Despite giving up a harmless last minute touchdown, the Ipswich Tiger football team came away with an impressive 44-20 road win vs. Herreid/Selby Area and were still able to line up in their victory formation last Friday.
One reason had to be Trevor Heinz setting a school reception record of 15 catches. They totaled 168 yards which was second best all time. (#2 behind Todd Miller’s 210 yards.) Of course that meant that quarterback Max Kulesa wouldn't have too bad of an evening himself finishing with 19 completions in 30 tries for 290 yards.
Casey Geditz began the IHS scoring with a three-yard touchdown scamper, but the PAT play would fail. Ipswich would then score 14 second-quarter points for a 20-0 halftime lead. Geditz started that stanza with a 15-yard TD carry and also ran a successful PAT play. Kulesa then passed to Kyle Hettich for a 10-yard score.
Ipswich briefly led 28-0 early in the third quarter with a 17-yard aerial hook up from Kulesa to Chet Peterson and Kulesa also passed to Heinz for the two-point conversion.
But the hosts would get on the board with a touchdown and conversion and then added a touchdown pass play without a successful PAT. That still left them trailing 28-14 with a quarter to play.
But Ipswich would answer with back-to back insurance touchdowns. Kulesa first passed to Trevor Heinz for 17 yards with a successful two-point conversion run by Hettich. Kulesa then found Heinz for a 24-yard aerial TD followed by a Hettich conversion carry.
Then after that too little too late touchdown by the Wolverines the Tigers would begin celebrating!
The Tigers added 132 rushing yards to their total offense, led by Geditz with 14 carries for 79 yards and Hettich with two carries for 14 yards. The hosts would counter with 190 rushing yards and 107 passing yards for a balanced attack. (Hettich would become Ipswich's second leading receiver that evening with seven receptions for 81 yards and Peterson added two catches for 26 yards.)
Defensively Ipswich had a busy evening led by 17 tackles from Hettich, 15 tackles by Peterson and 13 tackles from Justin Rohrbach.
Ipswich had nine first downs and HSA 12.
Ipswich improved to 3-2 with its win and will next play in Aberdeen at the NSU campus on Saturday vs. Leola/Frederick beginning at 1 p.m.
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