AREA FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Huskies, Doggers, Pups, Panthers record wins
For the past two seasons, Pawhuska High’s football team ended each campaign with a big frown courtesy of the Cashion High Wildcats.
But, on Friday, the faces of the Pawhuska Huskie players, coaches and fans sprouted smiles as wide as ripe corn ears after Pawhuska finally cashed in with a win against Cashion, 40-29, in Friday’s slate of area games.
Meanwhile in Nowata, the Dewey High Bulldoggers swamped the host Ironmen, 47-14, in the renewal of one of state’s longest-standing rivalries.
Up in Caney, Kan., the host Caney Valley Bullpups up-ended the Erie (Kan.) Red Devils, 28-0.
Copan High Hornets suffered another long evening during their rebuilding odyssey, losing at Welch High, 56-6, in 8-man action
In one of the wildest area 8-man games, the Wesleyan Christian School Mustangs squandered a big lead in a 78-55 loss at Webbers Falls High. The Mustangs suited up only 11 players and in the third quarter had to sit their most productive player — due to heat-related concerns — which is when Webbers Falls caught up.
Barnsdall High improved to 2-0 by taming the Foyil Panthers, 44-0, in other 8-man action.
Oklahoma Union came up shy in its season debut, losing at Wyandotte, 22-14.
The Caney Valley Trojans dropped a 36-23 decision at Haskell to begin the season at 0-2.
Following are additional game details. More team information is planned for Wednesday’s paper.
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PAWHUSKA 40, CASHION 29
In the previous two seasons, Cashion has been Delilah with hair clippers, Lex Luthor with kryptonite, a black widow spider with a deadly kiss and a policeman with a radar gun when it came to its encounters with Pawhuska.
In 2020, the teams met in the Class A state semifinals with Pawhuska riding a 12-game winning streak — Cashion won, 7-6.
Last year, Cashion and Pawhuska again clashed in the semifinals and Pawhuska on the leading edge of a tidal wave of 10-straight wins — Cashion won, 35-31.
In last Friday’s rematch, Pawhuska force-fed Cashion a super-sized slice of humble pie.
Huskie senior quarterback Todd Drummond put together one of the best offensive showings in team history — 417 yards of total offense and four touchdowns.
He passed for 251 yards and ran for another 166.
Tailback Tyrel Richardson became one of few Huskie runningbacks to rush for 100-plus yards in back-to-back weeks. Against Cashion he romped for 104 yards on 19 carries — and also caught four passes for 101 yards. He tallied two touchdowns.
Randee Goodeagle rumbled for another ground score and Noah Willson caught an aerial touchdown.
“Basically, I thought we outshaped them,” said Huskie head coach Matt Hennesy, who achieved his 42nd career victory with Pawhuska.
On the defensive side, John Reed made 18 tackles, leading a devastating shutdown attack that held Cashion to just 35 yards rushing.
“It’s definitely a little different feeling (playing Cashion in a regular season game with season not on the line),” Hennesy said. “But, it’s still a great rivalry.”
He expressed gratitude his starters had to battle for four full quarters, helping prepare them for other tough battles still to come.
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DEWEY 47, NOWATA 14
Dewey beat Nowata for the seventh-straight year, in a matchup now designated as the Adam Hooper Bowl, in honor of a former Bartlesville Radio play-by-play announcer who passed away in 2017 at the age of 44.
Nowata, which is trying to bounce back from an 0-19 record the past two seasons, made a valiant effort to challenge Dewey.
But, Dogger senior quarterback Trent Muninger unleashed plenty of offensive pyrotechnics to light up the scoreboard at the Nowata stadium.
He ran for one long touchdown and passed for a few other scores, one for 61 yards to Colby Miller.
Dewey also scored a couple of defensive touchdowns, on a pick-six by Dickson Adams and a scoop-and-score by Gavin Lackey.
New Nowata sophomore starting quarterback Treaver Emberson found Peyton Trotter on a scoring strike.
Trotter scored the other Ironmen touchdown.
This game featured two new head coaches, Ryan Richardson for Dewey and Chance Juby for Nowata.
Nowata still owns the series lead since 1982, 22-19.
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CANEY VALLEY PUPS 28, ERIE 0
For the second-straight year, the Pups blanked Erie in a Tri-Valley League game.
Caney Valley scored in every quarter.
Jackson Griffin scored int eh first half on runs of seven and two yards. Afton King set up the first score on a 60-yard run. King also ran in a two-point conversion to help the Pups lead at halftime, 14-0.
In the third quarter, King sliced four yards for a touchdown.
Late in the game, Ben Matthews added a one-yard touchdown surge, followed by Dylan Thompson’s two-point run.
King and Griffin finished with 118 and 70 yards rushing, respectively.
Quarterback Garrett Watson nailed 3-of-6 passes for 36 yards, while Matthews connected on two throws to Matthews for 65 yards.
On defense, Tyler Cunningham and King each seized an interception, while Greg Stapleton recovered a fumble.
“We’ve got a lot of things to clean up,” veteran Caney Valley head coach Criss Davis said. “We had too many penalties and shot ourselves in the foot too much in the first half. … I thought our defense really played pretty well.”
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WEBBERS FALL 78, WCS 55
What a crazy game!
When they were still fresh, the WCS Mustangs proved to an unstoppable force.
Kael Siemers opened the game for WCS by returning the opening kickoff nearly 70 yards for a touchdown.
Not long after, WCS forced a turnover, leading to a touchdown pass from Tyrel Cloud to Siemers.
The Mustangs pushed out to a 20-plus-point lead in the first half.
But depth then took its toll. WCS went to battle without its best defensive player, an offensive lineman and another key player, taking their lineup down to 11 players.
Webbers Falls suited up 25 and owned a huge weight advantage on the line.
“It was one of those things where we had good execution offensively and some big plays in the first half,” WCS head coach Kurt Cloud said. “We kind of frustrated them in the first half. … But, we kind of ran out of steam.”
WCS carried a two-touchdown lead into halftime. However, Siemers — who would gain more than 215 yards receiving and scored six touchdowns — had to sit the third quarter because of concern about a heat issue, Cloud said.
In addition to his carrying the major load of offense, and playing full-time on defense, even on the plays in which he wasn’t involved he still had to run patterns, Cloud noted.
After Siemers got well-hydrated and adequately rested he came back in.
By then, WCS was fighting an uphill battle.
With all eight WCS players competing both ways — with the heat index reportedly at or near 100 degrees — the task became difficult.
“We were disappointed we were not able to hang on,” Cloud said, but still praised his team’s grittiness considering its challenges.
Ty Cloud recorded one of his top days as a passer — 16-of-25 for 365 yards and six touchdowns, while rushing for 65 yards.
Mason Jensen accumulated 75 all-purpose yards and Carson Tennison made multiple catches to record 80 yards.
“We did well,” coach Cloud summarized. “I’m happy. Them (Webbers Falls) and Barnsdall will be the two biggest schools we play and probably the best two best schools. We’ll reap benefits when we play in district.”
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BARNSDALL 44, FOYIL 0
From the start this game took on an unusual twist.
The scoreboard clock went down, to the officials kept the time on the field and modified the game, with the permission of the coaches, to two 18-minute running halves.
The game wrapped up in about 90 minutes.
But, that was more than enough time for Barnsdall to romp out to a six-touchdown lead.
On the defensive side “We didn’t give up a first down with our 1’s,” Barnsdall head coach Kylee Sweeney said. “We made 14 tackles for loss and had two interceptions (Daniel Lydell and Ronald Weber) and a fumble recovery (James Johnson).”
Offensively, Barnsdall’s first-stringers played only part of the way.
Quarterback Mac Lanphear accumulated 125 yards — split almost evenly between run and pass — ran for a touchdown a two-point conversion and passed for two other two-pointers.
Feature runningback Easton Malone averaged 20-yards per game (4-81), rumped for two touchdowns and a two-point conversion.
Blaine Gilbert and Lincoln Gott both scored their first high school touchdowns, Gilbert on a 48-yard run.
Weber tallied a two-point conversion.
Braden Byars and Christian Hernandez contributed 73 and 66 yards, respectively.
Barnsdall improved to 2-0. Next up, the Mustangs take on Summit Christian.
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HASKELL 36, CANEY VALLEY 23
No details were available by mid-Saturday afternoon. Caney Valley fell to 0-2 in the competitive loss.
Next up, the Trojans open their home schedule by hosting Wyandotte.
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WELCH 56, COPAN 6
No details were provided by mid-Saturday afternoon.
Copan fell to 0-2 in what truly is a rebuilding season.
The Hornets will host their home opener on Thursday against Foyil.
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WYANDOTTE 22, OKLAHOMA UNION 14
Wyandotte outlasted the rebuilding Cougars in their season opener.
No Oklahoma Union details were provided by mid-Saturday afternoon.
Oklahoma Union will look to snap back Friday when Commerce plays at OUHS.
This article originally appeared on Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Several area football teams win on Friday
