Saturday, the Sigourney-Keota Cobra football team will get their first live action of the year in a three team scrimmage when they host Davis County and the Fairfield Trojans.
SK is coming off of a 7-2 season that featured an unbeaten district record en route to their fifth straight title and playoff bid. The Cobras scored 41 points per game and gave up 19 per night. They averaged 390 yards per contest, 312 on the ground and 78 through the air. They will need to replace their top two rushers, Isaac Bruns and Brady Clark who combined on 209 carries, 1827 yards and 25 touchdowns. That duo also led the receiving corps with 12 catches, 303 yards and five touchdowns. Leader back on the ground is Brayden Wood after a junior year with 67 rushes, 289 yards and five scores. Wood was also the leader through the air at 22 of 36 for 450 yards, six touchdowns and five interceptions. Ayden Galindo is the top returning receiver with a pair of touchdown grabs for 135 yards. Defensively, leading tackler Ashton Schwab departs with the top performer back John Berg with 31 stops. Owen Menke is back after a team best nine tackles for loss. Berg is turnover leader, coming back after three takeaways as a junior, for a team that had 16 total. SK ranked in the top 10 of Class 1A in 10 different categories a season ago.
Davis County enters the fray after a 3-5 year and winless season in 2A District 5. The Mustangs averaged 27 points per game and gave up 33 on 292 yards per game, 251 on the ground and 41 passing. Cason Young is back as the leader by air and ground with 1454 all-purpose yards and 12 touchdowns. He went for 1,155 rushing with 10 scores and was 19 of 53 passing for 299 yards, two scores and three picks. The Mustangs top two receivers have departed as Blaine Meyer and Brett Prevo pulled in 11 passes for 140 yards and a touchdown. Top returner is Ethan Erdman with four grabs for 51 yards. On defense, top tackler Hank Bulechek is back with 34 stops, three for loss a year ago. Houstin Schooley had three takeaways last year to lead the team and is back for a Mustang defense that forced 12 total turnovers.
Fairfield was 2-7 a year ago, finishing fifth in Class 3A District 5 at 1-4. The Trojans scored 26 points and gave up 30 per game last season, averaging 304 yards per game, 248 on the ground and 56 in the air. Quarterback Voss Richardson returns after a 41 of 106 season passing with 493 yards, three touchdowns and six interceptions. His leading receiver Ethan Bisgard also returns after a sophomore season with 262 yards on 22 catches and a pair of touchdowns. On the ground a year ago, the Trojans were led by the duo of Luke Konczal and Zandrik Allison with a combined 249 carries, 1,555 yards and 16 touchdowns. Allison is back with 143 rushes, 765 yards and eight scores. Defensively, Konczal was the leader with more than 100 tackles last year, Bisgard’s 30 are the best returning with Calvin McLain’s five for loss the best in that category.
This week, Cobra head coach Jared Jensen joined the KCII Football Roundtable Show to talk about what he wants to see from his team in the scrimmage.
Jensen said, “They passed things now so you can have multiple teams. We still have Davis County like the last few years and now we’ve added Fairfield to the mix. We want this thing to be fast, we want it to be fun, we want people to be excited. We are going to be firing new teams back and forth and get it up tempo so it feels like a game. We’ll see the good, the bad and the ugly, you always do. Come out uninjured, learn from your mistakes, and come out of it being a better team with a chance to fix those mistakes before week one.”
Action starts at 9a.m. Saturday at Sigourney High School.