Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, at Van Horne

No. 5 Williamsburg (7-2) 0, No. 11 Benton (7-2) 21

W  0 0 0  0 - 0
BC 0 7 0 14 - 21

Benton Community passed for 13 yards. Carson Nolan was 2 for 8 with one interception.

Benton rushed for 221 yards. Logan Upah had one carry for five yards. Nolan had 18 carries for 116 yards. Dylan LeFebvere had 19 carries for 100 yards and three touchdowns. Elias Bieschke had one carry. Logan Upah had on catch for four yards. Gavin Brooks had one catch for nine yards. 

LeFebvere had 9.5 total tackles with seven solo. Blayke Heying had 7.0 total tackles and six solo. Grant Volesky had 6.0 total tackles with four solo. Mayson Mitchell had 5.0 total tackles and four solo. Brenden Heying had 6.0 total tackles with three solo. Mitchell had one sack.

Will Schanbacher recovered one fumble. Blayke Heying had one interception with a 20-yard return. Logan Upah had two punt returns. Owen Von Ahsen had one. Elijah Kupka had four kickoffs for 172 yards. The was 3 for 3 for points after touchdown. He had five punts for 208 yards. 

Williamsburg’s Grant Hocker was 16 for 22 in passing for 107 yards and one interception. Williamsburg rushed for 75 yards, led by Nile Sinn with 58 yards.

Class 3A, District 5, Oct. 25, 2024
No. 10 Solon 54, South Tama 6
No. 11 Benton 21, No. 5 Williamsburg 0
No. 16 Grinnell 45, Fairfield 27

Standings

Season, district, point difference average

Benton       7-2 5-0 +17.9
Solon        7-2 3-2 +20.8
Williamsburg 7-2 4-1 +28.7
Grinnell     6-3 2-3 + 8.2
Fairfield    2-7 1-4 -10.3
South Tama   0-9 0-5 -30.1

CLASS 3A
POD A
Clear Lake at Humboldt
Solon at Benton Community

POD B
MOC-Floyd Valley at Sergeant Bluff-Luton
Bishop Heelan, Sioux City at Nevada

POD C
Assumption, Davenport at Wahlert Catholic, Dubuque
Williamsburg at Independence

POD D
Harlan Community at Algona
Carroll at Mount Vernon

Coach Jeff Zittergruen said: For the past four weeks our kids have embraced our goal of making every game a hard-nosed, physically grinding game. We were able to execute at a high level in all phases of the game with our special teams playing a huge role in establishing field position. Our regular season goal was to contend for a district title and for our team to be able to reach that goal in one of the most difficult 3A districts in the state is an awesome accomplishment. Our community support has been awesome at our home games all year long and for our athletes to be able to share that experience with everyone on Friday was pretty cool.

As we move forward into the playoffs, our goal is to continue to focus on what we need to do to improve this week. We will be hosting a very good Solon team on Friday and will need to have another solid week of preparation for that opportunity on Friday.