Putnam County’s Heidenwith, by air and by ground, leads Midgets to 36-7 win over Milan

Putnam County quarterback Calvin Heidenwith had 151 yards rushing with two touchdowns, and added 146 yards through the air, including another pair of scores, leading the Midgets to their first victory of the season, 36-7 on Friday night over visiting Milan, in a varsity football contest broadcast on KTTN FM 92.3.

Milan did decently on the ground, amassing 182 yards, but the Wildcats offense struggled to get points on the board against their long-time border rival to the north.

Putnam County defensive lineman Gus Valentine continued to perform with all-Grand River Conference ability, recording 14 tackles for the Midgets.  Tanner Bondy had 17 tackles, while workhorse back Carson Quint had 87 yards rushing and a touchdown, while split end Grant Sands had both touchdown catches from Heidenwith.

Friday night’s game added to a festive week in Unionville, with the Putnam County Fair coinciding with the Midgets heated affair against Milan.  Putnam County, with the win, improves to 1-3 overall and 1-1 in the Grand River Conference.  Milan, still in search of its first win, falls to 0-4 overall and 0-2 in conference play.

This year’s Milan / Putnam County game was played in Week #4, instead of at the end of the season, due to the scheduling format utilized by the GRC. The seven-game schedule of opponents, in future years will remain in the same order, but will flip one week forward in 2017, leaving the Putnam County at Milan game next year, for Week #5.  This year’s Week #9 opponent will flip to the Week #3 opponent for GRC schools.  

Putnam County will take on fellow 1-1 conference foe Princeton, at Princeton, this Friday night at 7:00 on KTTN FM 92.3.  Milan will play at Trenton on Friday night at 7:00 on Hot Country Z 101.7 and KGOZ-TV.

Other GRC Eastern Division scores from Friday, September 9th were Maysville 48, South Harrison 14 and Polo 36, Gallatin 21.

Here is the complete high school football scoreboard from this past week:

Penney 40, Mid-Buchanan 12

Lawson 49, North Platte 19

Lathrop 53, West Platte 0

East Buchanan 32, Plattsburg 13

Chillicothe 55, Cameron 6

Smithville 29, Benton 6 (Thursday)

Maryville 50, Bishop LeBlond 3 (Thursday)

Lafayette 35, Savannah 0

Marceline 28, Fayette 12 (Saturday)

Knox County 48, Paris 0

Scotland County 18, Schuyler County 8

Westran 55, Harrisburg 14

Carrollton 14, Salisbury 7

Centralia 20, Brookfield 0

South Shelby 39, Palmyra 6

Macon 49, Highland 18

Monroe City 52, Louisiana 0

West Hancock (IL) 44, Clark County 14

Richmond 49, Excelsior Springs 0

Kearney 52, Winnetonka 0

Platte County 48, Harrisonville 0

8-MAN:

King City 66, Pattonsburg 16 (GRC West)

Stanberry 62, St. Joseph Christian 42 (GRC West)

Worth County 56, Albany 14 (GRC West)

Stewartsville 56, Braymer 28

North Andrew 70, Kansas City East 6 (Saturday)

Southwest Livingston 54, Mound City 40 (Saturday)

Rock Port 56, North-West Nodaway 0

East Atchison 62, DeKalb 14

South Holt / Nodaway-Holt 66, Platte Valley 12