The Iola High School football team was shut out by Girard on senior night on Friday, 47-0.
Girard wasted no time getting on the scoreboard when Luke Niggeman rushed the ball into the end zone from 19 yards out on the Trojans’ first drive of the game for the 6-0 lead.
Adam Shireman rushed in the next touchdown for the Trojans on a two- yard run. Girard then proceeded to score the two-point conversion for a first quarter 14-0 advantage.
“From a defensive perspective, we need to be more assignment-sound,” said Iola head coach David Daugharthy. “We’re going to learn about our character in the next week because after a tough loss like this, getting shut out on senior night, we’re going to find out what kind of men are in this locker room.”
Iola’s (2-4) Tre Wilson intercepted a pass early in the second quarter at the Mustang 25-yard line which he returned to the 41-yard line for one of the first Mustangs’ defensive stops.
For Girard, Shireman had himself quite the night finding the end zone again with four minutes left in the first half. Shireman came from 18 yards out for the 21-0 Trojan lead.
Girard’s Alex Coester then took a one-yard rush into the end zone, expanding the Trojan lead to 28-0.
Girard was far from done scoring. Coester found the end zone again following halftime on a 20-yard touchdown rush for a 34-0 lead three minutes into the second half.
“They run that triple-option and they run it really well. We had a game plan, we would have a play where one guy would execute and two guys wouldn’t and that lets it down. With the triple-option, you need the entire defense to execute and we just didn’t do that very often tonight,” said Daugharthy.
Shireman ran in his third touchdown on a 15-yard score with three minutes remaining in the third quarter for the 41-0 Girard edge.
Just when everyone thought the game was at hand, Girard ran in one more touchdown with time expiring to secure the 48-0 victory.
Iola’s Drayden Reiter rushed for 31 yards, followed by Tre Wilson’s seven yards on the ground. 
“Tonight I saw him (Reiter) running the ball hard. When he does that, good things happen so we’ll look to keep feeding him,” said Daugharthy.
Carter Hutton started the game under center for the injured Landon Weide but was quickly replaced by Jordan Kaufman who threw for 35 passing yards. Hutton also secured 21 receiving yards while Reiter brought in 14 receiving yards.
Defensively, Wilson collected 10 tackles while Korbin Cloud brought down five tackles and Danny Boeken and Reiter made four tackles apiece. Wilson also came up with his 20-yard interception return in the second quarter.
Iola travels to Prairie View Friday at 7 p.m.
