Frontier: Saints kick past Dawgs
HELENA — Steven Powell kicked three field goals, two in the fourth quarter to help Carroll College down Montana Western 16-10 Saturday in Frontier Conference football.
Carroll quarterback Jack Prka threw for 148 yards, 56 on a fourth-quarter drive to Powell’s second field goal, from 31 yards. Carroll led for good, 13-10, at the 7:24 mark.
Prka completed 6 of 10 passes on the march, after which the Saints forced a punt, then drove 30 yards to a 24-yard field goal from Powell with 3:24 left.
Western’s ensuing drive ended with the Saints’ Thomas McGree intercepting a Jon Jund pass at the Bulldogs’ 44-yard line. Western had one more chance, but Jund fumbled away the ball at the end of a 29-yard run.
Prka finished 15 of 26 passing, including a 43-yard touchdown to Tony Collins. Collins had six catches for 81 yards.
Jund was 14 of 30 passing for 127 yards, and ran for 91 yards on 22 carries. He threw two interceptions. Columbia Falls product Colten McPhee had seven carries for 11 yards for the Bulldogs.
Rocky 27, So. Oregon 10
ASHLAND, Ore. — Rocky Mountain College quarterback Nathan Dick threw for two touchdowns and ran for another for the Battlin’ Bears.
Zaire Wilcox picked up 134 yards on 24 carries for Rocky, which built a 17-0 halftime lead.
Wilcox caught the first touchdown pass, covering 7 yards to put the Bears up 7-0. Dick added a 7-yard TD run and Austin Drake hit a 30-yard field goal for the 17-0 lead.
Dick was 16 of 30 passing for 210 yards, and was picked off twice; he also rushed for 81 yards.
College of Idaho 31, MSU-Northern 3
CALDWELL, Idaho — Andy Peters and Ryan Hibbs each threw a TD pass for College of Idaho, which piled up 426 yards in Jerome Souers’ coaching debut with the Lights.
Hibbs was 8 for 14 passing for 109 yards, and hit Jake Nadley with a 26-yard TD pass as the Yotes took a 24-0 lead midway through the third quarter. Peters completed 10 of 11 passes for 139 yards.
Brenden Medina was 13 of 28 passing for 109 yards for the Lights, who had just 133 yards of offense. Northern got a 25-yard field goal by Polson product Kaden Nelson.