Football notes
JCC extends regular season win streak to 18
Jackson County Central’s football win over Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial makes it 18 straight regular season victories for the Huskies, extending the school record.
JCC won its final regular-season game of the 2021 season and went 8-0 in both 2022 and 2023.
It’s the sixth time in school history that the Huskies have had a regular season winning streak reach double figures.
The list:
18: 2021-2024
16: 2015-2017
12: 1997-1998
12: 1999-2001
11: 2002-2004
10: 2018-2019
The streak
Here are the wins in the 18-game streak:
2021
Jackson County Central 26, St. Peter 20
2022
Jackson County Central 30, Maple River 27
Jackson County Central 24, Luverne 0
Jackson County Central 34, Blue Earth Area 26
Jackson County Central 48, Windom 6
Jackson County Central 35, Redwood Valley 0
Jackson County Central 2, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 0 (forfeit)
Jackson County Central 12, Pipestone 7
Jackson County Central 28, St. Peter 7
2023
Jackson County Central 42, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 13
Jackson County Central 43, Worthington 0
Jackson County Central 49, Blue Earth Area 6
Jackson County Central 2, LeSueur-Henderson 0 (forfeit)
Jackson County Central 29, Redwood Valley 14
Jackson County Central 47, Minnesota Valley Lutheran 6
Jackson County Central 34, Luverne 0
Jackson County Central 48, Pipestone 14
2024
Jackson County Central 44, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 0
Season openers
JCC has a 24-4 record in season-opening games.
1997: Jackson County Central 28, Blue Earth Area 21
1998: Jackson County Central 22, Blue Earth Area 6
1999: Jackson County Central 48, Blue Earth Area 25
2000: Jackson County Central 21, Blue Earth Area 17
2001: Jackson County Central 40, Blue Earth Area 14
2002: Jackson County Central 25, Blue Earth Area 6
2003: Jackson County Central 20, Blue Earth Area 6
2004: Jackson County Central 24, Blue Earth Area 8
2005: Windom 55, Jackson County Central 14
2006: Jackson County Central 28, Windom 14
2007: Jackson County Central 27, Blue Earth Area 18
2008: Jackson County Central 10, Blue Earth Area 7
2009: Jackson County Central 35, New Ulm 8
2010: Jackson County Central 26, New Ulm 12
2011: Jackson County Central 20, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 0
2012: Jackson County Central 59, Virginia 6
2013: Jackson County Central 21, St. Louis Park 7
2014: Jackson County Central 43, Fairmont 20
2015: Maple River 17, Jackson County Central 15
2016: Jackson County Central 18, Maple River 13
2017: Jackson County Central 34, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 8
2018: Jackson County Central 56, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 7
2019: Jackson County Central 49, New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva 0
2020: Blue Earth Area 45, Jackson County Central 14
2021: Maple River 35, Jackson County Central 8
2022: Jackson County Central 30, Maple River 27
2023: Jackson County Central 42, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 13
2024: Jackson County Central 44, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 0
South Central Silver District
All five teams in the South Central Silver District won in Week One vs. non-district opponents. Here’s this week’s scores and next week’s opponents:
Thursday, Aug. 29
Minnesota Valley Lutheran (1-0): Defeated Sibley East 28-0; vs. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial (0-1)
Luverne (1-0): Defeated Worthington 25-6; vs. Jordan (0-1)
Friday, Aug. 30
Jackson County Central (1-0): Defeated Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 44-0; vs. Worthington (0-1)
Pipestone (1-0): Defeated Blue Earth Area 35-20; vs. LeSueur-Henderson (0-1)
Redwood Valley (1-0): Defeated LeSueur-Henderson 38-22; vs. Maple River (0-1)
Section 3AA
Jackson County Central will play in Section 3AA in postseason play. Here’s how those teams fared this week and what’s coming up next week:
Thursday, Aug. 29
Minnesota Valley Lutheran (1-0): Defeated Sibley East 28-0; vs. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial (0-1)
Sibley East (0-1): Lost to Minnesota Valley Lutheran 28-0; at Tri-City United (0-1)
Friday, Aug. 30
Jackson County Central (1-0): Defeated Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 44-0; vs. Worthington (0-1)
Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial (0-1): Lost 44-0 to Jackson County Central; at Minnesota Valley Lutheran (1-0)
LeSueur-Henderson (0-1): Lost to Redwood Valley 38-22; at Pipestone (1-0)
Pipestone (1-0): Defeated Blue Earth Area 35-20; vs. LeSueur-Henderson (0-1)
Redwood Valley (1-0): Defeated LeSueur-Henderson 38-22; vs. Maple River (0-1)
Windom (0-1): Lost to BOLD 56-14; at St. James Area (1-0)
The usual suspects
No state rankings have been released yet, but here’s a roundup of how the traditional Class AA powers did last week and what’s on the schedule next week:
Eden Valley-Watkins: Defeated Melrose 44-14; vs. St. Cloud Cathedral
Caledonia: Defeated Rochester Lourdes 28-0; vs. Dover-Eyota
Barnesville: Defeated Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 24-14; vs. Roseau
Osakis: Lost to Pillager 18-16; at Kimball
Chatfield: Defeated Red Wing 39-7; at St. Charles
Jackson County Central: Defeated Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 44-0; vs. Worthington
Holdingford: Defeated Sauk Centre 42-8; vs. Royalton
Dover-Eyota: Lost to Plainview-Elgin-Millville 22-15; at Caledonia
Kimball: Defeated Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 48-6; vs. Osakis
Pelican Rapids: Defeated Breckenridge 26-6; Warroad
Norwood Young America: Defeated St. Clair/Mankato Loyola 53-0; vs. New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva
St. Agnes: Defeated Twin Cities Charter 54-0; at Hill-Murray
Park Rapids: Lost to Fergus Falls 39-0; vs. Crookston
Moose Lake/Willow River: Lost to Barnum 9-6; at Aitkin
Cannon Falls: Defeated Zumbrota-Mazeppa 55-6; vs. LaCrescent/Hokah
Tyrone in attendance
Tyrone Wacker attended Friday’s game and worked the crowd of JCC fans that chose to watch the game standing on the track near the Huskies’ sideline.
Before the game he was on the field and talked with coaches and a handful of players.
Some of the JCC players seemed to have little idea who he was other than coach Wade Wacker’s dad and coach Shad Wacker’s grandpa.
Well, Tyrone was a head coach in four varsity high school sports (football, basketball, baseball, track and field), won state championships in two of them (football at Gaylord in 1972 and Jackson in 1985, as well baseball at JCC in 2004). He is in the coaches hall of fame in two sports (football, baseball).
Tyrone also was a graduate assistant football coach at South Dakota State, head football and baseball coach at Worthington Community College (now Minnesota West) and also head football and baseball coach at Huron College.
He’s also a member of the Minnesota Baseball Association Hall of Fame and Mayville State (N.D.) Athletics Hall of Fame.
The only time Tyrone was not a head coach in high school football coaching career was under Tom Schuller at JCC. He stepped away as Jackson’s coach following the 1992 season and didn’t coach for five years before joining Schuller’s staff in 1998. The Huskies won a state title in 2001.
That was a full circle time for Schuller, who was an assistant under Tyrone at the start of his coaching career. Schuller has long considered Tyrone a great friend and mentor.
Tyrone had a 113-45 record (.715) as a head high school football coach. He was 56-4 (.933) at Gaylord and 57-41 (.582) at Jackson.
