Collins-Maxwell/Baxter’s Bryce Kemp caught eight touchdowns, rushed for three scores and even threw for one. Defensively, he picked off three passes and returned two for touchdowns and also took a kickoff return to paydirt.
There wasn’t much the Raider senior and Eastern Michigan recruit didn’t do on the field during CMB’s record-setting season.
For that, Kemp was named a unanimous first-team selection and was voted as the Class 2A District 7 Offensive Player of the Year.
CMB went 9-0 during the regular season for the first time in program history and finished the season 10-1. That allowed 13 Raiders to be honored in some way when the all-district teams were released Saturday.
CMB’s Rob Luther was voted district Coach of the Year and Joey Nissen was named Kicker of the Year.
PCM also made the playoffs out of District 7 and landed nine all-district selections for its efforts. The most notable selections for the Mustangs included quarterback Logan Gilman, tailback Ronnie Marshall and defensive back Luke Pendroy.
Kemp and Brady Stover were both selected as first-team wide receivers for the Raiders.
Kemp hauled in 46 passes for 950 yards and eight scores but also rushed for 222 yards and three touchdowns, completed his only pass of the season for a 10-yard touchdown and also led the Raiders in tackles and scored twice off interceptions.
The Raider senior had 69 tackles, 10 tackles for loss and four sacks on defense and also averaged more than 21 yards per kickoff return while also scoring a touchdown.
Stover was just as effective as a wideout. He snatched a team-best 63 catches for 902 yards and eight scores. He completed three passes for 40 yards and a touchdown as a thrower and also had 32 tackles and 10 interceptions as a defensive back.
The rest of the Raider first-teamers included offensive linemen Clayton Weltha and Patrick Girard, linebacker Charles Robertson and defensive back Nick Littell.
Weltha and Girard were the keys up front in leading CMB to a big offensive season. Weltha also was sixth in the district with 68 tackles and two sacks on defense.
Littel had 56 tackles, 10 tackles for loss and two sacks from his defensive back position, while Robertson also had 50.5 tackles, seven tackles for loss and two sacks.
Nissen hit 11 field goals and recorded 20 touchbacks as a kicker this season. He also was 41-of-44 in extra points and his longest field goal covered 42 yards.
Five other Raiders landed on the second team. That group included sophomore quarterback Hunter McWhirter, junior tailback Blake Coughenour, offensive lineman Andrew Lindamoen, defensive lineman John Engle and defensive back Jake Hennick.
McWhirter was third in the league with 1,716 passing yards and he also had 12 touchdown passes, while rushing for 372 yards and six more scores.
Coughenour gained 847 yards and scored 11 touchdowns on the ground, while also collecting 280 receiving yards and a touchdown in the passing game.
Hennick had 35.5 tackles on defense, while Engle added 28.5 tackles, three sacks and two fumble recoveries.
PCM finished 4-6 on the season but advanced to the playoffs as the district’s fourth seed.
The Mustangs’ high octane passing offense was led by Gilman, who led the league with 2,518 passing yards and a district-best 21 touchdown passes.
The offense didn’t end with GIlman though. Marshall, the Mustangs’ tailback, also had a big year, gaining 1,092 yards and scoring 16 touchdowns on the ground, while also collecting 285 passing yards and two scores.
Marshall’s rushing yards, rushing touchdowns and 108 points were all second to Albia’s Carter Isley.
Pendroy led the Mustangs and was third in the district with 75 tackles and he also had a pick and two fumble recoveries.
Hayes Appelgate also made the first team as a defensive lineman after collecting 29 tackles, intercepting two passes and scoring one defensive touchdown.
The final first-team selection for the Mustangs was offensive lineman Conner Warrick.
The four second-team selections for PCM included wideout Luke Greiner, offensive lineman Ethan Thomas, linebacker Davis Herndon and defensive back Skylar Koder.
Greiner was second on the team and fifth in the league in both catches (45) and receiving yards (671) while also scoring six touchdowns.
Herndon and Koder had 50.5 and 31 tackles, respectively, for the Mustang defense.
Albia’s Ryan Sarver was voted as the district’s Defensive MVP. Sarver led the league with 99.5 tackles, 20 tackles for loss and eight sacks.
Jacob Jones of Davis County was the punter of the year. Jones averaged 37.5 yards per punt over his 44 attempts and had a long of 56.
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