Tiger Football

The Springfield Tiger varsity football team traveled to Morgan for a matchup with Cedar Mountain-Comfrey last Friday evening, October 14.  The Tigers got their first win of the season, defeating the Cougars 28-20 before a large crowd of satisfied Springfield fans. The Tigers had a great first half with  Aaron Salonek scoring 2 touchdowns for the Tigers and teammates Ben Runck and Kale Meendering each scoring 1 touchdown.  The victory puts the Tiger record at 1-6 as they face Minnesota Valley Lutheran this Wednesday, October 19 at 7 p.m. in Riverside Park.  Congratulations and best of luck to Head Coach Paul Dunn in action this week!

Tigers 28  CMC 20

The Tigers played the Cedar Mountain-Comfrey Cougars in Morgan last Friday evening.  The Tigers got their first victory of the season by defeating the Cougars 28-20 in the Southwest District, East Subdistrict game.

On Tiger offense, Aaron Salonek had 12 carries good for 126 yards and 1 reception for 8 yards plus 2 touchdowns.  Ben Runck had 6 carries good for 51 yards and scored a touchdown while Kale Meendering had 3 carries for 2 yards and 2 receptions for 69 yards plus a touchdown.  Teammate Devin Johnson had 9 carries good for 42 yards plus 77 yards passing in the game.

On Tiger defense, Kale Meendering had a total of 25 tackles—8 being solo tackles.  Tiger Brett Berberich had 12 tackles followed by Aaron Salonek, Mason Rummel, Ben Runck and Michael Gluth with 9 tackles apiece.  Andrew Beckman had 7 tackles and teammates James Ploeger and Curtis Tauer each had 6 tackles.  Devin Johnson and Cole Christensen had 5 tackles apiece followed by Ivan Hovland and Jake Veenstra with 4 tackles apiece.  Decker Scheffler added 1 tackle for the Tiger victory.

Tigers 12-16-0-0—28

CMC 6-6-8-0—20