Indians fall to Elgin in close contest

By ROB HAMILTON

Mount Gilead wasn’t able to main­tain their lead after a good first half at Elgin on Fri­day and wound up suf­fer­ing a 27–21 loss thanks to 20 unan­swered points by the Comets.

The Indi­ans took an early lead on a 70-yard run by quar­ter­back Pay­ton Van­derkooi, but the Comets imme­di­ately fired back to tie the score on a long play of their own.

How­ever, Mount Gilead fin­ished the first quar­ter with a 14-yard scor­ing run by Van­derkooi and then increased it to a 21–7 mar­gin on a short run by Bran­don Wood.

Unfor­tu­nately for the locals, the Comets were able to con­trol the game in the sec­ond half, scor­ing two third quar­ter touch­downs to tie the game and then tak­ing a lead they wouldn’t relin­quish in the fourth period on a one-yard run by Robby Ault.

Card­ing­ton Pirates

Early strug­gles proved fatal for Card­ing­ton when they trav­eled to River Val­ley Friday.

The Pirates gave up three touch­downs in the first quar­ter and two more in the sec­ond, as they suf­fered a 49–0 loss to the Vikings.

Card­ing­ton was held to 37 yards in the game, while the Vikings had no short­age of big plays to stake them to their large early lead.

In the first quar­ter, River Val­ley got a 74-yard pass for a score, as well as a 37-yard run and a 46-yard punt return. They then added touch­downs of 64 and 68 yards in the sec­ond quar­ter as they pulled away for the win.

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