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Here we go with our weekly rendition of commenting on Friday night’s games.

Derby 34, South 0:  Derby’s in the 6A playoffs. Wow. Hard to believe the Panthers were 0-9 in 2005, 1-8 in 2006. Can’t get enough of this storyline, especially after a quality win over East. And — and! — Derby did it on the ground against South, proving this is not a one-dimensional team.

McPherson 26, Great Bend 19: Before all the Pups fans can jump on here and point out what idiots we are — WE WERE WRONG! Congrats on an extremely good win, especially being it was at Great Bend.

Junction City 26, Heights 14:  Heights had its chances here, but Junction City was too much. Heights still has a chance to advance, but it needs to beat Manhattan next week.

Garden Plain 63, Collegiate 0: Never been so glad to see a continuous clock in a game. Garden Plain absolutely dominated, did whatever it wanted against Collegiate in a game that was 56-0 at the half. After a gawd-awful long first half, the second half took, like, 30 minutes. (Yay!) I honestly believe the toughest work of the night for Garden Plain came afterward when all the players were responsible for stamping down divots in the newly planted grass. (This is not a knock on Collegiate, just a point on how unbelievable Garden Plain played.)

Goddard 21, Garden City 0: Garden City was playing without its best player — QB Brodrick Smith was  suspended for the game — but Goddard got a huge victory. The Lions still need a win over Dodge to get to the playoffs.

Andover 42, Rose Hill 38: What a game. Wish we could have gotten a blow-by-blow account from the home-team (Andover). Sounds like it was an outstanding game.

Andover Central 24, Augusta 7: Correspondent Jason Ault weighed in on this game with a similar feeling that I have after going to a game at Augusta — it’s so fun! The people in the press box are hilarious and it’s enjoyable to be there. Game was over in no time (less than two hours. Yay!) On the football side, Keaton LaBanca had a nice game for Central (130 yards on 22 carries) and the defense held the Orioles to just 51 first-half yards.

Carroll 52, Winfield 0: No surprise, Carroll rolled. QB Brett Steven was 10-of-12 passing and the Eagles scored on first six drives.

In other games: Mulvane rolls over Douglass; Andale does the same against Pratt and Independent did the same against Bluestem; Cheney loses again! Hesston and Marion cruise; Smith Center 72-0 over Osborne. Nice.

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