#1 R-P Pitches Second Shut-out

The first state football rankings are out.  Last year’s Class A runner-up Rushford-Peterson earned the top honor, as defending state champion Minneapolis-North moved up to Class AA.  The Trojans safeguarded their ranking versus Southland in week two.  A Landon Skalet to Jake Paulson 24-yard TD reception capped a 90-yard drive and represented the only score of the first half.  R-P led 6-0 at halftime, having amassed 113 passing yards, 35 rushing yards.  In the second half, they got back to running basics.  The Trojans took the kickoff and went 65 yards in nine rushing plays.  Ethan Sense capped the drive with a 10-yard TD run.  With conversion, R-P went ahead 14-0.  The defense was basically impenetrable.  The Rebels ran 12 second half offensive plays.  They fumbled twice and went three-and-out three times, netting a total of 16 yards, 100 for the game.  Sense (1 yard) and Triton Meldahl (16 yards) added fourth quarter TD runs.  R-P pitched a second straight shut-out, 28-0.  Sense, a 5’7” 160-pound junior, was the workhorse for a second straight week (21-102, 2 TDs rushing).  Skalet (9-15, 112 yards, TD, 2 INTs passing), Paulson (3-65, TD receiving, FF, FR), Ethan Hermanson (9-49 rushing), Meldahl (5-42, TD rushing), and Dawson Dahl (4-38 receiving, interception) helped out.  Davin Thompson’s crew moves to 2-0 in the MSE-East