Flatonia Falls to Three Rivers
The Flatonia Bulldogs football team lost on the road Friday at Three Rivers 55-24.
The loss drops the Bulldogs to 1-3 this season while Three Rivers improves to 4-0.
Flatonia’s Kade Giese scored two of the Bulldogs’ touchdowns, on a 76-yard pass from Beck Zimmerman and on a 60 yard kick-off return.
Jaylon Anderson caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Zimmerman and Josemaria Garcia kicked a 40-yard field goal.
But all that offense wasn’t enough to overcome a Three Rivers attack that churned out 559 yards of total offense, including 325 on the ground.
Flatonia begins district play Friday at Ganado (3-1) which is coming off a 42-6 thrashing of Tidehaven.
Three Rivers 55 Flatonia 24
Score by quarters
Flatonia 7 3 7 7 – 24 Three Rivers 14 14 13 14 – 55
Flat. TRiv.
Rushing yds 164 325 Passing yards 105 234 Total yards 269 559 Comp-Att-Int 3-13-1 10-20-0 Fumbles lost 0 0 Penalties-Yds 4-33 3-12
Scoring summary 1ST QUARTER
THREE RIVERS – 2 yard run (kick good) THREE RIVERS – 19 yard run (kick good) FLATONIA – Kade Giese 76 pass from Beck Zimmerman (Josemaria Garcia kick).
SECOND QUARTER
THREE RIVERS – 12 yard run (kick good) THREE RIVERS – 91 yard pass (kick good) FLATONIA – Garcia 40 field goal
THIRD QUARTER
THREE RIVERS – 77 yard run (kick good) THREE RIVERS – 21 yard run (kick failed) FLATONIA – Jaylon Anderson 22 pass from Beck Zimmerman (Garcia kick)
FOURTH QUARTER
THREE RIVERS – 27 yard run (kick) FLATONIA – Giese 60 yard kickoff return (Garcia kick) THREE RIVERS – 8 yard run (kick good)
INDIVIDUAL STATS Rushing:
Flatonia – Jeegan Green 8-73, Koren Scott 1550, Beck Zimmerman 10-39, Nathan Aguillon 2-2.
Passing: Flatonia – Zimmerman 3 of 13 for 105 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INT.
Receiving: Flatonia – Kade Geise 1-76, Jaylon Anderson 1-22, Green 1-7.
District 15-2A Schulenburg 3-1 Danbury 3-1 Ganado 3-1 Kenedy 2-2 Flatonia 1-3 Bloomington 1-3 Weimar 1-3
Friday results:
St. John 28, Danbury 7 Holy Cross 27, Weimar 17 Three Rivers 55, Flatonia 24 Schulenburg 35, Brazos 6 Ganado 42, Tidehaven 6 Van Velck 61, Bloomington 0 Kenedy 52, Pettus 0
This week’s games: Danbury at Bloomington Flatonia at Ganado Kenedy at Schulenburg Weimar is off