Central Lee looking foward to winless WB-ND

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Hawks fall 55-7 to Mt. Pleasant and now face school closer in size to Central Lee

BY JOHN BOHNENKAMP
PCC SPORTS

DONNELLSON - Nick Ehret looked over at the celebrating Mount Pleasant football team, and the Central Lee coach knew his team wouldn’t see the size of players like the Panthers had for the rest of the season.

“I hope not,” Ehret said with a laugh. “Not that I’m aware of.”

The Hawks’ 55-7 loss on Friday night was the program’s 14th consecutive defeat, but Ehret saw signs that, with West Burlington-Notre Dame ahead next week followed by district play, there was improvement.

“We did some good things,” Ehret said. “That’s just a very good team, big and physical. But yeah, we did some good things.”

The Hawks (0-3) trailed just 14-0 at the end of the first quarter before the Panthers (2-1) dominated with a 41-point second quarter.

“Defensively, I thought we did some good things,” Ehret said. “But I just thought we got overwhelmed at times.”

Central Lee has played Fort Madison (Class 3A), Mediapolis (Class 1A) and Mount Pleasant (Class 3A) to start this season, teams with larger numbers than the Hawks.

WB-ND is a Class 2A team, and then the Hawks play their final five games against opponents in 2A District 6.

“We’re getting to that point where we’re sick of (losing),” Ehret said. “Now they have to do something about it.

“We’re playing teams we feel we can compete against. We match up well. But we still have to go out there and play. Nobody is going to roll over for us. Everybody’s got weapons we have got to stop. But we’re happy to be through these first three weeks.”

Mount Pleasant’s opening scoring drive took just 57 seconds, capped by a 24-yard touchdown pass from Brody Bender to Rylan Seberg.

The Panthers fumbled in Central Lee territory on their next possession, but the Hawks couldn’t move the ball. Bender then threw a 71-yard touchdown pass to Chase Williamson on the ensuing possession for a 14-0 lead.

Mount Pleasant then scored six touchdowns in the second quarter. Logan Bass had two touchdown runs of 9 and 43 yards. Jack Johnson had a 62-yard touchdown run. Isaiah Albright had a 15-yard touchdown run, then Bender threw a 33-yard TD pass to Seberg. Klayton Kleinkopf closed the scoring in the quarter with a 31-yard touchdown run.Johnson rushed for 147 yards. Bender threw for 163 yards.

The Hawks scored in the fourth quarter on Dalton Westercamp’s 2-yard run, then had another touchdown called back because of a penalty.

Westercamp rushed for 43 yards. Adam Boeck threw for 42 yards, then Mason Schau threw for 67 yards in the second half. Trent Stutes had five catches for 105 yards.

“Offensively, we did some good things, but we still have some things to sort out,” Ehret said.

Ehret said the Hawks showed improvement after last week’s 82-14 loss to Mediapolis.“We played hard tonight, which was definitely an improvement from last week in how we played,” Ehret said. “Our attitudes were better.

He knew the Hawks had survived their early games.“We had three tough teams to start the year. We did,” Ehret said. “But we’re through it.”

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