Friday night lights in Missouri: Lee’s Summit North, Park Hill roll to victories

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

No. 1 Lee’s Summit North 36, No. 11 Blue Springs South 28

The Broncos found a way to win without their star receiver. They turned to their star running back instead.

Senior RB Quade Chatmon scored four touchdowns to help lead Lee’s Summit North, ranked No. 1 in the 810 Varsity Top 25, to a 36-28 win over No. 11 Blue Springs South.

With standout receiver and Nebraska pledge Isaiah Mozee forced to the sideline by an injury in the first half, Chatmon scored on runs of 1, 8, 35 and 2 yards. Lee’s Summit North took the lead for good, 22-21, on senior QB Mickhi Mitchell’s keeper with 4:53 remaining in the third period.

Chatmon gave North (6-0) more breathing room with a 35-yard TD run, but Blue Springs South (4-2) countered with a six-play, 79-yard drive that ended with a TD pass from QB Ayden Wilhelm to fellow junior Gavin Nash

That’s when the Broncos iced it by driving the field and scoring on 4th-and-goal from the 2. It was Chatmon who ran it in.

Lee’s Summit North will travel to Liberty North next week, while Blue Springs South heads to Liberty.

Park Hill 21, No. 13 Liberty 17

Braylon Agee put on a show at Liberty that included scoring the game-winning touchdown. The junior receiver pulled in 10 receptions for 153 yards and 2 TDs for Park Hill.

The biggest came with 4:11 to go. On 2nd and 8 from the Park Hill 20, QB Zane Thomas found Agee for a TD to make it 21-17.

Connor Hatfield of Liberty (4-2) scored the game’s first TD on a 5-yard run, but Thomas and Agee connected for a 21-yarder and it was tied. Thomas hit Dante Dixon for a 42-yard TD in the third quarter (Dixon finished with 101 yards on 6 catches).

Jaxon Hicks, who ran for 180 yards Friday, scored on a 69-yard scamper to tie it again at 14-all, but the Jays broke the deadlock on a 35-yard field goal courtesy of Lincoln Dwiggins.

Hatfield finished with 143 rushing yards for Liberty, which takes on Blue Springs South next Friday.

Thomas finished with 337 passing yards and three scores for the Trojans (4-2), who will play host to St. Joe Central.

No. 4 Platte County 51, No. 14 Smithville 14

Platte County quarterback Rocco Marriott accounted for 4 touchdowns at No. 14-ranked Smithville Friday night.

The No. 4-ranked Pirates (6-0) fell behind 7-0 early but proceeded to score 41 straight points and remain unbeaten.

Platte County had it all working in the Highway 92 showdown. Dayton Doll ran for a pair of TDs in the first half and Adam Gisler also scored. A TD pass from Marriott to Tres Baskerville gave the Pirates a 28-7 lead at halftime.

Marriott threw for a pair of second-half TDs and also ran for a 35-yard score in the third quarter. Peyton Steffen threw for a pair of touchdowns for Smithville (4-2).

Warrensburg 50, No. 22 Odessa 42

A relatively low-scoring first half gave way to fireworks after halftime in Odessa as Warrensburg went on the road and beat the No. 22-ranked Bulldogs in a Missouri River Valley West Conference showdown.

Kobe Westphal was Warrensburg’s engine with 5 total touchdowns. The senior QB was 6-for-11 for 71 yards and a TD through the air but did more damage with his legs, rushing for 357 yards and 4 TDs on 23 carries.

His first two TDs helped the Tigers (5-1, 2-1) take a 14-6 lead at the break. Dalton Cates booted a pair of field goals for Odessa (4-2, 2-1) in the first half — the latter after Carson Hager recovered a Warrensburg fumble at the 13-yard line.

Odessa pulled within 2 points, 14-12, early in the third quarter on a TD pass from Michael Scott to Amaurry Powell. Cruz Villegas intercepted a 2-point conversion attempt that could’ve tied the game.

Westphal had TD runs of 9 and 50 yards on the next two drives to make it 28-12 entering the final period.

Odessa got within a possession four times in the fourth quarter, but the Tigers answered with TDs on three of those occasions. The other was a victory-formation kneel-down with less than 30 seconds left.

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