YOUTHFUL VIKINGS FALL TO HAVEN

Stambaugh, Baker Lead Youthful Smoky Valley

By Staff

LINDSBORG – A youthful Smoky Valley football team gave the home crowd everything they had but still came up short on the scoreboard Friday in losing to Haven 61-28.

With just four seniors surrounded by eight juniors, fourteen sophomores and eight freshmen, the Vikings are now 0-2 but playing hard as they now prep for a battle next Friday on the road at Larned. Larned is 1-1 so far in 2023 with a loss to Pratt and a win over Lyons.

For the Vikings, Gavin Stambaugh ran into the end zone from one yard out to give them their first score though they were still in the hole 12-6 at the end of the first quarter.

Ty Heitschmidt scored from 11 yards out in the second quarter, but Haven put 22 on the board and held a commanding 34-14 lead at halftime before pouring 27 points into the stat sheet in the third quarter raising their lead to 61-14.

In the final quarter of action, Stambaugh scored again on a short plunge into the end zone and Heitschmidt, the Vikings sophomore quarterback found sophomore tight end Kristian Ryan for a 15-yard scoring pass play to make the final verdict 61-28.

The Viking offense still struggled to get yards as they had 183 yards on 64 plays against Haven, with Stambaugh leading the offense with 64 yards rushing.

On defense, Smoky Valley had 15 players put a tackle by their name in the stat sheet with junior Ezekiel Baker getting six total tackles of which three were solo stops.

SMOKY VALLEY VIKING FOOTBALL hosting Haven

SCORING > VIKINGS = 6-8-0-14 = 28; Haven = 12-22-27-0 = 61.

1st Quarter >

Haven = Scored on a 43-yard pass play (Kick Failed) 0-6

VIKINGS = Gavin Stambaugh on a 1-yard run (2-Point Conversion Failed) 6-6

Haven = Scored on a 67-yard run (Kick Failed) 6-12

2nd Quarter >

VIKINGS = Ty Heitschmidt on an 11-yard run (2-Point Conversion was Good) 14-12

Haven = Scored on a 37-yard pass play (2-Point Conversion was Good) 14-20

Haven = Scored on a 36-yard pass play (Kick was Good) 14-27

Haven = Scored on a 21-yard run (Kick was Good) 14-34

3rd Quarter >

Haven = Scored on a 44-yard run (Kick was Good) 14-41

Haven = Scored on a 26-yard run (2-Point Conversion Failed) 14-47

Haven = Scored on an 8-yard run (Kick was Good) 14-54

Haven = Scored on a 3-yard run (Kick was Good) 14-61

4th Quarter >

VIKINGS = Gavin Stambaugh on a 1-yard run (2-Point Conversion Failed) 20-61

VIKINGS = Kristian Ryan on a 15-yard pass from Ty Heitschmidt (2-Point Conversion was Good) 28-61

TEAM STATS > VIKINGS Haven

1st Downs 16 18

Plays/Yards 64/183 N/A

Passing Yards 47 N/A

Rushing Yards 136 N/A

3rd Downs Made 4/10 6/9

Turnovers 3 0

Fumbles Lost 3 0

Interceptions 0 0

Penalties/Yards 7/53 10/96

SMOKY VALLEY VIKING INDIVIDUAL STAT LEADERS:

Passing (Comp/Atts/Yds/Tds/Int) > Ty Heitschmidt = 5/11/47/1/0.

Rushing (Att/Yds/Tds) > Gavin Stambaugh = 22/64/2; Christian Erickson = 5/25/0; Jack Opat = 4/21/0; Ty Heitschmidt = 10/16/1; Crew Elliott = 5/15/0. Team Totals = 46/136/3.

Receiving (Rec/Yards/Tds) > Kristian Ryan = 2/33/1; Toren Miller = 3/14/0. Team Totals = 5/47/1.

Defense (Tackles/Solo/Asst/For Loss) > Ezekiel Baker = 6/3/3/0; Takoda Hauck = 5/3/2/0; Ty Heitschmidt = 4/2/2/0; Jack Opat = 4/2/2/0; Geo Luis = 4/2/2/0; Crew Elliott = 3/2/1/0; Auley Boughfman = 3/2/1/0; Gabe Baker = 2/1/1/0; Christian Erickson = 2/1/1/0; Kristian Ryan = 2/2/0/0; Gavin Stambaugh = 2/0/2/0; Andrew Young = 2/1/1/0; Josh Crain = 1/1/0/0; Brock Gengler = 1/1/0/0; Samuel Zeller = 1/1/0/0. Team Totals = 38/20/18/0.

(The Staff covering McPherson County Activities can be reached by email at macks.people.places@gmail.com)