The Dell Rapids Quarrier football team scored 28 points in the fourth quarter to pull away from the Dakota Valley Panthers and earn a 56-20 win on Friday, September 26th, at Dakota Valley High School.
Dell Rapids scored the first two touchdowns of the game in the first quarter. Riley Schmidt scored on a 57 yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter to give the Quarriers a 7-0 lead. Schmidt found the endzone again near the end of the quarter, this time from seven yards, to push the Quarrier lead to 14-0 after the first quarter.
Dakota Valley scored first in the second quarter on a 12-yard pass from Luke Schmitt to Brady Glissman to cut the lead to 14-7. Dell Rapids answered on another Schmidt touchdown. His third touchdown came on a 48-yard pass from Jase Nelson, and Dell Rapids led 21-7. The Panthers closed the game before halftime on a 46-yard pass from Schmitt to Glissman again to make the score 21-13 at halftime.
Keegan Hemenway dove into the endzone at the end of a seven-yard run on the first drive of the second half for Dell Rapids to extend the Quarrier lead to 28-13. Dakota Valley, however, would pull within one touchdown again as Schmitt found Ethan Klasi in the endzone on an 11-yard pass to make the score 28-20 at the end of the third quarter.
That’s when the Quarrier offense and defense took control of the game. Tanner Ljunggren scored on a six-yard run to make the score 36-20. After the Dell Rapids defense forced the Panthers to punt, Schmidt capped off a Dell Rapids drive with his fourth touchdown on a 19-yard run. Just a mere 20 seconds later, Schmidt scored on a 20-yard interception return for a touchdown to give Dell Rapids a 49-20 lead. Anthony Miller scored the final touchdown for Dell Rapids on a one-yard run.
Schmidt had 10 carries for 124 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. Schmidt also had three catches for 83 yards and a receiving touchdown, plus the interception return for a touchdown. Ljunggren finished the game with 11 carries for 63 yards and a touchdown. Hemenway had nine carries for 43 yards and a touchdown. Nelson finished 5-8 passing for 108 yards and a touchdown.
Ben Gillogly led the defense with nine tackles and a sack. Beau Carpenter had seven tackles in the game. Ljunggren added six tackles, and Seth Anderson finished with five tackles.
Dell Rapids improves to 3-1 on the year and will host Lennox on Friday, October 3rd, for Homecoming.
