Morris quarterfinal: Morris defends home field, drops Mahomet-Seymourĥ:03 p.m. Peoria High playoffs: First round | Second round | Quarterfinals Who's going to win? Four reasons Peoria High is one victory from the championship game Email him at Follow him on Twitter Peoria High vs. We need that (championship) ring, then the job will be done.”Īdam Duvall is a Journal Star sports reporter. “We’ve been working for this since last winter … Everybody just talking about this moment right here how we were going to make it to the state finals. Hearn had all but one of those yards on four catches.Ĩ classes, 32 teams: The 2022 IHSA football playoff semifinals by the numbers Gist, a 6-foot-1, 181-pounder, finished with 82 yards on 5-for-9 passing.
He watched as Ricky Hearn took a screen pass for 49 yards and a score late in the third quarter. When Peoria High quarterback Tino Gist wasn’t handing off to Washington or Odom, the junior looked sharp in the pocket. I just basically went for him, hit the tackle, picked up the ball and went to go score like we practice in practice.” “It was a bad snap,” Lawson said, “so I knew I could get there because I’m fast. The senior linebacker picked up a mishandled snap by Zweeres and ran it in for a 46-14 lead with 67 seconds left on the second-quarter clock. Kaleb Lawson had a defensive score of his own on the next Morris possession. First, linebacker Kenny Rutherford picked off a Carter Button pass and raced 32 yards for a TD. Semi-tough: How Peoria teams have fared in IHSA football semifinals over the last 15 yearsĪs much as the offensive was impressive, the Peoria High defense came up huge in the final 2:30 of the first half. (We) lean on the run game and it paid off for us.” Malachi just got to the point where they didn’t want to tackle him anymore. We got some real good play out of edge blockers and o-line. “We’ve been preparing for it for a long time.”Īdded Thornton, “Man, I was hoping we would be able to run the ball. “We been talking about making it to state for a minute,” Odom said. Odom and Washington were responsible for 517 of Peoria High’s 597 total yards. The change-of-pace senior back ran for 134 yards on eight carries along with a 67-yard, third-quarter touchdown. But Peoria High regrouped, scoring 46 first-half points started by that long Washington score, then got a lasting lead off a 5-yard plunge from Frank Odom. Morris went ahead 8-0, taking advantage of Washington’s turnover with an 11-yard TD from A.J. "This week, we're going to talk about it all week long. "We bring it up at the beginning of every week and then shut it down for the rest of the week. "We've tried not to talk about it, but it always gets brought up," Peoria High coach Tim Thornton said of making the title game. This is the program’s third title game appearance and first since winning the 2016 5A crown. IHSA football: All the playoff pairings, schedules and scores
7 in the final poll by The Associated Press, while Nazareth was 10th. Saturday meeting with LaGrange Park Nazareth Academy (9-4) for the 5A title. Peoria High (12-1) heads to Champaign for a 10 a.m. “Me and my boys are very blessed,” the all-stater Washington said. © 2023 New Orleans Saints.Washington carried it 30 times, adding scoring runs of 6, 46, 42 and 56 behind the offensive line of left tackle Dominic Bautista, left guard JaQuarius Green, center Travanti Brown, right guard Matheno Fuller and right tackle AJ Roscoe.
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