Peetz and Briggsdale scored a combined 186 points in their game on Saturday, setting the state record for points in a game by two teams.
Peetz beat Briggsdale, 101-85, in a 6-man game.
“I’m flabbergasted — have no idea what to say,” Peetz coach Scott Sorensen told Colorado Preps. “I’ve never been a part of this since I’ve been here.”
The previous record was set by Hugo and Vona in a 176-6 Hugo win in 1930.
Peetz led 24-19 after the first quarter, and 54-27 at halftime. It was 87-59 at the end of three. The 61 combined points in the third quarter are the third-most in state history.
Additionally, each half of the game set a record for combined points in a game by the two teams. The first half, which saw Peetz and Briggsdale score 85 points, eclipsed the old record of 75 points. Then, the two teams broke that new record by scoring 101 combined points in the second half.
“I don’t like being a part of that as a defensive coordinator and saying I was part of that, at all, but the 101 looks good,” Sorensen said with a laugh.
“Our offenses looked great out there, and our defenses looked terrible,” he added. “Both teams.”
Peetz star Bryson Long rushed for 256 yards and six touchdowns. Cooper White had 116 yards and three touchdowns.
Peetz only threw the ball nine times in the game, but Zachary White had two passing scores, and Cooper White threw another.
LAKEWOOD — No. 3 Columbine football opened its Class 5A Metro West League play Friday at Jeffco Stadium with a convincing 42-13 victory over Mullen.
“It’s really exciting. This league is really good,” Columbine junior Justin Lohrenz said. “To be able to come out and smash Mullen is big for us.”
Columbine junior Justin Lohrenz (17) blocks the punt of Mullen junior Wilson Yee in the first half Friday at Jeffco Stadium. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
Lohrenz was all over the field on defense, offense and special teams. His biggest contribution came in the form of a blocked punt in the second quarter. The junior was able to get a hand of the punt from Mullen junior Wilson Yee.
“I saw the punter fumble it, so I ducked my shoulder into the punt protector and blocked it,” Lohrenz said of the special teams play that gave Columbine the ball on Mullen’s 10-yard line.
Columbine junior Tanner Hollens scored three players later to put the Rebels up 21-0 midway through the second quarter.
“It set the tempo and gave us the chance to score again,” Hollens said of the Rebels’ defense and special teams setting up short fields for the offense twice in the second quarter.
It was trademark Columbine-style offensively in the first half. The Rebels scored on its first four offensive drives, jumping out to a 28-0 lead.
“We’ll take the win,” Columbine coach Andy Lowry said. “I’m not sure if we played great tonight. We made some mistakes. We just did our work.”
Columbine junior Tanner Hollens had a pair of touchdown runs Friday against Mullen. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
The touchdown run by Hollens, along with a score on the ground by junior running back Braedan Hogan got the Rebels (6-0 record, 1-0 in league) going. Senior quarterback Logan DeArment tossed a 12-yard touchdown to senior Dean Hives.
DeArment did it himself on the Rebels’ fourth score of the opening half. He scrambled in for a 19-yard touchdown with a little over 4 minutes to play before halftime.
Mullen (3-3, 0-1) mounted its most successful drive of the first half with a 90-yard drive in 12 plays. Senior quarterback Dominic DePizzol capped off the drive with a 22-yard touchdown pass to senior Vaughnn Stitt with 12 seconds before halftime to prevent the Mustangs from getting shut out in the first half.
Hollens ended any Mullen hopes for a remarkable second-half comeback early in the third quarter. The junior sprinted into the end zone from 58 yards out on the second play from scrimmage after halftime to push the Rebels’ lead to 35-6.
“We went into halftime kind of getting chewed,” Hollens said about Mullen scoring late in the first half. “We just came out and succeeded, getting a touchdown right away.”
Columbine senior Logan DeArment (10) sprints toward the end zone as Mullen’s sideline looks on. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
Junior Adam Harrington capped of a nice 12-play drive covering 57 yards late in the third quarter to extend Columbine’s lead to 42-6.
“It was not the cleanest game we’ve had all season, but we conquered it and came out with the win,” said Hollens, who finished with a dozen carries for 116 yards and a pair of touchdowns. “Our (offensive) line is really beat up right now. When we get them back we’ll be better then we’ve been.”
Mullen’s lone touchdown of the second half came on an 18-yard run by sophomore CJ Smith midway through the fourth quarter with Columbine’s backups on the field.
“The first one is out of the way,’ Lowry said of the tough conference that features not only the ranked Rebels, but defending 5A state champs No. 6 Pomona and No. 7 Ralston Valley.
Columbine returns to Jeffco Stadium next Friday to face Lakewood. That 5A Metro West game is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.
Mullen heads up to the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada next Friday night to play Ralston Valley (5-1, 1-0). The Mustangs will be celebrating its homecoming and are coming off a dominating 42-13 victory last night against rival Arvada West.
Columbine’s Cody Ramming (86), Luke Folsom (25) and Corbin Curry (37) combine to tackle Mullen junior Damien Cearns on Friday at Jeffco Stadium. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
Class 1A’s North Central league features four teams ranked in this week’s top-10. So Friday’s league matchup between No. 5 Wray and No. 6 Burlington was of a little extra importance.
Burlington came away with an important 19-8 win over Wray, thanks in part to two touchdown passes from Braden Witzel, and some stout defense.
“It is a big win for us,” Burlington coach Glynn Higgs told the Colorado Preps Scoreboard Show. “I was really proud of our defense. Two or three times, they were down inside the 20. And we were able to keep them from putting points on the board. I was just really proud of the kids.”
Taylor Scott opened the scoring for Burlington with a 1-yard touchdown in the first quarter. After a Wray safety, Witzel threw a 57-yard touchdown pass to Andrew Burton with 4:42 left in the second.
The score remained that way until late in the fourth quarter. That’s when Wray cut it to 12-8 with 5:33 following an interception return for a touchdown.
Witzel and Burton then hooked up again for a second time, this one from 30 yards with 35 seconds left, to account for the final margin.
With the win, Burlington is now 1-0 in conference play — along with No. 1 Limon and No. 7 Holyoke, who also won on Friday night.
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3A: Niwot 20, Eagle Valley 14
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Niwot football is now 3-2 after a 20-14 win over Eagle Valley. The Cougars ended a 19-game losing streak earlier in the year.
“Our kids have worked really, really hard, and it’s almost overwhelming at times for what they’ve sacrificed to try to get to this point,” coach Jeremy Lanter told the Scoreboard Show. “The rotating coaches they’ve had in that program, it’s nice to have some consistency and have some kids buy into that consistency.”
On Friday, Julian Molina rushed for two touchdowns for the Cougars, and Eric Ruiz also scored on the ground.
This is just the second time since 2008 that the team has won three games in a season.
“It is so important,” Lanter said of winning games. “Especially when you’re trying everything you can to keep kids motivated and inspired when they know that they’re looking at a 19-game losing streak. Especially for them to be chipping away at that, and they continue to pick up the hammer and pound the stone, and try to give themselves the best opportunity. But winning helps. Winning doesn’t fix everything, but it certainly does help.”
In 8-man, No. 2 West Grandvew beat No. 7 Rangely 20-6 to stay unbeaten at 6-0.
Another top-10 battle in 8-man: No. 5 Hoehne shut out No. 9 Fowler.
In 3A, Pueblo Central is now 4-1 after going 2-18 over the past two seasons. “It’s been great, the kids have been a pleasure to coach so far,” coach Kris Cotterman told the Scoreboard Show. The Wildcats beat Sand Creek 47-6.
It was an offensive affair as No. 3 Otis outlasted No. 4 Prairie 64-59 in 6-man.
Roosevelt beat Glenwood Springs 16-10 in overtime.
4A Bear Creek got its first win of the season against a solid Windsor squad, 30-26.
The Academy quarterback Brandon Boston completed 12-of-15 passes for four touchdowns in a 40-0 win over Prospect Ridge. The Wildcats are now 3-2 in 2A.
Longmont’s Drake Engelking rushed for four touchdowns in his team’s 43-8 win over Silver Creek in 4A. The Trojans are 4-1.
1A No. 3 Peyton improved to 5-0 with a 42-0 win over Ellicott. JD Hart rushed for 235 yards and two touchdowns, and also had a receiving score.
Luke McCaffrey threw for four touchdowns and rushed for another as 5A No. 2 Valor Christian shut out Castle View 35-0.
Denver East is now 5-0 in Metro 10 play, and 5-1 overall, after beating Westminster 13-7. The Angels host Smoky Hill next Friday in what could be a matchup of unbeatens in conference play, should Smoky win on Saturday.
AURORA — Down a score and half the field away from the end zone, the odds seemed stacked against Eaglecrest on Friday night.
But since Week 1 this year, the Raptors have battled against the odds. This was no different.
Quarterback Dylan James rolled to his right and let the football fly to the end zone. It found just one of Ty Robinson’s hands, but that’s all that was needed. The offense immediately took the field again for a two-point try, which was successfully converted.
Eaglecrest held its first lead of the night with 24 seconds left in the game, and it would hold. The Raptors toppled rival Grandview 36-35 in a game that felt every bit like a playoff battle from the emotions, to the weather, to the thrilling nature of the comeback.
“We just had the momentum going,” Raptors coach Garrett Looney said. “It was a great play call at the right time. I told the coaches at halftime that if we were in that position, we were going to go for two and that’s what we did. We’re behind the best o-line in the state and we needed two yards. We got them.”
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It was the Class 5A No. 4 Wolves who started fast in the game. Jordan Billingsley broke for a 46-yard touchdown run to put Grandview (5-1 overall, 0-1 East Metro) up 7-0. James countered with a 67-yard touchdown run of his own and it looked like the ground game equivalent of a shootout was on.
The Wolves held defensively for two drives and converted on offense. Noah Schmidt found the end zone twice to push the lead to 21-7, putting the No. 5 Raptors (6-0, 1-0) in a position where they were going to have to battle back.
But that’s been nothing new for Eaglecrest.
Going back to Week 1, the Raptors have felt like they’ve been getting knocked down all season. But with each blow they’ve taken, they’ve continued to get up.
“At the beginning of the year we fought adversity,” Robinson said. “We got up and kept fighting. Tonight, we fought adversity, We were down three touchdowns. We fought together and we stuck it out together.”
Friday night’s version of adversity had them in a 35-21 hole in the second half. They found the end zone twice, including James’ third rushing touchdown of the night to cut the Grandview lead to seven points. By the end of the night, James rushed for over 270 yards.
“He’s just a playmaker,” Looney said. “He makes plays all the time. He drives me crazy sometimes when he doesn’t make the right reads, but he’s so dynamic of an athlete and he did a great job.
And then the defense, led by a gritty defensive line stood tall and got the ball back for its dynamic offense. With time running out, the Raptors were able to move the ball in small chunks, but faced a 4th and 15 situation at midfield.
“We needed to score,” Robinson said. “Coach called all go. I knew when the quarterback rolled out and looked at me, I knew in my mind I had to make a play.”
James saw Robinson sprinting down the field and let the ball fly. He watched as it hung in the air, seemingly forever.
“It was hanging up there for a little bit,” James said. “But I knew he was going to catch the ball and he came down with it. It was amazing.”
Robinson hauled it in and Looney sent the offense right back out. Behind the bulky o-line that includes to Division I commits in Jake Wiley and Bear Miller.
They plowed the road and Isaiah Emecheta punched it in. And at the end of an emotional rivalry game where the Raptors had once again been knocked down, they overcame adversity.
Fairview forward Myles Ellis connected on a brilliant header for the game-winning goal in double overtime on Friday night, and then was off to the races.
