Year-to-date defensive stat leaders through Week 7

Here are your defensive stat leaders through Friday night’s 27-20 win over North. As always, thanks to Larry Ellington for compiling these.

2014 Defensive Stat Leaders

• Solo tackles: 24 – Will Brown
• Tackle assists: 53 – Joey Diekman
• Total tackles: 59 – Will Brown
• Sacks: 4 – Brock Ashworth
• Tackles for loss: 6 – Aaron Euler
• TFL assists: 5 – Brock Ashworth & Trevor Fetscher
• Interceptions: 5 – Will Brown & Isaac Flowers
• Fumbles caused: 1 – Joey Diekman, Trevor Fetscher, Triston Hape & Dakota Mathis
• Fumbles recovered: 2 – Trevor Fetscher
• Passes deflected: 9 – Elijah Dunham
• Hurried passes: 8 – Brock Ashworth
• Blocked kicks: 3 – Isaac Flowers
• Defensive score: 1 – Will Brown, Elijah Dunham & Triston Hape
• Sack yards: 21 – Brock Ashworth
• Tackle yards: 24 – Tanner Duran

Full pdf files of defensive stats

• Year-to-date (through Week 7)
• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7

Barnes, Fetscher voted Week 7 Reis Tire Players of the Game

The Reitz Nation has spoken! Following the Panthers’ 27-20 win over North, the readers of ReitzFootball.com voted for Jackson Barnes and Trevor Fetscher to be the Week 7 Reis Tire Offensive and Defensive Players of the Game.

Offensive Player of the Game voting results
39 – Jackson Barnes
31 – Kerrion Ringo
10 – Entire offense
1 – Evan Deig

Defensive Player of the Game voting results
37 – Trevor Fetscher
22 – Will Brown
21 – Brock Ashworth
15 – Entire defense

Congratulations to these fine young men and the entire Reitz Football team!

2014 Offensive Players of the Game
Week 1: Malik Higgins
Week 2: Evan Deig
Week 3: Malik Higgins
Week 4: Evan Deig
Week 5: Malik Higgins
Week 6: Nate Hansen
Week 7: Jackson Barnes

2014 Defensive Players of the Game
Week 1: Trevor Fetscher
Week 2: Trevor Fetscher
Week 3: Aaron Euler
Week 4: Entire defense
Week 5: Aaron Euler
Week 6: Ethan Robison
Week 7: Trevor Fetscher

Thank you to Reis Tire for their support of the our weekly Player of the Game fan vote!

ReitzFootball.com Players of the Game/Year Archive

Vote for the Week 7 Players of the Game brought to you by Reis Tire

Here are the Week 7 nominees for the Reis Tire Player of the Game.

Voting will be online until Wednesday morning!

2014 Offensive Players of the Game Week 1: Malik Higgins Week 2: Evan Deig Week 3: Malik Higgins Week 4: Evan Deig Week 5: Malik Higgins Week 6: Nate Hansen

2014 Defensive Players of the Game Week 1: Trevor Fetscher Week 2: Trevor Fetscher Week 3: Aaron Euler Week 4: Reitz Defense Week 5: Aaron Euler Week 6: Ethan Robison

Player of the Game Archive

As always, thanks to Reis Tire for supporting ReitzFootball.com!

Reitz edges North, 27-20

After trailing 13-6 at halftime, the Mighty Panthers did Mr. Waterman proud, rallying for an exciting 27-20 victory over the visiting North Huskies in a game that was dedicated to the late Hall of Famer’s memory.

Reitz improves to 7-0 overall, 5-0 in the SIAC and 4-0 in the city, while North fell to 2-5, 2-3, 2-3.

Game recaps

• Barnes’ late touchdown catch shoves Reitz past North
• VIDEO: Home Team Friday recap

Panthers in the Polls (& North): Week 7

Rankings for North, of Class 5A, are provided below in parentheses.

Human rankings

• AP MEDIA POLL: #4 in Class 4A (North unranked)
• IFCA COACHES POLL: #4 in Class 4A (pdf file – North unranked)
• GRIDIRON DIGEST POLL: #4 in Class 4A (North unranked)
  

Computer rankings

• MASSEY: #23 overall & #5 in Class 4A (North is #135 overall & #49(?) in Class 5A)
• MAXPREPS: #21 overall & #5 in Class 4A (North is #132 overall & #24 in Class 5A)
• SAGARIN: #22 overall & #8 in Class 4A (North is #150 overall & #27 in Class 5A)

Other rankings

• INDIANA FOOTBALL DIGEST (COLTS.COM): #2 in Class 4A (North unranked)

Year-to-date offensive stat leaders through Week 6

Here are your offensive stat leaders through Friday night’s big 42-16 win over Memorial.

Passing leaders

• Completions: 66 – Evan Deig
• Attempts: 103 – Evan Deig
• Yards: 1,070 – Evan Deig
• Touchdowns: 15 – Evan Deig
• Longest pass: 80 yards – Evan Deig

Rushing leaders

• Carries: 75 – Malik Higgins
• Yards: 970 – Malik Higgins
• Longest run: 87 yards – Malik Higgins
• Touchdowns: 11 – Malik Higgins

Receiving leaders

• Receptions: 27 – Malik Higgins
• Yards: 391 – Malik Higgins
• Longest catch: 80 yards – Kerrion Ringo
• Touchdowns: 8 – Nate Hansen

Other

• Total yards (rushing & passing): 1,104 – Evan Deig
• Yards from scrimmage (rushing & receiving): 1,361 – Malik Higgins
• All purpose yards (rushing, receiving & punt/kick/interception returns): 1,432 – Malik Higgins
• Scoring: 102 points – Malik Higgins

Full offensive stats (on MaxPreps.com)

• Year-to-date (through Week 6)
• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6

Historical Reitz vs. North game recaps from @courierpress

We’ve collected links to all the available game recaps for the Reitz-North football series as covered by the Courier & Press (their online archive goes back to 2006).

• 2013: Two late scoring drives lifts Reitz over North 20-16
• 2012: Johnston sparks Reitz to dominating win
• 2011: Vaughn’s legs help Reitz’s football team hold off North
• 2010: Reitz stays unbeaten with win over North
• 2009: Pair of brothers propels Panthers
• 2008: Panthers’ offense can’t even stop itself
• 2007: Reitz gets closer to SIAC, City titles
• 2006: Quick-hitter lifts Huskies

Reitz vs. North: #ReitzFootballFriday Week 7 presented by Tracy Zeller Jewelry

The Panthers return to Reitz Bowl Friday where they’ll face the North Huskies.

North (2-4) started the year with three straight losses, but have won two of their last three, including last Friday night’s 55-6 drubbing of Bosse. The Huskies are 2-2 in the SIAC and city races.

Reitz (6-0, 4-0, 3-0) has won the past seven meetings, but North is always tough and will be up for this game.

Reitz leads the series, 47-13. Coach Hape is 14-4 overall and 1-0 against the Huskies. North head coach Bret Szabo is 5-12 overall and 0-1 against the Panthers.

Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

2014 Schedule/Results

• 2014 Reitz Football results
• 2014 North football results (AlmanacSports.com)

Game previews

• High School Football Game of the Week Preview – North vs Reitz (newstalk1280.com)

Statistics (on MaxPreps)

• North Football stats
• Reitz Football stats

Historical information

• 2013: Reitz 20, North 16 (ReitzFootball.com)
• All-time series results (AlmanacSports.com)

Radio/TV/Internet

• Listen on the radio at ESPN Evansville 105.3 FM or online at ESPNEvansville.com

Thanks again to our friends at Tracy Zeller Jewelry for sponsoring #ReitzFootballFriday!