Bettendorf Falls in 1st Round of Iowa High School Football Playoffs

by Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

If you check-out The High School Football Huddle's other sites, you'd know that the second season is called that for a reason.

Slates are wiped clean, and once teams are "in the dance" for a shot at a state high school football, attitudes change.

Just ask Bettendorf fans how heartbreaking the second season can be.

Wednesday night Bulldogs fans sat back helplessly as their team was upset by Cedar Rapids Kennedy 17-14 in the substate round of the Iowa High School Football playoffs. Bettendorf came into the game 8-1, while Kennedy was a sub-.500 team at 4-5.

The Quad City Times reports that this one came down to the end with Kennedy's offense making the big plays.

Here are the rest of the scores from the substate games on Wednesday

Class 4A
#6 Ankeny 46, Mason City 7
Des Moines East 14, Des Moines Lincoln 7 (OT)
#1 Dowling Catholic 31, Ames 27
Johnston 28, Ottumwa 13
#4 Marshalltown 49, Indianola 14
Urbandale 49, Sioux City East 14
Waukee 49, Council Bluffs Abe Lincoln 14
West Des Moines Valley 45, #9 Fort Dodge 28
#10 Cedar Falls 23, Davenport Assumption 3
Cedar Rapids Kennedy 17, #5 Bettendorf 14
#8 Cedar Rapids Washington 42, North Scott (Eldridge) 21
Cedar Rapids Xavier 38, Pleasant Valley 21
#3 Clinton 42, Cedar Rapids Prairie 13
Dubuque Hempstead 23, Davenport Central 7
#2 Iowa City High 45, Iowa City West 20
#7 Linn-Mar (Marion) 37, Burlington 14

Class 3A
ADM (Adel) 20, LeMars 16
#9 Ballard (Huxley) 37, Webster City 7
#6 Bishop Heelan (Sioux City) 66, Creston/Orient-Macksburg 2
#4 Carroll 46, Hampton-Dumont 12
#3 Centerville 40, Washington 8
Clear Creek-Amana 38, Carlisle 3
#2 Clear Lake 35, Dallas Center-Grimes 17
Decorah 24, Maquoketa 0
Denison-Schleswig 14, Glenwood 9
#8 Grinnell 27, Fairfield 7
#1 Harlan 49, MOC-Floyd Valley 7
JSPC (Jefferson) 20, Charles City 17
#5 Marion 42, West Delaware (Manchester) 0
#10 New Hampton 48, Vinton-Shellsburg 7
Pella 31, #7 Williamsburg 24
Union (La Porte City) 41, Oelwein 13

Class 2A
Bondurant-Farrar 27, Maple Valley-Anton-Oto 14
#3 Boyden-Hull/rock Valley 42, East Sac County 20
Missouri Valley 23, Collins-Maxwell-Baxter 21
#6 Cascade 26, Hudson 0
Davis County (Bloomfield) 28, North Cedar (Stanwood) 26
#10 Eagle Grove 14, Sioux Center 7
Gilbert 21, #10 Sumner-Fredericksburg 19
#8 IKM/Manning 35, West Marshall (State Center) 30
#9 Iowa City Regina 28, West Burlington/Notre Dame 5
#7 Kuemper Catholic (Carroll) 36, PCM-Monroe 7
Mid-Prairie (Wellman) 44, Center Point-Urbana 14
#2 North Fayette (West Union) 48, Roland-Story 18
#4 Osage 48, Beckman (Dyersville) 14
Sheldon 26, Pochaontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 12
#1 Solon 48, Mediapolis 12
#5 Western Christian (Hull) 62, Cherokee 20

Class 1A
#7 Clayton Ridge (Guttenburg) 21, Wapello 6
Eddyville-Blakesburg 44, Northeast (Goose Lake) 28
#2 Emmetsburg 13, Aplinton-Parkersburg 7 (OT)
Hinton 34, #8 Griswold 14
#6 Harltey-Melvin-Sanborn 7, Logan-Magnolia 6
Manson-NW Webster 28, Mount Ayr 21
Panorama (Panora) 30, Pella Christian 25
#4 Prairie Valley (Gowrie) 41, Nodaway Valley 7
#10 South Winnesheik (Calmar) 42, Lake Mills 6
#1 St. Albert (Council Bluffs) 52, West Sioux (Hawarden) 13
St. Ansgar 31, Denver 7
Starmont 21, Belle Plaine 7
#9 Turkey Valley (Jackson Junction) 28, St. Edmond (Fort Dodge) 0
#3 West Branch 34, Bellevue 6
#5 West Lyon (Inwood) 35, Underwood 15
Woodward-Granger 22, Des Moines Christian 6

Class A
#2 A-H-S-T (Avoca) 42, Southeast Warren (Liberty Center) 0
Akron-Westfield 41, Bishop Garrigan (Algona) 0
#8 B-G-M (Brooklyn) 42, Cardinal (Eldon) 6
Bedford 30, Van Meter 27
#10 Central (Elkader) 21, Northwood-Kensett 9
Clay Dentral-Everly 13, Woodbury Central (Moville) 8
#4 Gehlen Catholic (LeMars) 24, Rockwell City-Lytton 0
#3 Madrid 63, Corning 7
North Mahaska (New Sharon) 25, Danville 0
#1 North Tama (Traer) 56, Highland (Riverside) 0
#5 NUH-Cedar Falls 56, Lisbon 20
#6 Southern Cal (Lake City) 28, Alta 14
#10 Treynor 64, Earlham 7
WACO (Wayland) 35, H-L-V (Victor) 13
#9 Wapsie Valley (Fairbank) 27, Tripoli 7

Class 8-Player
Adair-Casey 60, Farragut 24
#9 Ankeny Christian Academy 69, Melcher-Dallas 28
#4 Armstrong-Ringsted 66, Ar-We-Va (Westside) 6
CAM (Anita) 34, Sidney 28
C-W-L (Corwith) 62, Dunkerton 16
East Mills 62, Coon Rapids-Bayard 56
Graettinger-Terril 62, Woodbine 25
#1 Lenox 62, Moravia 6
#10 Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) 40, Kee (Lansing) 0
#1 North Sentral Kossuth 54, Remsen-Union 34
#6 Preston 73, Clarksville 0
#5 Stanton 32, Glidden-Ralston 6
#3 Tri-County (Thornburg) 21, East Union (Afton) 10
West Bend-Mallard 44, #7 St. Mary's (Remsen) 36
#8 West Central (Maynard) 32, Janesville 28

Iowa Playoffs Begins Wednesday

By Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

The Iowa high school football postseason gets underway Wednesday night with the substate round. In 4A, defending champ Bettendorf (9-0) will be looking for the school's 8th state championship. The Bulldogs figure to be able to make it to the state title game with a possible match-up against West Des Moines Valley (9-0). WDM Valley is ranked #1 by the Des Moines Register, Bettendorf is #2. Iowa City High is the only other undefeated 4-A team, and would face Bettendorf in the state semis.

In 3-A, 2007 runner-up Bishop Heelan of Sioux City would seem to have the inside track to be celebrating a championship in the University of Northern Iowa Dome next month. In 2-A, defending champ Solon seems to be the team to beat. Defending champ St. Albert is probably the class of 1-A, but don't forget the feel good Aplington-Parkersburg, which was a perfect 9-0 this year after a tornado devastated the community earlier this year.

Here are the first round match-ups...

Class 4-A
Des Moines Lincoln at #1 West Des Moines Valley
Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson at Ottumwa
Mason City at #9 Johnston
Fort Dodge vs #8 Dowling Catholic at Urbandale
Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln at #10 Southeast Polk
Des Moines East at Ames
Indianola at Waukee
Sioux City North at #7 Ankeny
Davenport Assumption at #3 Iowa City High
Cedar Rapids Kennedy at Cedar Rapids Xavier
Cedar Rapids Jefferson at #5 Cedar Falls
Dubuque Wahlert at #6 North Scott (Eldridge)
Muscatine at #4 Cedar Rapids Washington
Dubuque Hempstead at Burlington
Pleasant Valley at Cedar Rapids Prairie
Clinton at #2 Bettendorf

Class 3-A
ADM (Adel) at #1 Bishop Heelan (Sioux City)
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at #10 Lewis Central (Council Bluffs)
MOC-Floyd Valley at #7 Harlan
Atlantic at Spencer
Ballard (Huxley) at #3 Clear Lake
Charles City at Boone
Algona at #9 Carroll
Dallas Center-Grimes at Webster City
Benton (Van Horne) at #5 Decorah
West Delaware (Manchester) at #6 Marion
New Hampton at #2 Central Clinton (DeWitt)
Union (LaPorte City) at Crestwood (Cresco)
Norwalk at #4 Mount Pleasant
Clear Creek-Amana at Centerville
Oskaloosa at #8 Pella
Grinnell at Williamsburg

Class 2-A
Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer at #2 Central Lyon/George-Little Rock
Boyden-Hull/rock Valley at Eagle Grove
Western Christian (Hull) at Okoboji (Milford)
Cherokee at Unity Christian (Orange City)
Kuemper Catholic (Carroll) at #6 West Marshall (State Center)
Bondurant-Farrar at Missouri Valley
PCM (Monroe) at #3 IKM/Manning
Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove at Collins-Maxwell-Baxter
Beckman (Dyersville) at #5 Roland-Story
Gilbert at #10 Cascade
Osage at #9 North Fayette (West Union)
Sumner-Fredericksburg at Dike-New Hartford
Sigourney-Keota at #1 Solon
Wilton at West Burlington-Notre Dame
Tipton at #4 Mid-Prairie (Wellman)
Davis County (Bloomfield) at #7 Iowa City Regina

Class 1-A
Underwood at #4 West Lyon (Inwood)
Hinton at Griswold
Lawton-Bronson at #3 St. Albert (Council Bluffs)
Logan-Magnolia at #10 Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn
Ogden at #8 Pella Christian
Pleasantville at Woodward-Granger
Nodaway Valley at Prairie Valley (Gowrie)
Manson-NW Webster at #9 Mount Ayr
South Winneshiek (Calmar) at #2 Emmetsburg
Garner-Hayfield at Gladbrook-Reinbeck
Saint Ansgar at #1 Aplington-Parkersburg
Nashua-Plainfield at #6 St. Edmond (Fort Dodge)
Pekin at Maquoketa Valley (Dehli)
North Linn (Troy Mills) at #7 Belle Plaine
Alburnett at #5 West Branch
Iowa Valley (Marengo) at Northeast (Goose Lake)

Class A
Newell-Fonda at #6 Akron-Westfield
#9 Alta at Bishop Garrigan (Algona)
Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn at #3 Southern Cal (Lake City)
Clay Central-Everly at #8 Gehlen Catholic (LeMars)
Corning at #5 Madrid
Earlham at Boyer Valley (Dunlap)
Van Meter at #2 A-H-S-T (Avoca)
Bedford at Colo-NESCO
Lisbon at #7 Northwood-Kensett
#10 Rockford at Central (Elkader)
Riceville at #4 East Buchanan (Winthrop)
Wapsie Valley (Fairbank) at Newman Catholic (Mason City)
BGM (Brooklyn) at New London
Lone Tree at H-L-V (Victor)
Highland (Riverside) at #1 North Tama (Traer)
North Mahaska (New Sharon) at WACO (Wayland)

8-Player
Graettiner-Terril at Remsen-Union
Woodbine at #3 Armstrong-Ringsted
St. Marys (Remsen) at #2 North Sentral Kossuth
#7 Laurens-Marathon at #8 Ar-We-Va (Westside)
Sidney at #5 CAM (Anita)
Coon Rapids-Bayard at East Mills
Glidden-Ralston at #1 Stanton
Villisca at Adair-Casey
West Central (Maynard) at #10 C-W-L (Corwith)
Ventura at Preston
Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) at #9 Central City
Dunkerton at Janesville
Ankeny Christian Academy at Tri-County (Thornburg)
Harmony (Farmington) at #4 Lenox
Twin Cedar (Bussey) at Lamoni
#6 East Union (Afton) at Melcher Dallas

Bettendorf Wins Iowa 4-A Title

Bettendorf needed a late fourth quarter touchdown to win Iowa's 4-A high school football championship.

Top-ranked Bettendorf (13-0) beat Ankeny 21-16 when quarterback Danny Tharp hit Billy Rembold with a 19-yard touchdown pass with :12 left in the game. Ankeny had taken a 16-14 lead on a 17 yard field goal by Zach Ryan with 2:26 to go in the game.

The championship is the seventh for Bettendorf.

To read a complete recap, click here.

Iowa High School Football Scoreboard - Championships

Iowa High School Football Scores
Friday, November 16, 2007

Championships

Class 4A
Bettendorf 21 Ankeny 16

Class 1A
Saint Albert, Council Bluffs 7 Regina, Iowa City 6

Class A
Wapsie Valley, Fairbank 22 Lawton-Bronson 14
Click here for game statistics from IHSAA

8-Man
Stanton 32 Armstrong-Ringsted 24
Click here for game statistics from IHSAA