MHS - Football / September 22, 2021 By Kasey McDowell
The Mulvane varsity football team traveled to Clearwater last Friday, September 17th for an AVCTL D4 game against the Indians. The Cats came out on fire in the first half as senior quarterback Mason Ellis scampered into the endzone with a 1 yard run at the 6:54 mark in the first quarter and a very impressive 26 yard run at the 1:42 mark, breaking several tackles and diving into the pylon for the touchdown. In the second quarter, the Cats struck once again with a 32-yard pass from Ellis to senior Hunter Seier at the 10:26 mark. Junior Chase Dieker kicked all three extra points. The Cats grabbed 2 more points at the 6:50 mark in the second quarter as they pushed the Indians back towards their own endzone and forced an intentional grounding in the endzone for a safety. The Cats went into halftime up 23-0.
Clearwater had a good third quarter and was able to get a couple of scores on the board with a 2-yard run and an 11-yard run. The Wildcats were able to close the game out in the fourth quarter with a 7-yard TD run by junior Julien Myers (Dieker kick good). Mulvane forced another safety as the Indians were lined up to punt in their endzone and the snap went over the kicker's head and out the back of the endzone for the safety. The Wildcats picked up their first win of the season 32-13.
VAR 1 2 3 4 Final
MHS 14 9 0 9 32
CHS 0 0 13 0 13
Mulvane finished with 368 yard total offense (190 yds passing; 178 yds rushing) while their defense held Clearwater to just 127 total yards (31 yds passing; 96 yds rushing). Ellis had his best passing game of the season as he went 17-32 for 190 yards and 1 touchdown. Seier was his main target with 8 receptions for 126 yards and 1 touchdown. Senior Ian Comer finished with 4 receptions for 48 yards. Junior Tyke Creekmore finished with 2 receptions for 23 yards. Ellis led the Cats on the ground as well with 17 attempts for 115 yards and 2 touchdowns. Myers finished with 17 attempts for 55 yards and junior Eli Hensley had 1 rush for 9 yards.
The Defense was led by Trent Moses (Sr.) who finished with 6.0 tackles (3 solo - 6 assist) while Hunter Seier finished with 5.5 (4-3), Ian Comer with 5.0 (2-6), Andrew Huynh (Jr.) with 3.5 (2-3), Trenton Davis (Jr.) with 2.5 (2-1) and Zach Lanzrath (Sr.) with 2.5 (2-1) as the top 6 tacklers.
Defense Cont: Maurice Fuller 2.0 (2-0), Josh Phillips 1.5 (0-3), Ethan Irvine 1.5 (1-1), Chase Dieker 1.0 (1-0), Mason Ellis 1.0 (0-2), Mason Cooper 1.0 (1-0), Keaton Herd 1.0 (1-0), Eli Hensley 0.5 (0-1), Shannon Fuller 0.5 (0-1).
Complete game stats can be found here.
The c-team was split into two teams this past Monday and had a doubleheader against Clearwater and Douglass. The first game was against Clearwater and the Wildcats came out on top 22-6. The second game against Douglass came out in the Cats favor 45-12.
The Varsity team will travel to Circle tomorrow for a non-league matchup against the Thunderbirds. Game time starts at 7:00 PM.
