No. 8 Iowa Central returns home

After spending the previous two weeks on the street in Kansas, the Iowa Central soccer workforce welcomes the chance to play inside Dodger Stadium this Saturday.

The eighth-ranked Tritons will host ICCAC rival Ellsworth at midday.

Following wins over Independence and Backyard Metropolis, Iowa Central (2-1 total, 0-0 in league) got here up simply brief at No. 2 Hutchinson, falling 31-28 in additional time.

“Little doubt, our youngsters are excited to be at house and taking part in in entrance of a house crowd,” ICCC head coach Jesse Montalto mentioned. “Proper now, our will get play onerous. We get to Saturday they usually play actually onerous and compete. They don’t quit and have dealt with adversity in-game fairly properly.

“We’ve been up, been down, battled again and had nearly all the pieces occur, but it surely has been a number of enjoyable to observe them compete for 60 minutes.”

The Tritons rotated via 4 gamers at quarterback, as Justin Silverstein threw two landing passes and Omarion Bartlett had one other. Jadon Washington ran for 88 yards and a rating.

Iowa Central didn’t have a turnover vs. Hutchinson and compelled 4, however have been additionally flagged 12 occasions for 116 yards.

Silverstein has thrown for 323 yards and 5 touchdowns, whereas Washington has 161 yards dashing. Izaiah Haslett leads the workforce with 10 receptions for 137 yards, with Desna Washington catching 9 passes for 98 and three scores.

On protection, Jacob Camacho and Rex Van Whye every have 27 tackles, Deonte Bryant has two sacks and the workforce has pressured seven turnovers.

Ellsworth (0-2, 0-0) is coming off a bye following losses to No. 1 (Div. III) Faculty of DuPage (48-25) and Hutchinson (70-7). The Panthers have a workforce complete of negative-17 yards dashing, whereas Joshua Bauer has thrown for 196 yards and a TD.

“We’ve acquired to be able to go vs. Ellsworth,” Montalto mentioned. “They’ll attempt to are available right here and knock us off and we are able to’t let that occur, we are able to’t give them any small opening for it to occur.

“We now have to maintain enterprise.”

Iowa Central will play two straight at house, internet hosting DuPage subsequent weekend, earlier than returning to Kansas for back-to-back weeks with video games at Coffeyville and Tenth-ranked Butler. The Tritons have two extra at house after that towards Dodge Metropolis and No. 3 Iowa Western, earlier than closing the common season out at Highland.