Red Bud tops Portageville, 67-60

Portageville receiver Hunter Gates (4) was about to make some yardage before getting tackled by a Red Bud player last Friday night. Ryan Priggel (7) is ready to deflect other opponents.

(Red Bud, Ill.) - The Red Bud Musketeers football team won Friday's non-conference game against Portageville by a score of 67-60.

Portageville started off the game very strong, getting their first touchdown right away. for the most part Portageville led the entire game until the final quarter.

"For the most part I thought our boys played real good the first half. We made some good effort, but in the second half, Red Bud came out a little better," said Portageville head coach Jeff Bullock.

"With three phases that we play in, offensive, defensive and special teams, we did not do well in one third of those phases and we paid for it."

Ian Torrey rushed 26 for 153 yards and four touchdowns. In passing he completed 22 catches for 414 yards. Hunrter Dates had 11 catches for 239 yards. and four touchdowns.RyaN Priggel had five catches for 85 yards.

In the second quarter, there were some questionable calls by the refs against Red Bud. Twice in a row that quarter Red Bud got a touchdown, but the refs called holding and denied the touchdowns. After another controversial call Red Bud's Coach Lucht asked the head ref if he'd need to see video footage of the play, was rather angry that he was forced to use time outs to have refs get calls right.

In the third quarter, refs made a third holding call to deny a Red Bud touchdown. End of third quarter was exciting - with just over two minutes left, the score was 41-40 in favor of Red Bud, then Portageville snuck in another touchdown.

Fourth quarter, both teams were determined to win. The last three minutes were crazy though. With 3:34 left in the game, the score was 54-52 in favor of Red Bud, but Portageville got in another touchdown to bring the score to 54-60. Red Bud responded with another touchdown, and as they went for the extra point, the score was tied 60-60. Red Bud got the point. Went to kick off the ball to give Portageville possession, but Red Bud ended up intercepting that ball and ran it all the way in for another touchdown. (Portageville stopped the extra point on that touchdown.)

Portageville (3-5) will host the Hayti Indians this Friday at the Vic Reaves Athletic Field.

Some information available from the North County Times.

RB 7, 21, 41, 67

P 14, 26, 46, 60