BURLINGTON — Iola Middle School’s seventh-grade football team rolled to a 30-16 win over host Burlington Middle School Monday.
The IMS eighth-grade Ponies gave up 20 points in the fourth quarter, losing 42-24 to the Bobcats.
For the IMS seventh grade, Nick Vaughn snatched a Bobcat pitch and returned it 65 yards for the score. With it tied 8-8, Isaac Vink put the Ponies on top for good with a 16-yard reverse play that went for a touchdown.
Vink caught an 84-yard touchdown pass from Evan Sigg in the third quarter. Sigg scored from one yard out in the fourth. Cale Barnhart, who had 69 yards on 18 carries, scored two two-point conversions and Sigg, who was 5 of 9 for 123 yards passing, flipped a two-point conversion pass to Ethan Holloway.
Matthew Komma led the IMS seventh-grade defense with 10 tackles. Barnhart had nine tackles.
In the eighth-grade football game, it was tied 16-16 at halftime.
Chase Regher caught a 16-yard scoring strike from Ben Cooper in the first quarter for Iola and Nate Evans had a one-yard touchdown run in the second period. Evans had a two-point conversion run and caught a two-point conversion pass.
Evans, who rushed for 195 yards on 37 carries, scored on a 30-yard run in the fourth quarter and had the two-point conversion.
Cooper was 6 of 13 passing for 64 yards. Regehr caught five passes for 59 yards.
Evans had 11 tackles and Regehr had nine tackles for Iola’s defense.
