The Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms lived up to their name; History was made for Caledonia; Rocori wrapped up an overtime win and the Wayzata Trojans got an outstanding game from Christian Vasser in the first day of the 2019 Prep Bowl Friday, November 29 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Here's a recap of Friday's four games.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE 41, BOLD 15.
Friday's festivities opened with the Class A title game that showed why the Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms lived up to their name as Gabe Hagen caught two touchdown passes and opened the scoring with a pick six to lead them to a 41-15 win over the BOLD Warriors.
Hagen, a wide receiver who also plays defense put the Awesome Blossoms on the board when he stepped in front of Warrior quarterback Jordan Sagedahl and intercepted his pass that led to the opening touchdown. BOLD ties the game with a touchdown described by public address announcer Mark Graves "Sagedahl to Sagedahl" when Jordan threw a 15 yard pass to his brother Drew to put BOLD ahead 8-7. Blooming Prairie would regain the lead on a nine yard touchdown pass from Kaden Thomas to Matthew Pryor. Both teams would tally in the second quarter as Hagen reached the end zone a second time on a 25 yard pass from Thomas for the Awesome Blossoms. The Warriors touchdown came on a 14 yard shovel pass to Blake Plass as Blooming Prairie led at the half 21-15.
To the third quarter and there would be some bad news for BOLD when Jordan Sagedahl left the game due to an injury. But the good news for the red and white clad Warrior fans was that he would return after Drew Sagedahl finished the last drive. Unfortunately, BOLD wouldn't be bold since Blooming Prairie scored 20 unanswered points and Thomas finished the game with four touchdown passes, the other two to Hagand and Karson Vigland.
CALEDONIA 26, MINNEAPOLIS NORTH 0
The Caledonia Warriors made Minnesota football history Friday afternoon when Elijah King caught two touchdown passes and scored on a 58 yard punt return en route to a 26-0 victory over the Minneapolis North Polars to win their fifth consecutive Class AA championship.
Caledonia became the first school since Stephen-Argyle from 2003-07 to win five straight state titles. It was also the 10th state title overall for the southeastern Minnesota school.
The Warriors opened the scoring when Elijah King caught a 48 yard pass from his brother Noah to give them a 6-0 lead. In the second quarter, Elijah King bobbled a Polar punt, recovered it and took the ball 58 yards it to the end zone. Noah King threw his second touchdown pass, a 15 yard strike to Cole Kronebusch with 3:00 left to give the Warriors a 20-0 halftime lead.
Elijah King would wrap up the scoring in the third quarter as he hauled in a 10 yard touchdown pass.
ROCORI 22, SMB WOLFPACK 14 (OT0
Jack Steil would drive the SMB Wolfpack defense wild as he rushed for two touchdowns and threw the game winning two point conversion to Andrew Anderson in overtime to lead the Rocori Spartans to a 22-21 win in the Class AAAA championship game.
It was the second state title for Rocori, comprising the communities of Rockville, Cold Spring and Richmond and their first since 2011.
The Wolfpack took the early lead after Jalen Suggs threw a 34 yards pass to Terry Lockett that spotted the ball at the Spartan one yard line and the senior quarterback kept the ball and scored on a one yard run. The Spartans would even the scored, aided by an SMB five yard encroachment penalty that moved the ball to the Wolfpack three yard line and Steil ran the ball to the end zone on the next play.
Rocori would take the lead in the third quarter as Steil scored his second touchdown on a five yard keeper run. The spartan defense would pressure Suggs throughout the game, recording five sacks. But SMB would tie the game on a three yard run from Sanjay Redd and it was on to overtime.
The Wolfpack had the first possession and got the ball to the one yard line. But SMB was called for a false start penalty that backed them up to the six yard line. And they cashed in when Suggs threw a six yard pass to Terry Lockett to put the Wolfpack ahead. Then it was Rocori's turn and it looked pretty grim when Steil fumbled and the ball was on the 15 yard line. But on fourth and goal, Steil threw a right side pass to Jayden Phillipi to cut the deficit to one. The Spartans decided to go for the two point conversion and Steil fired the ball to Anderson on the right side of the end zone and he made the catch to clinch the Class AAAA championship trophy.
WAYZATA 35, CHAMPLIN PARK 20
What a night for Christian Vassar. He ran for 285 yards and five touchdowns to lead the Wayzata Trojans to a 35-21 win over the Champlin Park Rebels in the Class AAAAAA title game.
The Rebels took the early lead in the first quarter on a 40 yard field goal from Noah Vogelpohl. Both teams would tally twice in the second quarter as Vassar scored twice for the Trojans and Shawn Shipman shipped two balls across the goal line for the Rebels.
Wayzata would wrap up their first state title since 2010 on touchdown runs from Vassar of four, three and two yards. The best Champlin Park could do was Vogelpohl's second field goal from 26 yards.
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