MOUND CITY — “Overall, we improved from week one to week two,” Humboldt High Football Coach K.B. Criss said of his team’s performance, after the Cubs blasted the Jayhawk-Linn Jayhawks Friday evening, 55-2.
The Jayhawks’ sole score came off of a safety call in the first quarter. The Cubs opened the scoring with a 10-yard touchdown run from Jacob Carpenter. Caleb Vanatta had two rushing touchdowns in the second quarter, and Kason Siemens completed a eight-yard pass to Hunter Murrow in the end zone with only eight seconds left to end the half.
The second half seemed like deja vu.
Vanatta opened the third with another 20-yard rushing touchdown, and Siemens hit Hunter Murrow again on a touchdown pass, this time for 75 yards.
Vanatta led the Cubs in rushing with 101 yards on 13 carries. Murrow had two receptions for 83 yards in the contest. As a team, the Cubs had 279 total offensive yards, compared to the Jayhawks’ 49 total offense.
Defensively, Zach Osborn led the team in solo tackles with five, followed by Grayson Pearish with four.
“Defensively, I think we did a good job of keeping ourselves out of bad situations and keeping them in third and long situations,” Criss said.
The Cubs host Neodesha Friday.
Humboldt 7-21-13-14—55
Jayhawk-Linn 2-0-0-0—2
Humboldt — Carpenter 10 yd run (Vanetta kick)
JL — Safety (Humboldt penalty in own end zone)
Humboldt — Vanetta 9 yd run (Vanetta kick)
Humboldt — Vanetta 11 yd run (Vanetta kick)
Humboldt — H. Murrow 8 yd pass from Siemens (Vanetta kick)
Humboldt — Vanetta 20 yd run (Vanetta kick)
Humboldt — H. Murrow 75 yd pass from Siemens (kick failed)
Humboldt — Isaac 40 yd interception return (Vanetta kick)
Humboldt — Paden 45 yd fumble return (Vanetta kick)
Humboldt J-Linn
First Downs 7 1
Rushes-yd 19-118 30-36
Passing yds 161 13
Total Offense 279 49
Passing 8-20-2 1-11-3
Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-3
Punts/Avg. 2/37 6/29
Humboldt crushes Jayhawk-Linn
