Jefferson Football

Rogers, Iowa City West rip J-Hawks, 63-14

A Cyclone blew through Kingston Stadium Friday night.

Iowa City West senior quarterback Charles Rogers, who earlier Friday committed to play football at Iowa State, ran for three touchdowns and passed for two more and the Trojans blew past Jefferson, 63-14, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game.

Rogers played only the first half, which ended with the Trojans (4-1) holding a 49-7 lead. He completed 8-of-8 passes for 164 yards and ran 11 times for 53 yards. He scored on runs of 1, 4 and 4 yards and threw touchdown passes of 36 and 49 yards to Dondre Alexander and Jeremy Morgan, respectively.

"Ever since they started recruiting me as a sophomore I've liked 'em," Rogers said of his decision to pick the Cyclones. "And I like Coach Paul Rhoads, period."

Rogers said he shocked Rhoads, who made a visit to West to see Rogers on Friday morning, when he told him he was going to Iowa State.

"I walked him out to his car and told him I wanted to be a Cyclone," Rogers said. "He was completely surprised."

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Hill nets 5 TDs as No.1 Tigers pound J-Hawks

CEDAR FALLS - Cedar Falls tailback Barkley Hill continued to shine under the lights of the UNI-Dome in Friday night's 42-6 thrashing of Cedar Rapids Jefferson.

The Tigers led, 42-0, at halftime.

Oftentimes serving as Hill's personal escort, senior fullback Ben Challgren wouldn't have it any other way.

Hill finished with 219 yards rushing on just 12 carries, recording five touchdowns and 204 yards on his first 10 touches.

"He definitely deserves all the credit he gets," Challgren said of Hill, whom he helped lead into the end zone on outside toss plays for three of Cedar Falls' first five touchdowns. "He's a real athlete.

"It's a lot of fun blocking for him. You're hitting the first guy, but then you're seeing Barkley run by you for a touchdown.

"Whenever he gets the ball, he's a threat," Challgren said. "They've got to put a lot of people in the box and we're physical up front so it should be a fun year."

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East's big plays doom J-Hawks, 33-10

Football, in its simplest form, can be summarized as follows:

If you can't stop the big play, you better make a lot of little plays.

Jefferson did neither Thursday night against Waterloo East at Kingston Stadium.

East scored on touchdown runs of 53, 50 and 28 yards, and also a 38-yard pass play, and beat the J-Hawks, 33-10, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game.

It was the second straight year East (1-2) put a whipping on the J-Hawks. The Trojans won 48-6 last year at Waterloo.

"It might have given us a little confidence," East Coach Kody Asmus said. "But last year was last year and it's this year now."

East junior quarterback Desmond VanArsdale had scoring runs of 4, 50 and 28 yards, and also threw the touchdown pass.

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Warriors steamroll J-Hawks

The play is 732 trap.

And Washington ran it again and again and again ... and again.

Washington rolled up 277 yards of rushing offense and steamrolled Jefferson, 35-6, in a Mississippi Valley Conference football game played at Kingston Stadium.

Washington senior fullback David Tann ran the ball 12 times for 133 yards and two touchdowns. Juniors Walter Short had 11 carries for 53 yards and a touchdown and Mitch Bredeson rushed 14 times for 77 yards.

"We wanted to keep it balanced and open up the passing attack, but the run was there so we stuck with it," said Tann, who scored on runs of 8 and 10 yards in the third quarter that boosted Washington's lead to 35-0.

But it was in the second quarter when Tann did his most damage, carrying the ball three straight times for runs of 11, 14 and 37 yards to put the ball at the Jefferson 6. Flynn Heald caught the first of his two touchdown passes from Braedon Tovey to make it 14-0 with 9:15 left in the half. Heald caught six passes for 73 yards.

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