Wolfpack cleans up at 77th Shrine Game

Jun. 19—The Glacier Wolfpack made an impact on the 77th East-West Shrine Game at Daylis Stadium in Billings Saturday night.

As in three Most Valuable Player awards.

Kash Goicoechea ran 12 times for 169 yards and two long touchdowns, Cohen Kastelitz had four catches for 53 yards and Isaac Keim was a beast on defense as the West claimed its fourth straight win in the all-star football series, 48-20.

Goicoechea garnered the Roger Silvernale Award for the game’s most outstanding player, while Keim — who like Goicoechea is headed to the Montana Grizzlies — was the West’s defensive MVP. Kastelitz, who’s headed to Montana Tech, was his team’s offensive MVP.

Whitefish’s Mason Kelch, another Montana Tech signee and Kastelitz’s cousin, hit 5 of 6 PAT kicks for the West.

The winners seized momentum when Goicoechea tore off a 57-yard touchdown run on the game’s sixth snap. With his team holding a 21-0 lead, the Griz legacy took a pitch 70 yards for another score with 10 seconds left in the first half.

Watching was Keim, who in addition to playing defensive end and D-tackle, handled the long-snapping duties for the West.

“I saw him get in the flat and kind of break away and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, nobody’s catching him,’ ” Keim said. “I maybe ran onto the field before he scored. That’s my teammate, right? Next year as well, he’s my teammate. It was a great sight to see.”

Down 28-0 at halftime, the East closed the gap with a 42-yard touchdown pass from Billings Central’s Adam Balkenbush to Bozeman High’s Rocky Lencioni, and a 1-yard TD run from Red Lodge’s Thomas Buchanan.

The East then forced a punt, but Three Forks safety Colten Hayder made his second interception of the game for the West, at his own 3-yard line.

Soon his team was up three TDs: Missoula Sentinel’s Danny Sirmon followed an 82-yard burst from Big Sky’s Joey Sandberg…

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Author : Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Mont.

Publish date : 2024-06-19 13:01:00

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