High School Football: Bulldogs trip Browning
Whitefish's Robby Neff (59) and Logan Harwood (9) get their hands on Browning's Brendon Runningwolf to tackle him in the air during Friday night's game in Whitefish.
Whitefish Running Back Jeremy Nielsen (left) celebrates his touchdown with Connor Ellis.
Players from both sides eye a fumbled football by the Indians, which the Bulldogs were able to recover.
The Bulldogs defense hold the Indians offensive push in the third quarter.
Browning's Kurt Redcrow attempts to escape the reach of Whitefish's Dakota Beatty.
Whitefish's Jake May (top) and Mark Stephenson bring down Brownings' Brendon Runningwolf.
Whitefish Quarterback Connor Donahue throws to wide reciever Christopher Forrest (7) in the second half.
WHITEFISH - Jeremy Nielson ran for 153 yards on 22 carries and scored three touchdowns as the Whitefish Bulldogs dropped visiting Browning 27-6 in a nonconference football game on Friday night.
Nielson's scoring jaunts were from five, 28 and four yards.
Whitefish (1-1) took control early, leading 20-0 at half.
As a team, the Bulldogs rushed for 180 yards and threw for 293 yards.
"It was a great win, especially after an emotional week, losing (quarterback) Mac (Roche).
"Connor Donohue did a great job stepping in, filling big shoes," said Whitefish's first year coach Chad Ross.
"Mac was there all week, speaking in his ear, telling him what to do. (Roche) could have just hung it up."
Donohue wound up 20-for-30 for 274 yards with one touchdown.
"(Offensive coordinator) Eric May called a great game, calling plays Connor could be successful at," Ross added.
He also complimented Whitefish's offensive line and Nathan Weidenmeyer at defensive end and nose guard.
"Phenomenal job. Those guys just did a great job up front. It was our second game in a row without a sack," the coach said.
The Bulldogs are at Anaconda at 7 p.m. next Friday.
Whitefish 27, Browning 6
Browning 0 0 0 6 - 6
Whitefish 6 13 0 8 - 27
W -Jeremy Nielson 5 run (Kick failed)
W - Nielson 28 run (Kick failed)
W - Connor Donohue 3 run (Connor Ellis kick).
W -Nielson 4 run (Chris Forrest to Shane Marcial)
B - C. Old Chief 1 run (Run failed).
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Rushing - Whitefish: Connor Donohue 1-4, Jeremy Nielson 22-153, Shane Marcial 2-15, Chris Forrest 4-9, Blake Boucher 2-minus 1.
Passing - Whitefish: Connor Donohue 20-30-0-1-274, Chris Forrest 2-4-19.
Receiving - Whitefish: Chris Forrest 8-94, Logan Harwood 6-121, Connor Ellis 2-11, Jeremy Nielson 2-20, Gage Vasquez 1-23, Mark Stephenson 1-16, Caleb Newby 1-5, Shane Marcial 1-3.
Polson 28, Corvallis 7
POLSON - Quarterback Vince DiGiallonardo accounted for all of Polson's scoring, running 53 and 21 yards for two touchdowns, passing 43 yards for another to Sheldon Fisher, and returning an interception 23 yards to open the scoring.
DiGiallonardo led the Pirates (2-0) in rushing, 14 carries for 114 yards. He was 8-for-18 passing for 84 yards. He threw three interceptions.
Kyle Bagnell had three receptions for 40 yards to lead Polson in that category. He was also 4 for 4 on extra point kicks.
Polson totaled 326 yards rushing on 45 carries.
Corvallis had 68 yards rushing on 24 attempts and was 13 for 30 passing for 212 yards and one interception.
Corvallis 0 7 0 0 - 7
Polson 7 14 7 0 - 28
P - Vince DiGiallonardo 23 interception return (Kyle Bagnell kick)
P - Sheldon Fisher 3 pass from DiGiallonardo (Bagnell kick)
C - Rodee Anderson 43 from Logan Connors (Turner Zsupnik kick)
P - DiGiallonardo 21 run (Bagnell kick)
P - DiGiallonardo 53 run (Bagnell kick)
Eureka 27, Deer Lodge 0
EUREKA - Colin Gillard ran for one touchdown and passed for another as Eureka opened the Class B season with a nonconference victory over Deer Lodge.
Gillard ran 1 yard for the game's first score. He hooked up with Bryton Guckenberg in the fourth quarter on a 15-yard TD strike to complete the scoring.
Gillard was 9 of 17 passing for 96 yards. He threw two interceptions.
Eureka rushed for 150 yards on 36 carries. Chris Ibach, who scored on a 3-yard run, had 122 yards on 13 carries.
Taylor Vaughn scored Eureka's other touchdown on a 16-yard scamper.
Deer Lodge had 112 yards on the ground on 28 attempts and added 84 yards through the air.
"I thought we controlled the line of scrimmage pretty well," Eureka coach Ed Newell said.
"Gillard made some good choices. He passed the ball well, ran the ball well."
Defensively, linebacker Curtis McDuffie led the Lions with 12 tackles. Linebacker Andrew Derby was next with 10.
Deer Lodge 0 0 0 0 - 0
Eureka 0 6 0 21 - 27
E - Colin Gillard 1 run (kick failed)
E - Chris Ibach 3 run (pass failed)
E - Taylor Vaughn 16 run (Ryan Holder pass from Gillard)
E - Bryton Guckenberg 15 pass from Gillard (Holder kick)
Hamilton 17,
Columbia Falls 6
HAMILTON - Just like last week.
Columbia Falls scores first, on a big play, but it's all Hamilton after that.
Nate Thompson bolted 77 yards for the only touchdown of the game for Columbia Falls (0-2).
It was the season opener for Hamilton.
Hamilton 14 3 0 0 - 17
Columbia Falls 6 0 0 0 - 6
CF - Nate Thompson 77 run (kick failed)
H - Beau Maus 67 pass from Josh Brenneman (Seth Mason kick)
H - Cody Noffsinger 4 run (Seth Mason kick)
H - FG Seth Mason 35
Loyola 61, Bigfork 34
MISSOULA - Loyola scored 27 points in the fourth quarter to pull away from Bigfork in the Class B opener for both teams.
Travis Knoll ran for three touchdowns for Bigfork, 24, 52 and 72 yards.
Cody Dopps had a 23-yard TD run for the Vikings and quarterback Christian Ker hit Ian Lorang on a 17-yard touchdown pass.
"The kids played well," Bigfork coach Todd Emslie said.
"We had three good quarters of football. We lost it to a good football team. I'm hoping we can learn from that."
Bigfork 14 14 6 0 - 34
Loyola 13 15 6 27 - 61
B - Travis Knoll 24 run
L - Arciello 19-yard pass from Hughes
B - Knoll 52 run
L - Hughes 34-yard rush.
B - Knoll 72 run
L - Haller 41-yard pass from Hughes.
B - Ian Lorang 17-yard pass from Christian Ker.
L - Janssen 51-yard pass from Hughes.
B - Cody Dopps 23 run
L - Kerr 18-yard rush.
L - Janssen 30-yard pass from Hughes.
L - Kerr 1-yard rush.
L - Kerr 26-yard rush.
L - Kerr 4-yard rush.
Frenchtown 13,
Libby 7
LIBBY - Time ran out on Libby as Frenchtown escaped with a nonconference victory.
Brad Nordahl's 48-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter gave Frenchtown the victory.
The game was stopped twice because of lightning. On the final lightning delay, the game was called with 6:15 left and Libby driving - at its 44-yard line.
Both teams are now 1-1 on the season.
Libby's score came on a 26-yard pass from Kelly May to Tyler Troy.
Frenchtown 0 7 0 6 - 13
Libby 0 0 0 7 - 7
F - Derrick Dauenhauer 8 run (Ben Metz kick)
L - Tyler Troy 26 pass from Kelly May (Alex Cislo kick)
F - Brad Nordahl 48 run (kick failed)