C-Falls, Eureka drop 1st round road games in football playoffs
ANACONDA — Anaconda, hosting its first home football playoff game in 23 years, rolled to a 32-14 Class A first-round victory over Columbia Falls on Saturday.
Anaconda (7-3) took a 12-0 lead in the opening quarter on a 73-yard run by Eric Boyd and Ethan Reich returned a blocked punt for a touchdown.
The Copperheads led 20-7 at the half.
Anaconda returned a pass interception for a 50-yard touchdown to complete the scoring in the fourth quarter.
Columbia Falls (4-5) scored on a pair of touchdown passes from Jared Trinastich — 75 yards to Josiah Osborne and 6 yards to Dyllon Parker.
Anaconda moves on to play at fifth-ranked Livingston (7-1) on Saturday.
Columbia Falls 0 7 7 0 — 14
Anaconda 12 8 0 12 — 32
First Quarter
A – Eric Boyd 73 run (kick failed)
A – Ethan Reich 5 blocked punt (kick failed)
Second Quarter
C – Josiah Osborne 75 pass from Jared Trinastich (Alex Presnell kick)
A – Boyd 2 run (Kelly Krumm pass from Boyd)
Third Quarter
C- Dyllon Parker 6 pass from Trinastich (Presnell kick)
Fourth Quarter
A – Reich 1 run (fail)
A – Cory Stanberry 50 interception (fail)
Class B
Manhattan 41,
Eureka 16
MANHATTAN — Quinn McQueary passed for five touchdowns and ran for another, all in the first half, as top-ranked Manhattan/Manhattan Christian (9-0) crushed Eureka (3-6) in a first-round game.
McQueary had TD passes of 29, 8, 34, 72 and 41 yards.
He was 8 of 13 passing for 238 yards. he ran six times for 69 yards.
Eureka scored on a 43-yard run by Chris Ibach and a 35 yard pass from Austin Perez to Nikko Bakkila.
Ibach had 86 yards rushing on 14 attempts.
Eureka 0 0 8 8 – 16
Manhattan 20 21 0 0 – 41
First quarter
MAN – Quinn McQueary 29 pass to Brady Vandycken (PAT failed) 9:10
MAN – Quinn McQueary 8 pass to Quade McQueary (pass good) 6:04
MAN – Quinn McQueary 5 run (PAT failed) 1:12
Second quarter
MAN – Quinn McQueary 34 pass to Quade McQueary (pass good) 7:31
MAN – Quinn McQueary 72 pass to Nate Vanderby (PAT good) 5:11
MAN – McQueary 41 pass to Connor Vandyken (PAT failed) 1:48
Third quarter
EUR – Chris Ibach 43 run (run good) 9:35
Fourth quarter
EUR – Austin Perez 35 pass to Nikko Bakkila (run good)
Individual Stats
Rushing – Manhattan, Brady Vandyken 8-53, Quinn McQueary 6-69, Jason Banks 3-23, Connor Vandyken 4-23, Michael Daines 3-13, Rodney Wiersema 4-27, Eduardo Stubbs 3-1, Brock Bitterman 7- 12, Shon Connerton 2-4; Eureka, Ibach 14- 86, Trent Vaughn 4-17, Cole Jankovsky 2-7, Ryder Couch 1-(-4), Austin Vaughn 5-(-25).
Passing – Manhattan, Manhattan, McQueary 8-13-1, 238, 4TD, Brock Bitterman 1-5-1, 21; Eureka, Perez 8-24-1, 79, 1TD, Ibach 0-2-0.
Receiving – Manhattan, Brady Vandyken 2-64, Quade McQueary 2-42, Nate Vanderby 3-91, Connor Vandyken 1-41, Stubbs 1-21; Eureka, Niko Bakkila 2-33, Dalton Smith 2-27, Cameron Griffin 1-23, Jankovsky 1-2, Ibach 1-(-4), Jace Mrgich 1-(-2)