C-Falls whips Whitefish

by The Daily Inter Lake
| October 16, 2010 2:00 AM

WHITEFISH - The plan coming in for Whitefish was to stop Columbia Falls' sensational running back Nate Thompson.

Trouble is, Columbia Falls quarterback Austin Barth and wide receiver Kaleb Johnson picked up the slack. Barth threw six touchdown passes - four to Johnson (41, 4, 41 and 40 yards) - as the Wildcats rolled to a 51-0 victory over Northwestern A football rival Whitefish.

Thompson did find the end zone twice in the contest, but both times from short range - 7 and 5 yards.

Barth also had a 26-yard touchdown pass to Dan Busick and a 5-yard toss to Devyn Rocker to complete the scoring.

Columbia Falls (4-3 and 3-0) led 33-0 after the opening quarter.

"They're good," Whitefish coach Chad Ross said of Columbia Falls.

"He (Thompson) didn't get 200 yards, but they beat us everywhere else."

Thompson came into the contest leading the league in rushing with 1,372 yards on 163 carries.

No Columbia Falls stats were available.

Whitefish quarterback Connor Donahue was 12 for 28 passing for 103 yards. Jeremy Nielsen had 36 yards rushing on seven attempts for the Bulldogs.

Columbia Falls concludes regular-season

play on Friday at home versus Ronan. This was the final game of the season for Whitefish (1-7, 0-4).

"At least they didn't quit," WHS coach Chad Ross said of his players.

"They came out every week, they had a great attitude. Hopefully that will turn into experience and experience will turn into victories next year."

Columbia Falls 33 12 6 0 - 51

Whitefish 0 0 0 0 - 0

CF - Nate Thompson 7 run (kick failed)

CF - Kaleb Johnson 41 pass from Austin Barth (run failed)

CF - Johnson 4 pass from Barth (pass failed)

CF - Johnson 41 pass from Barth (Devyn Rocker pass from Barth)

CF - Johnson 40 pass from Barth (Barth kick)

CF - Dan Busick 26 pass from Barth (kick failed)

CF - Thompson 4 run (kick failed)

CF - Rocker 5 from Barth (kick failed)

Bigfork 43, Troy 24

BIGFORK - Once things got rolling, there was no stopping Bigfork.

The Vikings rushed for 483 yards on 53 attempts in blasting Troy (3-4, 1-3) in a District 7B contest.

Bigfork (5-2, 4-0) took commancd with a 24-points second quarter.

"I don't know if it's a school record for rushing, but it's a Todd Emslie record for rushing it," he said.

"We started out kind of slow, but once we got rolling we couldn't be stopped."

Travis Knoll (323 yards on 25 carries) ran for three scores. Cody Dopps (173 yards on 15 attempts) had one TD run.

Quarterback Christian Ker also ran for one touchdown. Ker was 4 for 13 passing for 54 yards.

"I think with the win we secured the conference championship and a home field playoff spot," Emslie said.

Troy 0 8 0 16 - 24

Bigfork 0 24 13 6 - 43

B - Cody Dopps 14 run (Dillon Charlebois kick)

T - Ryan Rayson 1 run (pass for conversion)

B - Christian Ker 1 run (Charlebois kick)

B - Charlebois 25 field goal

B - Travis Knoll 5 run (Charlebois kick)

B - Knoll 12 run (Charlebois kick)

B - Knoll 8 run (kick failed)

B - Colson McCoard 13 run (Charlebois kick)

T - Kody Hoffman 2 run (Cory Orr run)

T - Hoffman 36 pass from Mike Ormiston (Ormiston)

Thompson Falls 35, Eureka 14

THOMPSON FALLS - Josh Hojem threw three touchdown passes to rally Thompson Falls to a District 7B victory over Eureka.

Eureka (4-3, 3-2) scored on a 23-yard pass from Colin Gillard to Chris Ibach and an Ibach 8 yard run.

It was the second-straight victory for the Bluehawks (2-5, 2-2).

Eureka 0 14 0 0 - 14

Thompson Falls 0 14 7 14 - 35

TF - Nick Adler 1 run (Dominque Holt kick)

E - Chris Ibach 23 pass from Colin Gillard (Ryan Holder)

E - Ibach 8 run (Holder kick)

TF - Kevin Hagedorn 12 pass from Josh Hojem (Holt kick)

TF - Jaron Laws 3 pass from Hojem (Holt kick)

TF - Garrett Reinschmidt 21 pass from Hojem (Holt kick)

TF - Chris Hart 6 run (Holt kick)

Polson 56, Ronan 6

RONAN - Kyle Bagnell returned a punt 74 yards for a touchdown, Will Davey took an interception back 20 yards for a score and Brock Bleazard recovered a blocked punt in the end zone for a touchdown as Polson whipped Ronan (3-4, 1-2) in Northwestern A play.

Bagnell also was on the receiving end of a 24-yard TD strike from Vince DiGiallonardo.

Polson (6-1, 2-1) led 42-6 at the half.

Polson 14 28 7 7 - 56

Ronan 6 0 0 0 - 6

P - Vince DiGiallonardo 4 run (Kyle Bagnell kick)

R - Lucus Black 9 run (pass failed)

P -Sheldon Fisher 2 run (Bagnell kick)

P - Bagnell 24 pass from DiGiallonardo (Bagnell kick)

P - Fisher 2 run (Bagnell kick)

P - Bagnell 74 punt return (Bagnell kick)

P - Will Davey 20 interception return (Bagnell kick)

P - Jake Skelton 9 run (Bagnell kick)

P - Brock Bleazard punt block recovery (Bagnell kick)