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   Pawnee City 88 Sterling 40

 

     Pawnee City's Garrett Borcher rushed for 356 yards and accounted for 10 touchdowns in leading the Indians to the big win over the Sterling Jets.

     Borcher opened the scoring in a wild 1st quarter with a 23 yard run. The PAT run failed. The Jets got their 1st score of the evening on a 35 yard run by Chris Wenzl. The pass fell incomplete on the PAT. Borcher came right back with his next score coming from 72 yards out. The PAT was converted by Devon Marteney. Marteney followed that with his first score of the night on a 65 yard run. The PAT run failed. The Jets closed the gap with TreyTrauernicht busting loose from 56 yards out. The PAT was converted by Levi McCartney. The score stood at 20-14 halfway through the 1st quarter.

     Borcher got his 3rd score of the opening quarter this time from 3 yards out. A Borcher to Austin Smith pass converted the PAT. Borcher called his own number on the next Indian possession this time from 8 yards out. The PAT run failed. Wenzl followed that with his 2nd score of the quarter on a 65 yard run. The PAT run failed. Borcher wrapped up his outstanding 1st quarter with his 2nd 72 yard scoring run of the game. The PAT pass fell incomplete. The Jets finished off a fast and furious 1st quarter with Wenzl calling his own number from 7 yards out. The PAT pass from Wenzl to KodyBenson was complete. The score was 40-28 heading into the 2nd quarter.

     Borcher continued his outstanding evening with his 6th score of the night on a 3 yard run. The PAT pass fell incomplete. The Jets answered right back on a 45 yard pass from Wenzl to Michael Lucas. The run failed for the PAT. Borcher came right back on the next Indian possession this time breaking free from 48 yards out. The PAT pass was unsuccessful. The Indians capped off the 2nd quarter scoring this time via the pass with Borcher finding a streaking Smith open from 50 yards out. Jon Schilling ran in the PAT. The Indians took a 60-34 lead into halftime.

     The 3rd quarter scoring opened with Marteney taking a Jet punt to the house from 64 yards out. The PAT pass was unsuccessful. Borcher followed that with his 7th score of the evening on a 8 yard run. The PAT run was stopped short. The Indians closed the 3rd quarter scoring on a Borcher hookup with Austin Nider from 2 yards out. The PAT run was successful by Schilling. The Indians took a 80-34 lead into the 4th quarter.

     The Indians finished off their impressive offensive night with Marteney taking one in from 21 yards out. Marteney also ran in the PAT. The Jets got the final score of the game on a 5 yard run by Lucas. The PAT pass fell incomplete. The final score was Pawnee City 88 Sterling 40.

     The Jets rushing attack was led by Wenzl with 117 yards on 16 carries. Helping Wenzl out were Trauernicht with 61 yards on 10 carries, McCartney 32 yards on 8 carries, Lucas 15 yards on 5 carries, Benson 7 yards on 1 carry, and Archie Keebler -11 yards on 2 carries.

     Wenzl was 5 of 10 passing for 87 yards. Lucas had 2 receptions for 65 yards, Benson had 1 reception for 10 yards, McCartney had 1 reception for 8 yards, and Trauernicht had 1 reception for 4 yards.

     Wenzl led the Jets on the defensive side of the ball as well with 4 tackles and 9 assists. Jet defenders helping out were Lucas 4 tackles, 7 assists, McCartney 3 tackles, 3 assists, Trauernicht 2 tackles, 7 assists, Benson 2 tackles, 6 assists, Keebler 2 tackles, 3 assists, Dalton Clark 1 tackle, 8 assists, 1 fumble recovery, Tanner Weir 1 tackle, 3 assists, Kale Heusman 1 tackle, Billy Richardson 4 assists, Ceaton Malone 2 assists, Lukas Theisen 1 assist, and Matt Wirthele 1 assist.

     " What can you say, Borcher had a heck of a night. It seemed like anything we tried was unsuccessful in stopping him. He is a horse to bring down, and some of our younger kids found that out the hard way. We had some missed assignments that aided his cause, but for the most part we just didn't have any answers to slowing him down."

     " Our offense did some nice things, we went toe to toe with them in the first quarter. But they eventually wore us down and in the 2nd half and we ran out of gas. We need to learn how to play a full 4 quarters, and until we do, we are going to come out on the short end of these tough contests. Chalk this one up as a learning experience. We will take what we learned from this game and continue working hard in practice as we move into the 2nd half of our season." 

     Sterling's next game is Friday, Sept 30th vs. Concordia at home. Game time is set for 7:00 pm.