Area football playoff opener results

In the only game played tonight in Section 4A, St.Agnes won 21-16 in a tight contest over #5 seed West Lutheran.

Saturday's semi-final match ups in Section 4A:
#1 seed Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City hosts #4 seed St.Agnes.
#2 seed Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity hosts our #3 seeded Jaguars football team in Lester Prairie.

Big kudos to the Central Minnesota Conference, as the top five teams in the conference all won their quarterfinal openers in Sections 4AA, 5AA, and 6AA. What can I say? The CMC is one of the best mid-size football conferences in Minnesota.

Also, 38 seasons of winning football came to and end tonight in Willmar, when the host Cardinals beat the Hutchinson Tigers 21-7 in Section 2AAAA.

(Hutch was above-.500 every year for 38 years until now)

Section 5AA:
Morris Area 26, Benson 0
BOLD 27, Minnewaska Area 0
YME 26, LQPV 16 (a mild upset)
Eden Valley-Watkins 42, Paynesville Area 12

Section 6AA:
Ottertail Central 12, West Central Area 0
Breckenridge 42, Wadena-Deer Creek 0
Pierz 34, Osakis 8
Holdingford 46, Crosby-Ironton 12 (Lumley must have had a wild night running up and down the field in Crosby)

Section 4AA:
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 34, Montgomery-Lonsdale 0
Maple Lake 24, Kimball Area 0

Section 5A:
Canby 29, Russel-Tyler-Ruthton 3
Minneota 55, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 7
Maccray 16, Lakeview 0
Dawson-Boyd 44, Ortonville 13

Section 6AAA:
New London-Spicer 20, St.Cloud Cathedral 0
Litchfield 15, Foley 6
Albany 18, Melrose Area 0

Section 6A:
Browerville 15-0 over Lake Park-Audubon
Barnesville won via forfeit 2-0 over Parkers Prairie
Royalton 20, Pillager 6 (a nice win for the #5 seed Royals, who avenged a 16-14 loss to the Huskies on Oct. 1)
Upsala-Swanville Area 23, Pine River-Backus 0

Section 5AAA:
Holy Family Catholic 52, Rockford 0 (Rockford's win over B-B-E propelled them into the playoffs as a #8 seed, and they were promptly slaughtered by the #5 ranked team in Class AAA)