9-4 Friday Night Football Review

La Crosse schools dominated the Eau Claire schools tonight, Central over North 41-7 and Logan over Memorial 41-3. Looking forward to seeing what those two can do now that the conference season is coming up.

The Coulee won their battles over the MVC with BRF beating Tomah by 1 TD and G-E-T dominating Holmen. G-E-T should have a great year.

La Crescent is showing signs of a good year, they dominated Cotter.

I was out at the De Soto vs Cashton game. It died out after the first quarter, but the Pirates were huge out of the gate. The scored on their opening drive, shut down Cashton, blocked the punt, scored a TD, interception, TD.

The Pirates are getting ready to play in their new stadium. It's no surprise they're going to be a powerhouse.

The Viroqua/Mel-Min game was a game for people who love defense. The only touchdown scored came in the closing minutes of the first half. Both teams were able to move the ball, but it was slow. The game really came down to a broken up 4th down pass with 2 minutes to go that would've moved the Mustangs inside the 10. Final score, Blackhawks win 6-0.


Greg was at a couple games and has this to say:

I was in Minnesota for the first Friday of MSHSL action of the year. Our area has had some very quality teams, the 2008 season was no different, as Caledonia and Houston were AA and 9-man state champions respectively. Caledonia opened the season against St. Charles, while Houston started against Mabel-Canton.

Last season, Caledonia started their regular season and post season play against the St. Charles Saints. In those two games, the Warriors won by a combined 114 to 14. Well, the first game of the season found Caledonia and St. Charles mixing it up on the field again, and once again Caledonia was high powered. The Warriors force the Saints to punt after a short series, then Isaac Fruechte took the punt and returned it 75 yards for a touchdown. A couple minutes later, the Warriors struck again, this time Ivan Augedahl had a nearly 20 yard run for a touchdown. By this point, it was 15 to nothing, maybe five minutes into the game, at most. The Warriors came close to another touchdown six minutes into the game, but the ball popped out of the reciever's hands. It wasn't until the second quarter that Caledonia would strike again, this time a pass play going nearly half the field to Ely Trudo for the score. In the time it took me to go from the stadium to my car, Caledonia managed to score again, leaving the score at 29 to nothing four minutes into the second quarter. The game would only continue in that fashion as the Warriors won 80 to nothing, and had well over 400 yards of total offense.

Then it was off to Houston, to see the Hurricanes taking on Mabel-Canton. Last season, the Hurricanes' closest game was in the season opening game, against Mabel-Canton, where the Hurricanes escaped 20 to 16. When I arrived just prior to the half, Mabel-Canton was on the door step of the endzone, but a deflected ball was intercepted, and the two teams went into the locker room tied at seven a piece. In the second half, the Mabel-Canton Cougars were able to strike some what quickly as Nick Spande had a solid run up the middle for the score, putting the Cougars ahead. Not long after that, Dalton Stoen had a good 30 yard run with a solid stiff arm and a two cut backs that left Houston defenders picking up their cleats. Houston did have their chances, coming close to the endzone, but were never able to punch it in in the second half to keep pace with Mabel-Canton.