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Friday Night Hype: All of our highlights from Oct. 31 high school football playoff games

Friday Night Hype: All of our highlights from Oct. 31 high school football playoff games
MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES NOW. FRIDAY NIGHT HYPE PRESENTED BY HY-VEE. YEAH. WELL, BRIGHTON. BUDD. IT’S FRIDAY NIGHT HYPE. TRICK OR TREAT. WE’RE GONNA TRICK THE OTHER TEAM. YEAH. HELLO. WE WILL FIND OUT IF THEY DID TRICK THE OTHER TEAM. OH, MY GOSH, WE HAD SUCH A FUN NIGHT. EVERYBODY WAS IN COSTUMES. EVERYBODY WAS READY TO GO AND FIRED UP. WE HAVE THE BEST COSTUME COMING LATER IN FAN OF THE WEEK. BUT WE START WITH OUR GAME OF THE WEEK, WHERE JOHNSTON AND ANKENY CENTENNIAL MET FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON. JOHNSTON WITH THE CARRY. THAT’S JEREMIAH ARMSTRONG HUSTLING BY THE CAMERA FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. JOHNSTON TAKES A LEAD HERE. QB ONE TREVIN HELMING. WE TALKED TO HIM EARLIER. HE WAS FEELING GOOD, THINKING THEY WERE GOING TO GET THE DUB. KANON REYNDERS FOR A NICE TOUCHDOWN CATCH RIGHT THERE. CENTENNIAL IS TRYING TO GET SOMETHING GOING HERE. THEY’LL HAND OFF TO THEIR FAVORITE FAVORITE RUNNING BACK J.J. MORGAN. HE LED ALL OF CLASS FIVE-A IN RUSHING YARDS, AND YOU CAN SEE WHY HE ELUDES EVERYBODY. JOHNSTON WOULD HAVE ANOTHER RUN FOR JJ MORGAN RIGHT HERE. YOU COULD HAVE GUESSED IT POUNDS HIS WAY INTO THE END ZONE, BUT JOHNSTON WOULD COME BACK TO WIN IT 34 TO 26. THE CONFIDENCE PAYING OFF. CEDAR RAPIDS PRAIRIE AT VALLEY. HERE THEY TOUCH THIS LITTLE STATUE AS THEY COME OUT. I DIDN’T WANT TO BOTHER HIM. VALLEY AND BLACK AND IN THE RED ZONE. THAT’S DRAKE DEGROOT CONNECTING WITH JADEN MONTGOMERY IN THE CORNER OF THE BIG BOX VALLEY. LEAD 20 TO 7 AT THE BREAK. FOURTH AND SIX RIGHT HERE IN THE THIRD. YOU GOT TO BE AGGRESSIVE. IT’S THE PLAYOFFS. AND THAT’S JADEN BROWN MOVING THE STICKS CONTORTING HIS BODY. SAME DRIVE. THIS HAPPENS FAST. DEGROOT WILL TRY TO PASS THE BALL. BUT WATCH THIS. IT SLIPS OUT OF HIS HAND. HIS HANDS ARE TOO COLD AND IT’S RECOVERED BY PRAIRIE VALLEY WOULD HOLD STEADY AFTER THAT. PUTTING TOGETHER A 15 PLAY BABY SEVEN MINUTE DRIVE TO GO UP TWO SCORES. PRAIRIE ALMOST CAUGHT UP, BUT VALLEY MOVES ON 26 TO 20. JOHNSTON AND VALLEY WILL PLAY IN THE QUARTERFINALS. ANKENY QUARTERBACK CALE RUSH LEADING HIS TEAM DOWN THE FIELD. HE LAUNCHES THIS, CONNECTING WITH HAYDEN CARLSON, SOMERSAULTING FOR THE FIRST DOWN AND MORE. ANKENY WOULD ATTEMPT THE TUSH PUSH, RUSHING UP, BUT THE BALL GOES FLYING. POPS OUT. I SAID IT’S COLD, IT’S SLIPPERY. IN SOUTHEAST, POLK GETS THE TOUCHBACK. I MEAN, TALK ABOUT MISCOMMUNICATION OR MAYBE SQUEEZE THE BALL HARDER. THAT IS A TOUGH LOOK. THERE. SOUTHEAST POLK LOOKING DOWNFIELD, SCRAMBLING. A BOMB. BUT IT EXPLODES IN THE HANDS OF ANKENY HERE. THIS IS COOPER HUSTLING. WHAT A PLAY. AND THERE IS THE LORAX HAVING A GOOD TIME. ANKENY CALE RUSH WITH THE BALL A BEAM TO WIDE RECEIVER ANDREW BRANDHORST. HE’S BEEN GREAT THIS SEASON FOR THE SCORE. BUT GUESS WHAT? IT IS SOUTHEAST POLK WHO KEEPS THE FIVE PEAT ALIVE, WINNING 21 TO 14. WAUKEE TRAVELED EAST TO IOWA CITY LIBERTY. THESE TEAMS MET IN THE FIRST ROUND ALMOST EXACTLY A YEAR AGO TODAY. LIBERTY ENDED WAUKEE’S SEASON EARLY IN THE FIRST LIBERTY, LOOKING TO SCORE ON THEIR OPENING DRIVE ON THE PYLON. HE’S A YARD SHORT, BUT HE’LL GET THE BROTHERLY SHOVE HERE ACROSS THE GOAL LINE. WE’RE SEEING A LOT OF THAT IN HIGH SCHOOL THESE DAYS. MUST BE A LOT OF EAGLES FANS. LATE IN THE SECOND, LIBERTY LED 17 ZERO. WAUKEE FINDS JAY WHITE. THAT’S HIM MAKING EVERYTHING HAPPEN, PUTTING DEFENDERS IN THE GRAVE. THEY’VE SEEN GHOSTS AFTER THAT ONE, BUT LIBERTY LIGHTS UP THE BOARD, WINNING 34 TO 20. SO IT IS SOUTHEAST POLK LIBERTY IN THE QUARTERFINALS. INDIANOLA AT WAUKEE NORTHWEST WERE SCORELESS IN THE FIRST. ON FOURTH AND EIGHT, THE INDIANOLA INDIANS DRAW UP A QB KEEPER. THAT’S ASHER BRICK, ESCAPING THE DEFENSE TO PICK UP A FIRST DOWN. INDIANOLA CAN’T PUNCH IT IN, SO THEY GO FOR THREE AND KICKING IS QB ONE, BUT IT’S BLOCKED. GREAT SPECIAL TEAMS AND WE ARE STILL TIED AT NOTHING. INDIANOLA WOULD GET THE BALL BACK, BUT ELI AND COMB LIKE A TEENAGER TAKING CANDY ON HALLOWEEN. PURE ROBBERY. NOT QUITE. HE SAID HE STOPPED SHORT OF THE GOAL LINE, SO IT’LL BE RYAN WOODRUFF TAKING IT HOME. NORTHWEST RUNS THE TABLE, WINNING 28 TO 7. THEY WILL PLAY SIOUX CITY EAST NEXT FRIDAY. CARRY BY NUMBER FIVE CADENTHOSE WAUKEE NORTHWEST. STOKED TO BE ON TV. STOKED TO BE IN COSTUME. FUNNIEST COSTUME I SAW THERE WAS PROBABLY SOMEBODY IN A HOT DOG AND THEN THEY HAD SOME GREEN BEAN STALKS. ANYWAYS, WE GOT TO GET TO WHAT HAPPENED IN NEWTON FORT. DODGE PLAYED OVER THERE. THEY MET IN THE FIRST ROUND WITH THE EXACT SAME RECORDS. THIS GAME WAS 41, NOTHING AT HALFTIME. AND WE GO TO THE SECOND HALF EARLY IN THE THIRD QUARTER. KADEN KLEIN DOING A LOT OF WHAT HE DID IN THE FIRST HALF. NOBODY IS GOING TO TACKLE THE NEWTON STAR QUARTERBACK. KLEIN, FOR SIX MAKES IT 48. NOTHING. IT IS ALL CARDINALS ALL DAY. TRESHAWN ROSS THE BIG MAN DOING WHAT HE CAN BUT GETS TACKLED BY THE CARDINALS DEFENSE. AND I MEAN A FRUSTRATING NIGHT FOR THE DODGERS. THEN THIS A 42 YARD FIELD GOAL FOR JACKSON, PRICE AND NEWTON SAYS NIGHTY NIGHT. DROPPING A 50 BURGER ON THE DODGERS CARDINALS WIN IN THEIR FIRST HOME PLAYOFF GAME SINCE 2007. YOU KNOW, HEARING THAT FROM MY HEAD COACH, 2007, I MEAN, THAT’S WHEN I WAS BORN. SO THAT’S CRAZY. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF STARTED TO TEAR UP. SO THAT KIND OF MEANT I KNOW HOW MUCH THAT MEANT TO HIM. AND, YOU KNOW, WINNING TONIGHT MEANT EVEN MORE TO HIM AND EVEN TO THE TEAM. IT WAS AWESOME. GREAT FEELING. NEWTON WILL PLAY GILBERT, WHO BEAT LEWIS CENTRAL 27 TO 24 IN THAT QUARTERFINAL GAME NEXT FRIDAY. NORTH POLK HERE PLAYING GLENWOOD JAMES ARMSTRONG FOR NORTH POLK, THROWING AN INTERCEPTION. I MEAN GLENWOOD JUST BEAT HIM OUT ON THE LADDER THERE KNOCKING HIM OVER. AND THEN GLENWOOD WOULD MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN HERE. CONNECTING WITH WIDE RECEIVER MILES LONGMIRE. WHEW. THAT WAS A PATTY MAHOMES TYPE OF THROW. PATRICK MAHOMES LET ME CORRECT MYSELF THERE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN THERE. HERE’S NORTH POLE TRYING TO GET SOMETHING GOING A LITTLE HESITATION OUT OF BOUNDS. UNFORTUNATELY WE COULDN’T GET A TOUCHDOWN FROM NORTH POLK FOR THE TIME THAT OUR PHOTOGRAPHER JOSH WAS THERE. BUT NORTH POLK ENDED UP TOTALLY ROLLING, BEATING GLENWOOD 35. OR ACTUALLY THEY WON 35 TO 21. PARDON ME, 35 TO 21. THE FINAL SCORE OF THAT GAME GOOD FOR NORTH POLK. WE HEAD TO CLASS A WHERE LYNNVILLE SULLY HOSTED BGM AND THEIR BABY BLUE PANTS AND THOSE BABY BLUE PANTS. DON’T BE FOOLED BY THEM. QB CONNOR DEAL WINDS UP FINDING HIS TARGET, JACK BOLAN. HE MANAGES TO GET TWO FEET IN AND THAT’S GOOD. ON SUNDAYS. GET HYPED. HAWKS UP EIGHT ZERO BGM AND THE BEARS ARE MORE GROUND AND POUND STUFFING IN BO BURNS DIVING OVER THE GOAL LINE. THEY MISS THE EXTRA POINT AND TRAIL 8 TO 6. SECOND QUARTER BURNS GETS BURNED BY BURT JOHNSON. THAT PUT THE HAWKS IN GREAT FIELD POSITION. CONNOR DIEHL AGAIN WOULD MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY. DYLAN JODI LONG GAVIN FISK A WALTZING TOUCHDOWN, MAKING IT 15 TO 6 LYNNVILLE. SULLY GOES ON TO WIN 51 TO 26 BGM. SHOULDN’T HAVE GOT OFF THE BUS. MY GOODNESS, WHAT A GAME THERE. GET CAUGHT UP ON LOCAL NEWS, ORIGINALS AND MORE. DOWNLOAD THE VERY LOCAL APP AND STREAM FOR FREE TODAY. WELCOME BACK. FAN OF THE NIGHT WAS EXQUISITE. IT’S HALLOWEEN, SO WHAT BETTER COSTUME THAN MAYBE THE MAN WHO OR OBJECT THING THAT KNOWS BEST. ANKENY LORAX WAS HYSTERICAL. I MEAN, COME ON, YOU GOT THE FANNY PACK AND EVERYTHING. THE MUSTACHE WAS GREAT. I DON’T KNOW IF THAT’S A REAL BELLY OR A FEW PILLOWS, BUT I LAUGHED OUT LOUD IN THE NEWSROOM FOR A SOLID 30S AND MADE SURE THAT EVERYBODY SAW. SO CONGRAT
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Updated: 11:09 PM CDT Oct 31, 2025
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Friday Night Hype: All of our highlights from Oct. 31 high school football playoff games
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Updated: 11:09 PM CDT Oct 31, 2025
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Many Iowa high school football fans are already looking toward the playoff quarterfinals Nov. 6-7. But don't miss all of vlog's highlights from Round of 16 games on Oct. 31. Scroll to watch them all. Highlights from Friday, Oct. 31Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Johnston 34, Ankeny Centennial 26Iowa high school football playoff highlights: West Des Moines Valley 26, Cedar Rapids Prairie 20Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Southeast Polk 21, Ankeny 14Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Iowa City Liberty 34, Waukee 20Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Waukee Northwest 28, Indianola 7Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Newton 51, Fort Dodge 7Iowa high school football playoff highlights: North Polk 35, Glenwood 21Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Lynnville-Sully 51, BGM 26

Many Iowa high school football fans are already looking toward the playoff quarterfinals Nov. 6-7. But don't miss all of vlog's highlights from Round of 16 games on Oct. 31.

Scroll to watch them all.

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Highlights from Friday, Oct. 31

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Johnston 34, Ankeny Centennial 26

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: West Des Moines Valley 26, Cedar Rapids Prairie 20

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Southeast Polk 21, Ankeny 14

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Iowa City Liberty 34, Waukee 20

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Waukee Northwest 28, Indianola 7

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Newton 51, Fort Dodge 7

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: North Polk 35, Glenwood 21

Iowa high school football playoff highlights: Lynnville-Sully 51, BGM 26

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