BENTON FOOTBALL PREVIEW 2024

School: Benton Community Bobcats
Nickname: Bobcats
Colors: Royal Blue and Gold
Conference: WaMaC
Class: 3A
District: District 6
Co-Head Coach: Kal Goodchild andJeff Zittergruen
Assistant Coaches: Garrett Albers, Ryan Junge, Josh Hoeck, Adam Bauder
Tylor Edwards, Colin Waters, Rich Fisher

Last Year’s District Record: 2-3
Last Year’s Overall Record: 5-4

Conference/District Champs: 11
Conference/ District Champ Years: 1980, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2018, 2019, 2021
Chief Rival: Vinton-Shellsburg

Number of Returning Letterman: 14
Number of Returning Starters: Offense-6 Defense-5

Preview from Coach Goodchild and Zittergruen

Top Teams in District: Williamsburg should be the favored team in the district. I would think the Grinnell will be a close second. Solon will be a good team and should be able to compete at the upper level. South Tama brings back a large number of returning players. Fairfield will have a very good running back. With a new staff it is hard to determine how good they will be.

Our non-district will be very tough. We open with Vinton and that is our rival and has always been a good game. Marion and CCA are bringing back a number of good athletes and will be very solid teams. Mt. Vernon will be one of the top teams in 3A again.

Overall Thoughts: We have a challenging schedule. The competition will be very good. We play two 4A schools and one team that was in the State Championship. Solon, Marion, Williamsburg and Mt Vernon were play-off teams a year ago. Six of the nine teams we played had winning records.

We return All State lineman Carter Holmes, We have had a very good off season! We also have a talented group of incoming athletes that should make us better. Our athletes have worked very hard in the weightroom to help make us competitive! We lost a very talented group but returned some very talented athletes.

Returning Starters

Offensively returning starters. OL- Kamden Kesl, Carter Holmes, RB- Brenden Heying, Mason Mitchell, TE- Dawson Rozek Punter Eli Kupka

Defensive returning starters: DL- Dawson Rozek, Mason Mitchell LB- Brenden Heying, DB- Carson Nolan, Dilon Lefebver

Football 2024-25

Friday, Aug 30 – at Vinton-Shellsburg 7:30 PM CT
Friday, Sep 6 – at Marion. 7:15 PM CT
Friday, Sep 13 – Mount Vernon 7:15 PM CT HOME
Friday, Sep 20 – Clear Creek Amana 7:30 PM CT HOME
Friday, Sep 27 – at Fairfield. 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct 4 – Solon 7:30 p.m. HOME
Friday, Oct 11 – Grinnell 7:30 p.m. HOME
Friday, Oct 18 – at South Tama 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct 25 – Williamsburg 7:30 p.m. HOME