Helena holds on to top Glacier

Hart scores 8th TD of season for Wolfpack

The Daily Inter Lake

HELENA - This time the comeback came up short.

The Glacier Wolfpack fell 21-13 on the road to Helena High on Friday in Western AA football action.

Senior running back Taylor Hart scored his eighth touchdown of the season in the fourth quarter to put the Wolfpack (2-2) within eight points, but the Bengals (3-1) leaked out the clock from there to seal its third win in a row.

Last week, Glacier came back to beat Bozeman in overtime after being down two touchdowns in the fourth.

Hart finished with 75 yards on 20 carries. Glacier beat Helena in every offensive category besides points. The Wolfpack totaled 107 yards rushing and 228 passing while the defense held Helena to 62 yards rushing and 193 yards passing.

Glacier senior Wiley Fusaro scored on a 3-yard touchdown run in the opening minutes of the second.

The Bengals made distance after that and scored twice more before the half.

Glacier quarterback Shay Smithwick-Hann finished 20-for-33 for 228 yards passing, and had two interceptions.

Bryan Chery led the Wolfpack in receiving with 51 yards on eight catches and Jacob Leininger had 50 yards on five catches.

The Wolfpack hosts crosstown rival Flathead next Friday at 7 p.m. at Legends Stadium.

Glacier 0 7 0 6 - 13

Helena 7 14 0 0 - 21

First quarter

H - Jackson Lang 82-yard interception return (Chase Kloker kick) 9:06

Second quarter

G - Wiley Fusaro 3-yard run (Brenden Hagan kick) 9:49

H - Adam Johnson 7-yard pass from Tyler Hulse (pass fails' 6:06

H - Nelo Butler 1-yard run (pass complete) 0:15

Fourth quarter

G - Taylor Hart 1-yard run (kick blocked) 5:47

Glacier Helena

First downs 19 13

Rushes-yards 40-107 23-62

Passing yards 228 193

Passing 20-33-2 13-22-0

Punts-avg. 2-37 3-47.3

Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-3

Penalties-yards 5-51 6-56

Individual Stats

RUSHING - Glacier, Hart 20-75, George Werk 1-3, Shay Smithwick-Hann 8 -(-7), Fusaro 10-32, BJ Corpron 1-4. Helena, Nelo Butler 9-15, Ryan Wall 8-33, Hulse 2-(-5), TJ Lanier 2-8, Josh Herrin 1-10, Lang 1-1.

PASSING - Glacier, Smithwick-Hann 20-33-2-228. Helena, Hulse 13-22-0-193.

RECEIVING - Glacier, Jacob Leininger 5-50, Bryan Chery 8-51, Fusaro 1-6, Colter Hanson 2-18, Werk 1-9, Joshua Criner 3-49, Hart 1-44. Helena, Johnson 5-57, Wall 1-6, Sean Bloomquist 1-35, Nick Moe 1-6, Butler 3-20, Herrin 1-18, Lanier 2-28.

Class AA Standings

Record

W-L

Helena Capital 4-0

Great Falls CMR 3-0

Missoula Big Sky 3-1

Helena High 3-1

Missoula Sentinel 3-1

Billings West 3-1

Billings Skyview 2-2

Glacier 2-2

Bozeman 2-2

Missoula Hellgate 1-3

Flathead 1-3

Billings Senior 0-3

Great Falls 0-4

Butte 0-4

Friday's Scores

Billings West 17, Great Falls 3

Bozeman 35, Butte 13

Helena 21, Glacier 13

Helena Capital 42, Billings Skyview 20

Missoula Big Sky 21, Missoula Hellgate 14

Missoula Sentinel 40, Flathead 16

Today's Game

Great Falls CMR at Billings Senior, 7:30 p.m.