Standard Democrat high school football stat leaders through Week 3

Dennis Marshall – Standard Democrat

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Kelly's Reece Eftink (25) avoids Malden's Amareus White during the first half Friday night, Sept. 2, 2022, in Malden, Mo.

DAR/Mark J. Sanders

Statistical leaders from the Sikeston Standard-Democrat coverage area

PASSING

Player, Team	Comp.	Att.	Yds.	TD	INT
1. Chris Grissom, NMCC	30	43	605	10	1
2. Skyler Still, Kelly	21	35	301	4	1
3. Mason Adams, Portageville	13	21	289	5	1
4. Ko’Terrion Owens, Charleston	7	13	130	1	0
5. Tucker Parker, East Prairie	10	28	114	0	3
6. Kayden Craig, Sikeston	3	11	66	1	0
7. Joseph Heckemeyer, Sikeston	14	38	61	1	1
8. Conner Marcum, East Prairie	4	7	61	1	1
9. Almareion Williams, Charleston	2	4	89	1	1
10. BJ Williamson, NMCC	5	9	83	1	0

RUSHING

Player, Team	Att.	Yds.	TD
1. Reece Eftink, Kelly	48	475	7
2. Kayden Minner, NMCC	37	461	2
3. Jamarion Smith, Portageville	54	367	8
4. Joseph Heckemeyer, Sikeston	32	243	7
5. Tavion Ware, East Prairie	36	178	1
6. Conner Marcum, East Prairie	20	162	3
7. Kendrick Sherrod, Sikeston	34	149	1
8. Rommie Turner, Charleston	11	94	1
9. Braylan Cade, East Prairie	10	90	0
10. Kymarion Chappell, Charleston	5	80	1

RECEIVING

Player, Team	Rec.	Yds.	TD
1. Jadis Jones, NMCC	12	327	6
2. BJ Williamson, NMCC	13	269	4
3. Roy Wiley, Charleston	6	162	2
4. Ethan Graham, Kelly	9	126	1
5. Beau-Hunter Warren, Portageville	3	121	3
6. Jacob Chapman, Kelly	5	101	2
7. AJ Ruff, NMCC	8	55	1
8. Marcus Sanders Jr., Sikeston	4	55	1
9. Tim Hamilton, Portageville	1	46	1
10. Caden Dunn, Kelly	4	43	2

TACKLES

Player, Team
1. Sam Hayes, Portageville	31.5
2. Mason Adams, Portageville	29.5
3. Gavin Price, Kelly	22
t-4. Tayvon Dukes, Sikeston	14
t-4. Reik Smith, NMCC	14
t-4. Jadis Jones, NMCC	14
t-4. Landon Gregory, Kelly	14
t-8. Luke Gadberry, Sikeston	13
t-8. Jamarion Smith, Portageville	13
t-10. Reece Eftink, Kelly	10
t-10. Samir Smith, NMCC	10

SACKS

Player, Team
t-1. Tavyon Dukes, Sikeston	2
t-1, Luke Gadberry, Sikeston	2
t-1. Thomas Frakes, Portageville	2
t-1. Donovan Miller, Portageville	2
t-2. Reik Smith, NMCC	1
t-2. Trez Clark, Sikeston	1
t-2. Caden Dunn, Kelly	1
t-2. Ryder Krauss, Kelly	1
t-2. Rel Newsome, NMCC	1
t-2. Connor Jefferies, Portageville	1

INTERCEPTIONS

Player, Team
1. Mason Adams, Portageville	3
t-2. AJ Ruff, NMCC	2
t-2. Beau-Hunter Warren, Portageville	2
t-2. Kayden Craig, Sikeston	2
t-2. Rommie Turner, Charleston	2
t-3. Jadis Jones, NMCC	1
t-3. Jacob Chapman, Kelly	1
t-3. Andrew Foster, Kelly	1
t-3. Isahiah Jimmerson-Patterson, Sikeston	1
t-3. Carson Braldey, Portageville	1
t-3. Conner Wallace, Sikeston	1

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You probably have the columns mislabeled for passing, and tackles are out of order also have Trayvon Dukes first name misspelled.

-- Posted by SHS1959 on Thu, Sep 15, 2022, at 4:19 PM

Response by Dennis Marshall, Sports Editor:
👍
I appreciate you gathering/publishing leading stats from area football players.

-- Posted by indian73 on Thu, Sep 15, 2022, at 10:21 PM
I too appreciate the effort to get these kids some pub for their efforts. I would love to see comprehensive stats from the Semoball area. It seems like there are very few articles that include stat lines at the bottom. Thanks again for the effort!

-- Posted by Brian Becker on Thu, Sep 15, 2022, at 10:47 PM
It’s nice that other area papers compile stats such as this. I guess the Missourian doesn’t have interest to do so for Cape, Jackson and northern schools. Most of the time Friday night high school games are not even there in the online edition on Saturday morning. Local sports section is a JOKE.

-- Posted by 66Indian on Fri, Sep 16, 2022, at 6:52 AM

Response by J.C. Reeves, Southeast Missourian sports editor:
Good morning Togbf,

I do compile stats for the six schools in my coverage area (Cape, Chaffee, Jackson, Perryville, Scott City, St. Vincent), however I decided to wait to publish mine until everyone's stat leaders are compiled in the link provided by OldManFootball below. However, I would be happy to publish them separately as Dennis did here.

As far as Friday coverage and Saturday print goes, there are multiple factors:

1. I have one other reporter besides myself to cover games, six schools to cover and an 11 p.m. deadline to have my pages submitted. The most we can be at is two games per night (three if one of my teams is playing another publications teams — for example, Brian Rosener will be at Jackson-Poplar Bluff tonight, Clay Herrell will be at Cape Central-Park Hills Central and I will be at Chaffee-Malden). By the time I've finished my interviews and written my brief story for Saturday's print it's around 10:15-10:30.

Then, I have to edit my reporter's article and submit it, call the coaches whose games we weren't at, transcribe those interviews and write a story based on that. By the time I would be able to get all of that done it would be well past my deadline to get it in print.

2. We had a copy editor pass away a few weeks ago, so I've been designing the paper each day. On Fridays, I get the paper to a good spot and our editor-in-chief finishes up that night.

While I may not be able to get every single game in print, I do my best to make sure we have at least a couple of them, as well as the scores from each game published. The games that don't get published in Saturday's print eventually get published in Monday's e-edition and Tuesday's print.

Regardless whether the stories are in print or not, I make sure they're online by the end of the night so when you wake up in the morning you have access to them.

Is this ideal? Of course not. If I could, I would be at every single game every single day. But that's simply not possible.

As someone who grew up in the area and read Semoball religiously when I was a high school athlete, I work tirelessly to try and provide the best coverage I can despite the challenges I face on a day-to-day basis. I care a lot about our local communities and the young athletes we cover. I just simply can't be everywhere at all times.

Thank you for your comment and for your continued support. If you have any other questions or concerns I urge you to reach out to me directly at jcreeves@semoball.com and I'll be happy to discuss them with you.

Best,
J.C. Reeves
Southeast Missourian sports editor

Edit: As promised https://www.semoball.com/story/2964805.html
https://www.semoball.com/story/2964597.html

I found some stats in here from the SEmissourian covered teams.

-- Posted by OldManFootball on Fri, Sep 16, 2022, at 8:15 AM
Good job JC!!!!

-- Posted by rainex on Tue, Sep 20, 2022, at 5:44 PM

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