know Coach Johnson and Coach Kelly on the other side put a lot of time in.
And today it looks like Ithaca-Weston is going to enjoy the win.
And if you're Riverdale, you've got to say, OK, we played a really good team.
We're going to get ready for Hillsboro next week and move forward.
136 remaining in the game after another timeout, and it's going to be a fourth down at about 13.
There's the pitch, Caden Keller running near side, Riverdale stretching out the play.
He breaks one tackle, nowhere to go, breaks another tackle, cuts across the field, still going, and he finally wound up losing about four yards.
Riverdale in hot pursuit, finally bringing him down there with number 54, Ethan
Cagel.
He's just trying to take as much time as possible.
Looks like we're going to have a holding penalty on Ithaca.
I'm sure Ithaca West.
I'm sorry, I'm sure you're going to see Riverdale decline it.
You got 126 left, so there's still hope.
Yeah, we'll make the most
of it, right?
You've got to just see if something happens.
It can happen.
Go have some fun.
Yep.
So the ball is marked at the 25-yard line Riverdale's own with a minute 26 remaining.
Teepton's up to the football.
They'll break it out now.
Again, Ithaca-Weston leading 14-0.
Bevan Dennis and company up to the line, awaiting a snap from center.
One single running back.
There's the snap.
Bevan straight back in the pocket, standing straight up.
And now it breaks down.
He's being chased by Ben Otto going to the left side.
Breaks a tackle down the sideline midfield, and now finally pushed out around the 45 of Ithaca-Weston.
Very nicely done by Bevan.
Bevan thinks ahead of the game, and he knew.
that the defenders would be dropping deep.
He just kind of hung pocket, hung pocket.
As a pocket, as a collapse, he knew he could step to the outside.
He just turned on the jet, got down a sideline and stepped out of bounds and stopped the clock.
So you got a minute and 17.
Have some fun,
right?
Yep, for sure.
14-nothing, Ithaca-Weston.
Ithaca-Weston just trying to play it out here.
This is where you're the team on defense, like, isn't that clock running?
I know, for sure.
There's the snap.
Dennis goes back, whips it right side over the top of the intended target.
That was number 11, James Schramm.
Just overshot him a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, good throw, just a lot.
Ithaca, again, like you said, filled his dropping back.
Don't want anything over your head.
Keep everything in front of you.
Try to keep the clock running.
The prevent defense,
right?
Yeah, prevent.
Not a big fan of prevent defense, especially if you're a Packer fan.
No.
I've seen a lot of prevented wins.
Exactly.
A bit of 13 remaining, second down, 10 yards to go, 47 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
Dennis rolls to the right side, throws, incomplete,
and
picked off as it was tipped.
Caden Keller slides down on the play.
And Ithaca-Weston, that's where Caden is second interception tonight.
Ball got deflected, just wasn't going to happen.
Ithaca-Weston, like you said, Caden Keller was sitting there, makes the pick, and then he wisely just slid down with the ball.
and now we'll see I think a Western taking a knee and that would be pretty much it from here.
14-0 they lead it a minute six remaining in the ball game here at Pickering Park in Muscaday and I think
a
Western up to the football they're in close proximity
so
again we'll probably take the knee
a couple of
times.
Jacob Keller kneels down after the snap from Otto and the clock will run.
I
think
Riverdale has used its timeouts.
Yeah I don't think they'll I think they've used them up on the last drive so
Ithaca Weston probably will wait till just under 40 seconds here, Phil.
Probably want to hit 39.
They'll snap it.
Watch the back.
They're up to the ball with 43 seconds remaining.
Wait for 39.
Now he's
under center
and
takes the ball down to a knee, and that will
do it
here.
This one belongs to Ithaca Weston tonight, if the teams head to the sidelines.
Well played, a hard fought game on the opening night of the season.
Tonight's final score 14-0, Ithaca Weston with the win against Riverdale and a game two pretty evenly matched teams throughout.
But Ithaca Weston with time of possession, winning it along the offensive line
I think and
getting
the job done.
They did.
Well played game.
Both teams played really hard.
You know, I enjoyed doing the game with you, Phil.
Ithica Weston pulls it out tonight, and Riverdale now has to just look at a few things and get ready for Hillsborough.
Absolutely.
Hillsborough, at last word, had taken the lead on basketball.
We will take a look at the scoreboard coming up in just a little bit.
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offer sure i think so we had pick up color running out to his left going to touch down at a time expires i mean if you make a copy go half time zero zero uh... it yeah they're bigger big place during that drive but
His ability to get out and score right for half.
I think that was a big momentum switch there.
And it set the tempo for the second half.
Ithaca-Weston played from the lead and could stay within their game.
And Riverdale was always battling, trying to get back and get the lead.
Coming from the other hand.
Yeah, right there in the middle part of the game.
And then the other thing was Ithaca-Weston defense forcing Riverdale free and out on the opening play of the second
half.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
You dictated that.
And they were able to keep that momentum.
Riverdale say it came really close a couple times, you know the In the third quarter there when Bevin was stopped at the two to three yard line as a huge stop there and then like you said that ability for Ithaca West and then go from the three 97 yards that two-score lead was huge change
long drive there absolutely good and Just really amazing plays both sides.
I have some some plays Bevin Dennis Strong at quarterback again again.
We
uh... commented about one blanket ship uh... mentioning his name a lot tonight on the ethical side of the western side catered teller he had that one-handed pick up uh... in that first half
at
two for the game and uh... jacob keller the sophomore quarterback and uh... couple of really strong trojan keller had a catch on off that it was pretty amazing
after sure and i think uh... too is uh... uh... if it was the ability to control possession you know get a rhythm and have long
And then Riverdale oftentimes had, you know, the three and out and you never got, couldn't get that rhythm until a few times in the game.
So I think you got a shout out to it's got what's an offensive line, you know, as far as sustaining rhythm and having that ball in your hand as, you know, more than your opponent.
Our post game show continues in a moment, but Kurt, always a pleasure to have you
in here.
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You have grandfather duties.
Yeah, I got to get, yeah.
So Janine and Whitney have the kids right now.
Hopefully they're sleeping, but I don't think so.
You
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Yeah,
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Well, thank you for a lot of fun.
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Highland was a winner over Wisconsin Heights 22-20.
Belmont over Kigaboo LeFarge 48-0.
North Crawford got the win against DeSoto 38-6.
High school football on the schedule for tonight.
Salk Prairie at Barrow-Boo.
Reedsburg is at New Berlin West.
Grafton at Mount Hurah-Barnaveld.
Edgerton at Broadhead-Juda.
Peccatonica Argyle visits Deerfield.
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Prairie doucheyne at Aquinas, Lancaster at Belleville, Fenimore at Iowa Grant, Hillsborough is at Bosquebell, Evansville at River Valley, Richland Center visits Verroqua, and Ithaca Weston is at Riverdale coming up.
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So we got scrimmage film and a couple of coaches and I went up to watch their scrimmage in person.
They're a program that graduated a lot last year.
I think they bring back four returners on O&D, you know, and so they're gonna be a very young team.
Overall, I think their program's got about 25 kids total in it.
You know, and so we've been there before, we know how hard that is, right, to just quality look and practice, but I mean, they're going to put a product on the field that they think that they're going to have success with.
And so I would look for a lot of fullback belly, you know, and then off of that, you're going to have an option look, some sweeps on the outside, right?
And they're going to try to lull you to sleep and then throw the long ball, you know, and anytime a team has a home opener, they're going to be jazzed and they're going to be ready to go and put on a show for their home crowd.
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know that it's not going to be a cakewalk.
We know we're going to have to come in and we're going to have to stay disciplined, right?
And run our schemes and do what we need to do.
So that's been the message this whole week is, you know, we control what we control, right?
And those are the intangibles that we're going to focus on.
Yeah, absolutely.
So there's a lot of experience that we're going to put back on the field.
And so I think that's the thing that'll be nice for home of football is that no, we're not.
There might be some new guys and new spots or old guys and new spots, I should say, you know, but overall collectively we will be one of probably the most experienced teams we have to receive this year.
Coach Andy Troxell, the Hornets headed to Verrocua tonight for a game in the first night of action, the nine week high school football schedule and then the playoffs for the teams that qualify after that River Valley has a home game tonight against Evansville and here is coach Tyler McClain talking about them.
Again, they're a very good squad as they were last year.
I do know they lost a couple guys up front, but they got some athletes on the outside.
They got their QB attorney who's a good athlete as well.
Again, they'll be a really good competition for us, and I think a really good measuring stick for us as we kind of progress throughout the season.
I do think there is a little bit of unknown with our guys right now, and I think that's exciting.
I do believe in our front right now, our offensive line.
We've been really trying to simplify and make things a little bit more consistent for our guys up front.
And each and every day I've seen improvement from them, so I'm excited to see that group kind of develop throughout the year.
We haven't named any captains quite yet.
We're potentially looking at potential do a little bit of rotation just because on our squad now we kind of expect leadership from everybody on our team.
We had a couple guys just get tweaked up a little bit, but going into this right now we're again fully healthy right now.
You know kind of bugs here and there, but for the most part we're pretty healthy.
I mean, obviously, with Nuglar is leaving, and then you kind of look at the last year's conference winner as well on Prairie to Sheen.
I think everybody kind of circles Prairie to Sheen as well.
But I'm going to kind of sound like a broken record here, as I said last year.
I think everybody in our conference is going to be a good team.
I think in each and every week, it's going to be a highly competitive game.
So I'm just kind of excited to kind of get rolling into it.
I think there's a little bit of an unknown as well with every team, too.
So it should be some exciting football coming down the line here.
Yeah, again, like there's a lot of teams that I think lost a lot of guys, but I also think a lot of teams are bringing up some good talent coming up and through.
So again, each and every week when you look at those scoreboards, some might surprise you and some might be kind of the expected as well.
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Tonight Riverdale is playing host to Ithaca Weston.
The game is coming up on WRCE.
I spoke earlier this week with coach Kyle Kelly of Ithaca Weston about how last week's scrimmage went as they traveled to River Ridge.
I thought things went really well.
Like I said, it was saw some good competition.
Obviously in scrimmage, you don't really get a game plan a whole lot.
So some things are going to go well.
Some things are not going to go so well.
But
I thought more things went good than bad.
Overall, I was really impressed by how we went.
No, you don't do special teams or anything like that at the scrimmage, but you don't really have film on their scheme.
You kind of just wing it and hope you guess correctly.
The best they've been in quite a few years.
We have 29 kids out.
It's going excellent.
It's been a lot of fun.
Yeah, it's going as good as it could possibly go.
Well, there's me.
And then there's Brett Maxwell, who's the brains behind the operation.
And then there's Marcus McCully is helping from Weston.
And Chad Claire has been helping out some here and there, too, which has been pretty cool.
work?
We're at Weston for the entire month of August and then we'll come back down to Ithaca during the school year in September 1st.
You'll see the other teams ideas from scrimmage and kind of just go off of what you think is going to work for you.
Yeah, that's always fun.
Like I said, it's a rivalry, but in a good way.
It's good to have those kind of games, but definitely probably a little more fire from both sides.
It's good to start the season off with a good game like that.
You know, we competed against two really good teams with Mawsten and Royal Royal did well last year.
I think they're five and four made the playoffs.
Mawsten struggled a little bit in their league, but they're a Division 4 team.
They gave us everything that we could handle and we rose to the occasion.
Well number one every program is going to say this can we come out healthy?
And then we got a lot of the first year kids some younger kids some newer kids some really good meaningful reps Our office looks solid There's some decision-making things that we'd have to do with some of our plays and the defense looked really really good
Jeff?
You know, this is probably the largest
Team that we've had in maybe a decade or I think 29 29 kids Showed up for camp.
We had a couple that have kind of gone Their own direction, but we're above 25 We'll have a full varsity reserve team for a couple weeks and then we adjusted some junior varsity scheduling But our varsity team is really solid
Senior leadership we have seven
returning seniors from last year.
I think we had 15 total positions returning that started last year with a lot of two-way players, but our senior leadership is as good as I've been around in a long time.
Yes, just almost every single position has a returning kid in the same position except for maybe one or two.
Otherwise, we're pretty solid.
Well, in our league, you know, we have Potosi and Blackhawk are always number one and number two.
Sometimes a team like that can make a mistake and still bounce back.
We have less room for error, less room for mistakes.
We have to be sound in everything we do.
If we control the line scrimmage.
every coach will say and don't turn the ball over.
I think we'll be in every single game.
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From Pickering Park in Muscaday, hello everyone.
It's high school football time again.
We're all fired up.
I'm Phil Meek.
Kirk Thompson's in the booth.
How are you doing, Kirk?
I'm
doing great, Phil.
Can't beat this time of year.
I'm sure everybody looks forward to it.
You got opening Friday night, high school football.
Everybody thinks about doing.
And so it should be a great game tonight.
It definitely should.
And you look at both teams a little bit of a contrast.
Riverdale.
has a little bit more of veteran players and how many did you count for Ithaca Weston that are under class?
Well, I thought I counted 19, but math is not my major.
So hopefully I'm close.
But yeah, I think Riverdale has a little more experience coming in.
But Ithaca, of course, Ithaca Weston, I should be saying, they have a solid tradition.
They play well.
They're always well coached.
They're going to play a really good football game.
I think it's really going to be an interesting game, and it's kind of a big test for both teams to see where they stand to start the season.
Steve and I should have worn our leather jackets, but, you know,
I got rid
of mine a few years ago, it doesn't fit.
Nonetheless, you know, you look at that, and Coach Kelly talked about it on the pre-game show, but Weston coming away from the eight-player football and the situation with Wonny Walk and coming to Ithaca, I think there are probably some.
especially old-timers they never thought they'd see the day
or for sure i mean if you're from weston or if they come sure you never thought you know whatever number of years ago at the gun weston would be a co-op in football just based on things they've done in the past at those schools but we're in changing times right now and you got to do what it's best for your kids to your program and so but who can up together i'm sure they're looking to build and continue a solid football tradition
from what i've learned uh... you know just following the schools in uh... in softball and last year in girls basketball and track the the students don't care
They just want to play the game.
They don't care if there's anything.
They don't know about long ago rivalries and
things
like that.
And you get together and for a common cause, wrestling has been very successful for both schools.
I'm sure once they get the kick going and the pads flying and tackles being made, co-op thing will be second fiddle, I
think.
Absolutely.
And then concerning Riverdale, a lot of players back.
You've got some skill.
And some speed per coach, Jeff.
Well, for sure.
I think, you know, I don't want to pick out certain guys, but having done it that quarterback, you know, is a great athlete.
You got Owen Blankenship, Landon Kenyon, just to name a few in the backfield.
But again, you know, when you're going to see how your season is going to go, oftentimes it's going to come down to offensive line, who's strong up front.
And
I think both teams will be solid.
I think Riverdale has some experience coming back on the line.
So that might be the difference here tonight.
You
bet.
Yeah, you bring up a good point.
I mean, you could have.
Tom Brady back there at quarterback and he's prime, but if you don't have a line, you know, tough flooding.
That's one of the things, and you know this, not to want to take too much time.
But if you don't have that offensive line, you're not going to have a good football team.
You've got to be strong up front on both sides of the ball on the line.
And the poor linemen never get in.
You don't see a headline like offensive linemen makes a key block.
It's always a kid that scores a touchdown.
So oftentimes good overlooked, but I think they're the difference makers.
No doubt about it.
We're going to take time out here.
Looks like National Anthem time is coming up here prior to game time tonight.
I think the Riverdale Cup Band, they assemble a little bit.
Jason Trox will got them going here.
I know it's early in the season for them too, but he's got a crew here and I'm sure they'll do a great job.
It's always great to have music a part of it as well.
Let's join our National Anthem.
Yeah!
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All teams are being introduced here.
Riverdale defense is being introduced.
You had to go with them trying to get out there as a team.
And they did, and they're huddled up in the middle of field.
Riverdale announced individually.
So we'll see.
Did you see who has the ball?
That's obviously
going to say that, Phil.
I messed up on that.
I'm getting paid at all here.
I should be knowing who's just joking about it.
I'm just thinking the same thing.
I never did look at who won the toss and who's kicking off and receiving.
But I'm going to guess.
Knowing coach Johnson that he's probably gonna want to play defense first.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna guess that Riverdale's gonna kick off and if it is gonna receive Okay, we'll see if I'm
right or not And one of the keys to is that you know the offseason a lot of times?
Games are one of the weight room, aren't they?
Oh for sure.
You got to put the work in
I'm sure both teams put a lot of time in it, you know You do a lot of different programs a lot of incentives But it's tough getting them, you know, you got a gear summer But yeah, if you can get in the weight room you can sustain that
Make a little bit of progress.
It makes a big difference, especially when you get in that third and fourth quarter.
And you got to reach down a little bit.
And I think that makes a big difference in your game.
Not
as many are throwing 15,000 small square bales of hay.
No, that's kind of a thing of the past.
That used to be an easy weightlifting thing back in the day, right?
You just get to come to practice in the morning.
They go home, fail a hay, come back, rip, and then you'd have an evening practice.
Absolutely.
I thought it used to be, but.
And you live and learn because I made it to take one year of.
pleading with Dan Rice.
I think it was his first year saying farm kids worked hard all day.
I
didn't
give him a break tonight.
And of
course, he did just the opposite.
I would doubt that Mr. Rice, Coach Rice, is going to give anybody a breather.
So
live
and
learn with that.
His breather would have been maybe one lot.
ten-yard sprint after you got done with the hundred.
Yes,
the hundred.
Five miles, whatever you want to call.
Yeah, you'd run, usually you'd run, I think, 110 and then 220.
Yeah, exactly.
You'd get
down to 100 or something.
Yeah, that would be the old school.
And here we got the flip, so we didn't miss anything.
Oh,
we didn't.
Oh, they're doing it now.
Is
that something
new or something different?
Yeah, they're doing it.
They think they changed it up here to last year or so.
Yeah, so.
Here that they forgot to do it too.
We'll find out again.
That could be.
Captains out on the field to watch it and we'll watch it as well.
We'll be back in one minute with the kickoff for sure here on WRCO and WRCE and thank you for joining us tonight from Pickering Park here courtesy of WRCE Sports.
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Kickoff is coming up here.
Kurt
Thompson, though, who's getting the ball?
Yeah, Ithaca will be receiving.
Riverdale actually won the toss, I believe, from up here.
And they deferred.
And so they, Ithaca decided to take the football, which of course they would.
And then Riverdale will be kicking off here.
So we'll see all this game.
I believe Eli Campbell is the kicker.
He is a very good kicker.
I would not be surprised to see him if Coach is allowing him to.
I would not be surprised to see him launch one here down, probably inside the 10 yard line.
He's been kicking since his freshman year.
Yeah, he's good.
I mean, he's gone to a lot of camps, so I believe it.
One of the camps, the attendee at, what, a 55 yard field goal?
Oh, well.
So he can kick it.
It's like sending two men back deep to receive.
Looks like Briggs Maxwell is back.
Caden Keller as well, like they switched players the last minute.
Quintus Banker is back there now.
And so those are the two deep men.
for Ithaca Weston and Campbell circling and will kick off.
Riverdale facing the sunshine a little bit here.
Only briefly though.
Beautiful night.
Absolutely.
Here we go.
The season is underway as Campbell puts the toe in the ball, bounces away a banker, grabs it at the pin, cuts across around the 15 of the 20, spun around
and
upended right around the 26 yard line.
Landon Kenyon made the first hit there.
Phil had to spot him and we're waiting to get the number on the second one.
I believe that was
I'm guessing that Miles Dailey, the freshman, I believe finished it off, but could be a little off on that.
But Landon Kinney got the trip up and Riverdale followed with the herd to take him
down.
Ithica Weston led by sophomore quarterback Jacob Keller.
And the fullback is Liam Rowan, the running back Landon Walmer, wide receivers Caden Keller and Quintus Banker.
And also we'll see, as mentioned, Landon Walmer, the tight end Spencer Nelson and Peyton Brown will set the lineman in just a moment.
First play from Strimmage for Ithica Weston.
There's this map from center ball to 25.
They run left, going for a couple of yards.
Now, more to the 30, to the 34 yard line on a good, strong run by Liam Rowan.
Hi,
Liam.
I think I'm looking to be in like a double tight wing T formation.
They went off tackle that time.
Riverdale had a host of players there, led by Owen Blankenship to make the tackle after a gain of about eight.
Ben Otto is the center for the Ithaca-Weston team.
Hayden Burns, the right guard, the left guard is Isaiah Fargent.
Reed Wabshaw and Mason Van Coulter are the left and right tackles.
Here we go, ball with the 33 yard line.
So that was a gain of about eight yards for Ithaca-Weston.
Blind up on the far hash mark, map to Keller, hands off, running up the gut and pushing for a first down, it looks like, out to around the 40 yard line if they give him forward progress there.
Yep, I think that was Landon Walmer.
It looked like a little inside trap move there.
A host of Riverdale players there for the tackle.
But I think it was them picking up the first down.
Lots of experience there for Riverdale as well as you look at their players on defense, including Ethan Cagle is there.
Coming in, I believe Blake Dickman was right around the tackle as well, number 68.
Yep,
and Peyton Olson, the defensive tackle, senior number 56 is in on the tackle.
First down at the 40-yard line, Ithaca-Weston, there's flags flying everywhere.
And the running back goes to the left side.
Liam Rowan
brought down on the far side.
I think we might have a little fault start by Ithaca-Weston here, Phil.
I'm seeing this right.
And that's kind of one of your typical early season flaws, isn't it?
For sure.
You're just getting in the rhythm.
You've had three plays now.
The energy level's up.
You're hustling up to the line.
And oops, not had gone a little early.
Back to the five yards and the Ithaca-Weston will start again here with a first and 15 from the 35 yard line.
Just underway here at Pickering Park.
Beautiful shape.
I must say the
baseball infield looks good too.
Now you've got to keep the infield.
You've got to keep the baseball infield in shape.
Take care of the field, the field, take care, take
care of you.
Absolutely.
First.
from the 15, and there's a running back.
Now they're going to keep it themselves.
It's going to be a run from the near side.
Cutting around the right side, Jacob Keller.
And the quarterback is going to be almost to a first down.
Yeah, Bevin Dennis was a nice tackle.
Nice boot-like play by Jacob Keller to sophomore quarterback.
You did a nice job of play-faking.
Riverdale kind of flowed to the right.
He went to his right and picked up a first down.
We saw Jacob running in the left field for the Cousin
over the
Reds this summer, and I said,
that
young man is
fast.
Yeah, he's got some speed.
He made a nice job of play action, I'm sure.
Riverdale evaluating that, hopefully.
They're hoping that doesn't happen again.
Ball is right here on the 49 yard line, as we watch here from right around midfield.
There's the snap, handoff running left tackle, and over the pile there is number five, Liam Rowan.
or a couple of yards to the 46
yard
line.
Bevan Dennis came
up again
with the tackle.
He was also assisted by junior Parker Vremmer on the offensive line.
But again, Ithaca running a lot of traditional wing T type of play.
That'd be like a little off tackle, what it called it, like I think in the old days, a 183.
But that's in the playbook, so we'll let that go.
Just trying to get a little ground control, I'm sure.
I would not be surprised to play action pass coming here pretty
soon.
Just in the Riverdale territory.
It's a 46 yard line.
It's a second down.
Six yards to go.
Ball between the hashes.
Snap to Keller.
He's going to hand off to the fullback.
Cut in the left side.
Put the shoulder down.
Looks like a first down to around the 36 yard line on landed Walmers carry.
Nice job.
Good blocking up front by Ithaca.
They got a solid wall.
They're going a lot to their left, running off tackle there out of a double tight.
Riverdale rallied.
with the numerous guys in on the tackle, led by Ethan Cagle was there, and also Owen Blankenship.
Good job covering that one after the stoppage of play, but so far, you
think the West didn't keep it on the ground?
Yeah, they are.
They're establishing the, like we talked about in the free game, they're trying to get their offensive line rolling and trying to gain a little momentum control of the game.
First down at the Riverdale 37, handoff running up the gut, not much there.
Riverdale stacked some straight up.
and pushes them back right around the 36 yard line.
Nice job inside by Cameron Nelson, just a freshman, Riverdale.
Ithaca-Weston ran a lot of call to two-trap at three, so inside trap where the guard pulls and tries to take the tackle out.
But Cameron stayed low, held a position, then linebackers rallied and held it pretty much one to two yard game.
Good block in the straight ahead there by Isaiah Fargent
for
Ithaca-Weston.
They did get more than I thought.
Looks like a couple
of yards.
Yeah, they did.
36 yard line of Riverdale and awaiting a snap is Keller taking the snap under center and off going to number five Liam Rowan cutting left tackle 35 to the 34 so about three yards.
Yep nice job again a little off tackle to the offensive left uh Riverdale defensive right that time Chase Bremmer a junior slipped in to make the tackle nice job out there.
There are a couple of Bremmer's
on the roster right?
Yep Jason Parker.
Parker just hasn't been coming out.
No, that's fake.
No, it's in my fault.
OK.
I
thought you had two glasses.
I know I got to work on that.
They didn't help the eyes, though.
They're fogging
up.
It's a little muggy here tonight.
Third down play, 32 yard line at Riverdale for Ithaca-Weston, five yards to go for a first down.
Keller's back to throw, coming to the near side, running into the flat, running, throws it low, and is caught by Ithaca-Weston.
It's going to be a completion.
What a great catch.
My number eight Spencer
Nelson.
Spencer Nelson, a sophomore, a big target, 6395 pounds.
Jacob Keller did a nice job of rolling out the pocket.
Riverdale had some good pressure.
And that was a well-defended play as the Riverdale defender was right there.
But he was able to thread the needle and made a nice two-handed grab and picked up the first down.
He just had to say, hey, that was a really good play.
Yeah, you described it well.
I was going to say, how could Riverdale have defended it any
better?
And that almost looked like a.
College or pro level
pass
there by
Nelson.
Yeah, you hope that maybe the Packers throw it out while they're
here.
We'll see.
They need some tight
end.
Well, let's not go there.
There's a first down from the 22 and now bootlegging to the near side and cutting into the right end is going to be Keller gets across the 20, down to the 19, it looks like.
That was a nice job.
You like Campbell that time.
He stayed home on the corner, forced the quarterback to cut it back into traffic.
And I believe it was Blake Dickman then, the senior.
who came from his defensive end spot to make the tackle.
I think a west end has been on the drive.
They're eating up the clock.
2-6-30 remaining in the first
quarter.
Yeah,
this is, you know, a lot of people like to throw the ball and all that, which is great and spread it.
But when you can control the ball and run the ball, you're also playing great defense because the other team doesn't have a chance to, you know, to go on offense.
So sure, that's what it's open to do.
Well, just across the 20 down to around the 19 of Riverdale, second down and seven.
That handoff going on the left side.
The Walmer kept the cross left tackle
in.
Oh,
he's up handed by Devin Demick.
Devin came up again running a little bit of just a straight off tackle to the left, the weak side.
Landon Kinney did a nice job of coming up and forcing that play.
And then Devin came up and finished it.
Yeah, you know, at first I thought they were
going to
get more yardage.
They
only wind up with about a yard or so to the 18.
Riverdale did a good job on the edge there.
Closing that hole down forcing the cutback.
So here we go.
I think that was Cameron Nelson.
Forcing that back in.
So here we go third down in about six fill.
These are two big downs in the game here.
I double you running out of the shotgun.
There's the snap flags everywhere and probably a false start.
That
is the
call.
Yep.
I think we had a little bit of movement.
It's less than running on a quicker count.
But I think out here you had a couple of guys ready to go and you may have jumped a little early.
Ithica Western was running a quarterback squeak at all right at that time.
That's one of the things that just kind of kills momentum.
Yes,
it does.
Because we're in third in, we'll say, sixth.
And now you're in third and 11.
Third and sixth, you probably think we could make two runs here.
Get the first down.
Now you're going to have to maybe throw the ball.
We'll
see.
The ball is backed up to the 23 of Riverdale.
Play comes in.
Jacob Keller runs it in from the far sideline of Ithica Western.
And I think we're going to have a timeout.
514 remaining opening quarters.
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Tell
her back to throw.
Riverdale coming after him and he's going to be sacked all the way back at the 34 yard line.
Wow, good coverage for the Riverdale beat.
Yeah, huge
play there.
Riverdale, Caleb Johnson, their defensive coordinator, great coach.
He anticipated that rollout, Eli Campbell was there, put pressure on, forced them back to the inside, and then a host of Riverdale players there to make the sack, led by Blake Dickman.
So Ithaca Weston at one point was at the 18 of Riverdale, now they're back at the 34, and it's fourth down.
So fourth down, and what about 26 to go, wow.
Here we go.
Ball is going to be snapped.
They're going to go for it.
It looks like snap is made.
Keller back pocket breaking down rolling to the left side.
He's out of the flat going to run it himself.
Keller is going to be up in it initially then 30 down to the 25.
And he'll be stopped there by Riverdale.
Nice job by Riverdale forcing that back in.
You had land in Canyon providing most of the pressure with Ethan Cagle then coming up and finishing it off around the 25.
So wow.
You had Ithaca with us.
Ithaca-Weston with a seven over a seven minute drive.
Riverdale stops them around the 26th.
Now Riverdale goes on defense.
These
are
the games that move quickly
went up.
Yeah, exactly.
Keep
it on the ground
a lot.
Sure.
And so far it has.
No score in the ball game.
451 remaining.
Riverdale takes over.
On down.
Ball is marked at their own 26 yard line.
Keller did a good job of getting what he got
there.
He did a good job of rolling out.
So Riverdale on the offense.
And looking to throw it here, maybe we'll see.
They're running out of the shot.
I'm going to run it initially.
Devin Dennis is going to the left.
Cut to the 30, up to the 34.
Still spattin' around.
40, cuts across the field.
What a run.
He's coming left side.
He's got a lot of green in front of him.
Devin Dennis could go all the way.
Ithagore Weston's got an angle.
Dennis cutting towards the far side line.
Did he make it?
It is a touchdown.
Holy
cow.
That happens a lot then.
The 74-yard run, basically just a quarterback.
You're running spread, and then you're running a little quarterback trap up inside.
I think there's a flag.
Oops.
Everybody's celebrating, and then on the far side, I saw one of the officials motioning
back.
Oh, no.
So they will come back to the near side.
If nothing else, hopefully they kept that on
film.
Yeah, that was an amazing run.
It's a tremendous run.
Now I got to regroup.
Unfortunately, a holding call around the 35, 36 yard line will have to come back 10.
That
hurts.
And
I'm not sure whether it did or not, but sometimes those calls don't have anything to do with the play.
He would have
made it anyway
because he got out the flat
and did all the
work.
It was a tremendous run.
And now you just got to get your breath here.
That's a tough one to shake off because he just executed a great play.
Now you're right back to where he started.
Right back in the 26th, back to first and
10.
First and 10, yeah, just erased everything there.
431 remaining in the opening quarters, scoreless here in Muscatay and Riverdale lining up.
Now, Devin Dennis, the QB will run out of the shotgun again.
Three wide receivers set.
Here is the handoff to the man in motion, Landon Kenyon, tries to cut around the left side, spreads it out, going for nearly a first down and he may have gotten it.
Nice job by Landon, great run by Landon.
Great blocking up front, they steal the edge.
with Eli Campo out there sealing the edge.
Jessica Weston rallied, led by number eight Spencer Nelson.
Knock him out of bounds, but it'll be second in about eight, Bill.
Yeah, Spencer read that really well.
Yeah.
Kept him out of bounds, about two yards short.
So ball has moved and the change move a little bit to the 34 yard line now.
And Riverdale setting up here on the near hash mark.
The Riverdale fans.
Side line.
Yep.
Evan Dennis has one man wide, now man in motion.
Again, that's Kenyon.
There is the handoff.
Nothing there.
Ithica Weston read it well, and they tackle him in the backfield.
Number 70, Hayden Byrne.
Nice shot by Hayden Byrne, the sophomore.
He held his position.
It was a little read there, read option.
Oh, and Blankenship got the handoff, but Hayden Byrne sat in the hole, made the tackle.
Nice play by Ithica Weston.
Now we're at third and five.
So now it's getting back to kind of, so far it's kind of old school football,
isn't it?
Yeah, just so you can win up front.
Two wide, now two left here and Bevin Dennis in the backfield looks things over awaiting the shotgun snap back to throw and follows it to the far side caught and dropped there.
It was intended for Eli Campbell.
Nice play broken up by Jacob Keller who came across the ball just getting to Eli's hand.
He got hit.
and knocked it loose.
Nice defense to play by Ithaca-Weston.
Riverdale now will probably punt.
Burns was up front again and that's off to Owen Blankenship who was hanging back there to block.
He gave his quarterback a little bit of room there.
For sure.
Was a good throw, just good defense.
So no score in the ball game.
Riverdale is 1-2-3 and a fourth down coming up here and whistles will stop play time out taken by the Chiefs.
We'll be back in 30 seconds with more 340 remaining in the first.
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Welcome back to Pickering Park.
3 minutes 40 seconds remaining in the opening quarter of football.
Interesting weather today when I was in Jacksonville agreeing to barely regularly for about 25 minutes.
Nothing here tonight.
We got some around quarter to four.
It came down pretty good, then it stopped and the sun came out.
So it's always nice to have just a nice, no-worry night of football.
We don't have to worry about, we have to get done early, we have to do this and that.
Amen.
Right.
You've had a few of those over the years.
Oh, for sure.
Awaiting the snap on the punt.
Riverdale on fourth down, there's the snap.
And putting a toe into it is Eli Kappel.
Wow, a lot of hang time.
And Ithaca Weston back to receive it, caught there by Keller.
He gets by one tackler, then can't get around Devin Bennett to make the tackle.
Nice job by Bevin.
A great pump by Eli.
He got a lot of hang time, like you said.
Put it around the 25 yard line.
So we're looking at, what, about a roughly 45 to 50 yard punt?
And then you got your quarterback, Bevin, done.
It's us one down the field and making the tackle.
Yeah.
Did you ever get involved in those punt passing kick contests when you were
a kid?
No.
Well, we had them unofficially in our little community.
We had our own rules there.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, I never went to the major.
You always would watch them on half times.
Yes.
Eli would do
well.
Yeah, for sure.
All right, we're ready for Ithaca Weston now in offense.
The ball is on the 20 yard line, their own.
No score in the game.
Ithaca Weston, time of possession, dominant here so far.
But nothing to show.
There is a running play left flat.
They're going to cut a few up to around the 28 yard line.
I believe that was number four Keller of the quarterback running at ball.
Looks like Ethan Cable came over to help on the
tackle.
Yep, Bob McDonough's there also.
Ithaca really like, they really like running to their left.
They see that there's their strength.
It's been really successful for them.
You know, they dominated the clock in the first, you know, the first drive of the game.
So both teams are looking for things to be successful with.
Yeah, good point.
Reed Wabschel out there
at left
tackle leading the way on that one.
So this is one yard to go for a first down from the 29 and Ithaca-Weston bullying their way to around the 31 yard line for a first down.
Derby there by 34, Levin-Walmer, so it gives
I thought maybe he got it easily,
but there's
no marking of the first down yet.
They're going to measure.
They will.
All right.
Yeah, again, we're at
the angle.
I was talking to a couple of people earlier here from both sides, and they're like, it's hard to do stats from the booth
because
you
can't
always see.
And there
aren't
the
yard markers.
I thought you'd have dollars.
NFL line on your radio.
Well, we
should.
We should.
Wouldn't that be cool?
240 remaining in the opening quarter.
Looks like another timeout on the field.
240 remaining, no score.
Opening play, opening quarter of play.
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Welcome
back to Pickering Park.
The
measurement looks like Kurt was just a little short.
Just a little short.
Ithaca Weston going right to the line here as the chain gets set.
Third down and a yard.
Ball is marked to the 29 of Ithaca Weston.
I think you go quarterback.
Sneak here, Phil.
Maybe.
Or you go to your full back.
Yeah, there it is.
Walmer.
And there.
Oh, he's going to get
more than that.
That is Walmer.
And he's going to roll
and slide to the 41 yard line.
Looks like another nice run.
That was really nice.
Sometimes those happen, right, Phil?
On short yardage, he had to pull back, found a crease, he popped it.
It was miles daily.
Freshman came across with.
James Schramm also there, excuse me to make the tackle.
It was James Schramm that came off the corner spot to make the tackle.
First down at the 4th.
He had Walmer, a sophomore and 190 pounds.
He's solid.
He ran the ball effectively again.
Going to their left seems to be what they like to do here.
As they place the ball, 208 remaining here in the opening quarter of football.
Onto the field comes Briggs Maxwell, number seven for Ithaca Weston.
They're going to switch here on the next play.
just the freshman.
Yes, he is.
There are several freshmen for both teams contributing tonight,
and I believe they've taken another time out.
Yeah, you could see that coming.
You're trying to do some different things, and you've got to make sure you're right.
First game of the year.
You know, you had a scrimmage, yeah, but that's a scrimmage.
In the first game, you got a lot of little things ironed out.
No doubt.
Well, we'll keep it here for this one.
153 remaining in the opening quarter of football, no score.
Did you ever
play on this field?
I never played here, not in high school, no.
We never came down this way when I was at Weston.
We'd always be, you know, the northern, you know, the 20 walks and all that, Hillsboro and all that stuff.
It's because sometimes, depending on if you're still in the scenic gloves or the original, you know.
Yeah, that did change for a while.
Scenic central for a while.
Yes, we played here a couple of times.
Would have been here and there.
And basketball, Ithaca and Riverdale played, I think when I was a senior, we played three times because you
played the
first round of the sub-regional,
two non-conference games.
I have some 16-millimeter football film that go back to 1970, also 1966.
I'd
like to see that
if somebody wants to look.
Timeout is over and there's Walmart getting the ball going left side.
Not so easy sliding this time as it breaks down and he is brought down behind the line.
Nice shot by the Riverdale defense that time, stood their ground.
You're looking at Peyton Olson was there and Cameron Nelson as they stacked it up and they got a little linebacker help and they held that pretty much no gain.
Jack it down and ten yards to go for Ithaca-Weston.
Minute 25 remaining opening quarters scoreless here on a Friday night lights are now being more effective.
Yep.
It gets to be thumbed down officially.
There's this snap.
Keller takes it.
The quarterback runs near.
Side
foul is a block from Walmart.
Goes over the line.
Only got about a yard
or so.
Nice job by defense.
I know Bevin Dennis is going to get the tackle there, but all in blank and chip does what you want.
He gets his outside inside, keeps his outside shoulder free.
Forced the rudder.
Jacob Keller cut it back inside.
Bevin Dennis came up with the tackle.
Nice job.
Third down and about eight yards to go for Ithaca Weston.
Ball is right around the 42 yard line of Ithaca-Weston, 45 seconds remaining here in the opening quarter.
This is where the, I know it's the first quarter, but it's a little humid out at 75 degrees.
It's your first game, so all that energy you had coming in now, it's like, okay, you're gonna have to reach down and kind of get mental toughness, and now you got three quarters to go.
Four wide receiver set, Keller rolling, he fakes the throw, now tucks it, and now he is spun around and a couple of other Riverdale players bringing down
Right around the line of scrimmage.
It's a nice job by Ethan Kago.
He got outside, forced to spin back.
Riverdale's doing a better job of containing, and will probably force a Ithaca-Weston punt as the quarter's going to wind out.
Yeah.
So a good quarter of football and some smash-mouth football back and forth here, and we're down to the final second.
That'll do it.
One quarter in the books.
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It is a fourth down coming up here for Ithaca Weston.
They switch sides and it looks like they will put it
Kurt.
Yep brings Maxwell the freshman looks to be pawning Phil.
He got Bevin Dennis back.
I think you're Ithaca Weston.
You're probably going to try to pun it away from him.
He had a big play in the first quarter that called back.
There's the snap and Maxwell hangs went over the left side and it's going to bounce near the out of bounds line and
it's going
to
stay in
bounds.
Bevin gets
away from it.
Downed by Ithaca Weston number 11 Peyton Brown.
Yeah, nice pun.
Got it off.
Angled it to the left side.
And now Riverdale takeover.
Interesting first quarter.
You had Ithaca-Weston pretty much dominating time possession as they moved the ball down the field, but then just came up a little bit short.
And then, of course, Riverdale scoring on the big play, then get back.
It's called back.
So you're back to even, and you're in a new quarter.
And see what happens here.
See
what happens.
Yeah, back
to it here.
New
start.
Riverdale has been but not broken and they've got the ball her own 19 yard line Seven Dennis looks it over man in motion Dennis takes a snap and kind of does some side to roll into the left side He's going along the line of scrimmage down to the 30 very poor up to the 40 to the 50 and then out of bounds just to the ethical lesson territory.
Nice shot by bobbin I think you'll see my opinion and I'm not the coach but in my opinion I think you'll see a lot more of that as they spread him out
It was another nice move, nice blocking out front.
You don't have to open a huge hole for Bevin.
He knifed through it, and then Quintus Banker, the senior, came up and made a nice tackle on the sideline.
May have saved a touchdown.
Yeah, for sure.
Bevin was about one or two steps from breaking the sideline, but a nice play.
Ball is at the 48 yard line of Riverdale, a nice little breather there as they get out and get going here near midfield.
Dennis looks it over standing straight up takes the snap out of the shotgun quarterback option pitches to the right side Cutting here and his blanket ship brought down right
around the
line of scrimmage by Ithaca West.
Yep.
Nice job.
Ran a little option there.
Bevin pitched it Just good defense you had Number eight Spencer Nelson rallying up the sophomore and then you had Briggs Maxwell I believe the freshman and they doubled up out there and made a nice tackle an open field
Second down and eight yards.
He did get a couple of yards on that.
Ball at the 46 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
Just into IW territory.
Dennis remains out of the shotgun.
Two men lie to the right.
There's the snap.
Back to throw.
Pocket breaks down.
He's going to whip on over the middle and incomplete.
Intended here for number 11, James Strand.
Yep.
Good idea.
They play actioned at the landing.
Took a shot deep.
James ran a nice route.
But just really nice defense by Caden Keller, the senior.
He is right there and would have taken a perfect throw to hit that one.
Jacob and Caden Keller,
they're not related.
You might think they're twins, but they're not.
We're both on the
cover.
No
kidding.
So that'll bring up another chance to riverdale with a third down and eight.
This is where
whatever coach Johnson's thinking here, but you probably want to pick up a few yards here.
Get yourself in that fourth down position or get it all exposed.
Bevin looks it over, he's got SRAM to his right, and then he's got full wide receivers.
Snap from center, and he's back to throw good protection.
Rolls near side, throws it over the middle, almost picks off.
Let's see if he got it.
Diving in there was Caden Keller.
They say he picked it off one
handed.
Wow.
That was a nice flight, Bevin.
With the James, it came up just a little bit short.
With a tremendous diving catch by Caden Keller, is he able to cradle in with his right arm as he hits the ground.
And now, Ithica West, I'm picking up the game's first turnover.
We'll take over on their 26 yard line.
Great play.
That's a highlight, real one there.
Yeah, for sure.
That was a great play.
But if you're Riverdale, it's almost like a punt.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, it was, you know, your third and eight, you got to do something with the ball.
Went down field, just came a little short this time.
So now you're back on defense.
Ball is marked at the 26 yard line.
Ithica West in zone, handoff, running play up the gut.
As they go at it, as they did early in the
first quarter, a
game of about six yards.
for Liam Rowan.
Yeah, nice job again.
They ran a little trap play.
Just out of the year, textbook, wing key.
And Landon Kenyon came up from his linebacker spot and made the tackle.
Second down and about six yards to go for the Ithaca Western team.
We are set for action here all season long.
This is the first of nine games, regular season.
And we're hoping that they're like 13 or 14.
Yeah, that'd be nice.
That means somebody makes a run in the playoffs.
For
sure.
Second down.
Seven yards to go.
Ball around the 30 of Ithaca-Weston.
Handoff going to Walmer.
And he comes around the left side.
Got a little room with the short out.
First down Bumble.
And the ball loose on the field.
And I think he got it back, or somebody
from Ithaca-Weston.
Looks like number 54 from Ithaca-Weston.
That would be Isaiah Bargin, right?
Nice job.
I
seen
here.
Alertly pounced on the ball.
It would have been a first down, but it got kicked back.
So now Ithaca-Weston is looking at about a third and one and a half to.
So right now they'll huddle it up here, third and short yardage.
Riverdale's defense stepping up here, this first half continues.
And Ithaca-Weston in the huddle and breaking out now, heading to the line.
Big pull back to the left, Phil.
That worked
the other time he did it, right?
We'll see what happens.
34 yard line, and they're going to hand it full back left, and he's going to dive across, stretches out to around the 39 for a first
down.
Nice tackle by Ethan Kago, but again, Ithaca-Wesson's offensive line did the job, opened a slight crease, was able to pop it, he wanted a couple yards, he got a couple yards, now he got a first down.
Ithaca-Wesson continues the time of possession, just sticking to the ground.
First down from the 39 yard line of Ithaca-Weston and Jacob Keller running the play in from the far sideline.
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Ithaca staying with their pace.
So you notice they're always running around the same almost the same time.
First down play and the handoff up the gut run for number five
Liam
Rohn doesn't net much maybe to the 41.
Nice
job of closing it down.
I think they're a rule he was down now.
Good job by Riverdale though playing through the whistle.
Coach Johnson, when I coached with him a number of years ago, he was big in that on defense.
That ball is laying on the ground.
Everybody on defense is down my ball, my ball, my ball.
Maybe the official, that table switches.
Change is mine, but not that time.
You're campaigning
anyway.
Yeah, for sure.
Got to show enthusiasm.
Yep, second down, nine yards to go.
From the 41, Ithaca Weston, sending out a man far side, Kate and Keller, everybody else in tight, and the quarterback under center.
Nap to Keller, Jacob rolling on the option, keeps it himself off right tackle.
Doesn't get much, around the 42.
Good coverage by Riverdale Defense.
Ithaca, I think it was a design quarterback run with the option looked, but just a good job of rallying outside.
You got nice play again by Ethan Cagle out there.
turning it back in holding this ground and Eli Campbell and the linebacking core rallying up.
Coming in from the far side line, Rowan and Keller, Kate and Keller, into the mix for Ithaca-Weston, third down and eight yards to go from the 41 of Ithaca-Weston.
Peyton Brown cuts out to the right side and under center is Jacob Keller takes the snap, takes the handoff, rolling right side following a good block, throws in the flat.
It's caught out there on the left side by Caden Keller.
First down
in the
Riverdale territory, breaks free to the 40 yard line of Riverdale.
Nice tackle by Bevin.
Nice route run by Ithaca as they did a nice little out route.
And again, like you said, Jacob Keller rolled on time.
Not an easy pass to make under some pressure, but put it right on the hand.
and a big play there is that he could convert, he could go west and convert and have a first down around the 40s.
You're
running
game
lots of times compliments
that type
of game, doesn't it?
I'm sure if you're Riverdale you don't want him to get, you don't want that quarterback to get outside the pocket, you want to hold him inside but that's easier said than done.
First down ball in the 39 of Riverdale, there's the snap handoff
going to
the far side and down the line, Walmer into maybe first down territory again.
Again, running off that left side.
Basically a half back dive, weak side.
I got a nice field block.
Owen Blankenship did a nice job of coming up from his linebacker spot to make the tackle.
But that's been the bread and butter so far for Ithaca Weston.
Exactly, 10 yards to the 29.
740
remaining in the first half.
No score here at Pickering Park.
These two teams have met many times
over the year.
Well, for
sure.
Been a lot
of good games.
You bet.
There's a snap from center handoff running play.
That is going to be Walmer, and he bounces off one, gets into the pile
for a
yard or two.
Double on the stop.
That was Cameron in the fresh from that time.
He read the down block, so he said he's probably been coached.
That kid blocks down in front of you, squeezed down off the outside.
He came down, made an initial hit, but they still, it's a Western.
They were able to push forward for a couple more yards, but good play by the defense that time.
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6-50 remaining here in the first half, scoreless in Riverdale, and off going to Walmer.
Breaks one tackle, gets down, they got him by the jersey, and then
they drag him
down around the 21-yard line.
Postal players in on the tackle, Eli Campbell came up.
I think you got James Schramm coming up to make the hit.
But a really nice run by Landon Walmer.
Just a sophomore, but like you said, six foot, 190 pounds.
He was hitting the backfield, but just shrugged it off and got those yards after contact.
I think in the NFL that goes like yak yards or whatever.
Yes.
Something like that.
Yak yard.
Yeah, so nice run.
Now he's got Ithaca Wesson sitting in at all third and two.
Ball is right around the 20-yard line and Riverdale as the drive continues.
Just into the red zone, there's the handoff
to
Walmer, cut left tackle.
He'll drag a couple
with him to
around the 18-yard
line.
On blankenship, Riverdale was anticipating that.
I don't know if you saw that, but they took the defensive end, put him inside, they planted down.
and that all-in-blanket ship came around to make the tackle, but by that time it was too late and it had to go west and had to do yards to the first down.
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All right, so here we come to the decision time here, Phil.
This is where it's going to go west and drove in the first half, right?
Yes.
In the first quarter, I mean, and then Riverdale was able to rally, took advantage of a penalty.
So let's see who wins this red zone battle this time.
All right.
Jacob Keller under center.
Auto set to snap the
ball.
Somebody moved in the backfield for Ithaca-Weston.
Five yards penalty.
All right.
Those things happen.
Your high school football, you got a little early movement.
If you're the coach, you're thinking, didn't we just do that?
It's almost instant replay.
So now you're sitting in person 15.
Similar thing that happened at the first big drive of the game.
So now you just got to go back to your playbook and say, hey, we got four downs, give 15 yards.
This has to warm your heart some kids playing baseball.
Oh, yeah, I mean that baseball never ends right so
No, it's just All right, here we go first and 15 ball around the 21 yard line of Riverdale.
There's this snap They're gonna throw it quickly and Caden Keller can't hang on
on the right
wing.
Yep Sorry, so that's all right.
Yeah, they try to quick little swing pass You know trying to get it out there quickly and just didn't work out
second down in the 15 stops o'clock with five can remaining
Coming up at halftime, Travis Wilson from Bound Wisconsin will check in with his conference predictions.
That's always fun to look ahead.
Every coach that leads the team to the field is optimistic.
Oh, for sure.
Tonight.
Oh, for
sure.
You're undefeated.
Yep, you bet.
Checking in 15 for the Riverdale 21, Ithaca Weston.
there is the color running back water back running to the left side over one
and i
have a nice play by riverdale right around the eighteen yard
line that was james shram james shram as you know came up to like all that uh... like that i think like take down a lot of uh... part of a lot like it yeah he came in a really nice play it was well-designed play james was the difference between
You know, a four-yard gain and a touchdown.
He came in nice tackle.
Good offense.
A call by Iska Weston.
Good defense by Riverdale.
They actually lose a yard.
Yep.
Third down and 11 yards to go.
So Iska Weston is in committee.
They will break out
and
head to the line.
Peyton Brown and Caden Keller on the right side.
Keep an eye on those two guys.
And Otto up to snap the ball.
Jacob Keller under center.
There is the snap.
Rolling to the right side.
Follows the block from Farringham, goes left side, back off by Riverdale, down around the goal line.
Nice hit by Riverdale, standing in and pulling it down.
That was number 11, right, James Shram?
15, 15.
It
was hard to see from there because it got the car away.
But yeah, that's Miles Dailey, the freshman.
It was a good throw.
If you would have got it, like you said, like another foot or two.
Maybe it goes for a touchdown, but Miles stepped in front, made a nice pick.
freshman and I think it comes up short here around what you say about the five.
Well yeah it was
as he
caught it maybe took a couple of steps but that's where Riverdale takes back over glad to have the ball it's tough spot to be in but they like the ball in their hand.
From their own five shotgun snap Evan Dennis running to his right side cut along the line and now out of bounds on the near side.
Yeah that's that's a little quarterback straw or what do you want to call it out of the
spread, and I think a Western had a host of players, five, six guys rallying up there, forcing out of bounds for about a five-year game.
So the quarter and a half have been going quickly.
Yeah, for sure.
4-11 remaining, you know,
here in the half.
You look at this, both teams have
put out a lot of energy so far.
Oh, for sure.
I mean, I think a Western, you've had two huge strengths in both times.
You just came up a little bit short and Riverdale now trying to put something together here.
4-11 remaining in the half.
There's the snap from center.
Dennis is going to run it himself, going left side and then brought down immediately by Isaiah Farjan in company.
Yeah,
really nice shot by the interior of the Ithaca Western defense.
He had a number of guys, like you said, led by Isaiah Farjan, rallying to the football and holding Bevin for maybe a one yard game.
We're looking at third and four.
Yeah, this is old fashioned football,
isn't it?
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
Some people like high-scoring games.
You probably like this kind of game.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I'm sure some people that watched when I coach said, oh, let's throw the ball once in a while.
But yeah.
But yeah, we used to do a lot of running the football.
Ball is right around the 11-yard line Riverdale's own.
And they have about four yards to go.
There's a path
completely behind the line of scrimmage.
And the receiver runs forward.
It's all the way to the 20-yard line.
First down for Landon Kinian.
Yeah, well-designed play there.
That's right out of a Green Bay Packard playbook, right?
Yeah.
Put a couple of receivers outside.
You put your best.
You're one of your fastest guys behind them.
Hope they throw good blocks.
And you make a cut.
You got a first down.
So well-designed.
A nice shot by Ithaca, also rallying up.
Ithaca-Weston rallying up to make tackle.
Led by, like you said, number two.
That was Quintus Banker.
Awaiting a snap from center.
Bevan Dennis looking.
Ithaca-Weston trying to get into position for the motion man.
And now Dennis.
He's going to hand off on the near side in a running play around the right side for a few yards for Riverdale
out
for, let's see, about
five yards.
Yup, that was Landon, Kenyon on the carry.
Again, Ithaca Weston has done a really nice job of sealing and not letting the Riverdale ball carry get to the outside.
That time, Caden Keller was able to turn it back and then Jacob Keller came up and made the tackle.
Riverdale kind of in up tempo mode now.
Clock runs down, back to throw his den of sidearms.
It's caught by number two and then broken out there.
Lannet didn't even had it.
But a big hit by Ithaca Weston.
And time is called.
That was number five on the tackle, Liam Rowan.
Yeah, if you did a nice job, Liam.
Lannet had to reach back a little bit for the ball.
But then Liam Rowan came flying across at 6'1, 200 pounds a senior and made a nice hit and broke it up.
Now you're looking at 3rd and
6th.
In fact, I think Kenyon came out.
I think his helmet might have had a little issue.
So we bring him to the sideline.
I think the timeout has been taken here.
No score.
2-30 remaining in the opening half.
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No score in the ball game, 230 remaining first half here.
They'll lead along with Kirk Thompson for the action here tonight.
And we've been treated to a good ball game.
Oh, really?
I mean, it's two teams.
You know, you can't get much evener than we are.
Both, I think, are showing what they want to do.
And now it's all about, can you get it done?
And so both teams have made some really good defensive plays, unoffensive plays.
But a big third and six here, 230.
As a coach, you're thinking, OK, do we put it up in the air?
Do we risk it?
Or do we just punt it and make it to drive it?
So decision time right here.
We'll see what they do.
And both coaches playing fairly close to the vest here.
This game goes to them.
Bevin Dennis will be operating out of the shotgun.
As Kirk mentioned, 3rd and 6th ball at the 25 of Riverdale.
Dennis takes the snap, rolling right side, looking to pass.
Rows of
the
middle caught here by number 11, James Schramm.
And he's brought down near first
down.
Nice shot by James.
Nice design play.
Yeah, two people go deep, and then James curled underneath.
Bevin rolled out, hit James.
James slid down, make the catch.
They're moving the chains, and the clock is running.
Hurry up offense by Riverdale.
Snap to Bevin.
Back to throw.
It's through the hands, incomplete for Eli Kempbell on the left lap.
Good throw.
Hit the cut.
Had it pretty well covered.
He got the freshman out there.
Number seven, Briggs Maxwell was in the area.
Briggs, 176 pound freshman.
Moved the ball out there, but the ball was out of Eli's grasp.
Oh, he's a graduate of June's Daycare.
There you go.
Good kid, except he's a Bears fan.
Oh, well, you know, I think all the kids there are Bears fans.
She converts
them.
Yeah, I think I thought I heard.
211 remaining here in the first half, 34 yard line, Riverdale zone, trying to move and groove down the field.
There's a snap to Bevin.
Dennis is running the left side, then he's going to be upended, brought down after a gain of about three by Ithaca-Weston's interior line.
Good rally.
It was led by number eight Spencer Nelson.
He has a lot of big plays.
Just a sophomore, 195 pounds.
Came up from his linebacker spot, and he filled the hole, and now we got an injury there.
And oh, boy.
Riverdale will send.
It looks like Devin Dennis
does.
Hopefully, it's just a helmet to the elbow or something like that, Phil.
Don't want to speculate.
Lindsey over there looking at him right now.
Lindsey Tolick's
in the back of
another seat.
Does a heck of a job.
So I'm sure he'll do a good job over there.
So this will probably change your thinking a little bit now.
Back of Corvette?
Corvette coming in, and I'm trying to get an idea.
Owen Blankenship will go to quarterback.
He quarterbacked last year, so he'll probably just pick right back up here.
Third down and eight yards to go for the 34.
Owen throws it to the near side and is intended and then incomplete for Campbell, and it's going to bring up fourth down.
Fourth and eight will probably punt it here, even though you'd love to go for it.
Maybe you will.
Well, I mean Riverdale's defense has done a good
job.
They stopped Ithaca inside the
2020.
not really showing they're going to throw it a lot, so do you do that.
But I would think they're probably going to punt it, Phil.
You've played a filed half.
You want to probably get the half, you know, at 0-0 and start the second half.
I think Riverdale have the ball, so you're probably going to punt it away here.
You like Keppbell is back.
They're thinking that anyway.
I think.
Need another alignment out there.
I think with Bevin's injury, Bevin was on specialty teams.
That's the one thing that can take you off guard.
Now you've got to find a sub there.
And
the delay
of game, maybe.
Yeah, I would imagine.
That's the flag on Riverdale.
So that'll back it up five yards.
But you're willing to take that in this position because five yards with, you know, Eli's probably going to get off a good punt.
You don't want to burn a time out or get off.
We'll just take your time and go ahead and punt it away.
I think a Western sending two men back deep around the 30 yard line.
They've got Quintus Banker here and Caden Keller.
Eli Kempbell, somebody jumped on the Riverdale sideline.
Hi, punt.
grab there by Campbell.
Let's it go while bounds around the 30 and out of bounds in Ithaca-Weston territory.
But it might be coming back.
We'll
see.
So if you're Ithaca-Weston, do you want, they're probably going to make them punter it again.
Because you know, you're going to say, hey, let's make them long snap it.
Let's make them do all that stuff again.
You know, you got them in an 18.
Let's see what happens.
So I'm sure they'll make them punter it again.
They're back him up.
Make him.
from deeper in their own
territory,
maybe get better field position.
Plus you made that, you made the punt team run down the field, now they got to go back, they got to run down again.
A lot of these guys, obviously when you're in a smaller school, are playing offense defense and now you're getting your sprints in on specialty.
So here comes the punt again, Eli Campbell, ball is on the 20, so he's back
around
the 10, takes a nice snap.
Runs
up a
long ways and then gets off a good punt.
David Keller grabs it around the 25, then cuts to the 26, almost tackled there, breaks it 30, 35, 40, up to around the 45, to around the 48 yard line.
Had a good return.
Nice return.
Eli did a nice job.
I think he was almost tempted to take off running because from up here, they don't look like there's a lot of people in his way, but he made the right decision upon it and had a great return.
But if you go west, then putting them right in, what, around the 45, Phil, roughly?
Yeah, very close.
48, maybe, right around midfield, with a minute three remaining.
Now, I'm sure you're thinking, hey, let's go.
Try to get the ball down field and make the big plays.
See if you can get something past Riverdale's line-decking coach.
He's done a good job here tonight
as well.
Oh, for sure.
It looks like we got a penalty, Phil.
Oh, OK.
I did not see that fly, but.
You know, you and I both.
You've got the new glasses.
I know.
I've got to work on my bifogel here.
I've got to change.
The holding call on Devin Dennis' 74-yard
run,
too.
I never saw a flag anywhere on the field on
that.
I think you get caught up in watching the play and the runner and who's making the tackle.
You don't look for that yellow flag.
The officials chat about it here and will mark it.
The ball is currently at the 48-yard line
at
Hittica Weston.
It's against them, I believe.
Yeah, it looks like it looks like we got a holding.
Paul.
Little bit of confusion, but I'm sure the sorted out.
You got a veteran crew out there.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure there is.
I'm sure they are just sent, you know, saying, hey, you guys know what's going on here.
Here we go.
But now.
The guy in the white has been around a long time.
Yeah, Brian slide.
He's been he was.
officiating when I first started coaching.
Maybe not that early.
That's a long time.
37 years?
Yeah, 37.
Well, it comes back to around the 34 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
That's a big loss.
Oh, yeah.
So yeah, if you're Ithaca-Weston now, that really changes what you want to do here, I think.
So let's see what goes on.
Here comes the handoff.
It's going to Walmer and he cuts across the line of scrimmage over the top of the 35s around the 37 yard line.
The old bread and butter.
All in blank and ship coming up to make the tackle and it's a go Western going with a timeout here Phil.
So here we go.
Yep, they're going to think about it with 54 seconds remaining.
We'll take a 30 second timeout and be back with a conclusion of the first half.
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Welcome
back to Pickering Park, big play coming up for Ithaca Weston, second down from the 38 yard line, second and five.
I think they're
going to go for it here.
Yeah,
I think so.
They got Bevin Dennis back on the field.
Oh, that's good to see, you know.
No doubt
he's
at the safety position
for sure that's huge
There's the snap killer out of the shotgun rolling to the right side He likes that side rolling now going to run it himself to the 40 spins around 45 and then
keep the
shoulder down goes to the 50 and then pushed out of bounds by Riverdale.
Yep.
Nice run By Jacob Keller the sophomore he got out the pocket Riverdale of course not wanting to give up the big play so he gave him his feet his face Then rallied up a new number of guys.
I think
Ethan Kegel probably in on the tackle foot not going about to bounce.
So you got 43 seconds and you're sitting around midfield.
So do you go for a short out, get some more ground, hook and ladder.
I
always like that
play.
We'll see what happens first down.
No reverses or anything yet in this game.
So I know it's only the first half.
Who knows.
Good point.
Here's the snap.
Keller back to throw out of the shotgun.
There's legs and then he rolls to the right side, looks and then kind of
Carefully goes to the right side that bounces off
a
tackler gets to around the 46th
of
Riverdale, but the flag will probably stop it all
probably had a little illegal procedure I'd imagine You know you're a receiver you want to get a good jump on the play here a long distance away from the map might get a early start That's what I'm thinking but And again a good decision by Jake Keller sophomore quarterback sometimes, you know, you get out there you're rolling out
You're like, oh, let's throw it up.
But then you have a turnover, and you lose your momentum.
He made a good decision.
Tuck it away.
Lived off, fight it another day.
You bet.
And I think the other Galician coaches are happy with that.
Oh, for sure.
Showing a little maturity is
his problem.
For sure.
Because you don't so many times you get that pressure, and you want to make a big play, and then you make that throw, and then all of a sudden things are changing.
You got 33 seconds
here.
First down, and 12 yards to go.
They're going to stop play for Jeff Johnson questioning.
I think the spot of the ball right now.
Box stays at 33 seconds remaining.
It was a very quick first quarter,
but a
longer second quarter.
Still no score here tonight.
Acquaintance leading Prairie Duchenne, 12-0.
Federal Point and Dodgeville scoreless in the second quarter.
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They do market back against Ithaca Weston.
I think they got a little mixed up where the line of scrimmage was.
Remember, they're opening night, too.
Good point.
Now, 45 yard line of Ithaca Weston, 33 seconds remaining.
Shotgun snap.
Keller, good protection.
Going to air one out, cutting it down to the left side.
Over the shoulder strap by Ithaca Weston.
And Kaden Keller is still on his wheel.
Down around the can.
What a
catch.
Great catch.
A great.
Phil sitting here.
He thread the needle.
There were two Riverdale defenders right there, and he put it right between them.
And you couldn't play any better defense, but he thread the needle.
I'm sure if you're watching NFL football, the Packers, or whoever the Bears, whoever you're a fan of, and you see that quarterback make that throw, all the announcers be going, that's one of the greatest throws of all time.
But he stuck it right between two Riverdale players.
And like you said, just a great catch.
I mean, you just got to say, hey, that's a great point.
That was
second time tonight, where Kevin Kaden Keller has made a tremendous catch.
Yeah, and that was right on the
money.
24 seconds, ball at the 13, snap and off, going to the right side.
Ithaca-Weston trying to make the corner at the 10, down around the 9, nothing happening there for Spencer Nelson.
And now they're going to hurry it up down to 14 seconds, going without a huddle.
And Keller, under center, down to 10 seconds.
And he spikes the ball, stops
the clock.
There you go.
So, you know, it's the first game.
Good job by Riverdale forcing it back inside.
I was almost, I was thinking in my head, are they going to run a fake spike?
Yeah.
You know, you come on up, everybody's anticipating you run the spike and you fake it, drop back, everybody's kind of frozen, but... Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah, he would do that a lot, yeah, but...
Did that to win a game in
Miami one time?
Yeah, for sure.
And I remember the guy that never liked him on ESPN.
I forget the guy's name.
There's probably a number of them.
Collard.
Yeah, Collard.
He was like, that is the most irresponsible blah, blah,
blah, blah.
I was
like, shut up.
He won the game.
Who cares?
If you're Riverdale, you ought to keep them in the pocket.
Nine seconds.
Here goes Keller.
Jacob going to run it himself, cutting left side.
He's got a little room.
Jacob Keller going through the goal line,
and he
is in with
a
Western
touchdown.
Right at the zero mark.
That's the thing you feared the most.
You knew he was probably going to roll out, and you're hoping you can steal the outside.
But he has a lot of speed, and he made a good decision.
He kicked it in, able to clear the corner, get to the end zone, and scoring right before half.
Wow.
That's a big touchdown.
Absolutely.
And
in a game like
this,
it's
almost like a two touchdown.
Oh,
for
sure.
So 6-0 Ithaca-Weston at the quarter's end, and they will get the chance to kick.
The extra point, Caden Keller is the kicker.
Snap, hold, placement.
Kick is on the way low and off
the bottom
of the bar.
No good.
That was big.
Bevin Dennis came off the edge there, and I think he might have deflected it, Bill.
I think he might have got a hand on that.
caused that to hit the crossbar.
That could be a big point in the game.
So anyway, we had a halftime, 6-0, Ithaca-Weston with a big drive there to grab the lead at halftime.
This has been a
great ball game.
And we've only seen two
quarters.
Exactly, for sure.
6-0, Ithaca-Weston as we go to halftime.
Coming up, we'll have that for you.
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There certainly are.
It's always fun in week one especially because teams can schedule whoever they want.
It's not, you know, you're beholden to whatever the conference schedule says and, you know, you're looking at a lot of
number one in the conference versus number seven or eight.
Teams usually schedule for similar competition, and that means in a lot of cases, some games that are either a little bit out of the area that you don't get to see often or matchups you wouldn't get to see in some very good matchups.
So definitely excited to see what week one brings.
Yeah, this is always, you know, it's everything starts anew.
Everybody has a fresh start coming into the year.
Everybody has high expectations.
Everybody has a sense of optimism.
Whether they, you know, have dreams of making it to Madison or winning a state title or challenging for a conference title or for some teams just getting a win.
Everybody's got optimism around a new season and that always is exciting and
you know, works in a lot of good directions here in the early part of the year.
Yeah, this is a good barometer in the early going, but you do have to sometimes take it for what it is.
And that's early non-conference games where
different players are moving into different roles, different positions.
Sometimes there's coaching changes, sometimes there's scheme changes that, you know, teams are much different in week nine than they are in week one.
So yes, it's a it's a barometer.
It's a good test, but it's not the be all end all of how things are going to go for your season.
Well, the Southwest is interesting.
I mean, there's not, um, I don't think anybody that looks like a dominant, you know, head and shoulders above everybody else type team.
Um, I went back and forth between prayer to Sheen and Platteville, uh, for, for the top spot.
I ended up going with prayer to Sheen as the, uh, is the favorite.
They do bring back starting quarterback.
They've got a thousand yard rush for returning.
Um, so did give them an edge.
Um, but Platteville should be in the mix.
Lancaster should be better.
I think this year and.
we'll see where the Hornets stack up in the conference as well.
Well, Six Rivers has been dominated for quite some time by the Black Hawk, Warren Co-op and the Potosi-Casville Co-op.
And I don't see that changing this year.
Potosi-Casville, I gave the edge to.
They've got a couple senior running backs coming back, Hunter White and River Sarr.
that combined for over 3,300 yards last year.
The quarterback returns as well.
The only issue with Potosi Castle is they move up to D6 this year.
That doesn't impact them during the conference season, of course, but come playoff time.
That's a different animal.
But Blackhawk Warren should be there.
River Ridge looks to be pretty good.
And Riverdale is an interesting one, whether they can get to a more competitive place.
They have a pretty
They've got some good talent at the skilled positions, but it's been a while since they've won.
And building that winning culture is difficult.
Going from where you struggled and not made the playoffs to where now you're in that position, that can be a challenge.
And that's a very good conference that Riverdale will have to find a way to beat one of those better teams.
Probably not Potosi-Castville or Blackhawk-Warring, but
Can they beat River Ridge?
Can they be Iowa Grant?
If they do, then that will be a big help towards potentially getting the Chieftains into the postseason.
The scenic bluffs, you know, kind of like the six river that's been cashed in in Bangor that have really been the top teams in that league for a while.
I think it I think that's how it looks again.
You know, Brookwood, I think, should be solid.
Ithaca-Weston will be in the mix.
Kind of, I would think, where they were last year.
You know, they were, I think they finished tied for fourth in the conference last year, but there were a lot of close calls.
I think the three conference losses were combined 23 points or something like that.
So, you know, can they find a way?
to victory in some of those close games that'll be key for you to get to the west and in of course a really new dynamic with that being a new co-op this year how does that work how does you know how do all those players come together how to how does that co-op mesh obviously they have co-opted a number of sports in the past but western goes from being part of that one walk west and co-op for a long time to now at the co-op and so that'll be one of the interesting things to watch this year
Rogen Valley, North Crawford should be good again.
They were the best team in that conference last year.
And I think, you know, have a good chance to compete for that league title again.
Belmont will be probably their stiffest competition.
Belmont's really experienced team.
They've got five starters back on both sides of the ball.
So North Crawford very much in the mix.
and we'll see where things go from there.
It was a really good season for North Crawford last year, though.
Not only did they go undefeated during the regular season, obviously winning a Rich and Valley Conference title, but they won a couple of playoff games, got to a sectional final, and that experience bodes well for the Trojans.
And then some of the other local-ish teams, Kickapoo LaFarge, I don't know where...
where things are going to go for them.
They've struggled for a little bit.
Highland, I think, will be in the mix for a playoff spot.
And then Oneywalk Center, we mentioned them splitting from Weston in that co-op.
It's a challenge for them.
They've already canceled the number of their games.
Has Oneywalk Center.
I don't know if they're going to play any varsity games this year.
They're just in a rough spot.
They already had low numbers in the co-op and then having to go at a low.
I don't know what the future holds for them.
Well, we're excited to get things going this year There's always a sense of excitement, you know from our end as well as we begin a new school year and the second year at bound Wisconsin We're we're just excited to continue to build on what we've laid as far as a foundation in the last year or so
You can head over to boundwisconsin.com, make it your daily destination.
All of our content lives there, all of our written content, including conference previews for all these leagues that we're talking about.
You can find division previews, you can find senior player rankings, all that kind of stuff.
And then we also have links out to kind of the nuts and bolts of things, the schedules and rosters and scores and stats leaders, all that kind of stuff still available at bound as well.
And I would highly recommend people
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If you have not done so already, many of the conferences in schools in the area will use Bound as their official athletic management resource.
And some of them will be using ticketing through Bound.
And so that Bound app will help you as you are getting tickets to some events.
And then also, you know, just being able to find and follow your favorite team, you can follow right within the app.
You can see the schedule and the scores, results, all that kind of stuff right there in the bound app.
So definitely highly recommend people download that.
Yeah, you'll want to check out the bound app or bound Wisconsin for scores as they come in every Friday night.
Colton Wilson will once again be hard at work getting those entered and in.
I think this week there's more Thursday games than we normally see.
There's 48 Thursday games this week, so a little bit smaller Friday schedule.
But either way, you'll want to check out Bound Wisconsin or the Bound app for those final scores each night.
We'll have them in as soon as they come in and should have all scores in, certainly by the end of the evening.
Yeah, we're excited to add boys soccer to our coverage for this fall.
Um, when we got going last year, we just, we didn't have enough time to get everything ready to go.
Uh, when I made the switch over to bound it to, to have boys soccer available.
Um, but we had some good conversations with the soccer coaches association and the soccer community and actually, uh, had girl soccer as a primary coverage sport in the springtime.
And I excited to get that going before boys soccer in the fall.
We had a webinar last night actually with coaches to be able to introduce them to the system, how they can do things, how they can manage their team.
So beginning next week, when soccer games get underway, you can find all the great information on boy soccer as well.
Unbound scores, schedules, rosters, all that kind of good stuff.
Of course, we have basketball in the winter.
And then kind of look and see what we can do from there.
Last year for spring sports, we had girl soccer and baseball.
and looking forward to doing that again, and then hopefully we can get some more on board.
We'd love to get softball on board.
We'll continue to have those conversations with their coaches and association and just want to expand what we're doing more and more.
Yeah, and again in Southwest Wisconsin, I mean pretty much every conference, pretty much every team.
is going to be using bound as their kind of home resource where that's where they're going to put their official schedule information.
The schools will be managing that, any changes, anything like that.
Some of them are using additional tools within the platform to do ticketing, to manage their transportation, to manage officials, all that kind of stuff.
So there's a lot of great tools in the bound platform that schools are taking advantage of and pretty much every conference and team in Southwest Wisconsin included.
Well, I'm coaching at Reevesburg fourth year at the high school, coming off a state runner up finish last year.
My oldest son graduated, but my youngest son's a sophomore.
So coaching with the Beavers again, so all the Reevesburg games every Friday night kind of limits me on what I can do on getting out to games, but hoping to get out here and there on a Thursday or maybe a Saturday and see what kind of action I can take in.
We have, by the way, we have Reevesburg this week.
Week one, we travel all the way down to New Berlin West to take on a pretty solid biking team.
At least we got a coach bus though.
I do.
Well, I coach JV.
So all of our JV games, whenever we go anywhere, if we go to La Crosse or Holman or Sparta, Toma, which are our plus bus trips, sending those around a yellow school bus.
So, uh, yeah, it's, it's, uh,
It's very nostalgic back in the
JV, don't get the coach bus, I bet.
Currently not.
Travis, thanks for your expertise.
We look forward to joining you each and every Friday during the season this year and keep up the good work.
Sounds good.
Thanks Phil.
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6-0 if they go Western in the lead here at halftime and Jacob Keller 11-yard touchdown run with no time on the clock here.
That's the only difference in the ball game.
Kirk, what do you see as keys here in the second half?
Well, I think big keys is if you're Riverdale, you just, you know, I had that touchdown right before half, so I'm sure that's a tough one to swallow.
But I think what you want to do is you want to re-establish your offense.
I mean, you had the big play by Bevin to start the game.
But you want, I think, a little more consistency on offense.
You want a good offense to drive.
I think defensively, if you're Riverdale, you want to shut off the ground game or something.
Because Ithaca's been able to control the clock.
Time possession, put some brief big drives together, converting on one.
And that's what you want to do.
If you're Ithaca West, then I think you're just saying, hey, we played really good defense.
We had that one play, but there was a penalty.
We want to contain Bevin, Dennis, and the speed of Riverdale to keep them in the pocket.
Don't let a big place happen.
Then offensively, I think you just want to continue to run the ball.
That off tackle plays work really well.
You want to control the clock.
So I think when we just like in pregame, it comes down to who's going to win the battle on the line.
Absolutely.
And if you're Riverdale, you think we were close.
We had a touchdown callback of exactly how it run.
We'll see what happens here.
And this opening possession for Riverdale is really
key.
I think so.
I think you want to see where's the momentum.
Who's ready to go here in the second half?
This is a big test right now because you're coming out half time and so Riverdale will get the ball first because they deferred and we'll see what happens.
Dayton Keller is the kicker and he is approaching and the second half will get underway.
Here it is.
End over end going to be caught by Devin Dennis around the 15, 20, 25, 30.
Devin Dennis almost breaks it and then gets brought down right around the 34 yard line.
Nice cut.
Just a seam.
He's just about to pop that seam.
But then the freshman came flying across.
That's Briggs Maxwell.
He made a nice tackle, which is not easy to do in the open field.
So here we go.
Riverdale is going to take over first in 10 at 35.
And we'll see what both teams, what adjustments maybe they made at halftime or what they're thinking here in the second half.
Kevin Dennis and Eli Campbell and then Kenyon getting the ball in the backfield is running backs and Owen Blankenship.
James Shram at a wide receiver, Miles Daley as well, and here we go, Riverdale first and 10 from the 34 yard line, their own.
Man in motion for the near sign at Landon Canyon.
He gets the ball.
He rolls to the right side.
35, spin to the 39, up to the 41 yard line.
Good run.
Yep, nice design play.
Nice kick out by Ohm Blankenship.
Ohm got out, made the kick out, landed cut underneath it, and then Spencer Nelson, the sophomore, came flying up to make the tackle, but not after eight yards.
First seven yards, or second in three.
You know, sophomores have been dominating in freshman two here
tonight.
Yeah, they've been playing really well, I mean.
You've got to give them a lot of credit.
You're stepping right into varsity action here.
Second down for Riverdale Short Yardage.
About three yards to go from the 41 their own.
And Bevan Dennis takes the shotgun snap, hand off, and the running play going
to the
right side.
Not much there for Owen Blankenship.
Nice.
And the sophomore Spencer Nelson that time.
Ithica Weston was anticipating some type of run action.
So they sent both their linebackers up the A-gaps.
That's right where the center's at.
And they were able to break up that play.
Oh, and was stopped for no game.
Probably lost one or two like this.
Yeah, it
looks like it.
Yeah, from the 40-yard line, third down for Riverdale, just underway in the third quarter, 6-0.
Ithica Weston in the lead.
Four wide receivers, three on one side, one on the left for Bevin Dennis.
to the right.
Ithaca Western anticipating showing Blitz.
Dennis nowhere to go and he's going to be rocked down for a loss around the 29 yard
line.
Ithaca going back to the Blitz again Spencer Nelson for a third straight plays in on the tackle.
He was also helped by number 70 that's Hayden Burns and number 54 that's Isaiah Farjan.
Riverdale was hoping that Ithaca would spread out to stop that hitch pass to Landon Canyon which looked like they were setting up in the flat.
But they came with the blitz and five-yard loss on the sock.
Riverdale, three and out it appears.
Fourth down play coming up here and Ithaca-Weston sending two men back deep to receive.
Six-nothing Ithaca-Weston.
Looks like they're going to get the ball back early on in this quarter.
A set for Riverdale that takes less than two minutes.
Long snap, Eli Campbell now with the punt.
which is going to be taken on the fly by Caden Keller.
They fake the reverse.
Caden bringing it to his right.
Bounces off one tackler.
Then he's going to be brought down by a good open field tackle, Riverdale.
Nice job.
Good job.
Sealing that.
As Riverdale is able to seal it, force a cut back inside, then look like Blake Dickman, the senior, came down, made the initial hit, and then our host of Riverdale players finishing it off.
So here we go.
We got Ithaca looking at well first and center on the 30.
Five, Phil, I can't see from here.
I think it's 30, but...
Somewhere in there.
Yeah, you're
right.
30 yard line.
I'm your seeing eye, dog.
Yeah, there you go.
You're
right.
It's on to 30.
I got it.
First is Tim for Ithaca Weston.
Looking at things so far.
Quarterback Jacob Gellert takes a snap.
Handoff going to the big fullback, Landon
Wolver, and he's got a
first
down.
That's the play we've seen all night, right, Phil?
Running left off tackle.
You're taking your...
left tackle, kicking the end out, your ceiling down, and then you got your pullback, who's just running land in Walmart.
The sophomore, 190 pounds, is running straight through with power, and he broke the tackle and picked up the first down.
That's what you, you know, if you're Riverdale, you want to be able to shut that playoff.
If you're Ipico, you're just going to keep going back to it until you get stuff.
Right, exactly.
And good blocking up front.
All for sure.
From the...
Ithaca Lyman, five down Lyman.
Here we go, first in 10.
And there is the snap from center.
And the handoff going up the middle, not much.
Riverdale reads it well and brought down is Liam Rowan.
Yep.
Nice job,
interior defense.
They ran a little trap action.
Again, this time the tackle stayed put.
And you got Parker Bremer and Peyton Olson fogging that hole.
And there was no place to go.
So we're at second and 10.
Keller of the quarterback in the backfield, Rowan.
And Walmer have gotten the lion's share of the carries.
Wide receivers, Caden Keller and Quintus Banker.
Spencer Nelson and Peyton Brown, the tight ends.
And Ben Otto, the center.
Right guard is Hayden Burns.
Left guard, Isaiah Fargen.
Reed Wabashel, the left tackle.
Mason Van Coulter, the right tackle.
Ithaca West had left to the line with a second now and 10 to go from the 40 yard line.
8.15 remaining in the third.
Knapp from center, Keller, hands up to Keller.
Keller going to the left side, Caden is brought down by Riverdale, gang tackle behind the line of scrimmage.
Light by all in blankenship, he was there first, he had a lot of others, Bevin Dennis was there, James Sram was there.
Ithica went to a different look that time, spread and tried to run the motion, tried to get to the wide side, going to their left Riverdale's right, but that time Riverdale's there for the stop, five-year loss, you're looking at 3rd and 15th.
What a beautiful night.
Would you like
to take this the
whole season?
Oh, for sure.
I mean, this is what you pay for, right?
You got a beautiful night.
You got shorts and t-shirts.
Yeah, and you got a little breeze.
No threats of any thunderstorms or anything.
Third down at 15.
There's the snap to Jacob Keller.
The QB running near side throws a little
pass.
There's
a flag.
And it's caught up for nearly a first down.
Maybe got it at the stand with the catch by Spencer Nelson.
You're going to have a hold out here, Phil.
I think as Jacob rolled, on the outside, he had a grab, which slowed down the defense there and holding the call.
So going from a possible first down, now you're looking at third in roughly 25.
Backs it up considerably.
Well, the officiating crew was up here at halftime.
We had a chance to chat with them.
For sure.
Good crew.
We were talking about the game, how it's been a good game.
Yeah, for
sure.
Moves the ball back considerably now.
Papers are flying everywhere.
Yeah, no kidding.
Boy, talk
about that breeze.
I know.
Now I gotta bend down and pick it up.
That's a tough thing.
Don't litter.
Third down.
All the way back at the 36, is that right?
Yup.
So
third down and Ithaca Weston up to the football.
Seven minutes remaining in the third quarter.
They lead 7-0.
High snap.
Jacob Keller goes up to get it.
They're coming after him and they
spin him down for
a
sack.
Riverdale.
That looks like Ethan Cagle to me.
I went from Blake Dickman as they make a big time sack.
And so now you went from that possible first down to fourth down in a country mile.
So you're going to obviously be punting.
If you're Riverdale now, you're hoping to get good field position and they put a drive together.
If you're Ithaca, you want a good punt and play some defense.
Jacob Keller that the stamp was a little high.
He didn't have a prayer because they were right in there quickly.
Somebody shot the gap.
So fourth down and the punter is Caden Keller.
Back around the end zone takes the snap and hesitates a little bit.
Low on this bounce right through the right side out of bounds of the Riverdale sideline.
And the Chiefs are going to get great field position.
So we'll wait to see where they officially mark that.
Not a lot of elevation on the punch.
I'll say somewhere around the 40-yard line, roughly, so maybe at 35.
Well, the Ithaca Western Defense has been handed this kind of hand before, and they've been able to stop.
And Riverdale getting a little light a day, possibly.
This might be the break they need.
So here you
want to
capitalize for your Riverdale.
You've got good field position.
You've done some good things here.
You want to put the drive together.
If you're at the West and you're thinking, hey, we played great defense the whole game, we got our backs a little bit to the wall now, but we want to step up here, so we'll see.
The Redale line is down, snap to Ben and Dennis running right tackle, now slant across and slide his way into a bunch of
the
Western players.
Yeah, there was at least five or six guys in there, led by a host of guys.
We're going to pick number 77, Ben Otto, who's a senior.
was able to step up and I think force that play, making him cut back and limited to about three yards.
You know, besides that first play of the game, obviously it went for the touchdown.
I think Ithaca Wesson's done a really nice job of plugging that center gap.
So here we go, second down.
Second down for Riverdale and about six yards to go for a first down.
Awaiting a snap from center man in motion near side Devon Dennis gets it runs with
the motion
man cut back across the field He's got about four yards before he is brought down by a host of it.
The
question players did he get a first down though?
That's gonna be close.
I think it's gonna be about a yard short maybe half yard.
Okay,
yeah several on the tackle 66 Reed Wapshaw yep, we're gonna go Weston.
They did a motion with land in Kenya and they faked it him to spread the defense then
Bevin cut back and picked up, like you said, a good four yards.
Third in about a half a yard.
All right.
Third down to the 27 of Ithaca West into Riverdale trying to tie this thing up.
There's the snap.
Bevin rolling to the near side, cuts back across the left side.
Over the pile, he's got a few longer than a first down, all the way down to around the 10.
There's a flag late.
Oh, no.
So we'll wait and see what that's on.
I should all know, depending on who you're rooting for.
Yeah, we'll wait and see.
But what a nice run.
Yeah, but it's so shifty.
Yeah, and he's a basketball player.
He's doing those recent kind of slide drills.
Going back and forth, left to right.
I think I think it's going to go against it to go west and possibly for maybe a light hit.
I didn't really get a signal there, did you?
No, we did not.
But you know, you're right where the flag came in and the timing of
it.
I think maybe a player split in a little late, may contact late.
just how it looks to me.
So it looks like Riverdale's found a little gap here bringing Landon Kinney in motion and Bevin's following him up behind and then cutting back off his block.
So
430, first and goal, Chieftain's ball is marked up a six yard line of Ithaca-Weston after the penalty.
Man in motion, that's Kinney and there's the snap to Dennis.
Bevin trying to run through initially.
There's a pretty good gap to the five to the four.
Push back by Ithaca-Weston leading the way.
Briggs Maxwell.
And I think, like you said, Briggs and then also Spencer Nelson stepping in there.
But again, Riverdale finding a little crease, nudging closer to the end zone.
Looks like they're all roughly on the three.
Wow.
So they are inching their way toward tying this
thing up.
So here we go, 350.
It'd be interesting to see if it could Western bring inside blitz pressure here to try to stop that inside game or.
We'll see what happens.
Dennis out of the shotgun, ball of the four yard line, awaiting a snap from center.
Motion man, Kenyon gets the ball, running to the right side, down around the goal line, hit the Western, stacks him up.
He didn't make it
in.
And now it looks like he got roughly around the one to two yard line.
That time Riverdale decided, OK, they might come middle Blitz.
We're going to go to the outside.
They gave the ball to Landon.
It's because they were able to rally.
You had, I believe, Quintus Baker again.
Coming up to make a tackle.
Yeah,
he spread the play out.
Oh, we got a penalty, Phil.
We got a legal procedure on Riverdale.
Oh, I didn't see
that.
And the
other thing I noticed is Bevin Dennis is still holding his left shoulder in between our plays.
So,
okay, so now we're going back to roughly second and nine instead of third and one or third one at the one yard line.
Second and goal from the nine yard line.
Bevin Dennis hurt in the first half, but he's a warrior.
He's out there tonight
and it's a great game.
He has played an awesome game.
Yeah, 305 remaining here in the third quarter, 6-0 Ithaca Weston.
Looking at the ball, now leading the snap from center, and Bevin Dennis hands off running play up the gut for Riverdale down around the goal line for Blankenship,
I
believe
it is.
Looks like he got around the five yard line.
Tough to pick up the numbers from here, but just good interior defense by Ithaca Weston as they plugged it.
I think they're thinking, hey, we'll give up four.
It's third and goal from the five.
235 remaining here in the quarter.
Sam's free to do a good one here tonight.
If you don't like scoring, if you like defense, it's your game.
But Riverdale trying to tie it up here and change that.
He could go to Bevin here on the play-action.
I would say so.
Awaiting the snap from center.
Riverdale with a man in motion.
And here's the snap.
Bevin hands off, running play, and not much there on the left side.
Good play by Ithaca Weston as they dragged down the ball
carrier.
Owen Blikenship took the handoff.
They had an option, possible option look with Landon Kinney coming in motion, but Bevin gave the ball to Owen and then Spencer Nelson, who we talked a lot about, that sophomore comes flying up and makes a really nice tackle.
But you also have to get defensive line credit.
They stayed low and held up the line.
So, fourth and goal from the three
yards.
Wow,
play of the game right now.
Riverdale trying to tie it up.
A minute 43 remaining here in the quarter.
Here we go.
Awaiting a snap from center.
A man in motion.
There's a whistle and a flag
everywhere.
I think we got time out here.
I think Riverdale is thinking, hey, let me just a huge play.
Let's make sure we got this straight.
So we're going to take a timeout and reshuffle.
136 remaining in the third quarter.
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I don't know.
Welcome back to Pickering Park.
We're just sitting here trying to play coach, you know?
What
would Riverdale call?
Yeah, you know, I mean, again, I don't coach.
I don't go to the practices, but you got Bevin out there.
He probably wants a ball in his hands.
I mean, he could roll him out for a pass.
I mean, pass-run option.
Sure, that's...
somewhere in there.
Now if you're Ithaca West, then you're thinking, well, Bevin's probably the best guy.
Maybe do we blitz in the middle?
Do we put pressure on him?
It comes down, who can execute?
It is
fourth down from the three yard line, fourth and goal.
Snap to Bevin, then it's running right side.
He
slips and
he falls.
He might have had a touchdown, but Ithaca West did make sure he stays down, and then we'll do it for this Riverdale
drive.
Good defense by Ithaca-Weston.
They're rallying.
Bevan made the cut.
Unfortunately, as you just worded it, he did stumble.
I think if he doesn't stumble, he's probably going to score.
But it just didn't work out for him.
So Riverdale just have to rally back here on defense.
But a good stand by Ithaca-Weston defense.
Now they're going to want to obviously try to push this ball out from underneath their goal line.
And if you're Riverdale, you say, OK, we've got to rally back.
We've got to get a stop here and get the ball back in good field position.
Right.
Defense has to step up for Riverdale and for Ithaca-Weston.
They need a play to kind of get from their back against
the wall
out in the midfield area.
131 remaining, 6-0 here in the third quarter of area football on this night, opening night of the season from Pickering Park.
Jacob Keller takes it under center, handoff, running
Bumble, bumble,
right to Ithaca-Weston.
And they're going to run it out here with a fortunate play.
They're going to be pushed out of bounds around the 20-yard line.
It
came out of the hands of Walmer, into
the
hands of Jacob Keller.
You couldn't design that any
better.
Oh, and
if you're
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Ithaca happened to be there to catch it on the fly, and all of a sudden you go from a turnover possible touchdown to a first down in some field position.
So, you know, rooting for Riverdale, you gotta shake that off, say, okay, we gotta regroup.
Ithaca West, I'm sure you're taking a deep breath.
Let's keep going.
Dodge one there.
Yup.
Yeah, all right, here we go.
20 yard line, first and 10, Ithaca West.
Looked like somebody could have jumped a running play going to the left side.
They spread it out a little bit further and now running for a first down Ithaca Weston all the way to the 38 yard line.
On the run, that was number five,
Liam
Rowland.
That was just a good run.
I mean, he hurtled the 1D Fender, broke another tackle.
Riverdale was in position, but this didn't happen.
It was just a good solid run.
As you said by Liam Brown, he's a 6'1, 200 pound senior.
These are not small guys who run the ball, Phil.
I mean, you've got a 200-pound senior.
You're in a smaller school atmosphere, and you've got two big solid backs.
And I think Ithica Weston wants to use that to their advantage.
And I would be surprised if they run a play here, but what do I know?
Bound to 14 seconds
in
the quarter.
I think they could run the clock out, but maybe they got momentum.
They want to keep going.
First and 10, eight seconds.
Yeah,
they're going to take a snap.
Hand off for a running play,
and Riverdale
stacks it up and drives it back.
They're good coverage.
by the Chieftains.
Eli Campbell is helping out on that one.
Yep.
Just again, that inside dive, they've come to that to try to keep you honest, but Riverdale is again there.
So we're heading to the fourth quarter, Phil.
We've got to reach down for all that conditioning and sprinting and all that you did.
Now, who's got who's got our denim to finish this one off?
This is like a game with leather helmet time
tonight here.
Six nothing.
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Ithaca Weston running the ball, Jacob Keller keeps it himself, breaks free down the sideline, has one man to beat, he's still going.
Ithaca Weston, there is a flag back here.
He gets all the way to the end zone, but I believe it is coming back.
I think it's going to be coming back, and then you're going to have a hold out here,
Phil.
Wow.
That was a well-designed play, a nice run by Jacob Keller.
He just took his time, he waited for his block, then he just kind of eased down the sideline, then he kicked it into second gear.
Went to the end zone, but we're gonna have a holding so you go from that to score lead probably
back
to back it in 15 or so
probably
at
least yeah depending on it the spot of the foul
Yeah,
let's get some other scores on the filmy flip phone Aquinas leading Premier Sheen 12 7 3rd quarter good one there mineral point 14 nothing on Dodgeville in the third quarter Hillsborough 27 13 on basketball in the third and Richland Center leading Verroqua
26 six in the third So let's see where they market it is second down back to around the 21
yards.
Yep, 31 so looking at Roughly 17 yards or so
This drive for Ithaca Western starting on the three after Riverdale turns it over on down Ithaca Western breaking out the huddle 1134 to go on the game Ithaca Western leading chicks nothing ball on the near hash mark.
There's a snap
Keller rolling to the near side, finds a little room, bumps up one man, and now he's out of bounds around the 36.
Same play they ran, but this time Riverdale was ready.
Bevin Dennis came up to steal that outside.
He's also helped by Miles Dailey.
So now Ithaca's looking at about a third and 14.
Got
a little of the yardage back there.
Yep.
Dayton Keller runs in the play from the far side line, Ithaca Weston.
At this point, the way this game has gone, and when they scored at the end of the first half,
I
said that it's almost like a two touchdown.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And that huge penalty, bringing that touchdown back.
So if you're Riverdale, you think it will now or even, because we had one called back.
Yeah.
So here we go.
Get to go Western with the ball in between the hashes.
And Keller is going to roll out to his right side.
There's a moping on the flat.
He throws it.
It is caught.
And heading ahead is Nelson.
Spencer Nelson breaks a tackle to the 50 before he is rubbed down.
OK, that was a.
Big time catch by Spencer Nelson.
It was a good roll out.
He was able again to get outside the pocket.
It was a nice catch, but ever bigger than that one, he was being tackled.
He kept that hand down, was able to get himself that first down.
That's a huge play in the game as we're heading to 11 minute marker now and it's first and 10.
So Riverdale, if you're rooting for Riverdale, you got to look for a stand right here.
Ithica Weston just trying to melt the clock.
First down right around midfield for Ithica Weston.
Aiden Keller off to the left side wide out.
There's the snap in tight.
And the running back, the fallback is going to have it.
Walmer
over
the pile to around the 45, down to the 44 of Riverdale.
Nice run again.
Just going to that left, running off the left side of line.
Owen Blankenship coming up and filling.
But that was after he gets five yards.
But another nice run by Jessica West, and that's Landon Walmer again.
Like you've said numerous times, you've got to give the offensive line a lot of credit.
They're continuing the battle up there.
So here we go, second and five.
Yeah, overall pretty good protection for Jacob Keller tonight, too,
when
he's been back to pass.
Up to the line, he's under center.
There's the snap, handoff to Walmer, the fullback again.
Oh, check that, it's running on the right side too.
Oh, they're going to be down around the three yard line.
I thought that was Walmer, but it's not.
Yeah, Liam Rowland.
Liam Rowland.
Yeah, from that time, Riverdale's defensive line took control of that one when you got...
You had, oh my fault, Blake Dickman was there.
Yep, to help stack.
He was also aided by Cameron.
And there did a nice job of spilling the hole.
Third down for Ithaca Weston there at the 43 of Riverdale.
944 to go, 6-0 lead for IW tonight.
Awaiting a snap there it is and the handoff that is Walmer and he breaks through a pretty gaping hole
there right
guard first down and then some down to around the 40-yard line.
Got to give him credit then we get a nice job of blocking.
That time Landon Walmer instead of going to the left like he has been if you described to Phil he was able to see that cut back and he cut back across the crease, found a little bit of an avenue there and then oh and blank and ship again coming up to make the tackle.
with the help from Ethan Kegel.
So now you're at 1st and 10, you're at 9-13.
Good block by the center
bit, Otto there,
who helped out, helped to seal the deal.
There's the snap, hand off, and they run on the left side to Rowan, and he's got nowhere to go.
Met up with a few cheap jitters right away and brought down.
Tried a little crisscross there.
They had the fullback, Landon-Walmer goes one way, and then Liam Rowan came back the other.
But without all-in-blanket ship, wasn't going to be full.
He sat on the outside and made a nice tackle.
So we're back to second and roughly nine.
8.45 to go.
You start watching the clock
a little bit here.
Yeah, for sure.
If you're if you're going to go up and it's the slowest thing in the world, if you're Riverdale, it's running faster and you can believe so.
The time of possession for Ithaca-Weston is really heavy.
They have really controlled the ball.
You have to get their line a lot of credit and their offense a lot of credit.
Check it down for the 36.
Here is Keller.
Good protection.
Steps up in the pocket.
Throw into the goal line up in the air.
He's down around the goal line and he is caught.
And did he get it?
He
did get it down around the goal line on the catch by Keller, was it?
It's a long ways away.
Kaden Keller.
From Jacob Keller.
It's a nice throw.
There was double coverage.
He was in between two.
He just went up.
We've said this already now.
The first catch was threaded.
That was another.
You go get it.
There was two Riverdale defenders, and he was able to make a really nice catch.
Really good defense, but Ithica Weston coming down the ball.
So now you're down to the 10, first and goal.
Your Riverdale,
you've got to come up with a stop.
Eight minutes to go.
There's the snap and running to the left side.
Get to go west in the quarterback.
Keller's got good wheels trying to seal the deal around the end, down around the five, and then stays in bounds.
But he's going to be short of the goal line by about four yards.
Good rally by Riverdale defense.
You had a number of guys by Bevin Dennis and landing Kimion coming out and stringing that out and forcing the attack.
Got all the way down to roughly the two yards the three yard line just going by the scoreboard So you got second and goal at the three.
I would not be surprised to see that fullback
Mm-hmm
taking the ball right here, but
mr. Walmer yep 720 remaining if it go west and trying to take a two touchdown lead Under center is Keller and off there is Walmer and he is hit and dropped right away He did get a yard maybe but Riverdale read it.
Well
nice job
Cameron Nelson came slicing down, made initial hit.
Oh, and Blankenship has been there all day.
Came up and helped Phil.
But now you're looking at third and goal.
From the
one.
The one yard line.
Or two.
They've got two now on the scoreboard.
We're at the angle where we will take it.
We'll take their word for it,
you
know.
So all right, play comes from the far side line.
Ithaca Weston trying to feel it up here with a second touchdown late in the game.
650 to play.
And now they say one yard.
So down to this for Ithaca-Weston trying to put it in there is they hand off hand off up the middle Ithaca-Weston fighting for yards.
No signal
yet.
They did not get it
Now okay, so they picked I did not realize that they were first down and goal was not first and goal They're actually outside the 10 so they got that initial that was second down so now they're first down again So it's now second and go if that makes any sense.
So they got a
Three more down to play with from the one yard line
and it can continue.
Do not have to be in a real hurry here either.
Taking the clock down to 615 to go.
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Bill Lee along with Kurt Thompson down to six minutes as Ithica Weston gets to the football again.
A goal to go from the one-yard line.
Quarterback keeper down around the goal line, Ithica Weston is pushing their way in and they get a touchdown.
Ithica Weston scoring.
That was Jacob Keller of IW, the sophomore quarterback scores for a second time tonight.
He had met
a lot of resistance there, but they went to the safer play, the quarterback sneak.
If you're the coach, you're thinking, oh, if we hand this thing off, we could always have a mistake.
So I just went quarterback sneak, was able to push the...
Now they're up 12-0 with 5-51 to go.
I'm sure they'll probably go for 2, but maybe not.
You would assume so.
Yeah, because 12-13, but maybe you want to give your kicker some reps, but they're going for 2.
They're going for 2 to add to it, or attempt 2?
Well, nothing, Ithaca-Weston.
There's the snap from center, and they're going to throw
it left
side.
Wide open man, and in for the two-point conversion.
Good catch.
break down in coverage by Riverdale and
the
catch is made for the two-point conversion.
Yeah, that was
a
well-designed play.
They actually handed it off to the running back, who then handed it back off like a little reverse play to Jacob Keller.
And then he tossed it out to the flat two, I believe.
I could have this wrong, but I think it was Clint's banker who might have caught that for the two-point conversion.
But you can you can search that one out, Bill.
Hard to see
numbers.
They've
been at that end of the field the whole night.
I know.
You and I haven't had a break in our eyes
the whole
night.
Well,
whatever.
We're doing the best we can.
14-0.
It's a good
Western.
It's a
really nice Western.
They made some really good plays there.
They're up 14-0.
You're at 5-51 if you're Riverdale.
You've got to get the ball back.
You've got to obviously pick up the pace.
Obviously, up tempo, try to get some score on the board as fast as you can and go from there.
It's a really well-played game.
I think on both sides, both teams have done a lot of really good things, I'm sure.
There's things as a coach you're going to want to work on, but it's been a really competitive, hard fought football game.
Fun one to call, that's for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
Ithaca-Weston back to kick it off after the recent touchdown and just a couple of things in the ball game.
The fumble that Ithaca-Weston... Yeah, I think it was going to be taken for a touchdown, but Riverdale had bounces back there.
That
was one of the breaks.
Riverdale having a touchdown called bat that could have given them...
Yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure.
And if you're sitting there...
on Saturday morning or the Monday morning quarterback.
You're going to be saying, well, they had the one touchdown call back.
You had, like you said, Bevin, you know, looks maybe he's going to score a touchdown.
Then, you know, stumbles a little bit in a nice
way
to go west.
And then you got the fumble.
I think that's going to stick out the ball that you could have picked.
And it just wasn't meant to be at that time.
Dave and Keller with a kickoff after the score.
It's going to be taken around the 10 yard line by the Chiefs.
And they head straight up the field to the 20.
And up to around the 25 yard line on the return.
Maybe more than that.
Looks like to the 35, maybe the 40.
Tackle is made by Spencer
Nelson.
Nice return by Owen Blankenship.
Nice rally on the stop by Ithaca Weston.
And the other thing that's impressive for Ithaca Weston on that drive, it started at the three yard
line.
And there again, I mean,
I think when you really look back on the game, I guess we've got a long time to go here.
But the ability for Ithaca Western to drive the length of the field, you start your three, and you go 97 yards, you're eating clock, and you get that two-score lead now.
You've got to give credit to that offensive line and just the...
staying with the ground game and then the big catch they had to
Riverdale not done yet though 545 to go and Dennis leaves him out there ball is marked as a 37 yard line he's back to throw in a man he's got a man over his outstretched hands incomplete at the Ithaca Western 35 yard
line
that was my
daily the freshman who I've broken free bobbin laid it out there and just off his fingertips really well designed play well executed play just didn't happen that time
he had a step
on the
defenders he did he had an opening and just didn't happen but you know you're in high school well executed just didn't happen that time
second down and ten yards to go for Riverdale 526 remaining in the game 14 nothing it took a Weston in the lead three men wide near side the one-man far side and a snap to Bevin Dennis back to throw plants now nowhere to go steps up bro said he's
gonna hang out he's got a
man and he it's incomplete intended for
Landon Kidion at the 20-yard line.
Just missed.
Landon ran a nice route.
The offensive line did a great job.
His bevel was able to step out of the pocket to his left.
And then he stepped up and made a heck of a throw fill.
That was a long ways.
45-50 yards just out of Landon's outstretched hands.
And tonight so far, just not meant to be.
As you can see from here, they had an opportunity just then happened.
But you got to give the kids on both sides a lot of credit.
just come out here and practice every day and play a football game that I'm sure they really love and you
try to do your best lots of fun
for sure
third down from the 37 yard line third and 10 for Riverdale let's see if they maybe go for the first down this time instead of the gusto
and Dennis back to throw, he's flushed from the pocket, rolls to the right side, nothing there, now coming back to the left.
Bevin on his wheels, gonna throw it, and it is incomplete, threw it a little low, intending it for, that was Kenyan
again.
Yeah, landing Kenyan, good job, Ithaca putting some pressure on, but it's tough the corner, landing Ken, or tough the corner, Bevin Dennis as he's able to move out of the pocket.
Ithaca West in defense, was able to keep everybody in front of him that time and force the incomplete pass.
We're
coming to a big play here for it down in town.
I'm sure Riverdale will probably take a timeout here.
Spencer Nelson has had a great game for Ithaca Weston.
He's been back there all the time.
He was on that play.
Timeout, 14-0 Ithaca Weston, 5-07 remaining here on WRCE in Richland Center.
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to pickering park it is a fourteen up to get to go west and lead and uh... just a game of interest in it
you want to
you want to put that out on display this would be a good game to show
that for sure i mean that i've said this number of times with two pretty evenly match team i have to go west and they will convert on a couple big plays i i think of those two big uh... throws and catches that were made uh... and then
You know, I think too is the time possession as they've been able to control the football quite a bit in the game.
That's the biggest stat, absolutely.
Five minutes, seven seconds remaining here, 14-0 Riverdale trailing there.
They have the ball fourth down from the 37 yard line after the timeout.
Devin Dennis takes the snap and rolls to the far side and he's got great protection.
Throws it toward Kenyon, overshot him and incomplete at the 30.
Good coverage by Ithaca Weston.
This is Jacob Keller.
Jacob Keller was there.
Lanna had inside position.
Bevin made a nice throw, but just wasn't meant to be there.
So you'll have Ithaca Weston taking over.
I'm sure they'll go right to the ground.
Try to run the clock down.
Riverdale is looking to force a turnover.
Get a stop, obviously.
But you want to try to force some type of turnover here.
Five minutes and a second remaining here in the football game.
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If you go west and in tight here for this first down play, Keller hands off running play near side.
That's wall.
Walmer and he's going to run to the left side, pushed out of bounds around the seven yards ahead of the line of scrimmage.
I
think he made a cut there, Phil.
The crowd is getting in there.
We can't see through the crowd, but I think he cut upfield, picked up the first
down.
He did.
I think, again, going to that, the left, we talked about this all night long, but that's been their strength.
That's what they're relying on.
Get
these first games in and and teams start to get film Yeah,
I'm
sure and get like that and learn a bit a little bit more about what the teams have and what their strengths and weaknesses are Again, this is a non conference game, but it's a big game.
It's got the rivalry there and
Or 20 remaining in the game whistles sound and I think we may have taken another
time out here I think with I think with on blanket ship getting hurt before Phil he was
had to come out of the game.
So I think you're seeing some adjustments on defense
to get that set up.
So both teams go to the sideline.
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It is a ball on the 23 yard line.
There's a pitch play going for Ithaca-Weston's Quintus banker.
Nice open field tackle, Riverdale's.
Was that Bevin Dennis?
No, that's all I'm blanking.
Oh, it's back in.
I think maybe one reason for the timeout, getting back on the field.
But Owens been all over the field on defense, making a number of great plays for Riverdale.
That time he rallied up, and I think it was Quintus' banker as they toss it.
Again, I think Ithaca-Weston thinking, stretch the field, run as much clock as you can.
Make sure you don't run out of bounds.
350 remaining at the western taking time, taking the time off.
They've had some ground consuming drives that opening drive in the
first quarter.
They got down to the 18 of Riverdale, but took well over half
of that quarter.
Yeah, it was over seven minutes, seven minutes and 19 seconds.
I just jotted it down.
No score.
Yeah, I did not score,
but still kind of set the tone.
Yeah, there's the snap.
Handoff, Walmer, he's fumbled loose on the field
and Riverdale,
I think got it back.
Yeah, no.
Didn't they if you go west and I
think yeah,
the cheap things were on I thought he liked campbell got on
it.
We'll see
I think it was pulled out of there by Liam Rowan Okay, he was able to dive in there and just able to dislodge it We'd be in the NFL right now.
I'm sure be looking at number of replays down, but we don't have that here.
So they're down
Yeah, 1316
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Riverdale Homecoming, you host.
Is it Isla
Grant?
Isla Grant, October 9th.
It's Homecoming.
That's a ways away, but it'll be here before you know it.
These things go fast.
They do.
There's another timeout.
233 to play.
14-0 Ithaca Weston in the lead here tonight.
And getting ready for all the other sports as
well.
Cross country, I think.
Cross country?
Yep.
Scrimmage is next Tuesday at Ira Grant.
Then they open up at Ira Grant on Invite, the 29th, I think it is.
I got the dates right.
And then you got volleyball started.
They're going to have a really nice team again.
And they'll be going, I think, oh yeah, tomorrow they go to Rich and Center to scrimmage.
And then they head off to the Delves the following week to the.
Big tournament there.
They had a number of teams.
I think they're in it.
Coach Kenny is from Antigo, a Rhineliter.
Antigo is one of the teams in their bracket.
So there'll be a lot of great competition.
So yeah, things will be up and running here before you know
it.
Absolutely.
Look forward to calling as many as we can this fall.
We're down ball at the 30 yard line, third and 19 for Ithaca Weston after the timeout.
Locke will start with 233 to go.
There's the snap, Jacob Keller hands up,
running
play, that's Rowan, bounces off one and now down around the 27 yard line, gain of about three.
Nice job by Owen Blankenship with the tackle again.
Boy, he's called his name alive.
He's got to be 15 to 20 tackles, he's had a really nice game.
Back to the huddle, he had to go west and now with a fourth down coming
up.
He'll probably just run as much time as he can.
Right, exactly
in this situation.
Probably run it down and then...
You know, I don't those I'm sure keep it on the ground.
You don't want to Take a risk on some turnovers, you know, you got a two-score lead so Yeah, I give a shout out to the football coaches here takes a lot of time and energy to be a football coach and You know a lot of people this you know, you'll see it on Friday night for this two and a half hours or so but These guys that coach football put a lot of time in it.
They watch and film they have
in the mornings and evenings.
You've got meeting after meeting, and then you've got to dissect the film.
And another thing about it too is that you only get one game a week.
It's not like baseball where you lose on Monday playing Tuesday.
Right.
Previously.
Yeah, you've got Friday, and then you've got to wait until another Friday.
So it takes a lot of effort by these guys.
You've got to give them a shout out when you
see.
They cut their summer vacation
short.
Yeah, you've got to come back.
And now, with unlimited contact, I don't know if there is a summer vacation anymore, because you can coach all summer long.
But it takes a lot of effort.
And I know Coach Johnson and Coach Kelly on the other side put a lot of time in.
And today, it looks like Ithaca-Wesson is going to enjoy the win.
And if you're Riverdale, you've got to say, OK, we played a really good team.
We're going to get ready for Hillsboro next week, and move forward.
136 remaining in the game after another timeout, and it's going to be a fourth down at about 13.
There's the pitch, Caden Keller running near side, Riverdale stretching out the play.
He breaks one tackle, nowhere to go, breaks another tackle, cuts across the field, still going, and he finally wound up losing about four yards.
Riverdale in hot pursuit, finally bringing him down there with number 54, Ethan
Cagel.
He's just trying to take as much time as possible.
Looks like we're going to have a holding penalty on Ithaca.
I'm sure Ithaca was, I'm sorry.
I'm sure you're going to see Riverdale decline it.
You got 126 left, so there's still hope.
Yeah, we'll make the most
of that.
You got to just work.
You got to see if something happens.
It can happen.
Go have some fun.
Yep.
So the ball is marked at the 25 yard line Riverdale's own with a minute 26 remaining.
Keeps him up to the football.
They'll break it out now.
Again, Ithaca-Westin leading, 14-nothing.
Bevan Dennis and company up to the line, awaiting a snap from center.
One single running back.
There's the snap.
Bevan straight back in the pocket, standing straight up.
And now it breaks down.
He's being chased by Ben Otto going to the left side.
Breaks a tackle down the sideline, midfield, and now finally pushed out around the 45 of Ithaca-Westin.
Very nicely done by Bevan.
Bevan thinks ahead of the game, and he knew.
that the defenders would be dropping deep.
He just kind of hung pocket, hung pocket.
As a pocket, as a collapse, he knew he could step to the outside.
He just turned on the jet, got down a sideline and stepped out of bounds and stopped the clock.
So you got a minute and 17.
Have some fun,
right?
For sure.
14-nothing, Ithaca-Weston.
Ithaca-Weston just trying to play it out here.
This is where you're the team on defense, like, isn't that clock running?
I know, for sure.
There's the snap.
Dennis goes back, whips it right side over the top of the intended target.
That was number 11, James Schramm.
Just overshot him a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, good throw, just a lot.
Ithaca, again, like you said, filled his dropping back.
Don't want anything over your head.
Keep everything in front of you.
Try to keep the clock running.
The prevent defense,
right?
Yeah, prevent.
Not a big fan of prevent defense, especially if you're a Packer fan.
No.
I've seen a lot of prevented wins.
Exactly.
A bit of 13 remaining, second down, 10 yards to go, 47 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
Dennis rolls to the right side, throws, incomplete,
and
picked off as it was tipped.
Caden Keller slides down on the play.
And Ithaca-Weston, that's for Caden, his second interception tonight.
Ball got deflected, just wasn't going to happen.
Ithaca-Weston, like you said, Caden Keller was sitting there, makes the pick, and then he wisely just slid down with the ball.
and now we'll see I think a Western taking a knee and that would be pretty much it from here.
14-0 they lead it.
A minute six remaining in the ball game here at Pickering Park in Muscaday and I think
a
Western up to the football.
They're in post proximity so again will probably take the knee a couple of times.
Jacob Keller kneels down after the snap from Otto and the clock will run.
I
think
Riverdale has used its timeout.
I don't think so.
I think they've used them up on the last drive so.
Ithaca Weston probably will wait till just under 40 seconds here, Phil.
Probably want to hit 39.
They'll snap it.
Watch the back.
They're up to the ball with 43 seconds remaining.
Wait for 39.
There's the snap.
Now he's under center and takes the ball down to a knee, and that will do it here.
This one belongs to Ithaca Weston tonight, if the teams head to the sidelines.
well played a hard fought game on the opening night of the season.
Tonight's final score 14-0 Ithaca Weston with the win against Riverdale and a game two pretty evenly matched teams throughout but Ithaca Weston with time of possession winning it along the offensive line
I
think
and getting the job
done.
They did well played game both teams played really hard it was
You know, I enjoyed doing the game with you, Phil.
Ithica Weston pulls it out tonight, and Riverdale now has to just look at a few things and get ready for Hillsborough.
Absolutely.
Hillsborough, at last word, had taken the lead on basketball.
We will take a look at the scoreboard coming up in just a little bit.
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dunkle awards turning point of the game joint Duncan to enjoy exclusive offers and start earning points toward free food and drinks well kurt uh... you know i kind of delivered there a little bit and uh... i i think you have to go with the last play of the first half of the trip
all for sure i think so we had pick up color running out to his left going to touch down as time expires i mean if you make a copy go half time zero zero uh... that was it yeah they're bigger big plays during that drive but
His ability to get out and score right for half.
I think that was a big momentum switch there.
And it set the tempo for the second half.
Ithaca-Weston played from the lead and could stay within their game.
And Riverdale was always battling, trying to get back and get the lead.
Coming from behind.
Yeah, right there in the middle part of the game.
And then the other thing was Ithaca-Weston defense forcing Riverdale free and out on the opening play of the second
half.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
You dictated that.
And they were able to keep that momentum.
Riverdale say it came really close a couple times, you know the In the third quarter there when Bevin was stopped at the two to three yard line as a huge stop there and then like you said that ability for Ithaca West and then go from the three 97 yards that two-score lead was huge change
long drive there absolutely good and Just really amazing plays both sides.
I have some some plays Bevin Dennis strong at quarterback again again.
We
A comment about Owen Blankenship mentioning his name a lot tonight.
On the Ithaca side, Ithaca Western side, Caden Keller had that one-handed
pick
in that first half, had two for the game.
And Jacob Keller, the sophomore quarterback, and a couple of really strong throws.
In fact, Keller had a catch on offense.
It was pretty amazing.
Yeah, for sure.
And I think two is Ithaca Western's ability to control possession, get a rhythm, and have long
And then Riverdale oftentimes had, you know, the three and out, and you never got, couldn't get that rhythm until a few times in the game.
So I think you got to shout out to it's got what's an offensive line, you know, as far as sustaining rhythm and having that ball in your hands as, you know, more than your opponent.
Our post game show continues in a moment, but Kurt, always a pleasure to have you
in here.
There's a lot of fun to have a lot of
fun.
You have grandfather duties
to get back to us.
Yeah, so Janine and Whitney have the kids right now.
Hopefully they're sleeping, but I don't think so.
You've got to go put them to bed.
Yeah,
maybe.
Thank you, Kurt.
Well, thank you
for a lot of fun.
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14-0, the final.
Ithaca-Weston gets the win here on WRCE.