Colts smash Scotties during home wins

The Malta Middle School seventh and eighth grade Colt football teams hosted the Scotties football teams on Saturday morning and earned two wins; 14-0 for the seventh-grade squad and 48-0 for the eighth-grade contingent.

Seventh Grade Colts

The first game of the day saw the seventh-grade Colts take a 6-0 lead following a Julian Benson scamper into the end zone.

The contest would be a defensive struggle and the Colts got their second points of the game via a sack in the Glasgow end zone by Malta's Reese Brown, make the tally 8-0 following the safety (the safety was set up by a 40-yard punt by Malta's Spencer Gibbs which pinned the Scotties on their own 1 yard line.)

Gibbs would come up big on two more instances during the game, both on defense, the first on a quarterback sack that stymied one Glasgow drive and the second a pick-6 interception touchdown return with 33 seconds left in the contest. The Colts also got boosts in the tightly contested contest when Camryn Mears got a timely quarterback sack late in the fourth quarter and a fumble recovery by Jared Eggebrecht that stopped another Scottie drive. The 14-0 win moved the team's record to 3-0 on the season.

Eighth Grade Colts

Malta's Rex Williamson scored his first of four touchdowns on the very first play from scrimmage for the eighth-grade against Glasgow on Saturday afternoon.

In between Williamson scoring trips (four in a row), Conner Tuss also hauled in an interception to stymie the only real Glasgow scoring threat of the day. Williamson's fourth touchdown of the afternoon sent the Colts to the locker room at halftime with a 32-0 lead.

The third quarter started with a bang for the Colts as Cash Salsbery returned the second half kickoff for an 80-yard touchdown run.

Kanyon Stiles capped the Colts scoring on the day as he took a 73-yard reception to the house for the final touchdown of the day to give Malta a 48-0 lead and Darrow Messerly picked off a late Glasgow pass in the fourth quarter to ice the game and preserve the shutout (the hard-hitting Colt defense only allowed the Scotties past the 50-yard line on a few occasions on the day.)