Football roundup: Columbia Falls blasts Browning; Whitefish falls in OT to Belgrade
COLUMBIA FALLS — Quarterback Dakota Bridwell passed for 318 yards and six touchdown to power Columbia Falls (3-0) to an easy 69-6 Class A nonconference football victory over Browning on Friday.
Bridwell was 13 of 23 passing and was not intercepted.
Ty Morgan caught two touchdown passes, 63 and 91 yards, and finished with three receptions for 159 yards.
Wyatt Green rushed for 61 yards on six attempts and one score. He also had a 5-yard touchdown reception from Bridwell.
Browning 0 6 0 0 — 6
Columbia Falls 36 13 14 6 — 69
CF — Ty Morgan 63 pass from Dakota Bridwell (Trevor Hoerner kick)
CF — Wyatt Green 5 pass from Bridwell (Hoerner kick)
CF — Ike Schweikert 1 run (kick failed)
CF — Stephen Lindsey 5 pass from Bridwell (Schweikert run)
CF — Sean Miller 55 interception return (Schweickert run)
CF — Sean Hoerner 5 pass from Bridwell (kick failed)
CF — Trevor Houston 2 pass from Bridwell (Bekzat Abdyracakov kick)
B — Caleb Old Chief 28 pass from Ryan Loring (kick failed)
CF — Morgan 91 pass from Bridwell (Abdyracakov kick)
CF — Green 5 run (Abdyracakov kick)
CF — Austin Green 3 run (kick failed)
Corvallis 34, Polson 14
POLSON — Quarterback Jayce Gilder passed for two first-half touchdowns and ran for two more to guide Corvallis to a Class A nonconference victory over Polson (1-2).
Corvallis enjoyed a 27-0 halftime lead and added a touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Joe Gallatin accounted for Polson’s TD with runs of 3 and 4 yards.
Jacob Harrod was perfect on both after touchdown kicks.
Polson quarterback Wyatt Ducharme was 4 of 9 for 42 yards. The Pirates had 187 yards on the ground on 41 attempts.
Gallatin had 78 yards rushing on 14 carries.
Corvallis 14 13 0 7 — 34
Polson 0 0 7 7 — 14
C— Danner Miller 41 yard pass from Jayce Gilder (Sam Burdette kick)
C — Gilder 21 yard run (Burdette kick)
C — Taylor Sylvester 10 yard pass from Gilder (kick failed)
C — Gilder 2 yard run (Burdette kick)
P — Joe Gallatin 3 yard run (Jacob Harrod kick)
C — Gunnar Fairbrother 4 yard run (Burdette kick)
P — Gallatin 4 yard run (Harrod kick)
Bigfork 52, Florence 8
FLORENCE — Bigfork bounced back from last week’s 28-21 home loss to to Choteau by whipping Florence in Class B nonconference action.
Vinny Quirk scored three touchdowns in the opening quarter and Josh Sandry ran for two more and passed for two in the Bigfork (2-1) blowout.
Bigfork had 397 yards in total offense to 192 for Florence.
Sandry completed 6 of 10 passes for 204 yards and three touchdowns. He did not throw an interception.
Quirk rushed 11 times for 99 yards and Sandry had five carries for 90 yards.
Bigfork 27 12 13 0 – 52
Florence 0 0 8 0 – 8
B – Vinny Quirk 4 run (kick failed)
B – Josh Sandry 44 run (Jonathan Landon kick)
B – Quirk 32 run (Landon kick)
B – Quirk 81 pass from Sandry (Landon kick)
B – Sandry 31 run (kick failed)
B – Tyler Pizzola 29 pass from Sandry kick failed)
B – Adam Jordt 36 pass from Sandry (Landon kick)
B – Matthew Farrier interception return (kick failed)
F – Jace Pancake 32 run (Daniel Parson pass from Braxton McCullough)
Conrad 50, Eureka 30
EUREKA — Conrad did all of the scoring early while Eureka tallied four touchdowns in the final quarter to make it respectable.
Austyn Sherwood passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more for Eureka in the Class B nonconference matchup. He was 8 of 15 passing for 166 yards and added 30 yards rushing.
Defensively for Eureka, linebacker James Dunn had 15 tackles and end Tyler Fonger 10.
Chase Bohne had a touchdown reception of 56 yards and an interception return of 30 yards for Eureka (0-3).
Brandon Conard hauled in a 32-yard touchdown strike from Sherwood.
Conrad 16 21 13 0 — 50
Eureka 0 0 0 30 — 30
C — Shane Larson 22 run (Blake Underdahl run)
C — Clark Judiseh 24 pass from Larson (Larson run)
C — Underdahl 16 run (Tristen Diedrich pass from Larson)
C — Larson 20 run (kick failed)
C — Diedrich 1 run (Hunter Mycke kick)
C — Underdahl 75 kickoff return (kick failed)
C — Javan Carroll 1 run (Mycke kick)
E — Austyn Sherwood 6 run (pass failed)
E — Brandon Conard 32 pass from Sherwood (Nathan Jentry run)
E — Chase Bohne 56 pass from Sherwood (Jentry run)
E — Sherwood 3 run (Garrett White run)
Belgrade 29,
Whitefish 28 OT
WHITEFISH — Belgrade returned a kickoff for a touchdown with 6:46 remaining and added a two-point conversion to tie it and force overtime and then won it in the extra session with a point after touchdown kick.
Whitefish (2-1) scored first in overtime on a 5-yard pass from Luke May to Jack Streibich. The snap, however, on the extra point failed.
Belgrade (2-1) then scored on a 5-yard run and added the game-winning kick.
Whitefish had two touchdowns called back on penalties.
This was a rematch of last year’s Class A quarterfinal playoff contest. Belgrade won that game 27-20 on a Hail Mary Pass.
Belgrade 0 8 0 14 7 — 29
Whitefish 7 0 8 7 6 — 28
W — Jack Streibich 54 pass from Luke May (Luke Cardon kick)
B — Cardon tackled in end zone for safety
B — 10 TD pass
W — Brian FauntLeRoy 25 run (Luke May pass)
B — 67 TD pass
W — Jed Negler 42 pass from May (Cardon kick)
B — Return kickoff for touchdown (pass successful)
Overtime
W — Streibich 5 pass from May (kick failed)
B — 5 run (kick good)
Hamilton 42, Libby 6
LIBBY — Bret Huxtable threw three touchdown passes to help Hamilton blow by Libby in Class A nonconference play.
Hamilton led 28-6 at the half.
Hamilton 7 21 14 0 — 42
Libby 0 6 0 0 — 6
H – Alex Draper 17 run, 8:10 (Karill Apedaile kick)
H – Apedaile 15 pass from Bret Huxtable, 6:31 (Apedaile kick)
L – N/A
H – Bridger Bauder 24 pass from Huxtable, 2:36 (Apedaile kick)
H – Draper 22 run, 1:51 (Apedaile kick)
H - Bauder 10 run, 11:32 (Apedaile kick)
H - Bauder 31 pass from Huxtable, 10:06 (Apedaile kick)