Elk Mound football squashes Fall Creek Crickets for third straight Cloverbelt win
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FALL CREEK — The Elk Mound football team captured its third straight Cloverbelt conference victory of the season with a 12-0 shutout of host Fall Creek last Friday, September 27.
With their win over the Crickets, the Mounders improved to 3-1 in league play and 5-2 overall. Elk Mound could secure a playoff berth with a win in just one its final three games, all conference contests, of the regular season. Elk Mound will host Mondovi, who is coming off a 37-22 loss to Cloverbelt co-leader Regis, for its annual homecoming game this Friday, October 4.
The game at Fall Creek was scoreless affair through much of the first half. The Mounders finally put the first points on the scoreboard with just 4:32 remaining in the first half when senior quarterback Logan Jerome called his own number and scampered 12 yards for the touchdown. Fall Creek stopped Parker Rhude short of the goal line on the run for two points, but Elk Mound was ahead 6-0, a lead that it took into halftime.
Both squads were unable to find the end zone in the third quarter,
Elk Mound, however, punctuated the end zone for the second and final time with just 2:22 to play in the game. A three-yard plunge by Rhude secured a Mounders’ win. A conversion pass from Jerome to Rownan Soul-Stewart fell incomplete and the game ended in a 12-0 Mounders’ victory.
Although Elk Mound had just 194 yards of total offense it was enough to send Fall Creek to its fourth defeat in six contests this season.
Much of the Mounders’ offensive yardage came via their ground game. Elk Mound finished with 164 yards on 33 carries. Parker Rhude led with 99 yards on a dozen hauls and finished with a touchdown, Parker Dutzle ran the ball 14 times for 37 yards and Logan Jerome carried six times for 30 yards and the other Mounder score.
Jerome finished just 3-for-11 passing for 30 yards. Rownan Soul-Stewart caught two of those three completions for 18 yards. Kamron Diermeier had the other catch for 12 yards.