Key plays put Polson over Butte Central

Four Lake County teams had home games this past Friday, and Arlee traveled to Plains. Polson won an exciting game against Butte Central, Ronan lost a tough one to Loyola, Mission struggled against Anaconda, and Charlo and Arlee continued to put up big numbers on offense.

ARLEE 72 PLAINS 36

The Arlee Warriors traveled to Plains on Friday night. Arlee spread out their scoring among six different players in the blowout. Plains would put up the first touchdown before Arlee got going on a 31-yard pass from Tyler Tanner to Harold Yocum. Next, Brad Brazill would get in on some offensive scoring action on a 40-yard catch from Patrick BigSam. Then BigSam returned a punt for 70 yards before Plains scored again. Philip Malatare answered that score with a 36-yard run. He would score later on a 25-yard interception return for a TD. Yocum also had another touchdown on a five-yard pass, and BigSam would add another touchdown on a blocked punt that he returned 10 yards for the score. Tanner threw, caught and ran back a kickoff for touchdowns. Rylan Crawford saw some action on a 35-yard catch from BigSam for another touchdown.

Arlee is 6-0 and hosts Noxon on Friday.

 Arlee- 16  26  22  8  - 72

Plains-  7  8  14  7  - 36

P- Trent Brouillette 42 pass from Ryan Ovitt (Alec Cole kick)

A - Harold Yocum 31 pass from Tyler Tanner (run failed)

A - Bradley Brazil 40 pass from Patrick BigSam (Rylan Crawford run)

A - BigSam 70 punt return (Tanner run)

P - Aaren VonHeeder 25 pass from Ovitt (Cole pass from Ovitt)

A - Philip Malatare 36 run (run failed)

A - Yocum 5 pass from BigSam (Crawford run)

A - BigSam blocked punt, 10 yard return (run failed)

P - Brouillette 15 pass from Ovitt (kick failed)

A - Tanner 23 pass from BigSam (Crawford run)

P - Cody Sheehan 25 run (Cole pass from Ovitt)

A - Tanner 65 kickoff return (run failed)

A - Crawford 35 pass from BigSam (Crawford run)

A - Malatare 25 interception return (Tanner run)

P - Brouillette 4 pass from Ovitt (Chyton Lulack kick)

CHARLO 56 NOXON 6

On Friday, Charlo hosted Noxon for their senior night. Charlo didn’t waste any time getting to work, and put up 28 points in the first quarter. Jared Doty scored two of those, Toby Odom scored another on a 40-yard run, and Brady Fryberger punched another in from a yard out. In the second, Doty had two more touchdowns on runs from 44 and 51 yards out. In the third, Odom added another touchdown to his stats with a 46-yard run. Fryberger also had another touchdown on a four-yard pass from Landers Smith. Noxon didn’t score until three minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Charlo piled up 238 yards on the ground, compared to Noxon’s 73. Trent Dennison was 6 for 8 with 93 yards and a touchdown through the air. Landers Smith threw five times with two completions for 12 yards and a TD. Doty ran the ball four times for 106 yards and three touchdowns. That averaged out to 26.5 yards per carry. Odom ran the ball six times for 100 yards and two touchdowns. Stetson Stipe had two catches for 35 yards, Fryberger had three catches for 29 yards and a touchdown, and Doty had one catch for 23 yards and touchdown.

Odom led the defense with 9.5 tackles, Fryberger had 5.5 and Hunter McGee had five.

Noxon- 0  0  0  6  -  6

Charlo-  28  12  16  0  -  56

C - Doty 13 run, (PAT fail) 9:51

C - Doty 23 pass from Trent Dennison, (run good) 5:48

C - Toby Odom 40 run, (pass good) 3:25

C - Brady Fryberger 1 run, (PAT fail) 0:23

C- Doty 44 run, (PAT fail) 5:10

C - Doty 51 run, (PAT fail) 1:08

C - Odom 46 run, (pass good) 10:56

C - Fryberger 4 pass from Landers Smith, (run good) 5:45

N - Tallon Jones 1 run, (PAT fail) 3:33

MISSION 6  ANACONDA 40

 Mission hosted Anaconda on Friday night. Anaconda struck fast, scoring on a three-yard run from Braxton Hill in the first few minutes of the game. Hill would go on to score two more during the course of the game. The Bulldogs weren’t able to put points up until the fourth quarter, when Nick Durglo ran one in from four yards out. 

Durglo ran for 47 yards on nine carries, including that touchdown. He also threw for 63 yards. Israel Umphrey carried the ball 16 times for 59 yards. Kaleb Durglo was the defensive leader with nine tackles.

Mission travels to Loyola on Friday night.

Anaconda-  14  14  12  0  -  40

St. Ignatius-  0  0  0  6  -  6

A - Braxton Hill 3 run (run fail)

A - Hill 1 run (run good)

A - Kaden Weeis 1 run (run good)

A - Hill 26 interception return (pass fail)

A - Chase Reisenuar 36 pass from Hill (pass fail)

A - Logan Reich 13 pass from Hill (run fail)

SI - Nick Durglo 4 run (kick fail)

POLSON 28  BUTTE CENTRAL 14

Polson hosted Butte Central on Friday night. The Pirates struck first on a 32-yard pass from Tanner Wilson to Matthew Rensvold. Next, Rensvold took one in from a yard out. In the second quarter, Butte Central got things going on a four yard run from Blake Burton to put six on the board. After half, the Pirates were backed up into their own red zone on a third and long when Wilson aired one out for Rensvold down the middle of the field. Rensvold made a 39-yard diving catch, and a few minutes later, ran the ball in from two yards out to give Polson their only points of the quarter. In the fourth quarter, Butte Central would run another one in to make the score 14-20, but that was as close as they would get, as Wilson ran 62 yards for a touchdown soon after.

Defensively, the Pirates intercepted Butte Central four times. That included one by both Jacob Harrod and Jonah Burke. Wilson had two, and almost had another, but was called out of bounds. In the play immediately after that one, Harrod picked one off. Wilson’s first actual interception came with just over a minute left in the game, and the second came with 10 seconds left to seal the deal for the Pirates. Another notable defensive play for the Pirates was a deflected pass by Wyatt Ducharme on fourth down that stopped a Butte Central red zone drive during the first quarter.

Wilson was 10-21 for 227 yards and a touchdown through the air. He also rushed 19 times for 175 yards and a touchdown. Rensvold had two rushing touchdowns and four receptions for 120 yards and another touchdown.

Rensvold led the defense with eight tackles, Wilson had seven, and Nick Marquardt had five plus a sack.

Polson is now 1-1 in conference and 3-3 overall. They travel to Columbia Falls on Friday.

 B. Central-  0  6  0  8  -  14

Polson-       14  0  6  8  -  28

P - Matthew Rensvold 32 pass from Tanner Wilson (kick failed)

P- Rensvold 1 run (Rensvold pass from Wilson)

BC - Blake Burton 4 run (kick failed)

P - Rensvold 2 run (kick blocked)

BC - Burton 3 run (Tanner Kump run)

P - Wilson 62 run (Hudson Smith pass from Wilson)

RONAN 30  LOYOLA 38

Ronan hosted Loyola for their senior night on Friday night. The Chiefs were coming off an exciting win the week before against Florence. It was another exciting game for the hometown crowd. Loyola scored the only points of the first quarter, and Ronan struck back in the second on a 16-yard pass from Kasey Mock to Tyler Houle. Mock threw another to Ezekiel Misa for a 59-yard TD to make the score 16-7. Loyola would answer with two scores of their own to make the score 21-16 at halftime. After halftime, Loyola scored on a one-yard run before Josh Morgan ran in from 65 yards for the Chiefs. Loyola scored two more times to put them up 38-22 going into the fourth. Ronan came back with a pass from Mock to Aaron Misa to put them within eight. After a good defensive stand, Ronan again drove the ball down the field, all the way to the three yard line with just minutes to play. Mock threw a pass to the back of the end zone that was caught, and it looked like the Chiefs had tied the game up, but a flag for an ineligible receiver down field negated the touchdown and Loyola came out on top, 38-30.

Kasey Mock was 12 for 23 with 155 yards and three touchdowns through the air. Josh Morgan ran the ball 20 times for 208 yards and a touchdown.

Ronan travels to Deer Lodge on Friday.

Ronan-  0  16  6  8  -  30

Loyola-  7  14  17  0  -  38

L - Byrne 19 yard run (Arthur Petit kick)

R - Houle 16 yard pass from Mock (Mock run)

R - Ezekiel Misa 59 yard pass from Kasey Mock (Mock run)

L - Kellen Round 35 yard run (Jacob Byrne kick)

L - Cooper 18 yard pass from Round (Byrne kick)

L- Collins 1 yard run (Jacob Byrne kick)

R - JMorgan 65 yard run (run no good)

L - Cooper 65 yard pass from Round ( Byrne kick)

L - Jacob Byrne 27 yard field goal 

R - Aaron Misa 6 yard pass from Mock (Aaron Misa from Kasey Mock)