CJHS boys add two to winning streak
The Centre Junior High School football team is on a roll. They have won their last five games.
On Oct. 3, they played Prairie Heights at home and won 50-6. They scored seven touchdowns and had four two-point conversions.
Except for six points scored by Prairie Heights in the final seconds, the game belonged to the junior Cougars.
Matthew Leach, Ethan Forsberg, Lance Diepenbrock, and Aaron Bowman each had a fumble recovery..
The goal line was crossed first at 6:12 in the first quarter with a 55-yard run by quarterback Seth Jirak. The PAT failed.
Jirak scored again with 1:28 remaining in the quarter and this time the extra-point attempt was successful on a pass from Jirak to Thieen Antoszyk. The score stood at 14-0.
One minute into the second quarter, Diepenbrock had a scoring seven-yard run. The PAT failed. At 2:35, Jirak caught a pass from Diepenbrock and ran 33 yards for another touchdown. He also ran for the extra-points.
Not satisfied with 14 additional points, the junior Cougars scored again with 41 seconds left in the half. Antosyzk caught a 42-yard pass from Jirak and Dane Moore took a pass from Jirak to complete the two-point conversion and end the half with Centre ahead 36-0.
The going apparently got a little tougher in the third quarter, because it wasn't until one minute left that Diepenbrock managed to score the only touchdown of the quarter on a 13-yard run. Matthew Leach's run for the extra-points was successful, making the score 44-0.
The last Centre touchdown came at 7:42 in the last quarter with a 35-yard pass from Diepenbrock to Jirak. The extra-point attempt failed.
With 46 seconds remaining, Prairie Heights finally put six points on the board with a 14-yard run. The extra-point attempt failed, leaving the final score 50-6..
Statistics
Team play: rushing — Centre, 17 carries for 182 yards; Prairie Heights, 31 carries for 80 yards; passing — Centre 4/8 for 125 yards; Prairie Heights 0/1 for 0 yards.
Rushing: Jirak 4/103, Diepenbrock 6/37, Sean Leihy 5/40, Antosyzk 1/2, Kevin Mueller 1/0.
Passing: Jirak 2/6/57, Diepenbrock 2/2/68.
Receiving: Jirak 2/68, Antoszyk 2/57.
Fumble recoveries: Matthew Leach, Ethan Forsberg, Diepenbrock, and Aaron Bowman, 1 each.
Tackles, solo/assisted: Phillip Griffith 4/1, Jirak 2/4, Bowman 4/5, Leihy 2/1, Diepenbrock 1/2, Alfonse Klenda 1/2, Heath Shields 1/1, Leach 4/2, Michael Kaiser 1/1, Jon Gehrke 1/0, Antoszyk 2/0.
Centre vs. Hope
On Thursday, Hope played at Centre and, once again, Centre came out on top 48-16.
The junior Cougars carried the ball 42 times for a total of 218 yards rushing and Hope had 27 carries for 124 yards.
Neither team scored in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Thieen Antoszyk caught the ball in the end zone on a 27-yard pass from Seth Jirak to put the first points on the board. Dane Moore ran in for the extra points on a pass from Jirak.
Jirak scored another three touchdowns in the quarter on 15-, 9-, and 18-yard runs. One PAT was successful, a run by Sean Leihy.
Hope also scored once and added two points, to leave the score at half-time 28-8 in favor of the Cougars.
Each time scored once in the third quarter, but Centre's conversion attempt failed and Hope's was successful, making the score 34-16.
Centre completed two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter, one on a 12-yard run by Jirak, the other an Antoszyk reception of a 24-yard pass from Jirak. One PAT was successful, the quarter adding another 14 points to the Cougars' final tally of 48 points to Hope's 16.
Statistics
Team play: rushing — Centre 42 carries for 218 yards; Hope 27/124; passing — Centre 3/6/1/62 yards, Hope 3/8/2/54.
Rushing: Jirak 14/108, Diepenbrock 12/45, Leihy 11/1, Phillip Griffith 2/9, Aaron Bowman 2/7, Steven Antoszyk 1/8.
Passing: Jirak 2/4/1/51, Griffith 1/2/0/11.
Receiving: T. Antoszyk 2/51, Michael Kaiser 1/11.
Interceptions: T. Antoszyk 2.
Fumble recovery: Leihy 1.
Tackles, solo/assisted: Griffith 1/7, S. Antoszyk 1/0, Jirak 5/5, Bowman 5/10, Leihy 1/2, Diepenbrock 2/5, Heath Shields 2, Matthew Leach 3/3, T. Antoszyk 2/5.
