Grundy Center dominates Starmont, suffers season ending loss to Wapsie Valley

WAPSIE VALLEY – All good things must come to an end. So it was with the Grundy Center 2013 football season when the Spartans fell to the third-ranked Wapsie Valley Warriors in the second round of postseason play Monday night, 35-0.
The Warriors put their first points on the board in the first quarter when a slippery ball fell out of Spartan hands and was picked up by Wapsie Valley’s Nolan Schmidt who took it five short yards for the score.
The Wapsie Valley defense stifled a normally productive Spartan ground game, but consistently and steadily moved the ball down field themselves, scoring three more touchdowns in the second quarter to make it 28-0 at the half.
The second half was a defensive battle, the Warriors continuing to prevent the Spartans from moving the ball both on the ground and in the air. The Grundy Center defense held strong as well, this half allowing just one Wapsie Valley score in the third quarter when Ryan Miller connected with Derek Trotter for a 13-yard touchdown pass.
 

For more of this story, see the Nov. 7 Grundy Register.