Mistakes cost Glacier versus Helena

Four interceptions and 11 penalties cost the Glacier Wolfpack in a 20-6 loss to the Helena High Bengals in Western AA football at Legends Stadium on Friday.

“You’ve just got to give Helena credit,” Glacier coach Grady Bennett said. “Flathead came to their place and beat them and they came to our place and beat us. They flat out beat us.”

Last week Helena lost to then winless Flathead and responded this week with three touchdowns against Glacier (3-4).

“The defense played well enough,” Bennett said. “So many penalties so many mistakes. Can’t win football games when you play that sloppy.”

Patrick Rohrbach’s 30 and 31-yard field goals in the first quarter were Glacier’s only points in the game.

With so many penalites, it was hard for Glacier to get anything going on offense.

“There were some big plays in that game and they were making them and we weren’t.”

Next Friday is a crosstown game against rival Flathead.

“How will we respond?” Bennett said.

“Helena responded in a great way. If the character of our team is what I believe it is, we will bounce back and be a better ball club next Friday.”

Helena High 0 7 13 0 — 20

Glacier 3 3 0 0 — 6

First Quarter

G — Patrick Rohrbach 30-yd FG

G — Rohrbach 31-yd FG

Second Quarter

HH — Logan Brown 22 pass from Kaden Huot (Hayden Fergason kick)

Third Quarter

HH — Brown 1 run (Fergason kick blocked)

HH — KeyShaw Newby 15 run (Fergason kick)

Team Stats

H G

First downs 9 20

Rushes-yds 25-72 42-161

Passing yards 116 163

Comp-att-int 9-19-0 17-32-4

Total offense 182 300

Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0

Penalties-yds 5-44 11-111

Punts-avg 4-40.3 3-48.7

Individual Stats

PASSING — Helena High — Kaden Huot 8-18-93-0-1; Glacier, JT Allen 14-25-156-3-0, Braedy Santens 3-7-7-1-0.

RUSHING — Helena High, Kaden Huot 12-36, Logan Brown 13-30; Glacier, Jake Rendina 13-117, Casey Peiffer 2-15, Braedy Santens 4-12.

RECIEVING — Helena High, Chase McGurran 3-19, Logan Brown 2-45; Glacier, Drew Deck 5-70, Colin Bowden 5-66, Luke Bilau 4-2.

Butte 38, Flathead 0

BUTTE — The Butte Bulldogs stayed undefeated (7-0) in a rout of the Flathead Braves (1-6) in a Western AA game.

“The kids battled hard against a great team,” Flathead coach Matt Upham said. “We weren’t ready for their speed. Just got to learn from it and get better.”

Upham said the focus has shifted to the crosstown game under the lights against Glacier next week.

“Our whole focus right now is on the team up north (Glacier),” he said. “Should make for a good game on Friday night for our hometown crowd.”

Flathead 0 0 0 0 — 0

Butte 21 3 7 7 — 38

First Quarter

B — Kameron Moreno 1 run (Casey Kautzman kick)

B — Ryan Neil 38 pass from Tommy Mellott (Kautzman kick)

B — Banner Cetraro 28 pass from Mellott (Kautzman kick)

Second Quarter

B — Kautzman 43-yd FG

Third Quarter

B — Moreno 5 run (Kautzman kick)

Fourth Quarter

B — Moreno 40 run (Kautzman kick)

Team Stats

F B

First downs 13 25

Rushes-yds 38-151 42-377

Passing yards 29 296

Comp-att-int 5-12-1 14-26-0

Total offense 180 673

Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0

Penalties-yds 6-49 4-40

Punts-avg 8-36 3-39.3

Individual Stats

PASSING — Flathead, Cooper Smith 5-9-29-0-0; Butte, Tommy Mellott 12-24-274-0-2.

RUSHING — Flathead, Tanner Russell 23-135, Drew Harrison 3-8; Butte, Kameron Moreno 24-211, Tommy Mellott 6-37.

RECEIVING — Flathead, Chance Sheldon-Allen 3-14, Tannen Beyl 2-5; Butte, Ryan Neil 4-101, Cory West 2-58, Quinn Sullivan 2-50.

Eureka 32,

Missoula Loyola 0

EUREKA ­— Eureka stayed undefeated with an easy victory at home in a Western B game against Missoula Loyola.

The Lions are 7-0.

AJ Pacella scored two receiving touchdowns for Eureka, who outgained Loyola 400 to 200 yards of total offense.

Loyola 0 0 0 0 — 0

Eureka 12 14 0 6 — 32

First Quarter

E — AJ Pacella 15 pass from Hank Dunn (PAT pass failed)

E — Cory Chaney 12 pass from Dunn (PAT run failed)

Second Quarter

E — Pacella 14 pass from Dunn (PAT run Chet McCully)

E — Austin Sartori 28 pass from Dunn (PAT pass failed)

Fourth Quarter

E — Jake Kindel 46 pass from Dunn (Pacella kick failed)

Team Stats

L E

First downs 9 23

Rushes-yds 25-176 42-160

Passing yards 24 240

Comp-att-int 7-14-1 5-25-240

Total offense 200 400

Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0

Penalties-yds 8-70 8-70

Punts-avg 4-36.5 3-41.3

Individual Stats

PASSING — Loyola, K. Feeley 7-12-24-0-0; Eureka, Hank Dunn 15-25-240-5-0.

RUSHING — Loyola, N. Mitzle 23-152, K. Russell 1-41; Eureka, Chet McCully 23-107, Jake Kindel 7-42. Hank Dunn 9-12.

RECEIVING — Loyola, N. Mitzle 5-20; Eureka, Jake Kindel 3-100, Austin Sartori 4-49, Chet McCully 2-33, AJ Pacella 2-29.

Bigfork 54, Anaconda 6

BIGFORK — Bigfork improved to 2-2 in Western B with a commading home win against the Anaconda Copperheads.

Levi Taylor scored a receiving and a rushing touchdown for the Vikings.

Anaconda 0 0 6 0 —  6

Bigfork 26 14 8 6 — 54

First Quarter

B — Levi Taylor 6 pass from Patrick Wallen (Tanner Stone kick)

B — Jackson Abney int. return (Stone kick failed)

B — Taylor int. return (Stone kick)

B —Taylor 22 run (Stone kick)

Second Quarter

B — Robbie Kaiser blocked punt return (Stone kick)

B — Jimmy Abney 1 pass from Wallen (Stone kick)

Third Quarter

A — K. Gochanour 73 pass from B Sawyer (PAT run failed)

B — Kainin Lafontaine 17 pass from Wallen (Wallen PAT run)

Fourth Quarter

B — Jackson Nelson 31 run (Stone kick failed)

Team Stats

A B

First downs 8 15

Rushes-yds 18- -2 24-204

Passing yards 124 141

Comp-att-int 11-22-2 12-22-2

Total offense 122 345

Fumbles-lost 4-2 3-1

Penalties-yds 1-15 5-30

Punts-avg 5-19.2 1-21

Individual Stats

PASSING — Anaconda, B. Sawyer 10-21-122-1-2; Bigfork 12-22-141-3-2.

RECEIVING — Anaconda, K. Gochanour 10-122; Bigfork, Levi Taylor 6-96, Kainin Lafontaine 2-23, George Bucklin 2-15.

RUSHING — Anaconda, K Dewitt 1-6; Bigfork, Levi Taylor 6-50, Jackson 7-45, Kainin Lafontaine 3-44, Patrick Wallen 5-30.

Columbia Falls 49,

Corvallis 7

COLUMBIA FALLS — Neils Getts successfully kicked all seven extra point attempts for Columbia Falls (2-5) in a Northwest A romp over Corvallis (1-6).

Brad Nieves scored two touchdowns for the Wildcats.

Columbia Falls generated 389 yards of total offense to 180 for Corvallis.

Corvallis 0 0 0 7 — 7

Columbia Falls 14 2 8 0 7 — 49

First Quarter

CF — Brad Nieves 23 pass from Mason Peters (Niels Getts kick)

CF — Cade Morgan 5 run (Getts kick)

Second Quarter

CF — Taylor Bryan 21 pass from Peters (Getts kick)

CF — Isaac Bolla 17 run (Getts kick)

CF — Nieves 60 fumble return (Getts kick)

CF — Bryan 61 pass from Peters (Getts kick)

Fourth Quarter

CF — Isaiah Roth 1 run (Getts kick)

COR — Konner Provence 34 pass from Mace Marshall (Emil Eohment kick)

Team Stats

Passing — Columbia Falls, Mason Peters 16-24-276-3

Receiving — Columbia Falls, Jaxon Heinz 6-84, Taylor Bryan 3-99,

Hamilton 41, Whitefish 0

WHITEFISH — Hamilton (6-1) led 21-0 at the half as it rolled over host Whitefish (5-2) in a Northwest A game.

Full scoring information was unavailable.

Hamilton 7 14 20 0 — 41

Whitefish 0 0 0 0 — 0

Stats

PASSING — Hamilton, Carson Rostad 5-25-147-5-0; Whitefish, Fynn Ridgeway 8-17-121-0-1.

RUSHING — Hamilton Carson Rostad 9-99; Whitefish, Devon Beal 16-69.

Polson 8, Stevensville 0

STEVENSVILLE — Polson (4-3) broke the 0-0 tie with a touchdown and successful two-point conversion by Dugan Davis in the fourth quarter of a Western A game against Stevensville (0-7).

Polson 0 0 0 8 — 8

Stevensville 0 0 0 0 — 0

Fourth Quarter

P — Dugan Davis 3 run (Davis PAT run)

Dillon 28, Libby 12

DILLON — Dillon (6-1) handed Libby (6-1) its first loss of the season in Northwest A play.

Scoring information was not available.