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November 4, 2009

Colgan, Oswego claim opening-round victories

From staff reports

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St. Mary’s-Colgan and Oswego, playing at home, posted lopsided wins on Tuesday night in Kansas Class 2-1A Bi-District prep football games.

Colgan received punt returns of 68 and 64 yards for touchdowns from Tyler Jeck and Zach Smith, respectively, as the Panthers trimmed visiting Sedan 41-6.

Unbeaten Oswego, earning a Saturday date with perfect Olpe, rushed for 425 yards in handling Uniontown 59-7.

Colgan (9-1), which will entertain Moundridge on Saturday, received two scoring passes from Jesse Watt, who misfired on just one of nine passes in throwing for 105 yards in less than two periods. Jeck (14 yards) and Stuart Mitchelson (10) snagged the scoring passes and Jeck finished with three receptions for 37 yards.

Colgan, which led 35-0 at the half, was led in rushing by Alex Evans with eight carries for 54 yards. Evans scored on a 4-yard run.

Mitchelson added a 22-yard scoring run for the Panthers.

Sedan (2-8) got a late 4-yard scoring run from Brady McCoy.

Oswego, which will entertain Olpe, runner-up to Smith Center last season, led 32-0 at the half and received 150 yards on 19 carries from Damon Trotnic, 93 on 10 from Caleb Horn and 73 on eight from Lane Martin.

Trotnic had scoring runs of 9, 2 and 29 yards. Quarterback Martin, who tallied from the 3, 5 and 7, hooked up with Michael Bullard for a 41-yard TD scoring pass.

Nick Billingsly and Tyler Area added short scoring runs for the Indians on respective carries of 1 and 4 yards.

Ben Dixon caught an 8-yard pass from Zach Travis for the Uniontown score.

Bullard logged 14 tackles on defense for the Indians and Trotnic intercepted a pass.

Independence, 26-14

At Independence in Class 4A, Matt Bromley scored twice in the final period to lift the Bulldogs from a 14-14 tie against SEK League rival Labette County..

Bromley scored on a 2-yard run with 5:07 minutes left in the game and from the 5 with just 59.7 remaining.

Labette County caught up at 7:27 in the fourth on Davey Brown’s 1-yard scoring plunge and Trevor Nash’s conversion kick.

The Grizzlies’ Brannon Green finished with seven receptions for 80 yards and 12 tackles.

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