If six Grand River Conference teams, or the defending Class 1 state champions from Hamilton, want to win a Class 1, District 8 championship, they will have to go through Eddie Allen Field in Princeton to do it. The Grand River Conference champion Tigers wrapped up the #1 seed with dominating 62-7 victory over the Polo Panthers on Friday night, completing a perfect 9-0 regular season.
The win will send the Maysville Wolverines to Princeton on Friday night, for a district quarterfinal game with the home-standing Tigers, on KTTN FM 92.3. Princeton Head Coach Thomas Hotmer praised his team’s play during an interview on the Coke/Grundy County Lumber Locker Room Show, after the win over the Panthers:
The Milan Wildcats finished the regular season with a two-game winning streak, defeating the visiting Maysville Wolverines on Friday night on KTTN FM 92.3, by a score of 34-14. The South Harrison Bulldogs doubled up the Putnam County Midgets to finish 4-3, in a third place tie with Trenton in the GRC standings, winning 40-20 in Bethany.
The quarterfinal match-ups in Class 1, District 8 this Friday night will be : Maysville at Princeton (KTTN-FM), Milan at Penney-Hamilton, South Harrison at Polo, and Putnam County at Gallatin.
The Worth County Tigers hammered the visiting Stanberry Bulldogs to claim the Grand River Conference eight-man title on Friday night, winning by a margin of 56-14. Elsewhere in the “GRC 8”, Pattonsburg outscored Albany 94-62, King City took a 56-50 road win at St. Joseph Christian, while North Andrew won at Braymer, 72-20.
Here are the rest of the scores from Friday, October 13, 2017:
Chillicothe 50, St. Joseph Benton 17
Smithville 49, Cameron 8
Savannah 53, Bishop LeBlond 0
Maryville 14, St. Joseph Lafayette 12
Penney-Hamilton 56, East Buchanan 16
Lawson 23, West Platte 9
Lathrop 40, Mid-Buchanan 0
Plattsburg 49, North Platte 13
Marceline 62, Harrisburg 0
Fayette 38, Knox County 20
Schuyler County 28, Salisbury 18
Westran 35, Paris 0
South Shelby 54, Scotland County 16
Clark County 26, Brookfield 0
Monroe City 22, Palmyra 20
Highland 28, Louisiana 13
Macon 26, Centralia 19
Lafayette County (Higginsville) 33, Carrollton 13
Lexington 20, Richmond 13
Holden 34, Knob Noster 7
Southwest Livingston 56, Norborne 20
East Atchison 59, Platte Valley 12
Stewartsville 54, DeKalb 28
Rock Port 40, Mound City 38
South Holt / Nodaway-Holt 52, North-West Nodaway 7