Last week, the Capital City Cavaliers earned their first in-town win in program history. This week, they’ll go for their first city championship. “That game meant a lot to the boys,” Capital City coach Joe Collier said of beating Jefferson City 28-7 last week. “It meant a lot that for a year, after three years, they can say, ‘We won that battle.’ It’s important to them to have those bragging rights.”
It was unfamiliar territory. For the first time this season, the Helias Crusaders were behind in a game as the Battle Spartans took a 16-10 lead into halftime Friday night at Ray Hentges Stadium. The deficit didn’t last long. Helias scored three touchdowns in the first seven minutes of the third quarter on its way to a 58-16 victory against Battle in Central Missouri Activities Conference play.
The shots didn’t fall early and the Crusaders couldn’t come back. Helias missed its first seven shots, while the Webster Groves Statesmen built the lead that would win them the Class 5 state championship.
SPRINGFIELD Malcolm Davis connected on both ends of a 1-and-1 to put the Crusaders up three with five seconds left, but the game was far from done Friday night.