The bottom lineRochelle 6Sterling 21

Geneseo 42Ottawa 8

Oregon 21Mendota 17

Rock Falls 8Dixon 48

Fulton 14Amboy 13

Morrison 0Erie-P’town 49

Riverdale 14Bureau Valley 48

Forreston 49Pecatonica 7

Eastland-P.C. 52South Beloit 7

West Carroll 6Galena 48

Milledgeville 12East Dubuque 55

River Ridge 0Polo 53

Warren 19AFC 0

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Abingdon 50, Elmwood-Brimfield 29Alden-Hebron 44, North Shore Country Day 12Althoff Catholic 34, Cahokia 32Alton 29, Collinsville 6Andrew 22, Thornridge 14Anna-Jonesboro 56, Sparta 36Annawan/Wethersfield (FB Coop) 61, Cambridge-AlWood 46Arcola 35, Cerro Gordo (Coop) 12Argo 31, Oak Lawn Community 10Arthur-Lovington 44, Argenta-Oreana 0Auburn 20, New Berlin-Franklin 14Aurora West 55, East Aurora 14Batavia 26, Geneva 20Beardstown 48, North Fulton 13Belvidere North 27, Rockford Boylan 19Bethalto Civic Memorial 41, Jersey 28Bishop McNamara 41, St. Ignatius 16Bismarck-Henning 31, Milford High School 21Bloomington 27, Danville 9Bowen 36, Corliss 12Breese Central 42, Trenton Wesclin 6Brown County 30, Calhoun 28Canton 35, Morton 14Carlinville 55, Piasa Southwestern 25Carmel 42, Woodstock Marian 14Carmi White County 43, Sesser-Valier-Waltonville-Woodlawn 24Carrollton 30, Camp Point Central 12Carterville 58, Pinckneyville 28Cary-Grove 56, Dundee-Crown 0Casey-Westfield 14, Marshall 0Champaign Central 28, Woodstock 14Chatham Glenwood 35, Eisenhower 8Chester 20, Eldorado 6Chicago (Lane Tech) 22, Curie 20Chicago (Perspective/Leadership) 32, Bogan 6Chicago Uplift 44, Chicago (Clark) 0Clifton Central 42, Watseka 6Clinton 32, Macon Meridian 13Coal City 42, Lisle 7Columbia 38, Red Bud 15Concord (Triopia) 32, Winchester-West Central 6Crete-Monee 25, Rich Central 12Crystal Lake Central 65, Hampshire 20Crystal Lake South 24, Jacobs 14Cumberland 30, Martinsville 6Decatur MacArthur 38, Rochester 33Deer Creek-Mackinaw 62, Fisher 50Deerfield 56, Maine East 0Douglass 46, Chicago Sullivan 6Downers North 13, Proviso West 6Downs Tri-Valley 52, Heyworth 6Dunbar 14, Chicago Vocational 6Dwight 35, Iroquois West-Crescent-Iroquois 0East Peoria 33, Washington 6Edwardsville 40, Granite City 0Effingham 44, Mt. Zion 41Elgin 31, Larkin 13Elmwood Park 35, Walther Christian Academy 14Fairbury Prairie Central 35, Eureka-Roa-noke-Benson 12Fairfield 35, Johnston City 20Farmington 65, Peoria Heights 7Fieldcrest 52, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley 2Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland (FCW) 40, Crossroads Christian Academy 0Flora 20, Edwards County 18

Freeburg 62, Dupo 19Fremd 30, Conant 14Galesburg 35, Quincy 28, OTGenoa-Kingston 28, Harvard 23Georgetown-Ridge Farm/Chrisman 47, Hoopeston 6Glenbard South 28, IC Catholic 14Glenbrook North 56, Maine West 26Glenbrook South def. Waukegan, forfeitGrayslake North 61, Grayslake Central 13Greenfield-Northwestern 26, Jackson-ville Routt 0Greenville 58, Gillespie 26Gurnee Warren 21, Lake Zurich 17Hall 14, Kewanee 13Hamilton County def. Elverado, forfeitHerrin 63, Harrisburg 21Herscher 24, Sandwich 0Hersey 35, Wheeling 14Highland 59, Mascoutah 39Highland Park 34, Niles North 14Hillsboro 51, Litchfield 8Hinsdale Central 21, Oak Park River Forest 17Hinsdale South 55, Berwyn-Cicero Morton 10Hoffman Estates 28, Schaumburg 14Homewood-Flossmoor 68, Lockport 21Hononegah 42, Rockford Guilford 7Hope Academy 7, Chicago Christian 0Huntley 55, McHenry 28Illini West (Carthage) 44, Hamilton (West Hancock) 8Jacksonville 63, Lincoln 14Johnsburg 7, Burlington Central 0Joliet Catholic 27, Benet 0Kankakee 34, Rich East 22Kennedy 22, Juarez 16, OTKenwood 28, Chicago Washington 14Knoxville 21, South Fulton 19Lake Forest 42, Zion Benton 6Lakes Community 45, Antioch 18Lawrenceville 41, Red Hill 6Lemont 57, Tinley Park 20LeRoy 6, Tremont 0Lewistown 35, Havana 7Lexington 40, Colfax Ridgeview 19Limestone 14, Dunlap 13Lincoln Way North 29, Bradley-Bour-bonnais 23Lincoln-Way East 23, Bolingbrook 9Lyons 21, York 10Machesney Park Harlem 54, Rockford Jefferson 7Mahomet-Seymour 16, Bloomington Central Catholic 0Maine South 46, Evanston Township 19Manteno 50, Westmont 12Marengo 42, Rockford Christian 13Marian Catholic (Chicago Heights) 28, Niles Notre Dame 14Marion 42, Carbondale 14Marmion 56, Aurora Christian 0Maroa-Forsyth 46, Champaign St. Thomas More 7Mercer County 43, West Central 8Metamora 47, Pekin 14Metea Valley 45, Glenbard East 27Minooka 41, Oswego East 14Momence 14, Paxton-Buckley-Loda 3Monticello 40, Rantoul 8Montini 24, Fenwick 7Mount Vernon 36, Centralia 29Mt. Carmel 36, Boonville, Ind. 7

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How they stand Around the stateNIB-12 West

Conf. AllGeneseo 4-0 8-0Sterling 3-1 6-2Ottawa 2-2 2-6Rochelle 1-3 3-5LaSalle-Peru 0-4 0-8

Friday’s results• Sterling 21, Rochelle 6• Kaneland 58, LaSalle-Peru 6• Geneseo 42, Ottawa 8

Friday, Oct. 24• LaSalle-Peru at Morris, 7 • Ottawa at Yorkville, 7:15 • Rochelle at Kaneland, 7:15• Sterling at Sycamore, 7:15 • Geneseo at DeKalb, 7:30

NIB-12 East Conf. AllDeKalb 4-0 8-0Yorkville 3-1 6-2Sycamore 1-3 4-4Morris 2-2 4-4Kaneland 0-4 3-5

Friday’s results• Morris 18, Sycamore 15• Kaneland 58, LaSalle-Peru 6• DeKalb 26, Yorkville 14

Friday, Oct. 24• LaSalle-Peru at Morris, 7 • Ottawa at Yorkville, 7:15 • Rochelle at Kaneland, 7:15• Sterling at Sycamore, 7:15 • Geneseo at DeKalb, 7:30

Big Northern West Conf. AllRkfd. Lutheran 6-0 8-0Dixon 4-2 6-2Byron 4-2 5-3Mendota 4-2 5-3Oregon 3-3 4-4Stillman Valley 2-4 2-6Winnebago 1-5 2-6Rock Falls 0-6 0-8

Friday’s results• Byron 47, Winnebago 24• Oregon 21, Mendota 17• Dixon 48, Rock Falls 8• Lutheran 48, Stillman Valley 2

Friday, Oct. 24• Dixon at Byron, 7• Mendota at Winnebago, 7 • Oregon at Stillman Valley, 7 • Lutheran at Rock Falls, 7:15

Three Rivers North Conf. AllNewman 5-0 7-0Erie-P’town 4-2 5-3Amboy 3-2 5-3Fulton 3-2 5-3Bureau Valley 3-2 4-4Riverdale 0-5 0-8Morrison 0-5 0-8

Friday’s results• Fulton 14, Amboy 13• Erie-Prophetstown 49, Morrison 0• Bureau Valley 48, Riverdale 14

Saturday’s game• Sherrard at Newman, 1:30

Friday, Oct. 24• Amboy at Newman, 7• Bureau Valley at Fulton, 7:30• Erie-Prophetstown at Orion, 7:30• Riverdale at Morrison, 7:30

NUIC Northwest Conf. AllEastland-P.C. 7-0 8-0Forreston 7-0 8-0Galena 5-2 6-2Lena-Winslow 4-3 5-3Dakota 4-4 4-4Durand 2-5 3-5South Beloit 1-6 2-6Pecatonica 1-6 1-7West Carroll 1-6 1-7

Friday’s results• Dakota 30, Durand 14• Lena-Winslow 42, Aquin 41• Eastland-P.C. 52, South Beloit 7• Forreston 49, Pecatonica 7• Galena 48, West Carroll 6

Friday, Oct. 24• Stockton at Dakota, 7:30• Durand at West Carroll, 7:30• Forreston at Eastland-Pearl City, 7:30• Galena at Pecatonica, 7:30• South Beloit at Lena-Winslow

NUIC Upstate Conf. AllStockton 7-1 7-1Aquin 6-1 6-2Polo 6-1 6-2Warren 5-2 5-3East Dubuque 3-4 4-4AFC 2-5 3-5Milledgeville 2-5 2-6River Ridge 1-6 1-7Orangeville 0-7 0-8

Friday’s results• Lena-Winslow 42, Aquin 41• East Dubuque 55, Milledgeville 12• Stockton 44, Orangeville 12• Polo 53, River Ridge 0• Warren 19, AFC 0

Friday, Oct. 24• AFC at Milledgeville, 7:30• Aquin at River Ridge, 7:30• East Dubuque at Orangeville, 7:30• Polo at Warren, 7:30• Stockton at Dakota, 7:30

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day Night Lights, and wider than the 10 yards he had just run, Dixon senior David Goken was mobbed in the back cor-ner of the end zone.

Overwhelmed by the whole situation, all Goken could do was accept the slaps on the helmets and shoulder pads from his fellow 12th-graders.

Goken, the Dukes’ autis-tic team manager, spent the final home game of his senior season stand-ing in full pads with the rest of his teammates, and served as a captain for the pregame coin toss. Before the game, after walking out with the rest of the seniors and their parents, his classmates gave him a special gift basket and a poster of David wearing his No. 68 Dixon jersey.

But it was after the game that brought tears to the eyes of David’s parents, Matt and Lori. With the clock running down, coach Dave Smith gath-ered his other 12 seniors together on the sideline

and sprung the surprise on them.

After the final horn sounded, the Rock Falls Rockets players stayed out on the field. The ball was moved to the 10-yard line, in front of the Dixon student section, and the 12 Dukes seniors jogged out on the field.

After motioning David to join them, the student sec-tion and the Dixon sideline started chants of “David! David!” Quarterback JD Gieson took the shotgun snap, handed the ball to Goken, and the Dukes paved a path into the end zone, with Goken running right behind them.

“Technically, it was an illegal formation with all 13 seniors out there,” Gie-son said, smiling almost as wide as his friend. “But that was so special; it was a surprise even to us, but to have David get to do something he’s never done before … that’s something we’ll all

remember forever.”After the handshakes

were done with the Rock-ets – including many, many thanks for allow-ing Goken his moment to shine – Dixon players, fans and parents crowded around in a massive jum-ble, as the coaches looked on. Goken was in the center of it all, and got to break down the final home huddle of these seniors’ careers with an ear-split-ting “Duke pride!”

“This is so crazy; look at all this,” said wideout Matt Coffey, Goken’s old-est friend. “This team, this community, David is a big part of it, and this is some-thing he’ll never forget – none of us will, the players or coaches or parents or fans. Everybody who was

here tonight has a memory that will never be taken away.”

After photos of the seniors together, and the seniors with their fami-lies, Goken still couldn’t stop smiling. When asked about his feat, he raised his hands to signal touch-down.

“Happy!” he crowed. “Dixon wins, in the play-offs!”

His dad was equally at a loss to fully comprehend the scene that had just unfolded in front of him.

“This is just awesome,” he said, wiping his eyes. “I think he was shocked when I helped him into the pads before the game, and he’s got to be on Cloud Nine right now.

“David loves these kids, Lori and I love these kids, and there’s nothing better in the world than David getting the chance to do this with his best friends.”

Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.comSurrounded by his parents and teammates, David Goken is congratulated and thanked for his dedication to the Dixon Dukes football team. Goken, who has autism, is the team’s manager, but got to dress for Friday’s game.

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WARREN 19, AFC 0

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FRANKLIN GROVE – The hugs and emotion showed by the Ashton-Franklin Center football team follow-ing Friday night’s 19-0 loss to Warren looked like a scene common follow-ing a season-ending loss.

That wasn’t exactly the case for the host Raiders, who travel to Milledgeville next week, but for a hard-fighting team clinging to play-off aspirations, Friday’s loss – AFC’s playoff-killing fifth of the year – sure felt like one.

“I’m proud of every one of these guys,” said senior linebacker Kevin Kurz. “They came out with their backs against the wall and played hard all game long tonight. I can’t wait to see what they do next year.”

Kurz is one of just four seniors on the Raiders’ roster, and he certainly played like his football career was on the line, racking up six solo tack-les, including two for a loss, and assisting on 13 other stops.

It’s hard to say where this loss ranks on the gut-punch scale in comparison to some of the Raid-ers’ other tough-luck losses. Was it worse than a Week 1 loss to Aquin in which they blew a second-half lead? Possibly.

Was it tougher to take than Week

7’s three-point defeat at the hands of East Dubuque, which gave AFC four losses and put the team’s back against the wall with 2 weeks to play? Maybe.

One thing is certain, though. Coach Brad Winterland is ready for his team’s luck to turn around. This sea-son has been a nice improvement from 2013’s 1-8 campaign, but with three tough defeats on its résume´, 3-5 doesn’t feel all that great.

“We’ve come a long way,” Win-terland said. “We’ve got to keep plugging along. With our inexpe-rience, I think part of it is our kids don’t know how to take that win, especially if it’s a win they weren’t expected to get.”

For Warren (5-3), its wafer-thin title hopes remain alive in the NUIC Upstate, improving to 5-2 in the division. But earning the win wasn’t easy. After AFC forced a turnover on downs to start the game, the Raiders (3-5, 2-5) marched down the field on their Senior Night for a 16-play, 76-yard drive that took nearly the entire rest of the quarter and brought them all the way down to third-and-goal on the Warriors’ 1-yard line.

AFC was stuffed twice, however, including on a sneak on fourth down that saw the upper portion of

quarterback Jacob Hilliker’s body – but apparently not the football – cross the goalline.

Three plays later, on the first play of the second quarter, War-ren quarterback Kendall Cox found wide receiver Kendall Harris wide open down the right sideline for a 99-yard score.

“We marched down the field pretty well. From where I was at, it looked like he was in,” Winterland said. “Then they come right out and score a touchdown. I think that right there was a huge swing in the game. We still had chances, but we didn’t capitalize.”

Warren’s other two scores were aided, respectively, by an unsports-manlike conduct penalty on an AFC assistant coach, and a fourth-and-23 conversion deep in Raiders territory on a pass to a receiver who clearly came back in from out-of-bounds before catching the pass. The final touchdown all but ended AFC’s chances at a comeback.

Jake Hageman had eight carries for 52 yards on AFC’s long first-quarter drive, but like all of the Raiders’ offense, he was held in check after that. He finished with 66 rushing yards on 13 carries. AFC had just 45 yards of total offense after its first drive.

Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.comAFC’s Bryan Dewey goes in for a tackle during the fourth quarter of Friday’s game at Mel Barron Field in Franklin Grove. The Raiders lost 19-0.

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FULTON 14, AMBOY 13

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AMBOY – It was a good time for Fulton defensive linemen Jake VanZuiden and Alex Gil-lis to do something neither has done in their football career.

Amboy’s Drake Barlow scored a touchdown with 4:16 to play in the game. An offsides pen-alty by Fulton on the extra point moved the ball closer, and the Clippers decided to go for the 2-point try and the win.

It was then when VanZuiden and Gillis busted through the Amboy offensive line and made their first career game-saving tackle as they met Barlow just before the goal line and brought him to the ground.

The tackle preserved a 1-point lead, and Fulton ran out the clock to seal a 14-13 win over the Clippers at the Harbor Fri-day night in a Three Rivers North game.

“When we jumped offsides and saw they were going for the win, that fired us up,” VanZuiden said. “We expected something up the middle, and we just wanted to get him quick.”

The Clippers fumbled two snaps on field goal tries, one

coming with less than a minute to play in the first half. Amboy tried to take a lead and break a scoreless tie heading into half-time with a 28-yard field goal, but a low snap forced holder Barlow to pick up the ball and run, forc-ing a turnover on downs.

So when the Steamers (5-3, 3-2) jumped offsides on the final extra-point try, Amboy coach Gary Jones knew right

away he was going to scrap the kick and try to win the game.

“We had bad snaps on field goals all night, and we just said, ‘we’ve got to go for it,’” Jones said.

Gillis, a 6-foot-2, 295-pound junior, manned positions on the offensive and defensive lines for Clinton High School in Iowa last season.

When he moved to Fulton at

the beginning of this season, he wasn’t sure he would be able to crack the Steamers’ starting lineup.

Fulton coach Patrick Lower liked what he saw from Gil-lis and gave him a starting job. Now, the Steamers have designed run plays to follow the massive junior through holes.

“He has been a real good guy to have,” Lower said. “He real-

ly plays both positions on the o-line and d-line really well. He is big and strong, and we run behind him a lot. He has made all of our guys better.”

What Lower saw in Gillis was one display on the game’s most crucial play.

“In the huddle, we were say-ing, ‘Please go for it,’” Gil-lis said. “I love these physical games, and we knew that that play was the game. I just had to do anything I could do to get in and make a play.”

Fulton scored touchdowns on Michael Pidde’s 5-yard TD pass from quarterback Tyler Swee-nie, and Trey Simmons had a 3-yard plunge.

The Clippers (5-3, 3-2) answered in the fourth quarter, as Dallas Appleman put Amboy on the scoreboard with a 1-yard TD run. Amboy forced a three-and-out and used six plays to score another touchdown, set-ting up the critical 2-point try.

“No, not right now,” said Jones, when asked if he regrets the decision to go for the win, “but I probably will be kick-ing myself tomorrow. We were at home, and we got them to jump, but just couldn’t get it in.”

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STERLING – Playoffs were in the air Friday night, with Sterling wanting to clinch and Rochelle clinging to hope.

It was the Golden Warriors who were in a celebratory mood afterward, following a 21-6 vic-tory over the mistake-prone Hubs on Sterling Chevrolet Field at Roscoe Eades Stadium.

Sterling (6-2, 3-1 Northern Illinois Big 12 West) secured second place in the division behind undefeated Geneseo, and put itself in the postseason by reaching the six-win mark. A year ago, a 5-4 Golden Warrior squad was the first 5-win team on the outside looking in, based on tiebreaker criteria.

“We have a lot of adrenaline from this win,” junior line-backer Jacob Heffelfinger said. “It was a chance to get into the playoffs, and we made sure of it.”

Rochelle (3-5, 2-3), mean-while, will miss the playoffs for the second time in the past 17 seasons. The Hubs shot them-selves in the foot with nine pen-alties, and most of them were at inopportune times.

“We just made too many mis-takes,” Rochelle coach Kevin Crandall said, “and we had some opportunities in the first half, and just didn’t capitalize.”

Junior quarterback Sterling Thornton rushed 24 times for 125 yards and a pair of touch-downs to lead the Sterling attack. He drove his team 55 yards in 15 plays on the game’s opening possession to give the

Warriors a 7-0 lead, the first half’s only score.

Rochelle had two golden opportunities to score in the first half, but came away empty.

On their first possession, the Hubs reached the Sterling 15 before a pair of offsides penal-ties torpedoed the drive.

A few minutes before halftime, Rochelle had a first-and-10 at the Sterling 14 before being

called for an illegal shift, hold-ing, and offsides on three suc-cessive plays. The half ended with quarterback Kevin Chris-tensen being tackled at the Warriors’ 12 on a third-down play.

Rochelle scored its only touch-down on the first play of the fourth quarter, a 16-yard run by junior running back Cole White that got the Hubs to within 14-6.

Sterling turned the ball over on downs on its next posses-sion, giving the Hubs a chance. Two running plays netted 2 yards, then Christensen lofted up an ill-fated pass that was intercepted by Warrior safe-ty Turner Morse with 6:37 to play.

Sterling’s Rafael Escalante scored an insurance touch-down with 3:16 to play on a 29-yard run. The Golden War-rior defense then ended it in style, with successive sacks by Brett Gould, Jason Wolber, and Joe Brouilette.

Sterling had 227 yards of total offense, but converted 4 of 5 fourth-down chances to keep drives alive.

“We converted some third downs and fourth downs when we had to have them,” Sterling coach Jon Schlemmer said. “Our kids made plays. They’re not all going to be pretty offen-sively, but our defense took care of what they needed to take care of tonight. I’m very, very proud of them.”

Thornton rushed 15 times in the second half for 84 yards. He also completed seven passes, and five of them went to Morse for 33 yards.

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STERLING 21, ROCHELLE 6

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.comSterling’s Joe Brouilette brings down Rochelle’s Cole White during Friday’s game at Roscoe Eades Stadium. The Warriors’ defense was stout in a 21-6 playoff-clinching win.

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DIXON – The quick start belonged to the Rock Falls Rockets. The rest of the game was all Dixon Dukes.

After falling behind on Senior Night at A.C. Bowers Field, the Dukes blew past the Rockets for a 48-8 victory, cementing Dixon’s first playoff berth since 2006.

“We were relentless, just kept firing away,” Dixon quarterback JD Gieson said. “They got to us right away, but we stuck together, kept our heads up, and didn’t let it stop what we wanted to do.”

Rock Falls (0-8, 0-6 Big Northern West) struck first, forcing Dixon into a three-and-out on the game’s opening posses-sion. On third down of their first drive, the Rockets got a 78-yard bomb from Jacob Mammosser to Connor Cain for a touchdown, then converted the two-point PAT for an 8-0 lead less than 4 minutes into the game.

But there was no panic in the Dukes (6-2, 4-2). Cody Mighell finished off an eight-play drive on the ensuing posses-sion with a 1-yard touchdown plunge on fourth down, then the defense came up big.

On a QB pressure, Quinton Douglas forced a fumble, and Diante Sanders was there to pounce on it. Four plays later, Gieson hit Kyle LeBlanc on a 40-yard TD pass, then hit Matt Coffey on the 2-point conversion for a 14-8 lead.

Mighell scored again, this time from 23 yards out, on Dixon’s first drive of the second quarter, then added another 1-yard run after the Rockets fumbled the ensuing kickoff.

“It’s the little stuff, and it’s been turn-ing into big stuff against us,” Rock Falls coach Jay Mammosser said. “If it’s not interceptions, its fumbles, and we’re giving the other team short fields, and they’re capitalizing on our mistakes.

“The kids are playing hard, trying to make plays, and it’s frustrating for them and for us and for everybody.”

Gieson found Coffey with an 11-yard scoring strike after Rock Falls turned it over on downs, then hooked up with Coffey from 37 yards out with 58 sec-onds left in the first half after another turnover on downs.

“I think that next drive after they scored, we knew we had things turned

back around,” said Coffey, who had six catches for 86 yards. “We switched the momentum back to our side, and then the defense stepped up, and we got the ball back and just kept scoring.”

Trailing 41-8, Rock Falls had its best drive of the game to open the third quar-ter. After two first downs, the Rockets fumbled a handoff at the Dixon 28-yard line, and the Dukes were once again there to pounce on it.

The running clock then began after Gieson threw his fourth TD pass of the game, this one a 24-yarder on a slant to Ryan Webb. Gieson finished with 205 yards on 17-for-25 passing, and LeBlanc matched Coffey’s 86 receiving yards on eight catches.

Dixon finished the season a perfect 5-0 in the friendly confines of A.C. Bowers Field.

“We really responded well, and that was definitely huge,” said Mighell, who ran the ball 15 times for 139 yards. “We realized what we had to fix after their touchdown, and we fixed it. We didn’t get down on ourselves, and we got a big win.”

Mammosser threw for 143 yards on 8-for-21 passing, and also caught a 49-yard pass from wideout Connor Cain on a trick play in the fourth quar-ter. Cain finished with four catches for 115 yards, but the Dukes outgained the Rockets 454-225 – including 201-33 on the ground.

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DIXON 48, ROCK FALLS 8

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MENDOTA – Another week brought another chance for the Oregon Hawks to prevent themselves from being knocked out of playoff contention.

Another week brought another fourth-quarter comeback, too.

With their backs against the wall once more in Big Northern West play at Men-dota, the Hawks fell behind after the Trojans’ Wyatt Martinson scored his second touchdown. This came just 20 seconds after Garrett Rude scored one of his own.

As the momentum quickly swung the Trojans’ way, the Hawks milked the clock and hoped that a score of their own would be the game-winner.

The Hawk offensive line delivered, cre-ating a big hole to make way for Chris Jordan’s leap from 3 yards out with 3:38 remaining. The score proved to be the difference-maker in a 21-17 win.

“My line was giving me great block-ing,” Jordan said. “They were giving me good holes, and gave me a great space to run. It’s all on them.”

Another week, and now another shot at the playoffs. Next week’s tilt with Still-man Valley (2-6, 1-5) will be the final chance.

“We’re down, and its live-or-die,” Rude said. “Lose and you go home. You’ve just got to leave everything on that field.

We’ve got to win out now, and we’ve got Stillman Valley next week, the defend-ing state champs. We’ll see how it goes. We’re looking forward to it.”

The first 19! minutes were scoreless. With 4:36 left in the second quarter, Joseph Meyer put the Trojans (5-3, 4-2) on the board with a 35-yard field goal. After a punt, the Hawk defense pinned the Trojans at their own 10-yard line. Meyer was faced with punting against the wind in his own end zone, and the

kick, although high, only went 12 yards before crossing out-of-bounds. The Hawks (4-4, 3-3) used the short field position to use rare air, as Jerrick Orstead found Bailey Bright straight across the middle to go up 7-3 after the PAT. It was the Hawks’ only pass completion, and the last attempt.

Along the way, the Hawks were mak-ing good use of the clock, and gave the Trojans few opportunities to move the ball. Eventually, Martinson found a way

to break free in the form of right-side sweeps to open the second half. With 8:14 left in the third, Martinson put his team back ahead 10-7 with a 7-yard run.

“We focused a lot on keeping [Martin-son] contained, and we did a good job doing that in the first half,” said junior lineman Matt Crandall, who had two tackles for a loss during that span.

Chipping away, Rude took the first play from scrimmage of the fourth quarter for 20 yards, breaking through Trojan tackles on the right side for a score to put the Hawks ahead once more.

“I saw some guys, and then I saw some open field,” Rude said. “It really just gave us all hope. We can run against these guys. They can’t stop everything. We can get the big-route runs. It put some hope in our eyes to see all the way through to the end.”

But Martinson responded quickly with a 44-yard trot on a similar-style run. The Trojan senior rushed for 186 yards on 22 carries, but was the only major threat to the Hawks, whose defense collectively tallied eight tackles for a loss.

Rude rushed for 102 yards on 19 carries to lead the Hawks, as he, Jordan, Finch, and Chris Gehbellini combined for 262 yards in the important win.

“A lot of it is just for the belief in the kids,” Oregon coach John Bothe said. “In the last 2 weeks, we’ve been on the ropes and it looked like we were going down. Once we go down, it’s over – we’re play-ing for the playoffs.”

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OREGON 21, MENDOTA 17

Earleen Hinton/Shaw MediaOregon’s Brayton Finch powers through the tackle of Mendota’s Joseph LaShonse during their Big Northern West game in Mendota. The Hawks beat the Trojans 21-17 to keep their playoff hopes alive.

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ERIE-P’TOWN 49, MORRISON 0

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.comSterling’s offensive line gets a push for quarterback Sterling Thornton during Friday night’s Northern Illinois Big 12 game against Rochelle at Roscoe Eades Stadium. Thornton got a first down on the play, and the Golden Warriors secured a playoff berth with a 21-6 victory. To read all about it, turn to FB 6.

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Jordan Chandler and Dylan Binion lead a dominant Erie-Prophetstwon rushing attack in a 49-0 win over Morrison at Wayne Hein Field in Erie.

Chandler had just six rushes, but picked up more than half of his game-high 172 yards on a 95-yard touchdown run with 10:22 remaining in the second quarter of the Three Rivers North game. Chandler added another TD run of 30 yards in the first quarter.

Binion had another multiple touch-down game with four scores Friday night. He scored touchdowns on runs of 33, 2, and 5 yards in the first half, and made a defensive play for his fourth touchdown of the game.

Binion scooped up a fumble and took it 91 yards with 3 minutes left in the third quarter to cap the scor-ing. The Panthers (5-3, 4-2) are now playoff eligible with their fifth win of the season, and will be going for their sixth win to guarantee a playoff berth when they head to Orion next Friday.

Morrison (0-8, 0-5) was led by Joey Brackemyer’s 55 rushing yards. The junior also added three tackles for a loss, totaling 9 yards. The Mustangs finished with 153 yards of offense in the loss.

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Drake Davis had the game of his young life Friday night, leading Bureau Valley to a 48-16 victory against Riverdale in Manlius.

The freshman quarterback completed 18 of 22 passes for 336 yards and seven touch-downs. Six of the TDs were in the first half to stake the Storm (4-4, 3-2 Three Rivers North) to a 41-0 halftime lead.

Three of the first-half scores went to Parker Neuhalfen, on passes of 26, 15, and 5 yards. He also tossed scoring passes of 26 and 10 yards to Will Konneck, and a 19-yarder to Tommy Johnston.

Davis competed his night with a 46-yard TD pass to Blake Balensiefen midway through the fourth quarter.

Neuhalfen finished with seven receptions for 123 yards and three touchdowns.

Polo 53, River Ridge 0: The Marcos jumped out to a 27-0 first-quarter lead and didn’t look back in a home rout of the Wildcats.

Brooks Grobe scored on runs of 33 and 49 yards in the open-ing 12 minutes to spark Polo

(6-2, 6-1 NUIC Upstate) to the win. Jesse Ditzler, Brody Grobe, Paul Smith, and Braxton Stamm added TD runs.

Richie Bartnick scored on a 70-yard interception return, while Brad Cavanaugh added a 52-yard punt return for a touchdown.

Galena 48, West Carroll 6: Bruce Scharpf had nine carries for 164 yards and four touch-downs as the Pirates (6-2, 5-2 NUIC Northwest) routed the Thunder in Galena.

Aaron Ritenour had 14 car-ries for 27 yards, including a 1-yard TD run, for West Carroll (1-7, 1-6). Ethan Mangler com-pleted 2 of 4 passes for 39 yards, including a 36-yarder to Jake Miller.

EPC 52, South Beloit 7: The Wildcatz set up a showdown with Forreston next week for NUIC Northwest supremacy with a road rout of the SoBos.

EPC and Forreston are both 8-0 heading into that contest in Lanark.

East Dubuque 55, Milled-geville 12: The Missiles (2-6, 2-5 NUIC Upstate) made the long road trip to East Dubuque and came up empty against the Warriors (4-4, 3-4).

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Friday’s box scoresat Roscoe Eades Stadium, Sterling

STERLING 21, ROCHELLE 6 R SFirst downs 13 14Total yards 267 227Rushes-yards 50-222 37-169Passing yards 45 58Passing (C-A-I) 2-7-1 7-9-0Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-yards 9-55 6-30Punts-avg. 1-30 2-45Rochelle 0 0 0 6 — 6Sterling 7 0 7 7 — 21

First quarterS – Sterling Thornton 6 run (Tony Diaz kick) 5:01

Third quarterS – Thornton 3 run (Diaz kick) 4:56

Fourth quarterR – Cole White 16 run (run failed) 11:53S – Rafael Escalante 29 run (Diaz kick) 3:16

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: Rochelle – Eddie Avila 16-102, White 14-89, Adam Ricketts 15-43, Kevin Christensen 5-(-12). Sterling – Thornton 24-125, Escalante 9-29, Brandon Dennis 4-15.PASSING: Rochelle – Christensen 2-7-1, 45 yards. Sterling – Thornton 7-9-0, 58 yards.RECEIVING: Rochelle – White 1-30, Avila 1-15. Sterling – Turner Morse 5-33, Ty Shetter 1-17, Jordan Asbury 1-5.

at Mendota

OREGON 21, MENDOTA 17 O MFirst downs 17 15Total yards 273 252Rushes-yards 58-261 41-252Passing yards 12 0Passing (C-A-I) 1-3-0 0-5-1Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-0Penalties-yards 1-15 6-60Punts-avg. 2-39.5 2-28Oregon 0 7 0 14 – 21Mendota 0 3 7 7 – 17

Second quarterM – Joseph Meyer 35 field goal, 3:46O – Bailey Bright 13 pass from Jerrick Orstead (Short kick), 0:38

Third quarterM – Wyatt Martinson 7 run (Meyer kick), 8:14

Fourth quarterO – Garrett Rude 20 run (Short kick), 11:55M – Martinson 44 run (Meyer kick), 11:35O – Chris Jordan 3 run (Short kick), 3:38

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Oregon: Rude 19-103, Jor-dan 14-80, Brayton Finch 11-53, John Ghibellini 6-26, Skylar Short 2-6, Maverik Good 1-0, Orstead 4-(minus 7). Mendota: Martinson 22-186, James Carroll 15-47, Garet Zinke 3-12, Shane Kruse 1-7.PASSING – Oregon: Orstead 1-3-0, 12 yards. Mendota: Carroll 0-5-1.RECEIVING – Oregon: Bright 1-12 Records: Oregon 4-4, Mendota 5-3

at A.C. Bowers Field, Dixon

DIXON 48, ROCK FALLS 8 RF DFirst downs 7 25Total yards 225 454Rushes-yards 21-33 30-201Passing yards 192 253Passing (C-A-I) 9-22-2 25-38-1Fumbles-lost 6-4 1-0Penalties-yards 4-30 4-35Punts-average 3-30.3 2-33.5Rock Falls 8 0 0 0 — 8Dixon 14 27 7 0 — 48

First quarterRF – Connor Cain 78 pass from Jacob Mammosser (Cayden Roberts pass from Mammosser), 8:45D – Cody Mighell 1 run (run failed), 5:50D – Kyle LeBlanc 4 yard pass from JD Gie-son (Matt Coffey pass from Gieson), 3:10

Second quarterD – Mighell 23 run (run failed), 8:27D – Mighell 1 run (Christian Hicks kick), 6:33D – Coffey 11 pass from Gieson (Hicks kick), 2:04D – Coffey 37 pass from Gieson (Hicks kick), :58

Third quarterD – Ryan Webb 24 pass from Gieson (Hicks kick), 8:20

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – RF: Bailie Rosalez 4-16, Braeden Westfall 9-15, Mammosser 7-2, Daniel Gordon 1-0. Dixon: Mighell 15-139, Gieson 6-33, Benny Mayes 8-29, Quinton Douglas 1-0.PASSING – RF: Mammosser 8-21-2-143 yards, Cain 1-1-0-49 yards. Dixon: Gieson 17-25-0-205 yards, Nathan Gascoigne 8-13-1-48 yards.RECEIVING – RF: Cain 4-115, Roberts 3-19, Mammosser 1-49, Tanner Dean 1-9. Dixon: LeBlanc 8-86, Coffey 6-86, Connor Sperling 3-11, Bryce Stanley 2-10, Mayes 2-4, Webb 1-24, Alex Becker 1-23, Gas-coigne 1-8, Mighell 1-1.Records: Dixon 6-2 (4-2 BNC West), Rock Falls 0-8 (0-6)

at The Harbor, Amboy

FULTON 14, AMBOY 13 F AFirst downs 14 9Total yards 243 166Rushes-yards 55-198 35-133Passing (C-A-I) 4-6-0 2-7-0Passing yards 45 33Fumbles-lost 2-0 1-1Penalties-yards 5-25 8-50Punts 1 3Fulton 0 0 14 0 — 14Amboy 0 0 0 13 — 13

Third quarterF – Michael Pidde 5 pass from Tyler Swee-nie (Jack Lemke kick), 4:05F – Trey Simmons 3 run (Lemke kick), 1:07

Fourth quarterA – Dallas Appleman 1 run (Alexis Gutierrez kick), 8:59A – Drake Barlow 8 run (run failed), 4:16

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING – Fulton: Michael Pidde 21-88, Tyler Sweenie 19-60, Trey Simmons 14-54, Jason Osborn 1-(minus 4). Amboy: Chris Jones 12-74, Drake Barlow 13-37, Liam Ohlendorf 7-15, Dallas Appleman 3-7.PASSING – Fulton: Sweenie 4-6-0, 45 yards. Amboy: Ohlendorf 1-6-0, 6 yards; Barlow 1-1-0, 27 yards.RECEIVING – Fulton: Osborn 1-20, Sim-mons 1-20, Pidde 1-5, Devon Ballard 1-0. Amboy: Caleb Morris 2-33.Records: Fulton 5-3, Amboy 5-3

at Erie

ERIE-PROPHETSTOWN 49, MORRISON 0

M EPFirst downs 9 12Rushing-yds. 35-140 30-352Passing C-A-I 2-7-1 0-0-0Punts-avg. 1-32.0 0-0.0Fumbles-lost 2-1 0-0Penalties-yds. 1-5 8-40Morrison 0 0 0 0 — 0EP 15 20 14 0 — 49

First quarterEP: Dylan Binion 33 yard run (Sean Malo-ney pass to Noah Eads), 8:12. 8-0.EP: Jordan Chandler 30 yard run (Maloney kick is good), 5:49. 15-0.

Second quarterEP: Chandler 95 yard run (kick is no good), 10:22, 21-0.

EP: Binion 2 yard run (Maloney kick), 2:12, 28-0.EP: Binion 5 yard run (Maloney kick), :37, 35-0.

Third quarterEP: Phillip Coers 39 yard run (Maloney kick), 11:46, 42-0.EP: Binion 91-yard fumble recovery (Malo-ney kick), 3:00, 49-0.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: Morrison- Joey Brackemeyer 6-55; Mason Sitzmore 8-37; Andy Bird 10-19; Merik Kennedy 3-8; Cody Southern 3-7; Aaron Deter 3-5; Reilly Dolan 1-6; Jar-rett Ruchotzke 1-3. EP- Jordan Chandler 6-172, 2 TD; Dylan Binion 13-79, 3 TD; Phillip Coers 4-72, TD; Garrett Passmore 1-13; Jack Bauer 3-8; Tyler Naftzger 1-6.PASSING: Morrison- Justin Jensen 1-5-1-12, Joey Brackemeyer 0-1-0-0; Dylan Keller 1-1-0-13. Erie- Phillip Coers 0-0-0-0.RECEIVING: Morrison- Andy Bird 1-12, Ethan Fischbach 1-13.

at Manlius BUREAU VALLEY 48,

RIVERDALE 16 R BVFirst downs 5 17Total yards 158 378Rushes-yards 22-139 21-41Passing yards 19 336Passing (C-A-I) 2-8-1 18-22-0Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-yards 2-10 2-7

Riverdale 0 0 0 16 — 16Bureau Valley 20 21 0 7 — 48

First quarterBV – Konneck 26 pass from Davis (pat failed) 10:40BV – Neuhalfen 5 pass from Davis (pat failed) 7:59BV – Neuhalfen 26 pass from Davis (pass good) 2:02

Second quarterBV – Konneck 10 pass from Davis (pass good) 11:56BV – Neuhalfen 15 pass from Davis (pass failed) 9:48BV – Johnston 19 pass from Davis (kick good) 5:38

Third quarterR – Beale 1 run (run good) :06Fourth quarterBV – Balensiefen 46 pass from Davis (kick good) 6;18R – Toppert 54 run (run good) 3:02

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: Riverdale – Beale 9-73, Top-pert 3-68, PridEmore 6-1, Dickson 4-(-3). Bureau Valley – Davis 5-13, Mead 2-15, Johnston 1-13.PASSING: Riverdale – Dickson 2-8-1, 19 yards. Bureau Valley – Davis 18-22-0, 336 yards.RECEIVING: Riverdale – Pridemore 1-14, Solomon 1-5. Bureau Valley – Neuhal-fen 7-123, Johnston 3-64, Konneck 3-50, Johnson 2-17, Balensiefen 1-46, Mead 1-23, Herr 1-13

at Franklin Grove

WARREN 19, ASHTON-FRANKLIN CENTER 0

W AFirst downs 12 8Total yards 238 116Rushes-yards 40-115 45-114Passing yards 123 2Passing (C-A-I) 2-7-0 1-9-1Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-1Penalties-yards 7-45 6-40Warren 0 3 6 0 – 19AFC 0 0 0 0 – 0

Second quarterW – Harris, 99 pass from Cox (Cox kick) 11:44W – Cox, 8 run (kick failed) 4:00

Third quarterW – Crum, 4 run (run failed) 2:03

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: Warren: Molitor 13-62, Harwick 8-22, Crum 8-20, Cox 6-13, Brinkmeier 5-(-2). Ashton-Franklin Center: J. Hageman 13-66, Zinke 10-34, L. Hageman 3-16, Talley 7-10, Stewart 2-2, Hilliker 10-(-14).PASSSING: Warren: Cox 2-7-0 123. Ash-ton-Franklin Center: Hilliker 1-8-0 2, Zinke 0-1-1 0.Receiving: Warren: Harris 2-123. Ash-ton-Franklin Center: J. Hageman 1-2.Records: Warren (5-3, 5-2 Northwest Upstate Illini - Upstate). Ashton-Franklin Center (3-5, 2-5).

at Polo POLO 53, RIVER RIDGE 0

RR PFirst downs 8 15Total yards 104 268Rushes-yards 24-11 25-247Passing yards 93 21Passing (C-A-I) 16-29-1 1-7-0Fumbles-lost 2-2 0-0Penalties-yards 6-40 4-40Punts-avg. NA 2-25.5River Ridge 0 0 0 0 — 0Polo 27 14 6 6 — 53

First quarterP – Brooks Grobe 33 run (Brad Cavanaugh kick)P – Jesse Ditzler 24 run (Cavanaugh kick)P – Brody Grobe 28 run (kick failed)P – Brooks Grobe 49 run (Cavanaugh kick)

Second quarterP – Richie Bartnick 70 interception return (Cavanaugh kick)P – Cavanaugh 52 punt return (Cavanaugh kick)

Third quarterP – Paul Smith 4 run (kick failed)

Fourth quarterP – Braxton Stamm 27 run (kick failed)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING: Polo – Brooks Grobe 3-88, Stamm 5-45, Ditzler 5-30, Brody Grobe 1-28, Ricky Martinez 3-16, Wyatt patterson 4-14, Smith 2-9, Dylan Beers 1-9, Cavanaugh 1-8.PASSING: Polo – Brody Grobe 1-70, 21 yards.RECEIVING: Polo – Bartnick 1-21

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