The Oskaloosa Freshman traveled to Southeast Warren on Monday night to take on the Warhawk JV team and they came away with a 28-6 victory.

The Warhawks scored early in the game but the Indians were able to stop them on the 2 point conversion to hold them to 6 points and that would be all the points they could muster on the night as the defense played strong the rest of the way coming away with a couple of interceptions and a fumble recovery as well.

Oskaloosa scored on its first drive on a 29 yard run by Tyler Miller around the outside to get the game started, 7-0.  Iszac Schultz was the next Indian to cross the goal line for the Indians as he scored on a 6 yard run up the middle to make it 14-6.  Oskaloosa would score a little later in the game on a nice run by Brayden VanKampen who scored on a 15 yard touchdown run to make the game 21-6.  The final score of the game came on a 41 yard pass from Miller to Cody Gunn that made the final score 28-6.  Aaron Blom came in and kicked the extra points going 4-4 with a couple of them going into the hayfield across the street.  He also had a couple of touchbacks on the kick-offs as well.

During the game 7 different players carried the ball and 5 different players caught passes on the night getting everyone involved.  The 7 different Indians ran the ball for a total of 241 yards as Miller led the way with 101 of those yards and followed closely by Schultz with 91, VanKampen with 24, C.Butler with 10, K. Butler with 9, Krier with 3, and Deney with 2.  Receiveing for the Indians was led by Gunn with 41 yards, Miller with 39 yards, VanKampen with 26 yards, VanVeldhuizen with 18 yards and C. Butler with 5.

The Defense was a well balanced team as everyone was doing their part on the night.  Schultz led the way with 8 tackles, Noah VanVeldhuizen had 7, Blom had 6, Wyatt Krier had 6, Miller had 5, Gunn had 4, Cale Hoover had 2, Ford had 2, Sarver had 2, K.Butler had 2, and Deney had 1.  Reece Sarver also had 22 yards on Punt returns.  Aaron Blom had an interception and Schultz had a strip and fumble recovery.

The Indians hope to continue to raise the bar on Friday night as they host the Mount Pleasant Panthers at home with the game starting at 5:00pm.

Fayette, Mo.–The Statesmen volleyball team was seeking to avenge a loss two weekends ago, but came up short on the road in a 3-1 Heart of America Athletic Conference loss to Central Methodist Tuesday.

William Penn (3-11, 0-1 Heart) lost by scores of 15-25, 26-24, 18-25, 19-25.  The navy and gold had previously lost to the Eagles (15-3, 1-0 Heart) on September 3; that loss came as a sweep, so by taking a set Tuesday, WPU certainly showed improvement.

The visitors failed to do much in the opening set, but were much stronger in the second go round to even things up.  CMU held the upper hand in the end, however, to hand WPU a loss in its Heart opener.

Claire Simmons (So., Williamsburg, Iowa, Psychology) had her name called quite often Tuesday, tallying 13 kills during a 47-attack night.  She also served up one of her squad’s three aces.

Savanna Hartman (Sr., Morgan Hill, Calif., Psychology) was in double figures as well with 10, whileShawni Wills (Sr., Oskaloosa, Iowa, Biology) added six winners.  Lilly Martinez (Sr., Oakland, Calif., Psychology) contributed just five kills, but managed those in only 12 tries for a team-best .333 attack clip.

Kathleen Steffen (So., Vinton, Iowa, Biology), with 21 assists, and Haley Smith (So., Adrian, Mich., Elementary Education), with 17, were fairly even in the two-setter formation.

Ashley Miller (So., Kalona, Iowa, Exercise Science) topped the Statesmen defense with 17 digs.

“We continue to have plenty of good moments, but unfortunately there are far too many bad ones as well,” Head Coach Jennifer Carlson said.  “If we want a change at winning these big matches, we need to put it all together for a full match.”

Next Up: William Penn travels to Indianola Thursday to face Simpson in non-conference action at 7:30 p.m.

Story provided by Wade Steinlage