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North Star's Gavin Spinler, right, runs through the Valier defense during Saturday's Six-Man football game in Rudyard.
North Star's Shea Sizemore, left, runs past a Valier defender during Saturday's Six-Man game in Rudyard. The Knights beat the Panthers to finish 4-4 this season.
North Star's Cade Chvilicek, left, looks for running room during Saturday's game in Rudyard.
North Star's Devon Miller, right, brings down a Valier ball carrier during Saturday's Six-Man game in Rudyard.
On the final weekend of the high school football regular season, a pair of Hi-Line teams had a chance to finish perfect. Unfortunately, only one of those teams was able to get there.
On Saturday afternoon in Great Falls, the Chinook Sugarbeeters put the finishing touches on their perfect regular season by blasting Great Falls Central, 64-18. Chinook scored 48 points in the first half, and the Beeter defense was up to its usual standards, as the GFC offense could not get in track.
Senior quarterback Ian McIntosh threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns to Kenny Pruttis, while Tate Niederegger rushed for 117 yards and a score. McIntosh also scored three times on the ground, while Derek Bell hit the endzone twice.
The win gave the Beeters a perfect 8-0 record, and the Northern C champions will begin their quest for a Class C state championship this Saturday when they host Culbertson-Baineville in the first round of the playoffs.
Chinook 22 26 16 0 – 62
GFC 6 6 0 6 – 18
CHI – Tate Niederegger 8 run (Niederegger run)
CHI – Ken Pruttis 30 pass from Ian McIntosh (pass failed)
GFC – Nick Wilkins 39 pass
CHI – Derek Bell 5 run (McIntosh run)
CHI Bell 9 run (Niederegger run)
GFC – Matt Medenhall 5 pass
CHI – Kade Friede 2 run (run failed)
CHI – McIntosh 1 run (pass failed
CHI – Pruttis 6 pass from McIntosh (run failed)
CHI – McIntosh 2 run (Owen Powell run)
CHI – McIntosh 52 run (Jake Norby run)
GFC – Wilkins 12 pass (pass failed)
DGS 35, Box Elder 34
Box Elder’s quest for a perfect season and a first-ever North Division Six-Man conference championship ended in heart break Saturday afternoon. The Bears had met every challenge so far in 2015, but at fellow unbeaten Denton-Geyser-Stanford, they came up one point short.
The Bears clung to a 34-29 lead late in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game in Denton, but Kade Woodhall broke off a 19-yard touchdown run to give the Wranglers the lead, and that proved to be the final margin.
In Box Elder’s only defeat of the regular season, Brandon The Boy threw four touchdown passes, three to Shane Ketchum, while Bodis Duran gave the Bears the lead early in the fourth quarter with a five-yard touchdown run.
The Bears are now 8-1, but with the loss to DGS, they finish second in the North Division. Box Elder will host Jordan in the first round of the Six-Man playoffs this Saturday at 1 p.m.
Box Elder 6 14 6 8 — 34
D-G-S 6 15 8 6 — 35
Box Elder: Shane Ketchum 23 yard pass from Brandon The Boy (kick failed)
D-G-S: Conner Bokma 7 yard pass from Kendall Carpenter (kick failed)
D-G-S:Rhet Woodhall 5 yard run (Tyler Lee kick)
Box Elder: Bodis Duran 60 yard pass from The Boy (kick failed)
Box Elder: Ketchum 5 yard pass from The Boy (Duran kick)
D-G-S: Kade Woodhall 48 yard pass from Carpenter (K. Woodhall pass from Carpenter)
D-G-S: K. Woodhall 13 yard pass from Carpenter (Lee kick)
Box Elder: Ketchum 30 yard pass from The Boy (kick failed)
Box Elder: Duran 5 yard run (Duran kick)
D-G-S: K. Woodhall 19 yard run (pass failed)
North Star 58, Valier 6
The North Star Knights won’t be in the Six-Man playoffs this weekend, but they made a point to finish strong and send their seniors out with a big win.
Saturday in Rudyard, North Star thumped Valier 58-6, giving the Knights a big win on the final day of the season.
North Star quickly jumped out to a 20-0 lead, and the Knights added 26 more points in the second quarter to lead the Panthers 46-6 at halftime.
Shea Sizemore scored four touchdowns for the Knights, two rushing and two through the air. Payton Peterson also caught two TD passes, while Jimmy Snow, Gavin Spinler and Matthew Helmbrecht each added rushing touchdowns, as the Knights finished the season with a 4-4 record. Valier was already locked into the playoffs and will travel to Terry this Saturday.
North Star 20 26 6 6 — 58
Valier 0 6 0 0 — 6
North Star: Payton Peterson 15 pass from Cade Chvillicek (pass good)
North Star: Shea Sizemore 8 run (pass good)
North Star: Jimmy Snow 5 run (PAT failed)
North Star: Helmbrect 1 run (Shea Sizemore run)
North Star: Sizemore 10 run (Gavin Spinler run)
North Star: Sizemore 16 pass from Helmbrecht (PAT failed)
Valier: Wacey Running Crane 9 run (PAT failed)
North Star: Peterson 11 pass from Chvilicek (PAT failed)
North Star: Sizemore 24 pass from Chvilicek (PAT failed)
North Star: Spinler 3 run (PAT failed)
Fort Benton 56, Cascade 26
In their return to football this season, the Fort Benton Longhorns didn’t make the Class C playoffs either, but, like North Star, they ended the season in style.
Friday night in Cascade, Fort Benton thrashed the host Badgers, 58-26, to improve to 2-6 for the year.
Logan Taylor threw for 215 yards and Jade Miller rushed for 113 more, as well as three scores for the Longhorns, who also got a 20-yard interception return for a touchdown by Matt Blansett.
Fort Benton 14 20 6 6 – 56
Cascade 6 14 6 6 – 26
CAS – Glen Ferguson 3 run (run failed)
FB – Logan Taylor 6 run (Taylor run)
FB – Taylor 10 pass from Jade Miller (Taylor run)
CAS – Lane Spurzem 29 pass (Ferguson pass)
FB – Miller 12 run (Miller run)
FB – Taylor 6 pass from Connor DeBruckyer (Landon pass form Taylor)
CAS – Wade Wombold 1 run (run failed)
FB – Jade Miller 1- run (Taylor run)
FB – Matt Biansett 20 INT return (pass failed)
FB – Logan Taylor 66 pass from DeBruckyer (run failed)
CAS – Jagger Sensibaugh 3 run (pass failed)
FB – Connor Schnabel 3 run (run failed)
Geraldine-Highwood 41, Big Sandy 24
In their final game of the 2015 season, the young Big Sandy Pioneers battled hard, but came up short in Highwood Friday night.
Taking on the Geraldine/Highwood Rivals, the Pioneers fell behind early and couldn’t catch up in a 41-24 loss.
The Rivals led 16-0 at the end of the first quarter and 22-6 at halftime. Big Sandy rallied in the fourth stanza, but it wasn’t enough.
Weston Allderdice scored twice for the Pioneers, while Jordan Schwarzbach and Josh Solf also found the endzone. Big Sandy finished the season with a 2-6 record.
Big Sandy 0 6 6 12 — 24
Geraldine-Highwood 16 6 6 13 — 41
G-H: Chase Hooper 6 run (Cody Kuhn kick)
G-H: Louis Aron 38 pass from Devin Leistiko (Kuhn kick)
Big Sandy: Weston Allderdice 2 run (kick blocked)
G-H: Aron 3 run (kick failed)
G-H: Aron 1 run (pass failed)
Big Sandy: Allderdice 10 pass from Zachary Word (pass failed)
Big Sandy: Josh Solf 5 run (pass failed)
G-H: Hooper 2 run (kick failed)
G-H: Erik Nielsen 55 interception return (Kenny Southworth run)
Big Sandy: Jordan Schwarzbach 5 pass from Dallas Geyer (pass failed)
Chester/J-I 71, Centerville 6
The Chester/J-I Hawks had no trouble closing out their season Friday night. In Centerville, the Hawks won 71-6.
The win was a good bounce-back for the Hawks, who were crushed in a loss to Chinook the week before.
The victory against winless Centerville gave C/J-I a 7-1 record for the season, and a solo second-place finish in the Northern C. The Hawks will host Broadus in the first round of the playoffs this Saturday in Chester.
Conrad 70, Harlem 0
The finish to the 2015 season wasn’t a pretty one for the Harlem Wildcats. Playing at home, on senior night, the Wildcats were belted by the District 1B Conrad Cowboys, 70-0.
The loss dropped Harlem to 1-7 for the season. Out of the District 1B, champion Fairfield plays Anaconda in the first round, while Cut Bank travels to Missoula Loyola. Out of the 2B, regular season champion Malta hosts Deer Lodge in the first round, while runner-up Glasgow has to travel to Baker.
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