ROUND UP: Hiatt scores 3 TD in tight football victory, Blackmore sinks five goals over Tigers

FOOTBALL

Hiatt scores three touchdowns in Badger 35-34 victory 

NINE MILE—The Lakeside Eagles (1-2) struck first, but the Badgers had the last laugh winning 35-34, with Conrad Hiatt scoring three touchdowns on Friday, Sept 20.  

The Eagles led 20-0 at the half, but the Badgers came back looking for blood and scored five touchdowns and field goals in the second half.  

In the second half, Hiatt scored three touchdowns, one off a reception and two off a rush. Sulaymanu “Sulay” Abubakari added a TD off a reception and Keenan Maas scored off a rush.  

Hiatt added 11 carries for 96 yards, a long of 21 and an average of 8.7 yards. Abubakari had eight receptions adding 102 yards out of 144 Badger reception yards. Maas rushed for 36 carries for 185 yards, with a long of 42 yards.  

The Badgers had a whopping 453 all-purpose yards, more than twice what they earned in the season opener against 5A Lakeland. The Badgers have added more all-purpose yards each game this season and had 371 yards against Northwest Christian on Sept. 13 and 269 yards against St. Maries on Sept. 6. 

QB Brody Rice went nine for 13 in passes for 107 yards, five for 14 in rushing with a long of 15 and an average of 2.8.  

QB Alex Stolley went one for two for seven yards.  

Alex Taylor went two for seven in carries.  

On defense, Devin Sceppe added six tackles, five were solos and Jacob Solt and Bradlee Bennett added five tackles.  

Daric Vincent added a sack for a loss of 12 yards, Thomas Hoggan also had a sack for a loss of five yards.  

Badger football has a bye this week and will play at Kellogg on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. 

BF 00 14 21— 35 

Lakeside 12 8 14 0— 34 

VOLLEYBALL  

Bonners Ferry 3, Priest River 2  

PRIEST RIVER — The Badgers overcame the Spartans in five sets (24-26, 20-25, 25-23, 25-18, 15-9),  in a nonleague match on Monday. 

The Badger fell in the first two sets but edged the Spartans in the next three.  

On offense, sophomore outside hitter Taren Bateman had 17 kills and six aces, with senior outside hitter Helene Rae adding15 kills. Kim Lucas had five aces and five assists, setter Ellie Falck had 39 assists.  

On defense, Falck and Bateman had 18 digs, Lucas had 17 and Rylie Kimball nabbed a block.  

Lucas and Bateman also had 20 serve receptions a piece.  

BF 3, Stillwater 1

KALLSPELL — Badger volleyball sought revenge against Stillwater Christian 3-1.  

The Badgers fell to Stillwater for the season opener 1-3, but on Sept. 20, the Badger led from the start winning 25-19, 25-15, 20-25, 25-13.  

On offense, Rae had 21 kills and Bateman added 16.  

Falck had two aces, 13 digs and 41 assists. Kimball added two blocks. 

Rae and Makenna Sandle had 12 digs a piece. Kimball and Lucas had five serve receptions each.  

SOCCER 

GIRLS 

Timberlake 4, Bonners Ferry 2  

BONNERS FERRY — The Badgers (6-5, 4-2) fell to the Tigers (5-1-1) 4-2  in league play on Tuesday, but saw drastic improvement from past 10-0 lost to the Tigers.  

Timberlake led 4-1 in the first half, with Bonners Ferry German exchange student Ocka Stroemer scoring for the Badgers.  

In the final minutes, Maddie Hart scored for Bonners Ferry.  

Bonners Ferry head coach Emily Winebark said the improvement of 4-2 from 10-0 loss is encouraging looking to districts.  

“We’re starting to get our quick triangle passing to work,” Winebark said. “We are playing sequences instead of playing for the ball,” which shows the team is learning more about the game of soccer. 

“We’ve got our defensive line set and are strong with Addison Lucan and Ocka Stroemer reading what needs to happen,” she said.  

The new formation of a 4-3-3 has helped change this up as well, she said. The Badgers have played a lot of physical teams the past week and know how to play through the contact and not lose their cool.  

The Badgers faced CDA  Charter (4-2-2, 4-0-1) on Wednesday.  

Riverside 3, Bonners Ferry 1

NINE MILE — Ocka Stroemer scored for the Badgers against the Riverside Rams on Monday.  

BF 3, Stillwater 1 

KALLSPELL — Badger girls soccer (6-3, 4-1) is second in league and sank the Stillwater Christian 3-1 on Sept. 20.  

The match was tied 1-1 at half, but then the Badgers went uncontested in the second half and won 3-1.  

BOYS 

Blackmore sinks five goals against Tigers 

BF 8, Timberlake 0

BONNERS FERRY — Eli Blackmore scored five goals for the Badgers (9-1-1, 8-0 IML) in a win over the Tigers at Bonners Ferry High.   

The Badgers led early on with a goal from senior forward Nik Rawson, but at the 28 minute mark it was game on, as senior midfielder Eli Blackmore went to work.  

Blackmore earned a hat trick right before halftime, as the Badgers led 4-0.  

In the second half, he scored off a header and then again earned his fifth goal when he out ran the Badger defense and went one-on-one with the Tiger keeper.  

Rawson earned his second goal of the night at the 41st minute and Dominic Solum scored sliding into goal.  

“I feel that we came out solid then there was a little slump,” Bonners Ferry head coach Paul Bonnell said.  

He said when Rawson and Blackmore were taken it out and coaching staff showed let them see what was happening on the field.  

“At half-time we said we can either drag this game out at 4-0, or finish it,” Bonnell said.  

Blackmore’s header was a turning point in the game as it pushed the Badgers to finish the game, Bonnell said.  

The Badger faced Coeur d’Alene Charter (8-0-1, 6-0) on Wednesday.  

Next week the Badgers will play three games in a row to round out league.  

Stillwater 3, BF 0

KALLSPELL — Badger soccer fell to Stillwater Christian 3-0 on Sept. 20.  

Bonnell said the Stillwater loss reset the Badgers mindset and was a good wake up to see where the team is complacent.  

In the season opened season against Cougars the Badgers won 7-2.  

He added that the Cougars had more athletes than at the first match up.