The 2019 season is proving to be wide open in class 11A, and the Dell Rapids Quarriers are showing everyone they are one of the top teams in the class.  With wins over Lennox, Mitchell, and Madison this season, the Quarriers picked up another road win on Friday, September 27th.  Dell Rapids defeated Tri-Valley 35-6 for their fifth win of the season.

The Quarriers took the lead late in the first quarter and never looked back.  Logan Stone put Dell Rapids on the board with an eight-yard touchdown run with 3:41 to play in the quarter.  Aiden Boechler made the extra point for a 7-0 lead.  Coby Maeschen scored again for Dell Rapids with 8:40 to go in the second quarter on a five-yard run, and Boechler made the extra point for a 14-0 Quarrier lead.  Tri-Valley took advantage of a couple of penalties in their only drive that resulted in a touchdown.  Mason Mathieau scored with 4:59 to play in the half, but the two-point conversion was no good.  Dell Rapids led 14-6.  After a fourth down stop late in the quarter, the Quarrier offense drove down the field in about a minute’s time to score right before halftime.  Collin Rentz connected with Logan Ellingson on a 10-yard touchdown pass with :33 to go, and Boechler again made the extra point for a 21-6 halftime lead.

The Dell Rapids defense continued to keep the Mustang offense out of the endzone in the second half, while the offense scored two more times in the third quarter.  Maeschen scored both of the touchdowns in the third quarter on one-yard carries.  The first touchdown came with 4:08 to play in the third quarter.  The second touchdown came after Maeschen intercepted a Mustang pass and returned it to the one-yard line.  Boechler made both extra points.

Dell Rapids held Tri-Valley to just 119 yards of total offense.  The Quarriers had 314 yards of offense, 172 passing yards and 142 rushing yards.  Collin Rentz was 7-10 passing for 136 yards and a touchdown.  Austin Henry finished 3-9 passing for 36 yards.  Maeschen had three catches for 86 yards.  Ellingson had five catches for 66 yards and a touchdown, and Tyler Wood had two catches for 20 yards.  Stone tallied 42 yards and a touchdown on seven carries.  Maeschen had five carries for 15 yards and three touchdowns.  Wood also had 12 rushing yards.  Trevon Cross had a 32 yards run, and Landon Ruesink had a 19-yard run.

Brayden Gee led the defense with nine tackles and a sack.  Thane Hilmoe, Carter Rentz, and Maeschen (also had an interception) all had eight tackles in the game.  Cross finished with seven tackles, and Ian Hackett finished with six tackles.  Drew VanRegenmorter finished with four tackles and a sack.

Dell Rapids (5-0) will host Dakota Valley for homecoming on Friday, October 4th.  The game can be seen on Big Sioux Media.

Leading by just a point after a Mitchell touchdown, the Dell Rapids Quarrier defense kept the Kernals out of the endzone on a two-point conversion attempt to keep the Quarriers undefeated in the 2019 season.  Dell Rapids went to Mitchell on Friday, September 20th, and came home with a 7-6 road victory.

The defenses of both teams were the stars of this game.  Mitchell finished with just 230 total yards, while the Quarriers were held to just 173 total yards.  The teams were a combined 7-20 on third down attempts and 3-8 on fourth down attempts.

Mitchell had the ball to start the game and drove deep into Quarrier territory.  On a third down play near the Quarrier ten yard line, Coby Maeschen intercepted a pass for the first turnover of the game.  Mitchell returned the favor about a minute and a half later with an interception of their own.  Neither team was able to get on the scoreboard in the first quarter.

Dell Rapids broke through with a touchdown with 5:42 to play in the second quarter.  Maeschen scored on a one-yard touchdown run after a drive that lasted over seven minutes.  Aiden Boechler made the extra point, and Dell Rapids held a 7-0 lead.  The lead would stand through the remainder of the second quarter into halftime.

Neither offense could get into a groove in the third quarter as the score remained 7-0 heading into the fourth quarter.  Mitchell moved the ball deep into the Quarrier territory, but the Quarrier defense shut down the Kernals on fourth down to get the ball back with 5:42 to play.  However, on the very first play, Dell Rapids fumbled the snap and the Kernals recovered the ball.  Mitchell then took the ball inside the Quarrier five yard line.  The Dell Rapids defense kept Mitchell out of the endzone on three plays and forced a fourth and goal.  The Quarriers hit Parker Phillips in the backfield, but he spun out of the tackle and scored to pull the Kernals within a point at 7-6 with 3:03 to play.

Mitchell called one of their timeouts and decided to go for the two-point conversion instead of the game-tying extra point.  Mitchell quarterback Austin Kerr lobbed a pass to the corner of the end zone that fell incomplete, but a pass interference call was made against the Quarriers.  That gave Mitchell another chance at the conversion from the 1.5 yard line.  The hand off was given to Phillips, but he was tackled short of the goal line by Brayden Gee to keep the score at 7-6.  Dell Rapids caught the onside kick attempt and ran out the clock for the win.

Colin Rentz finished the game 6-9 passing for 62 yards and an interception.  Tyler Wood had three catches for 36 yards, and Logan Ellingson had three catches for 26 yards.  Logan Stone had 10 carries for 38 yards on the ground.  Maeschen had nine carries for 36 yards and a touchdown.  Wood also had five carries for 11 yards.

Maeschen led the defense with 17 tackles and an interception.  Trevon Cross had 11 tackles.  Wood and Carter Rentz both had nine tackles and a tackle for loss.  Drew VanRegenmorter had eight tackles, and Gee finished with seven tackles.

Dell Rapids (4-0) will travel to Tri-Valley to play the Mustangs on Friday, September 27th.  The game can be seen on Big Sioux Media.