Mustangs go 9-0 for second time in school history

MONROE — Two school records went down during Prairie City-Monroe’s football game against Centerville on Friday night.

The top-ranked Mustangs won the Class 2A District 8 game 69-18 to become the second team in school history to finish the regular season at 9-0.

Senior Wes Cummings is now the school’s all-time leading rusher and senior Reed Worth has thrown more touchdown passes than anyone in school history.

Cummings rushed for 152 yards on 10 carries and now has 3,412 rushing yards for his career. He scored two touchdowns on the ground and had a 53-yard TD catch from Worth in the second quarter. That TD came after his 56-yard TD run.

Worth was 11-for-17 on the night for 269 yards and five TDs. He now has 21 TD passes and only one interception this season and 47 touchdown passes in his career.

PCM (9-0 overall, 5-0 in district play) led 21-0 after one quarter. Worth connected with senior Preston Van Wyk for a 16-yard TD and then hit senior Brayton Van Dyke for a 13-yard TD strike. Cummings’ 25-yard TD run made it 21-0.

Worth put the Mustangs up 28-0 with a 1-yard TD run. He then connected with senior Jarron Trausch for a 70-yard TD that countered Centerville’s first score of the game.

Centerville came right back with an 80-yard kickoff return for a TD, but Cummings’ two long TDs made it 50-12 at halftime.

The starters played one offensive series in the second half. Worth broke the career TD pass record on a 13-yard strike to Trausch.

The final two Mustang scores came on junior Austin Simo’s 45-yard interception return for a TD and sophomore Sage Burns’ 53-yard TD pass to sophomore Colby Tool.

Trausch finished with 104 yards and two TDs on four catches. Van Dyke had 53 yards and a TD on two catches, senior Isaac Telfer gained 37 yards on two catches and Van Wyk had 22 yards and TD on two catches,

Defensively, Trausch had 4 1/2 tackles, three tackles for loss and a sack, senior Cole Dustin finished with a team-high 5 1/2 tackles, two tackles for loss and one sack and Telfer had 3 1/2 tackles, three tackles for loss and a sack.

Senior Nick Buswell had four tackles and a pick and junior Trent Johnston finished with 3 1/2 tackles and three tackles for loss. The Mustangs tallied 13 tackles for loss in the game.

Junior Seth Greiner and senior Kaeden Van Soelen each had a fumble recoveries.

Sophomore Andrew Mitchell was 7-for-7 in PATs and he booted one of his four kickoffs into the end zone for a touchback.

With the No. 1 RPI in 2A, the Mustangs are expected to host the first two rounds of the postseason.

The top-ranked Mustangs open the 2A playoffs against Carroll Kuemper Catholic (5-4) at 7 p.m. in Monroe.