Tigers end regular football season with win

Ipswich won the battle of the Tigers last Friday in Ipswich to pick up a huge 49-18 Gala Day win over the Dupree Tigers.

The IHS Tigers would rush for 293 yards and pass for 157 more yards with a balanced offensive attack. And they weren't all that bad defensively as well holding a talented Dupree offense to 173 rushing yards and 106 passing yards and three touchdowns.

Ipswich struck first with a quick 33-yard TD run by Casey Geditz and Max Kulesa then passed to Trevor Heinz for the two-point conversion. The IHS Tigers would add a further first-quarter score, that being a 58-yard run by Kyle Hettich. And Kulesa then passed to Heinz for another successful PAT and a 16-0 lead at the first-quarter break.

That Kulesa to Heinz aerial connection would then result in a 41-yard touchdown, followed by a Hettich PAT carry.

But Dupree would respond with a 18-yard scoring run by Bobby Brewer with an unsuccessful PAT attempt.

Hettich then gave Ipswich a little more breathing room with a 10-yard TD rush, though the PAT play would fail. But Ipswich would put together another touchdown drive capped by a pass of 17 yards from Kulesa to Heinz. And the visiting Tigers would score a touchdown of their own on a Braydon Terveen-Smith 10-yard TD carry.

Ipswich would respond with a couple of insurance touchdowns, though. Geditz first scored on a 64-yard carry and that PAT play would fail. But Hettich would explode for another 64-yard run to paydirt and Chet Peterson would kick the PAT point.

Dupree then capped scoring with a harmless three-yard TD run by Terveen-Smith. He would end up with three pass catches for 43 yards. Their leading rusher would be Brewer with 82 yards on 12 carries and Roper Eaton was next at 11-28.

Ipswich responded with Hettich's 167 rushing yards on seven carries and Geditz was next at 5-111. Kulesa finished 8-17-0 through the air and his top receiver was Heinz at 5-85 and Peterson was next at 2-37.

Dupree moved the first-down chains eight times while Ipswich would end up with four first downs that evening.

Defensively Ipswich's Geditz got 14 tackles, Peterson 11 and Hettich seven. Terveen-Smith countered with seven tackles for the visitors, followed by Tyler Stambach with five tackles and Eaton with four tackles.

Ipswich improved to 4-4 with its non-conference victory and Dupree fell to 3-5. The IHS regular football season is complete, next week is their bye week. The team plans to travel somewhere on Oct. 19 to play in the first round of the playoffs. The team and location will be announced after next week's games are done.