Game Summary/Box Score
May 12, 2007 Great Falls Gladiators at Glacier Knights @ Columbia Falls High School

GREAT FALLS 6 GLACIER 0

COLUMBIA FALLS – In only the second time he touched the football all season, Mike Pease powered through Glacier Knight defenders en route to a 36-yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter to lead the Great Falls Gladiators to a difficult 6-0 victory over an improving Knight team in Columbia Falls, Montana.

The passing challenged Gladiator offense would roll up 200 net rushing yards as 5 different runners had at least 20 yards rushing.  Ex-Helena Titan star, Keith Deboo, lead the rushing parade with 64 yards on 11 carries as Great Falls quarterback, Brad Thurber, although was only able to complete 2 passes for 38 yards, did contribe 44 yards on 7 runs.

Defenses, however, ruled the day with a combined total of only 13 first downs in the game, almost half of which coming off of penalties.  The Knight passing attack was even more stymied with 5 of their 9 completions going for negative yards.

Game hero, Pease, along with Mike Rhode also topped the defense with 4 tackles each. Rhode’s total included one of several quarterback sacks against the Knights.

The Knights defense, however, was equally up to the task, although yielding 200 yards rushing, the Knights forced 3 turnovers (to none by their own offense); 2 by interceptions off of Thurber and a fumble recovery to help keep the team in the game down to the last minute. Jason Zielanski and Tony Rojo lead the Knights defense, getting 9 tackles each as the Gladiators ran 44 rushing plays to only 2 completed passes.

The game marked the closest the Knights have been to victory since defeating the Mountain Home Bengals in their first season in 2004. The Gladiators maintained their conference lead on the Helena Titans for the #3 seed in the upcoming RMFL playoffs.

Great Falls Gladiators

6

0

0

0

6

Glacier Knights

0

0

0

0

0

 

 
Scoring Summary:


First Quarter:

GREAT FALLS: Mike Pease 36-yard run (run failed) 5:58

 

 

 

 

GREAT FALLS

GLACIER

 

First Downs

8

5

 

Rushes-Yds

44

200

14

29

 

Passing

2--9--2

10--22--0

 

Passing Yds.

38

23

 

Sacked-Yds

0

0

2

7

 

Net Passing Yds.

38

16

 

Total Yds.

238

45

 

Punts - Avg.

3-38.0

5-27.4

 

Penalties -Yds

8

60

2

10

 

Fumbles - Lost

1

1

3

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individual Stats:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rushing:

 

 

 

 

 

Player -Team

Tot. Att.

Tot. Yds

TD's

2 pts.

 

Keith Deboo - Great Falls

11

64

0

0

 

Brad Thurber - Great Falls

7

44

0

0

 

Mike Pease - Great Falls

1

36

1

0

 

Mike Tudor - Great Falls

11

28

0

0

 

John Hughes - Great Falls

10

20

0

0

 

Yahreen Collins - Great Falls

2

9

0

0

 

Dave Moore - Great Falls

1

0

0

0

 

Gerald Gobert - Great Falls

1

-1

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Zielanski - Glacier

11

26

0

0

 

Kevin Brown - Glacier

2

5

0

0

 

Dre Wilson - Glacier

1

-2

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Passing:

 

 

 

 

 

Player

Comp.

Att.

Yds

TD's

Int.

Brad Thurber - Great Falls

2

9

38

0

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Bulik - Glacier

1

1

24

0

0

Ryan Bennett - Glacier

9

21

-1

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receiving:

 

 

 

 

 

Player

Recepts.

Yards

Td's

2 pts.

 

Jermaine Saunders - Great Falls

1

20

0

0

 

Keith Deboo - Great Falls

1

18

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don Holgwin - Glacier

2

28

0

0

 

Thomas Evans - Glacier

1

15

0

0

 

Austin Owens - Glacier

1

7

0

0

 

Jason Zielanski - Glacier

2

-1

0

0

 

Will Wheat - Glacier

1

-2

0

0

 

Kevin Brown - Glacier

1

-8

0

0

 

Dre Wilson - Glacier

2

-16

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Defense:

 

 

 

 

 

Player

Tackles

Sacks

Intercepts

TD's

 

Mike Pease - Great Falls

4

0

0

0

 

Mike Rhode - Great Falls

4

1

0

0

 

Chris White - Great Falls

3.5

0

0

0

 

Yahreen Collins - Great Falls

3.5

0.5

0

0

 

Aaron Bradley - Great Falls

3

1

0

0

 

Chris Pattee - Great Falls

2

0

0

0

 

Dave Moore - Great Falls

2

0.5

0

0

 

Demond Orr - Great Falls

2

0

0

0

 

Hanif Flood - Great Falls

2

0

0

0

 

Gerald Gobert - Great Falls

2

0

0

0

 

Steve Brown - Great Falls

1

0

0

0

 

Jarhod Matlock - Great Falls

1

0

0

0