SAND COULEE – The advent of Centreville miners to six-year football has been a good fortune in many ways.
Except on the board. Unfortunately for them, that’s what counts.
Ian Moline raced for 4 touchdowns and Bryson Bahnmiller pitched 4 goals on Saturday to take Geraldine-Highwood’s rivals to a 60-27 shot by the Miners to open the 2020 Six-Man campaign.
Rivals’ victory overshadowed Centerville sophomores Eathan Upchurch, who also threw four TD passes, a pair of junior Cade Hutchins.
Upchurch finished with pretty decent numbers: 16 out of 40 in the air for 191 yards and four touchdowns. He also pitched four interceptions, adding one on the last play of the game that returned through Ridger Bowman, who lost 46 yards at home.
After the attack, Upchurch said his first attack with Six-He finishMan could have been much better.
“All right, we just want to leave some mistakes blank this weekend and get in a position for Harlowton-Ryegate,” Upchurch said, pointing to the Miners’ next opponent. “We didn’t execute the maximum of our parts, and the ones we did painted. We just want paintings about his execution.”
Head coach Brian Davison said there were many small things, the mistakes of the first game, that led to the fall of his team, adding that his quarterback forgot to wait until his players were in one position before asking for center.
“Just a bunch of little things, like making sure we’re well aligned and we went offensively before we broke the ball,” Davison said, leading his first six-game game after his four-year career with the Highwood Mountaineers. under Mike Nelson, he said. “Just little procedural things that we want to leave blank and that will be a lot.
“We would be quartered and short, and those mistakes would take us back to the quarter and long. We only have the types of errors. Once we clear them up, we won’t have those kinds of mistakes. Disorders again.”
Moline, a 5-7, 170-pound junior, is one of the few members of Rivals with abundant school experience, and had a day at the box at the expense of minors: 207 yards at 18 yards and 4 scores, adding 46 -Patio Game after a scrum for the first score of the game.
“I just like to pass out and do my best, have a smart sportsmanship and spend a hundred percent all the time,” Moline said. “I liked having a smart sporting spirit. This brings other people together, you know.”
Bahnmiller, a student of 5 to 8, 158 pounds, had a very consistent, but un learned, running performance: 6 of 8 for 137 yards, 4 scores and one. Their longest pitch was a 64-yard bomb to Bowman in an entertaining quarter-minute moment in which the two groups mingled to score 47 points, adding 21 for the Miners, the first in the six-game game.
“We didn’t know how we were going to be this year,” Bahnmiller said on a hot, windy day at Sand Coulee. “Our team has done a very smart task and Centerville is also a wonderful team.
“It’s a little more complicated for Centerville, as he’s just joined the league. It’s hard to go from Eight-Man to Six-Man, but I think they did a smart job.”
Rodney Tweet, the dean of football coaches in Montana, would know. This is his 39th year walking sideways between Geraldine and Rivals Co-op. In fact, he has coached football in six bands since the game began in Montana in 1982.
And you notice a lot of smart players, adding their counterpart to the Centerville side.
“Brian was a very smart athlete at the time and he’s a smart coach,” Tweet said. “He knows what he’s doing.
“These children (the miners) are very young and will become more wonderful and wonderful. This first game in Six-Man, you have to be a little informed about what’s going on, but it does a wonderful task with those kids.”
Bowman, a 5-8, 137-pound sophomore, also racked up four touchdowns on Saturday, catching three of Bahnmiller’s four scoring shots (Orrin Harris had the other), and chose six on the last play of the game, which started the uninterrupted stopwatch. in the last 20 seconds. He only 3 receptions in the day, smart for 113 yards.
The Rivals accumulated 413 yards in the overall offense, adding 276 by land. The miners were limited to 251 total yards, maximum (189 yards) coming from the air.
Centerville, 0-1 at The Six-Man Central, will arrive at Harlowton-Ryegate next Friday at 7 a.m., while the Rivals will face Denton-Geyser-Stanford at home. The time of the game and the site have not yet been determined.
Rivals 60, Minors 27
G-H 14 26 20 6 to 60
CV 0 21 0 6 – 27
First quarter
GH-Ian Moline race (kick through Bryson Bahnmiller), 6:20
GH-Moline nine races (kick missed), 3:54
Second quarter
Track GH-Moline nine (Orrin Harris Pass of Bahnmiller), nine: 55
GH-Bahnmiller 24 stroke (kick blocked)
CV-Cade Hutchins five passes from Eathan Upchurch (Blaine Wellcome race), five: 32
GH-Ridger Bowman Bahnmiller Pass (Execution Failure)
CV-Chaz Dilley 18 is from Upchurch (Keegan Klasner by Chaz Dilley), 3:04
GH-Moline Race 6 (Cole Noble’s Bowman Pass): 40
CV-Hutchins 19 upchurch (Dilley upchurch), 00
Third quarter
GH-Harris 2 Bahnmiller (kick failure), 8:12
GH-Bowman 25 Bahnmiller pass (kick through Kaden Chovanak), 5:46
GH-Bowman 22 Bahnmiller (kick failure), 3:55
Fourth quarter
CV-Klasner 18 upchurch (race failure), 6:03
INTERCEPTion of GH-Bowman 46 returns (no attempt) ,: 20
Lee Vernoy covers sports and more for the Tribune. Email [email protected] or [email protected], and him on Twitter @GFTrib_LVernoy.
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