Trenton claims all-Bulldog battle in Senior Night shutout

The Trenton Bulldogs, behind four touchdowns by senior fullback Sam Gibson, rebounded from a 40-point loss to Gallatin for a 48-0 win over South Harrison on Friday night at C.F. Russell Stadium.

In action heard on KTTN FM 92.3, THS took control early, with Gibson scoring on a 9-yard run with 7:32 remaining in the first quarter.  After a stop by the Trenton defense, the home team got the football back, as senior quarterback Coleman Griffin tried to hit a fellow senior with a post pattern: 

Up 14-0 heading into the second quarter, Trenton scored on Gibson’s second scoring run of the night, two plays into the new stanza: 

Gibson added a 52 yard touchdown run later in the second quarter, with an 11 yard catch and run by Gabe Novak pushing the halftime lead to 35-0.  Gibson had a 54 yard scoring run in the third quarter, with sophomore quarterback Mason Rongey racing in from 15 yards out with 7:26 remaining in regulation.

The win ends Trenton’s regular season with a record of 8-1, the program’s best since 2007.  South Harrison, enduring a rare rebuilding year for a program usually in the GRC championship discussion, goes to 2-7.  Trenton will host Lawson in a district quarterfinal contest on Friday, October 28th at 7 o’clock on Hot Country Z 101.7.  South Harrison will travel to Unionville to play the Putnam County Midgets in a Class 1 district quarterfinal on October 28th, also at 7 o’clock.

Here are the other scores from Week #9 of the high school football season: 

Milan 34, Maysville 26

Putnam County 42, Polo 8 

Gallatin d. Princeton – FORFEIT (Gallatin clinches GRC-11 title outright) 

Penney 46, West Platte 8 

East Buchanan 41, Lawson 0

North Platte 36, Lathrop 14

Mid-Buchanan 63, Plattsburg 6

Maryville 49, St. Joseph Lafayette 14

Savannah 28, St. Pius X 13

Chillicothe 46, St. Joseph Benton 14

Cameron 24, Marshall 7 

Brookfield 34, Highland 6

Monroe City 50, Clark County 0 

South Shelby 31, Palmyra 6

Macon 20, Centralia 14

Marceline 35, Paris 0 

Harrisburg 56, Scotland County 6

Westran 44, Salisbury 0

Tolton Catholic 40, Fayette 36

Lafayette County 79, Carrollton 12

Richmond 45, Lexington 0 

Holden 44, Knob Noster 6

Albany 74, Pattonsburg 32

Worth County 66, Stanberry 14

North Andrew 68, Southwest Livingston 6

King City 46, St. Joseph Christian 0 

North Shelby 96, Braymer 80

Norborne/Hardin-Central 66, Keytesville 22

Stewartsville/Osborn 72, DeKalb 48

Platte Valley 30, East Atchison 16