Friday night lights in Kansas: BV Northwest, Mill Valley, Tonganoxie are movin’ on

Here’s a look at highlights from some big high school football games around the Kansas City metro on Friday night.

Blue Valley Northwest 49, Free State 14

BV Northwest blew away Free State after halftime and moved on to a matchup with the defending state champs.

The Huskies scored four touchdowns in a 10-minute span and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kansas Class 6A playoffs.

BV Northwest led 14-7 early in the second half when junior wideout Logan Chandler hauled in a 44-yard TD pass from QB Nathan Baxter. Then Trevor Garlington picked off a screen pass and returned it 62 yards to the end zone.

Baxter’s 16-yard scoring pass to junior Ayden McGibboney made it 35-7. A short TD from LJ Bowens pushed BVNW’s lead to 42-7.

BV Northwest will next face Gardner Edgerton, the defending Kansas Class 6A state champ, on Friday in Gardner.

Mill Valley 42, Spring Hill 6

A year after ousting Spring Hill in the second round of the Kansas 5A playoffs, the Jaguars did it again.

Five-time defending 5A champ Mill Valley got its opening TD via a 65-yard run from star running back Reggie Reece.

Senior Connor Bohon kept the ground attack going with a QB keeper from 23 yards out to make it 14-0, then scored again from the 1 with about five minutes remaining until halftime. Another TD by Reece and it was 28-0 Jags at the break.

Reece broke loose again in the third quarter for a 67-yard TD and the rout was truly on.

Mill Valley (9-1 and ranked No. 3 in the 810 Varsity Top 25), will face St. Thomas Aquinas, the No. 1 team in Class 5A, next Friday at Aquinas.

Spring Hill’s season ends at 8-2.

Tonganoxie 34, Fort Scott 28

Tonganoxie rallied from a 22-12 second-half deficit to win on the road and move on to the Kansas 4A quarterfinals.

The game underwent seven lead changes and the visiting Chieftains trailed 22-12 at halftime.

Tonganoxie QB Talon Langford connected with Todd Brown for TDs of 57, 51 and 54 yards. And Tanner Hand’s TD midway through the third quarter gave THS a 26-22 lead.

Fort Scott opened the fourth quarter with a TD of its own, but the two-point conversion attempt failed. A subsequent squib-kick set up Tonganoxie at the 50 with 11:53 to go.

Four minutes later, Hand scored his second TD of the night, this time from 4 yards out, and the Chieftains tacked on a two-point conversion.

Tonganoxie (7-3) will play host to Lansing in the quarterfinals next Friday night. The Chieftains beat Lansing 14-13 on Sept. 20.

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This story was originally published November 8, 2024 at 11:42 PM.