By Ryan Stonebraker
Sports Editor
STANWOOD — Stunning. That was the feeling Friday night at the North Cedar homecoming game against Columbus Junction. There, the Knights ran all over the Wildcats and won their first football game of the season in a 53-24 rout of their last non-district opponent. The Knights entered the football game with 383 yards on the ground. Last Friday, they rushed for 507 yards. The swell in running yards was part of a 588-yard total offense output by the Knights in the game.
North Cedar had two running backs top the 100-yard mark in the game. Brody Hawtrey rushed for 303 yards on 32 carries. He had a per carry average of 9.4 in the game. He rushed for two touchdowns. Logan Thimmes rushed for 121 yards on 18 carries for a 6.7-yard per carry average. John Scheer rushed for 38 yards on five carries.
Ethan Sahr passed for 81 yards on 8-of-12 pass attempts. He had one touchdown pass and no interceptions. Four Knights caught at least one pass, led by Tyler Alexander who had four receptions for 39 yards. Gage Walshire caught his first touchdown pass of the season, a 20-yard pass play in the fourth quarter.
Defensively, North Cedar was led by Tyler Thurston and Thimmes who each had 9 tackles. Tyler Jackson and Gage Walshire each had 5. Thimmes added two tackles for loss and as a team, North Cedar had nine tackles for loss in the game. Tyler Alexander also had an interception in the game.
North Cedar scored the game’s first points on a Logan Thimmes 7-yard run. The Knights tried a two-point conversion, but it failed. The Wildcats tied the score at 6-6 after the first quarter, on a 51-yard scoring run later in the quarter. They also had a failed two-point conversion.
Each team scored 6 points in the second quarter to set the halftime score at 12-12. North Cedar’s score came on the first of two Brody Hawtrey touchdown runs, this one from 1-yard out.
North Cedar scored the only points in the third quarter on touchdown runs of 29 and 1-yard from Brody Hawtrey and Logan Thimmes to give North Cedar a 26-12 lead going to the final quarter.
In the final quarter, everything went North Cedar’s way. The Knights scored three quick touchdowns to open the final quarter and extend their lead to 46-12. An Ethan Sahr touchdown pass, Thimmes’ third touchdown run and a Jon Scheer 3-yard run accounted for the 20 points and helped North Cedar put the game away. The Knights officially opened the second half with 34 straight, unanswered points.
Leading 46-18, Tyler Jackson would score the final touchdown for the Knights, a 15-yard run to set the score at 53-18.
The Knights equaled their win total in each of the past two seasons with the wins. The Knights were 1-8 in both 2016 and 2017. There are five football games, all district contests, left in the Knights season to try to build on the win last Friday.
The Knights join four other class 1A district four teams with a victory as they improve to 1-3. The Knights also joined Cascade, Bellevue and West Branch as teams that have scored over 100 points so far this season. The Knights have now scored 113 points. The Knights will host Cascade Friday. The Cougars are 2-2 overall and lost 40-21 to Waukon last Friday.
Team Summary:
NC CJ
Total Plays 80 42
Total Yards 588 328
Passing Yards 81 179
Rushing Yards 507 149
First Downs 33 8
3rd Down Conv. 7-for-10 1-for-7
4th Down Conv. 0-for-2 1-for-2
Turnovers 0 1
Interceptions 0 1
Penalties-yds. 3-22 2-8
Quarter Scores:
1 2 3 4 Final
Col. Jct. 6 6 0 12 24
North Cedar 6 6 14 27 53
Individual Statistics (North Cedar Only):
Rushing: Brody Hawtrey 32-303, Logan Thimmes 18-121, John Scheer 5-38, Ethan Sahr 4-5, Tyler Jackson 3-45, Kael Unruh 1-(-5).
Passing: Ethan Sahr 8-for-12 81 yards 1 TD, 0 INT’s.
Receiving: Tyler Alexander 4-39, Brody Hawtrey 2-19, Gage Walshire 1-20, Logan Thimmes 1-3.
Defensive Statistics:
(S-A-T): Tyler Thurston 5-4 9, Logan Thimmes 3-6 9, Tyler Jackson 3-2 5, Gage Walshire 2-3 5, James Garner 2-2 4, Ethan Sahr 1-2 3, Tyler Alexander 2-1 3, Jacob Sander 1-1 2, Brady Burcum 0-2 2, Caden Wendt 1-0 1, Brennan Kreel 0-1 1, Chase Gallagher 0-1 1.
Tackles for loss: Logan Thimmes 2, Chase Gallagher 1, Caden Wendt 1, Ethan Sahr 1, James Garner 1, Gage Walshire 1, Tyler Jackson 1, Tyler Thurston 1.
Interception: Tyler Alexander 1.
Kicking Statistics:
KickOffs Returns: Kael Unruh 2-31 yards.
Punt Returns: Tyler Alexander 1-6 yards.
PAT Kicks: Brody Hawtrey 5.
Punts: Brody Hawtrey 1-34 yards.
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