Brian Webb was in no mood to be a politician.

He wasn't about to put lipstick on a pigskin after his Jefferson football team was drubbed by No. 9 Iowa City High, 38-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game Friday night at Kingston Stadium.

"We got whupped in every phase of the game," said Webb, Jefferson's first-year football coach. "Special teams, passing, we couldn't block, we couldn't tackle, we couldn't catch, we couldn't get the snap.

"We didn't do anything correct."

Iowa City High (3-1, 2-0) built a 24-0 lead by halftime behind the running of Amos Lavela, who carried the ball 15 times for 142 yards and three touchdowns in the first half. The Little Hawks tacked on short touchdown runs by Xavier Washpun in the third and fourth quarter.

City High piled up 231 yards of rushing offense and held Jefferson to 92 total yards. The J-Hawks (1-3, 1-1) compiled 60 yards on their only sustained drive of the game late in the first quarter after City High had taken a 10-0 lead. The drive went from the Jeff 28 and stalled out at the City High 12. Nick Rocha's 29-yard field goal attempt had plenty of leg, but hooked wide right.

And that was pretty much it for Jeff's offense.

"I told them when I came in here and took the job, 'Guys, it doesn't matter what we do, it comes down to blocking and tackling. If you can't block and you can't tackle, there's no scheme that I can put on the whiteboard to make us be successful.' "

Webb said he repeated that to his team at halftime.

"I told them it's just called toughness. I said, 'They got it, we don't.' "

It was somewhat of a bitter pill after Jefferson posted its first win in nearly three years a week ago at Dubuque Hempstead.

"I was proud of their effort. They fought to the very end," Webb said. "We don't have a lot of kids. We don't have a lot of depth. But credit to City High. They just whipped us."

The whipping started on the game's first series. On a second-and-12 from the City High 43, Lavela bounced off right guard, shrugged off a couple of Jeff tacklers and dashed 57 yards for the touchdown.

"I can't really remember it," Lavela said of his scoring run. "All I know is Cory (Lindsey) set me up with a pretty good block. I saw it. I read it. I scored it."

Lavela also scored on runs of 3 and 20 yards. He also played linebacker and capped off the half by laying a pad-cracking lick on Jefferson junior tailback Michael Moncivais after a four-yard gain.

Lavela played only sparingly on defense in the second half. He did not play on offense.

Lavela started on the defensive line as a sophomore and junior, and excelled despite being 5-foot-8 and weighing less than 200 pounds.

"I don't really know how to explain it," he said. "I just went wherever they put me.

"My goal was to be a running back by the time it was my senior year. I got to play a little bit last year."

He's the man now.

"I wouldn't say that. We got a lot of other guys that could be that," Lavela said.

Jefferson senior Drake Allen was injured making a tackle in the third quarter and was carted off the field on a stretcher. Webb said Allen had movement in his extremities.

"We're not really sure how he is," Webb said. "He had some numbness in his arm."

Jefferson hosts Waterloo East (2-2, 1-1) next Friday night at Kingston Stadium.

IOWA CITY HIGH 38, JEFFERSON 0

First downs -- ICH 14; CRJ 5
Rushes-yards -- ICH 46-231; CRJ 24-44     
Passing yards -- ICH 53; CRJ 48  
Comp-att-int -- ICH 5-13-1; CRJ 5-13-2
Punts-avg. -- ICH 1-43; CRJ 3-30.7
Fumbles-Lost -- ICH 0-0; CRJ 1-1
Penalties-yards -- ICH 4-20; CRJ 4-33

Iowa City High    10    14     7     7  --    38
Jefferson             0      0      0     0  --     0

ICH - Amos Lavela 57 run (Drew Cornwell kick)
ICH - FG Cornwell 20
ICH - Lavela 3 run (Cornwell kick)
ICH - Lavela 20 run (Cornwell kick)
ICH - Xavier Washpun 5 run (Cornwell kick)
ICH - Washpun 9 run (Cornwell kick)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing
ICH - Amos Lavela 15-142, Tyler Stika 4-44, Xavier Washpun 12-40, Mitch Wieland 8-8, Matt Kroeze 3-6, Sam Dennis 1-1, Bo Olson 1-1, Mitchell Reuter 1-(-5), Kevin Buell 1-(-6)
CRJ - Michael Moncivais 11-32, Layne Sullivan 9-8, Lance Scanlon 1-3, Nick O'Connell 3-1

Passing
ICH - Wieland 4-7-0-34, Stika 1-5-1-19, Reuter 0-1-0-0
CRJ - Sullivan 4-7-0-32, Scanlon 1-6-2-16

Receiving
ICH - Washpun 2-33, Lavela 1-7, Mohamed Rouabhi 1-7, Malin Craig 1-6
CRJ - Ben Koering 1-16, Blake Bernauer 1-12, Moncivais 1-8, Brandon Wiederin 1-7, Spencer Hunt 1-5

Sophs -- Iowa City High 28, Jefferson 8