Undefeated Lions roar past Vikings

BIGFORK — Chet McCully and Austin Sartori each scored two touchdowns for the Eureka Lions as they beat the Bigfork Vikings 44-6 and stayed undefeated in Western B football at Bigfork High School on Friday.

Eureka is 5-0 in conference play and 8-0 overall. Bigfork is 2-3 and 3-5.

Sartori ran in a touchdown from 11 yards in the first and caught a 39-yard pass from Hank Dunn in the second.

McCully drove in a 14 yard score in the first and a 6 yard TD in the fourth.

Eureka led 34-0 at the half.

Jake Kindel and Dunn both scored rushing touchdowns.

Eureka 22 12 0 8 — 44

Bigfork 0 0 0 6 — 6

First Quarter

E — Hank Dunn 1 run (AJ Pacella kick)

E — Chet McCully 14 run (Austin Sartori PAT pass failed)

E — Sartori 11 run (Jake Kindel PAT pass from Dunn)

Second Quarter

E — Kindel 1 run (Dunn PAT pass to Kindel failed)

E — Sartori 39 pass from Dunn

Fourth Quarter

E — McCully 6 run (McCully PAT run)

B — Levi Taylor 8 run (Patrick Wallen PAT pass to Izak Epperly failed)

Team Stats

E B

First downs 24 13

Rushes-yds 31-394 3 6-153

Passing yards 118 44

Comp-att-int 6-11-2 4-18-1

Total offense 512 197

Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0

Penalties-yds 5-60 1-5

Punts-avg 0-0 4-39

Individual Stats

PASSING — Eureka, Hank Dunn 6-11-118-1-2. Bigfork, Patrick Wallen 4-17-44-0-0.

RUSHING — Eureka, Chet McCully 18-227, Jake Kindel 9-132, Hank Dunn 3-24. Bigfork, Levi Taylor 18-128, Patrick Wallen 7-17, Wyatt Herd 9-8.

RECEIVING — Eureka, Austin Sartori 2-57, Jake Kindel 1-34. Bigfork, Kainin Lafontaine 2-24, Isak Epperly 1-18.

Butte Central 21,

Columbia Falls 14

COLUMBIA FALLS — The Wildcats ended their season with a close loss to Butte Central on Columbia Falls’ senior night.

Brad Nieves caught a 29-yard pass from Mason Peters in the first quarter for Columbia Falls, who ended the season 2-7.

Butte Central led 14-7 at the half.

Zane McCallum caught an 11-yard pass from Peters in the fourth quarter but that was as close at the Cats would get.

Butte Central 7 7 7 0 — 21

Columbia Falls 7 0 0 7 — 14

First Quarter

CF — Brad Nieves 29 pass from Mason Peters (Niels Getts kick)

BC — Guido Ossello 14 run

Second Quarter

BC —Braden Harrington 14 pass from Ossello

Third Quarter

BC — Egan Lester 1 run

Fourth Quarter

CF — Zane McCallum 11 pass Peters (Getts kick)

Stat Leaders

RUSHING­— Billings Central, Egan Lester 25-141. Columbia Falls Isaac Bolla 9-104

PASSING — Columbia Falls, Mason Peters 26-36—232.

Hamilton 57, Polson 18

POLSON — Full statistics for this game were not available.

Hamilton 22 28 7 0 — 57

Polson 6 6 0 6 — 18

Libby 8, Frenchtown 6

LIBBY — Full scoring information for this game was not available.

Libby 2 0 0 6 — 8

Frenchtown 0 0 0 6 — 6

Class AA

Missoula Sentinel 28, Glacier 25

MISSOULA — The Glacier Wolfpack clinched the No. 5 Western AA seed and will play No. 4 Eastern seed Great Falls next Saturday.

Glacier trailed 21-17 at the half to Sentinel and fought back to get within three points.

“I’m just proud of how our guys battled on the road against a tough team,” Glacier coach Grady Bennett said.”Really we were just a couple plays away from tying the game.”

Drew Deck’s 10-yard receiving touchdown opened the door wide for a comeback.

Deck’s one-handed interception was one of Glacier’s most impressive plays of the game.

“That’s why he’s going to play at the next level,” Bennett said of Deck. “His TD catch at the end of the game was unblieveiable.”

Glacier 7 10 0 8 — 25

Sentinel 14 7 0 7 — 28

First quarter

S - Jaxon Lee 3 run (Cam Dirnberger kick)

G - Braedy Santens 1 run (Patrick Rohrbach)

S - TJ Rausch from Dayton Bay (Dirnberger kick)

Second quarter

G - JT Allen 1 run (Rohrbach kick)

G - Rohrbach 27 FG

S Lee 5 run (Dirnberger kick)

Fourth quarter

S - Zac Crews 5 run (Dirnberger kick)?

G - Deck 10 pass from Allen (Santens pass to Luke Bilau)

Team Stats

G MS

First downs 19 18

Rushes-yds 25-55 3 8-111

Passing yards 254 282

Comp-att-int 2 6-43-0 15-18-1

Total offense 309 393

Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-1

Penalties-yds 4-35 4-16

Punts-avg 4-26.3 1-31.1

Individual Stats

PASSING —  Glacier, JT Allen 26-41-0-254-1. Sentinel, Dayton Bay 15-18-1-282-1.

RUSHING — Glacier, Braedy Stantens 8-19, KJ Johnson 5-16, Casey Peiffer 4-12. Sentinel, Jaxon Lee 25-105, Zac Crews 2-17.

RECEIVING — Glacier, Colin Bowden 2-39, Luke Bilau, 6-79, Drew Deck 6-59, KJ Johnson 4-47. Sentinel, Haiden Crew 6-100, Charlie Kirgan 3-107, TJ Rausch 3-55.

Flathead 19, Big Sky 7

Flathead won its second game of the year to secure the No. 7 seed in Western AA.

“It was a nice win for senior night,“ Flathead coach Matt Upham said”Really happy that we could get those guys a win on their last game in Kalispell. It’s nice to get a win and get a little more momentum going into the playoffs.”

A power outage delayed the game by 20 minutes but the game resumed without incident.

Flathead will travel to play No. 2 Eastern seed Billings West next week.

Big Sky 0 0 7 0 — 7

Flathead 0 6 6 7 — 19

Second Quarter

F — Erik Gardner 30 FG

F — Gardner 22 FG

Third Quarter

F — Tannen Beyl 62 run punt block (Gardner kick failed)

B — Colter Jacanaro 45 run (Vlad Lemeza kick)

Fourth Quarter

F — Tanner Russell 7 run (Gardner kick)

Team Stats

B F

First downs 12 16

Rushes-yds 28-143 59-300

Passing yards 143 43

Comp-att-int 8-27-2 4-12-1

Total offense 277 343

Fumbles-lost 2-2 0-0

Penalties-yds 5-45 8-65

Punts-avg 3-37.3 3-34.7

Individual Stats

PASSING — Big Sky, Draven Lincoln 7-24-2-123-0. Flathead, Cooper Smith 3-39-0.

RUSHING — Big Sky, Colter Janacaro 17-29, Draven Lincoln 3-14. Flathead, Tanner Russell 29-173, Cooper Smith 22-109, Chance Sheldon-Allen 6-21.

RECEIVING — Big Sky, Ben Maehl 3-92. Flathead, Chance Sheldon-Allen 3-39.