JUNIOR HIGH BEARCATS CONTINUE ASSAULT OF 3A-1

The Booneville Junior High Bearcats continued their assault on Conference 3A-1 Thursday night with a 40-8 win in West Fork.

The Tigers took advantage of the Bearcat aggressiveness early, using a couple of offside flags to help move the chains twice but would eventually turn the ball over on downs when Braxton Hubble made a fourth down tackle for a 3-yard loss.

From there it took three plays to score with Sadler Miller going 43 yards for the touchdown and Callen Montalvo adding the first of five straight 2-point conversions for the Bearcats (8-0, 5-0) to make it 8-0.

West Fork opted to punt on their next fourth down and that did not work well either as Hayden Daniel returned it 64 yards for a touchdown and Montalvo again ran for the 2 and a 16-0 lead with 57 seconds to play in the first quarter.

A holding call and a turnover derailed the next Bearcat possession and another holding call threatened another before Montalvo (shown making a cut) scored both a touchdown and the extra two with 1:34 left in the first half and it was 24-0 with 1:34 left in the half.

The Bearcats threatened again before the break, but ran out time and were unable to add to their lead.

Drake Brackeny would add to the lead just 1:02 into the second half on a 47-yard touchdown run and Daniel added the conversion for a 32-0 advantage.

Daniel was also under center for the next possession which ended with Montalvo completing his 97 yard night with a second touchdown and Brackney throwing to Nate Fowler for the conversion. Fowler made the catch despite the defender being flagged for pass interference.

The final quarter saw West Fork keep the ball the entire eight running minutes scoring a touchdown and 2-point conversion on the final two plays of the night.

The scoring drive, however, did see Ethan Schiewe, Ashton Lyle, and Kenan Mathewson all record multiple tackles.

For the night the leaders were Latthen Shaffer, Hubble, and Kass DuPree.

Up next for the Bearcats is their final home game of the season against Mansfield next Thursday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.