Keeping an opponent to single-digit scoring for a second straight contest, Bayfield had its way with floundering Montezuma-Cortez on the gridiron last Friday night, winning easily their Homecoming Week game by a lopsided 47-0 margin.
Ranked ninth in the CHSAANow.com Class 2A poll going in, and now eighth in Monday's revision, the Wolverines (4-2, 2-0 2A Intermountain) rammed the football down the Panthers' collective gullet for a reported 262 yards at a wicked 7.7 yards per pop and scored five touchdowns. Quarterbacks Josh Westbrook and Hayden Farmer combined to go 5-of-7 passing for another 109 and two scores against one interception.
Sophomore David Hawkins led the ground game with 106 yards on just 12 carries and had two touchdowns, while junior Hunter Killough scored twice on 6-42 rushing. Junior Carl Heide also lugged in a six-pointer and finished with 60 yards on only two tries.
Senior Brian Mashak led the aerial attack with two receptions for 55 yards, while Killough (1-27) and sophomore Keyon Prior (1-20) grabbed the two TD tosses-almost in response to M-CHS' flickering ability to occasionally move the ball in the same manner.
Sophomore Zeke Vargas caught three balls for 74 yards and senior Tanner DesRosiers two for 36 as Panther QB's Cole Herrmann and Coby Baer were a combined 12-of-25 for 133 yards-led by the versatile Baer's 7-of-10, 112 figures as Herrmann was picked off three times. Rushing for Montezuma-Cortez (1-5, 0-2), however, was almost an impossibility; Bayfield allowed just seven yards on 11 carries.
Mashak (who was an unusual 3-of-7 in PAT kicks), Hawkins and senior Jesse Westbrook each had an interception defensively, senior Ryan Nava recovered a fumble and big center/nose guard Sam Westbrook-named Homecoming King at halftime-barged through to block a punt and also scored a safety.
It was just that kind of a night for Bayfield, and though the Wolverines never regard any opponent lightly, they could be in for a similar one tonight when they travel to Pagosa Springs for tonight's 7 p.m. kickoff.
The Pirates will come in standing 1-5 overall, 0-2 in conference after last week's 35-17 loss at Gunnison.
CHSAANOW.COM CLASS 2A FOOTBALL POLL (issued 10/10): 1.La Junta, 2.Loveland Resurrection Christian, 3.Colorado Springs The Classical Academy, 4.Denver D'Evelyn, 5.Englewood Kent Denver, 6.Delta, 7.Keenesburg Weld Central, 8.BAYFIELD, 9.Manitou Springs, 10.Sterling.
