Homecoming: Whitefish Football Puts on a Show, Sinks Bigfork

    The Whitefish Bulldog Football team played host to Bigfork, Friday night, for Homecoming.

    The Dawgs would force 3 turnovers on defense, ran for 300 yards on offense and struck on big play after big play for the 42-22 Homecoming Victory. 

    Whitefish entered the game on a 2-game losing streak but broke out in a big way.

    Bulldog Football set the tone early, establishing the run game. Dawgs had 2 players rush for over 100 yards each.

    The Dawgs got on the board first, after Carson Gulick intercepted Bigfork's Cole Schmit inside the redzone and brought the football back 93 yards.

    Just a few plays later Gulick would find CJ Thew for the 1 yard touchdown pass, with 1:47 to go in the first.

    After Bigfork scored early in the 2nd, the Dawgs were set up with great field position. That's when Riley Zetooney showed off the wheels taking a hand-off 56 yards to the house. 

    The Dawgs went into the halftime break up 14-6.

    The floodgates would open in the 2nd half. CJ Thew opened up the 3rd quarter with a 96-yard kick-off return for a touchdown.

    After forcing a Bigfork fumble on the goal line, the Whitefish offense would take it 95 yards to the house, finished off by a 2-yard TD run by Gulick.

    Gulick also had touchdown passes to Scotty Dalen and CJ Thew in the 2nd half as Whitefish ran away with the victory.

    CJ Thew scored 3 touchdowns on the night.

    Gulick had multiple TD passes.

    Riley Zetooney notched 130 plus rushing yards and a TD.

    Defense forced 3 turnovers (2 interceptions, 1 fumble).

    B-  0  6  0  16-  22

    W- 7  7   7  21- 42

    Whitefish Rushing

    Zetooney- 10 for 134, 1 td

    Gulick- 18 for 101, 1 td

    Moses- 8 for 45

    Caton- 2 for 12

    Whitefish Passing

    Gulick- 11/20, 116, 3 td

    Whitefish Receiving

    Dalen- 3 for 65, 1 td

    Thew- 3 for 30, 2 td

    Moses- 2 for 22

    Akey- 2 for 7

    Eisenbarth- 1 for 7

    Scoring

    W- Gulick 1 yard pass to Thew (Orme kick)

    B- 31 yard pass

    W- Zetooney 56 yard run (Orme kick)

    W- Thew 98 yard kickoff return (Orme kick)

    W- Gulick 3 yd run (Orme kick)

    W- Gulick 41 yard pass to Dalen (Orme kick)

    B- 69 yd pass, 2 pt

    W- Gulick 31 yd pass to Thew

    B- 71 yd td pass

    With the win Whitefish improves to 3-3 on the season, 1-1 in conference play.

    Up Next: Whitefish Football will take to the road to face Stevensville, Friday October 11th at 7pm. Catch the broadcast live on SportsTalk 1240 AM and 102.7 FM KSAM.

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