Prep Football Lions blast Anaconda; C-Falls rumbles by Libby
EUREKA — Garrett Graves ran for three touchdowns and passed to Garrett Gollahon for two more as Eureka annihilated Anaconda 49-7 Friday night in Western B division football action.
Graves, who had seven carries for 59 yards, had scoring runs of 3, 14 and 1 yard. He connected with Gollahon on TD passes for 13 and 8 yards.
Chet McCully, seven carries for 134 yards, had a 70-yard TD run and Brenton Pluid added a 20-yard scoring scamper in the fourth quarter.
Simon Granberg was perfect on all seven PAT kicks for the Lions.
Anaconda took a brief, and early lead, with 9:27 to play in the opening quarter, but it was all Eureka after that.
“They had a nice drive. Their run game was working,” Eureka coach Trevor Utter said of Anaconda’s first score.
“We responded well being down 7-0. We hadn’t been down 7-0 all year.”
Graves was 8 of 12 passing for 87 yards. Gollahon finished with three receptions for 33 yards.
Eureka (4-0 overall) had 360 yards of total offense to 152 for Anaconda.
Anaconda averaged 2.6 yards per play while Eureka averaged 10 yards per play on just 36 plays.
“We were very efficient (on offense),” Utter said.
Eureka plays at Missoula Loyola next Friday.
Anaconda 7 0 0 0 — 7
Eureka 7 21 14 7 — 49
A — L. Jensen 1 run (T. Mikalatos kick)
E — Garrett Graves 3 run (Simon Granberg kick)
E — Garrett Gollahon 13 pass from Graves (Granberg kick)
E — Graves 14 run (Granberg kick)
E — Graves 1 run (Granberg kick)
E — Gollahon 8 pass from Graves (Granberg kick)
E — Chet McCully 70 run (Granberg kick)
E — Brenton Pluid 20 run (Granberg kick)
Columbia Falls 54, Libby 0
LIBBY — Columbia Falls had no trouble bouncing back from a heart-wrenching loss to defending state champion Dillon in its last game.
The Wildcats wasted no time jumping out to a lead on its way to pounding Libby on Friday night.
Austin Green tossed two touchdowns in the first quarter, another in the second and ran for yet another to stake the Wildcats to a 33-0 halftime lead.
Colten McPhee rushed for two touchdowns for Columbia Falls.
Libby travels to Polson at 7 p.m. next Friday, while Columbia Falls hosts Browning at 7 p.m. next Friday for homecoming.
Columbia Falls 20 13 14 7 — 54
Libby 0 0 0 0 — 0
CF — Logan Kolodejchuk 25 pass from Austin Green (PAT good)
CF — Colten McPhee 2 run (PAT good)
CF — Logan Bechtel 21 pass from Green (PAT no good)
CF — Ben Windauer 9 pass from Green (PAT good)
CF — Green 14 run (PAT no good)
CF — Bechtel 12 pass from #10 (PAT good)
CF — McPhee 45 run (PAT good)
CF — Easton Sempf 5 run (PAT good)
St. Ignatius 70, Troy 22
TROY — Troy Mitchell threw four touchdown passes and returned a kickoff 70 yards for another score as St. Ignatius trounced Troy.
Gus Bosby also ran for three touchdowns for St. Ignatius.
Tyler Gromley had touchdown runs of 1 and 5 yards and passed 60 yards to Hunter Leighty for another score for Troy.
Troy plays at Seeley-Swan on Monday.
St. Ignatius 30 16 24 0 — 70
Troy 8 0 0 14 — 22
SI — Lucas Wohitmann 15 pass from Troy Mitchell (run good)
T — Hunter Leighty 60 pass from Tyler Gromley (Gromley run)
SI — Gus Bosby 26 run (pass failed)
SI — Layde Spidel 25 pass from Mitchell (Bosby run)
SI — Waycey McClure 1 pass from Mitchell (pass failed)
SI — Troy Matt 1 run (Bosby run)
SI — Flint McPherson 35 pass from Mitchell (McPherson pass from Mitchell)
SI— Mitchell 70 kickoff return (run good)
SI — Bosby 17 run (pass good)
SI — Bosby 20 run (run good)
T — Gromley 1 run (Austin McCully pass from Gromley)
T — Gromley 5 run (run failed)
Ronan 32, Polson 19
RONAN — Ronan defeated Polson in a rivalry homecoming test.
No results were available from the Northwest A Conference contest.
Ronan plays at Whitefish next Friday while Polson entertains Libby.
Browning 52, Whitefish 0
BROWNING — Browning rolled over Whitefish in a Northwest A Conference game.
No results were available.
Whitefish hosts Ronan next Friday.