A - Western Top Player Performances of the Week
Congratulations to this week's top players! We're covering the best performances in games played on Thursday and Friday (using all statistics entered as of the time of writing). Enjoy!
Banyan Johnston Turns in Season-Best Effort
Columbia Falls was led to victory by Banyan Johnston, who turned in his biggest game of the season on Friday. Johnston threw for 166 yards and four touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes, and also rushed for 54 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries.
The victory (which was Columbia Falls' third in a row) raised their record to 4-2. Johnston and Columbia Falls will be playing at home against Bigfork at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Gamescore: 47.62
Austin Savik Has Career-Day on Friday
Bigfork was led to victory by Austin Savik, who turned in his biggest game of the season on Friday. Savik picked up 100 receiving yards and a touchdown, and also rushed for 64 yards and a touchdown, good enough to set a new career-high in rushing yards in the process. He showed off some serious burst, turning on the afterburners on one carry for 64 yards.
On the season, Savik has caught 7 touchdowns while averaging 68 receiving yards per game. He is looking even better than he did last year: after seven games last season, he had two receiving touchdowns.
Gamescore: 39.65
Hickey Posts Huge Game in 68-7 Victory
Keeping Savik company is Treker Hickey, a fellow Bigfork player. He rushed for 93 yards and three touchdowns on only ten carries.
This season, Hickey has run in 7 touchdowns while averaging 91 rushing yards per game.
Gamescore: 38.60
Jackson Lubke's Big Game Can't Quite Lead Hamilton over Beaverhead County
Hamilton had to settle for second on Thursday, but Jackson Lubke sure wasn't going down easily. Nobody could stop Lubke as he picked up 85 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
Lubke and Hamilton will challenge Corvallis at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Lubke will face off against Gideon Boswell, the Blue Devils' star wideout. The only thing left to do is find out who's the greater deep ball threat. You'll have to watch the game to know for sure.
Gamescore: 38.25
A Season-Best Effort from Cole Schmit Leads Bigfork over Browning
On Friday, Bigfork got the W thanks in part to Cole Schmit playing the best football he has all season. Schmit threw for 132 yards and three touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes, and also punched in a touchdown on the ground.
This year, Schmit has thrown 18 touchdowns while averaging 168 passing yards per game. That doesn't tell the whole story though: at this point last year, he was only averaging 0.14 rushing yards per game. This year he is averaging nine rushing yards.
Gamescore: 31.60
Other Notable Players
- Kolby Finley: 75 yards passing; 56 yards rushing, 1 TD (Gamescore: 26.95)
- Jake Forthofer: 73 yards rushing, 2 TDs (Gamescore: 26.45)
- Tayden West: 1 TD ; 63 yards rushing, 1 TD (Gamescore: 25.87)
- Easton Brooks: 74 yards receiving, 2 TDs (Gamescore: 24.07)
- Carson Gulick: 83 yards passing; 55 yards rushing (Gamescore: 20.63)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
