No. 10 Blue Valley West 35, No. 6 Blue Valley 34

Just when Blue Valley looked to pull off another last-minute thrilling win, Blue Valley West quarterback Tate Nagy said, hold my Gatorade.

After the Tigers scored an apparent game-winning touchdown with 44 seconds left, Nagy led the Jaguars 80 yards for a touchdown drive. After an incompletion, Nagy dropped back and heaved a 45-yard bomb to junior Kian Lammers down the right sideline to the BV 35 with 31 seconds left.

A 19-yard pass to Tyler Peterson put the Jags at the 16 with :13 left, followed by a rollout to the right and a strike to Quin Myers at the 1 with :07 left. After a timeout, Nagy lobbed fade to the 6-foot-7 Peterson in the left corner of the end zone for the touchdown grab with four seconds left. Joey Svoboda canned the extra point for the 35-34 lead.

Blue Valley, 5-1 overall, had stopped the Jaguars on 4th-and-3 at the BV 23 with 1:41 left. From the BV 20, the Tigers marched on an 80-yard drive of their own, capped by an 18-yard strike in the right side of the end zone from quarterback Chris Aiello to fellow senior Jackson Hopper with 44 seconds left. The extra point was blocked, for a 34-28 margin.

The Tigers won the previous week, 27-21, at Blue Valley Northwest when it scored the game-winning touchdown with :40 left.

Blue Valley West, No. 10 in the 810 Varsity Top 25 and currently the top seed on the Class 6A East side, will host St. James Academy next Friday. Blue Valley will wrap the regular season at Bishop Miege.

No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas 49, No. 13 Blue Valley Northwest 14

St. Thomas Aquinas continued its march through the Eastern Kansas League on Friday night.

The Saints, No. 2 in the 810 Varsity Top 25, stayed perfect in league play and for the season at 7-0 with 49-14 laugher against No. 13 Blue Valley Northwest at Aquinas.

Cal Arndt opened the barrage with two of his three first-half touchdowns for the night. The first capped an 80-yard opening scoring drive for a 7-0 lead with 5:07 left in the first. A 43-yard Arndt run set up a five-yard score from the running back for a 14-0 lead with 9:11 in the first half.

Aquinas went to the air for an Elzie Slaughter touchdown pass to Brett Yankovich, followed by a Slaughter score on a keeper for a 28-0 lead with 1:28 before half.

But the scoring wasn’t down, as the Huskies coughed up the ball at the Saints 9. Arndt later scored from three yards out to mount a 35-0 halftime lead.

St. Thomas Aquinas will host Blue Valley North next Friday, while the Huskies will entertain Blue Valley Southwest.

No. 14 Louisburg 17, No. 25 Ottawa 7

Louisburg went to upset-minded Ottawa but returned with a 17-7 win in typical fashion.

The Wildcats, No. 1 in Kansas Class 4A and No. 14 in the 810 Varsity Top 25, used a methodical drive in the final minutes to beat No. 25 Ottawa on Friday night.

Clinging to a 10-7 lead for most of the game, Louisburg took over after an Ottawa punt at its own 39 with 1:31 left in the third period. The Wildcats plodded on a 14-play, 8:40 drive, including converting four third downs, before Ashton Moore took a pitch to the right side for a three-yard scamper to the end zone with 4:51 left and a 17-7 lead.

Louisburg (7-0) will play host to Spring Hill next Friday, while Ottawa will travel to Tonganoxie.