CVC Football

Huskies score 1st points of season

SPRINGVILLE -- Springville turned two pass interceptions and a punt return into 21 first-quarter points and rolled over Cedar Valley Christian, 68-6, Friday night in an 8-player football game.

Springville (3-0, 2-0) ran up a 42-0 lead after one quarter and led 61-0 at halftime.

Cedar Valley Christian (0-3, 0-2) scored its first points of the season on the last play of the game, a 47-yard touchdown pass from Spencer Zielke to Arturo Melendez.

Cedar Valley threw 45 passes and completed 16. Eric Gustafson caught 12 passes for 42 yards.

The Huskies used three quarterbacks. Melendez completed 10 of 29 passes for 44 yards, Daniel Ostroot was 5 of 11 for 17 yards and Zielke 1 of 5 for 47.

Cedar Valley had seven turnovers. The Huskies turned over three fumbles and threw four interceptions.

The Huskies had six first downs after not having one a week ago in a 72-0 loss to Valley.

Cedar Valley plays at West Central next Friday night.

SPRINGVILLE 68, CEDAR VALLEY 6

First Downs - CVC 6, SPR 8
Rushes-Yards - CVC 10-(-36), SPR 33-190
Passing Yards - CVC 108, SPR 17
Comp-Att-Int - CVC 16-45-4, SPR 2-3-0
Fumbles-Lost - CVC 4-3, SPR 3-2
Punts-Avg. - CVC 1-31, SPR 0
Penalties-Yards - CVC 2-10, SPR 6-60

Cedar Valley   0  0  0  6  --   6
Springville   42 19  7  0  --  68

SPR - Elias Nissen 8 run (Brian Allsup kick)
SPR - Jake Hulett 9 pass from Sam Scriver (Allsup kick)
SPR - Drake Coonrod 39 run (Allsup kick)
SPR - Coonrod 5 interception return (Allsup kick)
SPR - Scriver 50 interception return (Allsup kick)
SPR - Tyler McDowell 49 punt return (Allsup kick)
SPR - FG Allsup 32
SPR - McDowell 30 run (McDowell run)
SPR - Kolton Markley 21 run (McDowell run)
SPR - McDowell 27 run (Allsup kick)
CVC - Arturo Melendez 47 pass from Spencer Zielke (no try)

Individual Statistics

Rushing
CVC: Evan Koch 3-3, Spencer Zielke 2-(-3), Daniel Ostroot 1-(-5), Drew Gustafson 1-(-8), Arturo Melendez 3-(-23)
SPR: Drake Coonrod 4-62, Tyler McDowell 5-59, Kolton Markley 3-29, Greg Pauly 4-18, Elias Nissen 2-17, Andy Hagensick 1-6, August Nyvang-Sorenson 2-2, Carter Gillmore 3-2, Brian Allsup 4-2, Matt Carson 3-(-1), Ryan Menster 2-(-6)

Passing
CVC: Melendez 10-29-1-44, Ostroot 5-11-3-17, Zielke 1-5-0-47
SPR: Scriver 1-1-0-9, Pauly 1-1-0-8, Markley 0-1-0-0

Receiving
CVC: Eric Gustafson 12-42, Koch 2-2, Melendez 1-47, Zielke 1-17
SPR: Jake Hulett 1-9, Cody Bell 1-8

Cedar Valley squished again, 72-0

Sometimes statistics do lie.

In their first-ever home football game at LaSalle Middle School Friday night, the Cedar Valley Christian Huskies lost to Valley Community of Elgin, 72-0.

And it would have been much worse if the visitors had not played their junior varsity squad after going up 58-0 and if the scoreboard clock had not run continuously from the second quarter on.

But the 300-or-so Cedar Valley fans cheered throughout. Their boys played hard right to the end.

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Cedar Valley trounced by HLV, 76-0

VICTOR - The HLV Warriors scored 48 points in the first quarter Friday night and defeated Cedar Valley Christian, 76-0, in an 8-man football game.

This is Cedar Valley's second year with an 8-man football program. The Huskies have 17 players on their roster and 13 participated in Friday's game.

Daniel Ostrott had a 30-yard kickoff return and a 52-yard punt return for the Huskies. He also had a nine-yard run for a first down.

Cedar Valley is scheduled to host Valley of Elgin next Friday night at LaSalle Middle School in the first home game in school history.

HLV 76, CEDAR VALLEY 0

Cedar Valley    0   0   0   0 - 0
HLV             48  14  6   8 - 76

HLV - Parker Cataldo 25 run (2-point conversion)
HLV - Cole Lahndorf 30 run (2-point conversion)
HLV - Tyler Varo fumble recovery in end zone (2-point conversion)
HLV - Jordan Dietrich 21 pass from Dakota Stults (2-point conversion)
HLV - Tanner Strudthoff 35 run (2-point conversion)
HLV - Cataldo 9 run (2-point conversion)
HLV - Strudthoff 60 punt return (conversion failed)
HLV - Dalton Kriegel 2 run (2-point conversion)
HLV - Nate Van Buren 55 run (conversion failed)
HLV - Dalton Kreigel 10 run (2-point conversion)

Pastor gives strength to Cedar Valley gridders

Their team name of the Huskies notwithstanding, the 16 boys on the Cedar Valley Christian varsity eight-man football squad are less than husky.

“Let’s face it,” said Coach Ed Betsworth, “we’re kind of small.”

So when, like a bolt out of the blue, he got an offer this summer from a new school parent to serve as a volunteer strength and conditioning coach it seemed like a gift from above.

Betsworth had not met Darin Ulmer, who serves as full-time minister of the two-year-old Community Baptist Church in downtown Marion.

“Being a pastor, I envisioned some skinny little guy,” the coach said. “Then Darin showed up, and there went that perception."

Ulmer, 40, is instead a big, burly guy who’s lifted weights for fun and fitness since the seventh grade and threw the shot put and discus back when he was at Linn-Mar High School and in college at William Jewell in Liberty, Mo.

He packs 305 pounds onto his solid 5-foot-11 frame and can bench press 385 pounds.

“I’ve always just enjoyed picking up heavy objects,” said Ulmer, whose wife Sara also happens to be a one-time competitive power lifter.

“I have a passion for weight lifting. And I see a Biblical basis for athletics. The apostle Paul uses a lot of sports metaphors.”

Physical training, the pastor contends, can go hand-in-hand with spiritual training.

With two of his four sons (to go with three daughters) starting at Cedar Valley this year and going out for football, Ulmer figured he could help the players bulk up some.

Sophomore son Kenan practices with the varsity but can’t compete since he transferred from Linn-Mar, while eighth grader Micah is on the newly formed junior high squad.

“We haven’t had a weight training program before,” said Betswoth, whose second-year team opens play Friday against HLV at Victor in hopes of improving on its winless debut season. “One problem is, we don’t really have a weight room.”

What equipment the school does have is in a garage where CVC Principal Jeff Pospisil teaches auto mechanics and the drama department stores its scenery.

Twice a week since football practice began in early August, Betsworth puts some barbells along with a single blocking sled in the mobile equipment trailer that he’s hauled out to the practice facility at St. Joseph’s school in Marion.

And Ulmer has added to the conditioning arsenal with two huge tractor tires that he has the players lift and roll over.

“That’s good for every part of the body,” he said of the make-do training equipment. “Besides building up their strength, I’m trying to develop the explosive movements you need in football.”

Huskies senior Isaiah Sherman, a life-long asthma sufferer who was able to play a team sport for the very first time last fall, said he thinks the weight training will pay dividends this year.

“In our first season, we were learning plays but we really didn’t get physically stronger. Now I’m losing fat and putting muscle there instead,” he said.

Neither he nor any of his teammates remember the old Charles Atlas comic book ads where the world champion body builder promised to transform skinny kids who were continually tormented by having sand kicked on them at the beach. But Sherman said he already sees a difference in this year’s team.

“Weight training, I feel, was one piece that held us back last year.”