After three games, Connor Janda has exceeded the 100-yard rushing milestone in each game. Above, he is shown looking for room to run against an Arapahoe defender.
Surrounded by officials and opposing players Rocky Miller gets up showing no fear after bringing down an Arapahoe runner in Friday night's game.
If all a person looks at is the final score of a football game, it looks a lot like Arapahoe had an easy victory of the L-N Raiders last Friday night. However, that was not the whole story.
"The rest of the story" tells us quite a different scenario. The final score is the definitive item in any football game, but it is interesting to see how we got to that final score.
Let's see: • Arapahoe is a larger school (D-1). • L-N had 423 offensive yards, Arapahoe had 377; • L-N ran 57 plays, Arapahoe ran 54; • L-N had only two penalties for 15 yards while Arapahoe had 10 for 64 yards: • L-N scored the PAT's on all five of its TD's while Arapahoe scored PAT's on five of its ten TD's.
All of those facts indicates L-N did play a pretty good game, However, let's look a little further: • Arapahoe scored on 5 of 6 possession in each half of play; • the real reason for the loss was: "turnovers;" • L-N had three fumbles and lost two give a short field to Arapahoe; • L-N had two pass interceptions, one ran back for a TD for Arapahoe and the other stopping a possible scoring drive of 48 yards for L-N. • those four turnovers account for 32 points which is more than the 30 points of the loss margin.
However, "What If" doesn't win ball games. Arapahoe was a good team with one player maybe among the best in small school football in the state.
The game summary: 1st Quarter: L-N kicked to start the game and Arapahoe promptly scored in an 8 play 38 yard scoring drive. The Raiders also promptly scored on their first possession with Connor Janda and Bayln Barger running the ball and in just three plays moved the ball 59 yards to score. Janda ran the final six yds. for the TD and also ran the PAT: 8-6. Arapahoe scored on each of their other possessions in this period and at the end led 8-20.
Quarter No. 2: L-N took possession just before the 1st period ended and continued a drive that covered 67 yards to score. Janda and Bargen did all the running and two Janda to Bargen passes helped the process. The TD came on an 8 yard Janda run and he also ran the PAT. However, two turnovers gave Arapahoe very short fields and they scored on each of those possessions. Score: 16-36.
Quarter No. 3: After the Arapahoe kickoff, L-N took the ball 65 yards to score. Bargen had a 28 yard run and Janda's 19 yard run scored the TD. Passes to Nolan Ostdiek and Clay Williams helped put a little fun into the drive. The PAT was a Janda to Williams pass.24-36.
Arapahoe fumbled the ball to L-N and the Raiders used three big plays to score another TD. Those three were a 16 yard Janda to Ostdiek pass, a 23 yard run by Bargen and a 22 yard TD run by Janda. Janda ran the PAT: Score: 32-36.
As hope for a Raider comeback filled the L-N faithful, Arapahoe used two big plays on two possessions, scoring with nine seconds on the clock to make the third quarter score 32-50.
Quarter No. 4: Arapahoe took advantage of two Raider turnovers for their last two TD's, but L-N still had fight left. Carter Griffis had to change directions once or twice, but he found the end zone after a 58 yard run. He ran the PAT to end the scoring for the game: 40-70.
Game statistics:
Rushing: Bayln Bargen 69 yds. on four carries; Connor Janda 156 yds. on 30 carries; Jack Williams 5 yds. on two carries; Grayhm Beck 10 yards on 2 carries; Carter Griffis 62 yds. on 2 carries; Caden Culbertson 1 carry for 5 yds.
Passing: Connor Janda 109 yds. on 16 of 21 passes with two interceptions; Carter Griffis 1 of 1 for 7 yds. Receptions: Nolan Ostdiek 6 for 44 yds.; Bayln Bargen 4 for 48 yds.; Clay Williams 5 for 15 yds.; Cody Funk 1 for 2 yds.; Caden Culbertson 1 for 7 yds.
Total offense: L-N: 423 yds.; Arapahoe: 377 yds.
First downs: L-N 14; Arapahoe 9.
Penalties: L-N: 2 for 15 yds.; Arapahoe: 10 for 64 yds.
Fumbles: L-N 3, lost 2; Arapahoe 2, lost 1.
Interceptions: L-N 2; Arapahoe 0.
Defense: (AT: assisted tackles; UT, unassisted tackles) Riley Cannaday 2 AT, 1 UT; Aidan Zikmund 2 AT, 1 UT; Carter Griffis 1 AT; Clay Williams 2 AT, 1 UT; Bayln Bargen 3 AT, 7 UT; Roy Davidson 2 AT, 1 UT, 1T for loss and 1 fumble recovery; Connor Janda 4 AT, 3 UT; Jack Williams 3 UT, one for loss; Nolan Ostdiek 1 AT, 1 UT; Rocky Miller 1 AT, 4 UT and 1 for loss; Nathan Elledge 2 UA and one for a loss; Ace Wulf 1AT; Jayce Hoelting 1 UT; Carson Vaughn 1 UT.
This week's game is at Blue Hill. Travel with the team.
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