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1. Gavin Draper (Grace)

The Grizzlies' quarterback dissected the Oakley defense all night, finishing with four touchdown passes, as he led Grace to a dominant season-opening win over the Hornets, 50-8. 

2. Jayden Mason (Troy)

The Trojan sophomore threw two touchdown passes in the first half and then caught what ended up being the game-winning score in the fourth quarter as Troy edged nearby rival Deary, 24-22.

3. Tyson Charley (Lakeside)

The junior basketball standout made his transition to the football field with a seven-touchdown performance (four passing, three rushing) in the Knights' season-opening win over Coeur du Christ Academy, 54-32.

Honorable Mention

Razor Duke (Butte County)
John Denke (CDCA)
Nolan Hubbard (Deary)
Cameron Holmes (Genesee)
Jereese McCormack (Lapwai)
Ryan Daniels (Logos)
Dallin Hardy (Oakley)
Aries Mabberly (Timberline)
Cooper Miller (Wallace)

Right Time to Shine

Butte County RB/DE Rawson Twitchell picked the right time to have a big performance, rushing for over 100 yards and two scores on offense and notching several tackles on defense in Saturday's come-from-behind win over a good Logos team in Homedale.  Turns out his brother, a U.S. Marine, flew in to watch the game.  A signature moment for Twitchell was a second-quarter, 81-yard touchdown run where he was bottled up before somehow getting free and winning a footrace up the right sideline to paydirt.

North Star Star Power

Perhaps no small-school league in Idaho can match the name-recognition of the 1A North Star League in north Idaho.  Former NFL quarterback Kellen Clemens is the head coach of the new program at Coeur du Christ Academy, while another former NFL'er, Ron Heller, is an assistant coach at Clark Fork.  Meanwhile, first-year Lakeside head coach Jerry Louie-McGee is a former 5A league MVP from Lake City who went on to earn FCS All-American accolades at the University of Montana.

A Night of Firsts

Speaking of the North Star, Coeur du Christ Academy, a small, Catholic school in Coeur d'Alene, played its first game in school history on a rainy, windy Friday night against Lakeside.  While sophomore running back John Denke is the answer to the trivia question as the first Saints player to score a touchdown, it wasn't the first scoring play for CDCA.  The program's first-ever points actually came in an extremely unique way: a safety due to a bad punt snap.  The Saints forced a Lakeside punt from deep in its own territory in the first quarter and the bad weather conditions caused the snap to sail over the punter's head and out of the end zone for two points, the first points ever for CDCA.