The Cascade football team travels to take on long standing rival, Monrovia Bulldogs, for the Battle of I-70 Trophy game. GAME DETAILS Battle for I-70 Game Cascade Cadets (3-4, 1-4) at Monrovia Bulldogs (2-5, 1-4) Time: 7p.m., Friday October 7th, 2022 Location: Monrovia High School, Monrovia, IN Tickets: Tickets sold at the link below Ticket Link: https://monroviaathletics.com/Tickets SETTING THE SCENE It’s the 55th time in the history of Cascade Football that they will take the gridiron against the long time rival, Monrovia Bulldogs. Monrovia leads the all-time series 33-21. Monrovia is currently on a 1 game series winning streak beating the Cadets in 2021 46-31 in a thrilling offensive match-up. The last Cadets win between the two teams came in 2020 when Cascade traveled into Monrovia, week #1 of the 2020 IHSAA Playoffs and came away with a 6-0 victory in a mud game compliments of a Liam Farmer touchdown run with 5 minutes remaining in the game. Since the beginning of this rivalry, this game has been decided by 1 score in 15 of the 54 games played. WEEK 7 RECAP Cascade hosted the Speedway Sparkplugs last Friday Night for Senior Night. Cadets got off to a hot start taking a 21-7 lead. But Speedway was able to fight back into the game, getting a huge 4th down stop. One play later they would tie the game 28-28. Cadets would drive down the length of the field, but a field goal attempt would fall short. Speedway would force a Cadet turnover in overtime and would run one in from 7 yards out to win the game. Cascade offense rushed for 275 yards against a Speedway defense. Cadets offense has totals over 210 yards on the ground in 6 of the 7 games. The Black Swarm defense held Speedway to 278 yards and forced 2 turnovers in the overtime loss. Cadets had one of their best defensive outings of the year, holding the explosive offense in check. CADET NOTES Cascade is coming off a heartbreaking loss to Speedway after dominating them on the ground rushing for 275 yards on 60 attempts. The Cascade Offense has amassed a total of 2,088 yards on the ground and currently average 6.4 yards/carry. Offensively, they use their Wing-T run attack to set the tempo and control the game. Cadets earned their 3rd victory of the year after week 6. The last two years, Cascade hasn’t won their third game until week 9 in 2021 and week 10 in 2020. Heading into the final two game stretch of the regular season, Cascade looks to get back to .500 against the Monrovia Bulldogs. Cadets are off to a 3-4 start with the chance to get above .500 this week again against Monrovia. Trebley leads the offense under center for your Cadets. The FR quarterback has completed 54% for 451 yards and 6 touchdowns. SR Liam Farmer leads the team in rushing and receiving amassing 1,359 yards on the ground and 90 through the air. Farmer has found paydirt 17 times through the 7 contests. SO Damien Appleby and FR Toby Savini have combined for 552 yards on the ground and 2 touchdowns. The Cadets average 297 yards per game with their rushing attack. Cadets are anchored up front with an undersized, but fierce offensive line led by SR Walker Van Ness. Starting Friday Night for your Cadets on offense: QB: Brady Trebley, RB: Liam Farmer Wing: Toby Savini, Wing: Damien Appleby, TE: Logan Gibbs, WR: Devon Weigle, LT: Josiah Murrain, LG: Owen Hargis, C: Duncan White, RG: Walker Van Ness, RT: Wyatt Nohren OFFENSIVE STATISTICS PASSING Brady Trebley 25-46 451 6-3 RUSHING Liam Farmer 170-1,359-16 Damien Appleby 59-292-1 Toby Savini 45-260-1 RECEIVING Devon Weigle 7-132-2 Logan Gibbs 6-110-2 Toby Savini 3-107-1 Cascade looks to shut down a similar style offense Friday Night. Seniors Liam Farmer and Walker Van Ness look to anchor down the defense against the Bullsdogs who average just under 300 yards/game. Monrovia uses the ground game which averages 199 yards/game. Through 7 weeks of the season JR Wyatt Nohren leads the team with 48 tackles and SR Liam Farmer right behind him with 47.. Projected starters Friday Night for your Cadets on defense: DE: Makye Tharp, N: Jacob Potts, DE: Braxton Lewis, LB: Brayden Cartmel, LB: Liam Farmer, LB: Walker Van Ness, LB: Wyatt Nohren, LB: Logan Gibbs, DB: Marcus Hobson, DB: Devon Weigle, DB: Damien Appleby DEFENSIVE STATS TACKLES Wyatt Nohren 14 Solo 34 Assist Liam Farmer 18 Solo 29 Assist Brayden Cartmel 19 Solo 20 Assist Devon Weigle 14 Solo 22 Assist TACKLES FOR LOSS Wyatt Nohren 6.0 Devon Weigle 5.5 Brayden Cartmel 5.0 Logan Gibbs 4.5 Liam Farmer 4.5 SACKS Devon Weigle 3.5 Wyatt Nohren 1.5 Josiah Murrain 1.0 Captains for Week #8 SR #2 Devon Weigle FR #12 Brady Trebley SR #23 Liam Farmer SR #55 Walker Van Ness LOOKING AHEAD The Cadets will wrap up their season next Friday Night playing at Ritter on 10/14, which will be played at Marian University. VARSITY COACHING STAFF Connor Simmons (head coach/offensive coordinator) Kelly Lewis (defensive coordinator) Matt Minardo Tony Appleby Chris Appleby Jerry Williams Kenneth Knight Justin Tharp (JV Offensive Coordinator) Tim Horning (Special Teams Coordinator) JR Dugan (JV Head Coach) Connor Horning Carter Lewis STUDENT MANAGERS Peyton Kelly, Kylee Clark, Kyler Schmalz, Cameron Rance (Filmer) MEDICAL STAFF Amanda Miles ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION Scott Stevens (Athletic Director) CASCADE SPORTS Follow CHS Athletics on Facebook (Cascade High School Athletics), Twitter (@Cadethletics), online (cascadecadets.com) and our CHS Football Facebook (Cascade High School Football) for more information on our sports and football program.