High School Recap: 10-22

The Rocori Spartans and Sartell Sabres both advanced in the section playoffs with wins Tuesday night.

Rocori 24, Little Falls 21-
The #6 seed Rocori Spartans upset the #3 seed Little Falls Flyers 24-21 Tuesday night in Little Falls. The win advances the Spartans to the next round of the Section 8AAAA playoffs, where they will meet #2 seed Thief River Falls on Saturday.

The Flyers got on the board first thanks to a 38 yard touchdown run by Jalen Wuchko. Rocori answered with a two yard run from Skippy Virchow to tie the score at 6 after one quarter of play. Both teams traded touchdowns in the second quarter as Little Falls got an 18 yard touchdown reception from Bryce Zawtzke and Rocori got a 63 yard touchdown reception from Alex Budde to make the score 13-12 at the half.

Rocori took the lead back in the third quarter with 10:02 left after a Victor Schleppenbach 9 yard touchdown run made the score 18-13. The Spartans added another touchdown to take a 24-13 lead after 3 quarters.

The Flyers added a touchdown in the 4th quarter thanks to Bryce Zawtzke's second touchdown reception of the game and a successful 2 point conversion to pull the score to 24-21 but the Flyers were unable to convert on 4th down late in the 4th quarter and the Spartans ran out the clock.

Sartell 28, Sauk Rapids 6-
The Sartell Sabres got 2 touchdown runs from Derek Stachowski in the first quarter and never looked back in a 28-6 win over Sauk Rapids Tuesday night. The win sets up a matchup against the #2 seeded St. Cloud Tech Tigers Saturday. Stachowski had three touchdowns overall for the Sabres, who will look to avenge a 14-0 loss against Tech earlier this season.

Start times for both games have yet to be announced. We will provide updates as to what station either game will be covered on Saturday. Stay tuned.