Eastern Iowa OT: Week 1 full highlights

no more stupid mistakes right here let's [Music] [Applause] [Music] go that's it [Music] [Applause] [Music] nobody will remember your salary how busy you were how many hours you worked people will remember the bad tie you wear at the start of every football season welcome to another year of Eastern Iowa OT a year of new stadiums first year head coaches Championship contenders and fourstar recruits but we cut the ribbon on this new season with a team that shocked the state last fall seedar Rapids Jefferson had lost every game for three years straight before starting last season 4-0 Wheels fell off a bit down the stretch as they lost five straight to end their year and Miss A playoffs but coach Ed miles says that this team has got a new losing streak they want to break in week one Jayhawks and muskies christening the 2024 season at Kingston Stadium musk team was a team that Jeff beat last year when they broke that 26 game losing skid senior heavy group under the former Hawkeye Ed miles what is this team made of in 2024 well they've got the makings of a unit on defense crucial sequence in this game with Jeff up 13-7 in the third mustine with a third and goal at the two Kaden James blow it up in the back field muskies now with a fourth and goal the pass flutters harmlessly to the turf Jefferson they pull away in the fourth quarter solid way to start start another season for the jbirds a 19point win at Kingston Stadium linmar one of several teams playing with a new coaching situation this fall Lions working under co-head coaches Ben Martins and Chad Tomkins healthy linmar could be a dome Contender this year we start on a fourth down on a long lindmar drive Stone on the QB power gets a couple of blocks and picks up the first down into the Red Zone few plays later the Lions cash it in Pitch from Morgan to Dylan wasinski the senior punching it in for the first Lenmar points of the 2024 season he had four touchdowns tonight in the next quarter fourth down for the Rams Tanner burish blocks it the punt clean the Rams fall on it but that's lindar senior lindmar ball in senior territory the Lions take advantage now Morgan rolling to the right hits Tyreek alons in the flat he'll do the rest linmar 36 nothing the half Lions completely dominate all night long beating the Rams 50 to nothing hmad opening opening the season on their home turf hosting Cedar Rapids wash first quarter this game Hemstead driving it's the Mustang QB QB means Quinn Breitbach keeps it and Falls across for six wash now with the ball playing under first year coach Eric Addie will Barnes with a catch and he'll catch the pylon gets in for the Warriors but this Advantage is shortlived on the ensuing kickoff Landon McKay takes this one all the way back for the touchdown this game was back and forth from start to finish a great game out there at doel field and Hemstead spoils the inaugural game for Coach Addie 4838 the Mustangs win their home opener for almost 50 years the unome has been Dome Sweet Dome for Cedar Falls football playing every home game under the big top since the late 70s but this year a new high school a new stadium and a new segment on Eastern Iowa OT is Curtis fader will bring us the game of the week every Friday night tonight he's at the new friendly comines for an elite 5A matchup on the Tigers new home turf tonight Cedar Falls debuted its brand new stadium what a venue what a turnout and what a performance by the home team playing in that Stadium as Cedar Falls is able to dispatch Prairie in big way to kick off the 2024 season the stadium is part of their new high school campus that took three years to build and now Cedar Falls is making the most of it end of the first half Prairie is driving this ball is DED around like a game of Plinko but Jack Carter comes out with the ball major stop to keep things 14-7 tigers at the half and Cedar Falls went pedal to the metal in the second half devarian Clark gets the ball in the red zone and he makes sure the Tigers end this drive with a touchdown pure determined run and makes things 217 Tigers the Hawks are trying to stay alive in this one going for it on Fourth and short but Cedar Falls defense keeps its end of the bargain give the ball to the Tigers and they know just what to do with it Leighton wolf Snipes one to find Kai Smith in the scam for extra yardage in the Red Zone who else gets the rock than devarian Clark four touchdowns on the ground for the senior as Cedar Falls makes this one a blowout blitzing Prairie 35-13 to cap off a great start to their season reporting in Falls I'm Curtis fader Eastern Iowa OT got a new home for Cedar Falls and a new head coach for Iowa City Liberty for for former Hawkeye former billsman Scott Chandler takes over as the bolts brand new bench boss their season opens at home against Iowa City West M Fick is down in North lib for Chandler's coaching debut Scott Chandler w a lot of games as a Hawkeye and in the NFL can he get his first career win as a head coach Liberty host in West and this one was wild early 1413 already Mason Woods his dad Lavar is a special teams coordinator for Iowa you probably know that so you imagine Mason's going to be good at special teams 87 yards to the house to put West up 1914 to the second quarter same score Liberty responds with some trickery reys redig to Dallas Miller to a wideopen Colin Decker what an answer 50 yards and Liberty goes back up 2119 West with the rebuttal Jack Wallace back to Woods a short score to put the Trojans back on top this was going to come down to who was going to Blink and it's West near the end of the first half Wallace a ball off an offensive player's foot and into the arms of Nathan Bernett he puts it down but had it long enough for a pick so they keep the ball and they're going again and the lightning just hitting with the Thunder all night the ground game looking spectacular Sutton ker one of his handful of touchdowns on the night Liberty leads 3526 the break and in the fourth another one from ker for the first time in school History Liberty beats West and they take the principal Bell 5645 your [Applause] final you know I couldn't be more proud of our guys uh they've worked really hard they bought into to what I'm selling uh and you know you see the the finish that we didn't didn't have last year you saw that tonight we came out and we finished the game and uh you know I just couldn't be more proud about this Liberty heads to city high in week two while West goes back home to host Urbandale next Friday in North Liberty Mitch Fick for the Eastern Iowa OT getting that s out there love it Mitch we've got a couple more 5A games to close out the first block Kennedy can't quite pull off the upset over at ding but Cedar Rapids Kennedy going to have a heck of a year this season also going to be great this year's City high but they don't look at on the road at Juliet Catholic a dominant Illinois Powerhouse beats the little hawks 50 to 22 over there across the border well coming up it's going to be a mad 24 hours for the schulties coaching the season opener tonight then watching Quinn Captain the Hawks for the season opener what will the X-Men bring in their home debut and after getting left out of the postseason by mere decimal points each of the last two years can Mar and kick off the season with a win over Lance Peterson's new team an unfathomable amount of Eastern Iowa OT still to come [Music] [Music] you can but then you're dead so you can't block oh you can but as soon as you put a fair catch you're dead so you it's a personal [Applause] [Music] through Good Seasons through great Seasons through Championship seasons and through the very very rarely seen sub 500 season Cedar Rapid Xavier does not lose to Waverly shellrock ever since reges and Lal joined forces in 1998 the Saints have never lost to the gohawks 5-0 all time but what the hey C the Tobias fun Meme and let's see if this year can be any different X-Men won this game by 35 last year and you could have guessed coming in that this was going to be a defensive slugfest Xavier get nothing in the first quarter go Hawks go backwards final play of the first quarter new Xavier QB cash Parks the bank is empty getting smothered by the wsr defensive line this game is scoreless after a quarter Dwayne schy trying to get something moving Saints have a structured settlement and they need cash now cash parts to Aiden Miller neither team going to set the world on fire with their completion percentage tonight but the Saints have got it moving second and goal from the one give it to one number one Gavin Hoffman fittingly with a first touchdown for the season for Xavier both teams grinding in the second half the Saints get a gut check hold on for a 14 to7 win to open the season they are now 6 and0 all time against the gohawks the week one matchup that's going to have ripples that reach the postseason monster Highway 20 showdown between West Delaware and Western debuk we jump right into the third quarter Bob cat DB Ben ramont word up interception stops the West Dell Drive in its tracks into the fourth quarter the Bobcat's softspoken senior running back David Tyson breaks away for the score a lot of talk around what West Dell can do this year but it's the Bobcats coming away with an impressive week one win 2113 final for the last two seasons Marian been the team first left out of the playoffs proof positive that every game and every Point has playoff implications a season debut at home against Clear Creek Mana playing under a new head coach and Lance Peterson he comes to the clips after turning around in Mount Vernon program late first wolves QB Kalin deers on a play action roll out taking a shot downfield Aiden Bailey comes down with it offense stalls though Marion has to settle for a field goal it's three zip Clippers turn it on in the second now conin Pointon doesn't like what he sees pulls it down and picks up a big first down into wolves territory CCA pulling out all the tricks Pointon does a full spin move before handing it off to the Ethan Vice on the counter finds a whole lot of space and takes it 31 yards to the house Clippers Take the Lead the Wolves trying to answer now deers an elite athlete future pan they taking another deep shot this time cca's Owen Rosenberg picks off the pass Clippers sail away in the second half 283 Final in Maran got a few more scores from class 4A Dora blank and walk- on in the season opener 33 nothing the Vikings win and Washington scoring a seven-point win over oscal loosa in their season opener a loss is so often what Kindles the fire that burns toward great Seasons last year Solen got embarrassed by assumption in their season opener losing 34 to7 but did not lose again until the state semifinals those Spartans would love to turn that around in the season opener would have love to see the knights in the postseason that didn't happen rench game having to come over a year later and wouldn't take long for the Spartans to score already up 7even nothing Ty Bell from the 10 throws a screen to Mattis Kelly makes a man miss and gets the block to take it for six 14 nothing s leads later in the second on the 42 Ty Bell with the ill communication hits a nice deep ball to number two Carson reganit and he's all by himself to take it for six again after the extra point Sol's up 17 nothing again here come the Spartans down the field after an unnecessary roughness penalty the Spartans go down to the five where bell hands it to Cole Carney he Dives in for the score now makes it 30 to nothing Spartans at the end of the half they lead into the locker room and Solen reign supreme in this one winning at 33-7 at home to open their season in style 3A versus 1A Williamsburg and westbranch the Raiders returning from a 3A title season West Branch new head coach John Nester Bears unveiling this Immaculate statue of the Beloved Butch Peterson in the first Williamsburg on the Move Grant hooker to brillan WAN might hear that name tomorrow at kinnick but tonight he gives a Raiders a 7 nothing lead hearing a lot of ouen tonight even hooker finds him again ouen finds an opening his second touchdown of the night puts Williamsburg ahead 13 nothing the Bears get an answer early in the second off of a Brennan Dale QB sneak this one cuts the lead to 10 but right before the break the Bears are lining up for a field goal this one gets blocked and it gets scooped and it gets scored Carson Greer with a touchdown run these Raiders are nothing but excitement winning their season opener by 45 points elsewhere in class 3A debuk Waller going to be a great team to watch this season 41 nothing they dominate comman Mount Vernon coming off a excellent season last year where they lost in the quarters 44 to6 they take down monel on the road a lot of good teams in 3A this year in Eastern Iowa Independence the Mustangs are going to be a team to watch tripling up North fayet Valley and Benton another solid team out of the wack 48 nothing they beat Vinton shellburg we're dropping down to 1A after the break but no drop off in Talent Grundy Center the Spartans begin the year looking to for a three peep but a monster senior class at DNH would love to spoil the Spartan season opener and Lisbon opens the class a season after they didn't lose a single regular season game all of last year what's next for the Lions we'll find out when Eastern Iowa OT returns [Music] [Applause] [Music] in this first week of Eastern Iowa OT we're working with the Cedar Rapids gazette's preseason rankings the Mo register Iowa's newspaper of record they can't be bothered to put out a preseason poll so the good folks of the Gazette get the Eastern Iowa OT bump but no matter who's counting the votes Grundy Center and Dyke new Harford are the two teams to beat in class 1a Grundy's been to five straight championship games but the Wolverines have 20 seniors coming back an enviable position for Coach Don Betts who's never been short on success but he's got a a grandson who plays for Coach Z Jack over a Grundy these coaches like each other three 164 days a year but not tonight somebody already revising the seating chart of the next bets family reunion here's one of those DNH seniors Colin Meer lofting to Lots Devin Lots with a 30-yard connection to give the blue and white an early lead here come the boys who won 26 straight Jud gerovski to Tian vokes for a long strike downfield gerovski is stepping into that QB opening left by Colin Gordon Oney QB sneak ties the game at seven into the second quarter gerovski to VES again this is going to be a connection that we hear a lot about this season Grundy Center takes the lead and the reigning Champs open the season with a statement at home 21-7 over the Wolverines sources say the Spartans are so bad elsewhere in class A A lot of people talking about summmer Fredericksburg to open the season they get a shutout win over East Buck 33 to nothing and Regina head coach Dustin Ellsbury in his first year as a head man going on the road against West Liberty opening a new stadium in a 4228 win for the Regal in class A Lisbon had four straight winning years coming off a perfect regular season last fall as they opened at home against Durant after three and out on the first drive Durant gets ready to punt but the snap's too high for the punter he tries to run it for a first down but gets taken out of bounds Lisbon they take the ball over at the 35 the Lions settle for a field goal to lead three nothing in the first Lisbon now with the ball back on the seven the ball's fumbled covered by Durant and the quarter ends with Lisbon just with a three nothing lead into the second the lions are Marching on the field senior Dakota Clark connects with Quinn Coleman for 12 yd gain next play Clark hits Grayson wam for another big gain the Lions get another 16 yards inching closer to per that puts the ball in the 25 and a few plays later on a fourth and short tieran boots a state runner up in the 100 meter dash sneaks into the end zone for the first touchdown of the day Lisbon shuts out Durant 30 to nothing they start their season with a big win at home elsewhere in class a football this year wsy Valley wow what an upset for Jessup those guys were in the playoffs kind of a surprise last year and Jessup getting a seven-point win over the Warrior Man impressive win for those boys starmont they were the surprise last season excellent game out there in Strawberry Point the fighting Nick wies with a one-point win over South winic and we might need to put some respect on Springville after the way they put this screws to waterl Christian and their home opener Mason Hoy check the Waiver Wires here's a kid you might want to pick up for your eight-man fantasy football team this Junior's poised to have a breakout season Aussie aie Aussie Hoy Hoy Hoy five first half touchdowns Springville drops 57 on the region who are just starting their second year as a program and some eight-man scores we've got from tonight great game to start the season between Gladbrook Rybeck and Dom B OS but bosow beats the rebels 33-26 great close game out there Winfield Mount Union even though they've got cam Buffington playing up in Iowa City now they still open the year with a 40 to 28 win over Central City we still got some juice left in this first Friday Night of the Season our first play of the week of 2024 and a short recap of what made week one a winner don't set up the Hawkeye tailgate just yet we'll be right back [Music] [Music] in the life of a sports reporter truly nothing beats football season the most magical 3 months on the sports calendar after a long month without much going on in August this first Friday Night of the season is the one we Circle every year on the calendar we try to bring our best as does this week's play of the week winner incredible debut game for Williamsburg as they show no signs of drop off few goal temp for the Bears it's blocked and the big fella Carson Greer get going 52 Bros bros golly Greer gets moving all the way for six Raiders hang half a hundred on West BR Branch to open the season what a debut game for Williamsburg that was one of the biggest takeaways that we had for this Friday night but another game that brings a lot of maybe surprises to the season was Iowa City Liberty hosting against Iowa City West Scott Chandler you see there former bills player former NFL tight end former Hawkeye tight end going up against Mason Woods who's an incredible athlete for Iowa City West both of these teams show tonight that I think they might have what it takes to both make the 5A postseason maybe win a game or two in the 5A postseason Mason Woods is going to do a lot this year Iowa City got a couple of talented Juniors but good gravy Iowa City Liberty those guys can score at will just Mitch Vic was out there he told me how much time can you give me because I've got 11 touchdowns by halftime incredible game out there I'm looking forward to watching both Liberty and West play throughout this year going to be a good battle for the boot between Iowa City West and City High coming up in a few weeks going to be a great game tomorrow with Iowa hosting Illinois State make sure you catch all the highlights on Iowa news now at 9 and 10 thanks for joining us for another incredible week and incredible season we will see you next Friday night