Little change for Mid-Prairie football

Mid-Prairie won't see much change from the Iowa High School Athletic Association's addition of a new class for football.

'I am hoping it doesnt move us up a class,” Mid-Prairie head coach Pete Cavanagh said in January when the news came out of the additional class being 5A. 'I'm not sure why the state is doing this.”

The Golden Hawks remained a Class 2A school, barely. Monticello is the largest in the class with a 301 BEDS enrollment number. Centerville is 299. Mid-Prairie is 294 and Williamsburg 293.

The Golden Hawks new district has just one team different than 2020. West Burlington-Notre Dame moved up a class and Centerville replaced the Falcons. Williamsburg and Mid-Prairie have been together in a district every year since 2013 and the Hwks have lost to the Raiders every one of those years. The Hawks last defeated Williamsburg Aug. 28 2009 by a 21-19 score. Mid-Prairie had a 4-4 record, 3-1 in District 7 in 2020.

The Hawks schedule was affected by the coronavirus but still played eight games.

Although every team made the playoffs last year, a school's history is not credited with a playoff game unless it reached the round of 16.

Mid-Prairie last made the playoffs in 2015 and it defeated PCM before losing to Albia to finish with an 8-3 record. The next year's ledger was 5-4 before consecutive 3-6 seasons.

Class 2A

' Teams: 48

' Districts: 8

' Teams per district: 6

' Playoff qualifiers: 32

' Automatic qualifiers: 32, top four per district

' At-large berths: None

' Regular-season games (per team): 8

' District games (per team): 5

' Non-District games (per team): 3

Union area: District 6 teams (Last two seasons overall record)

Centerville (2020 in 2A-8, 5-4; 2019 in 2A-8, 5-4), Central Lee (2020 in 2A-7, 0-8; 2019 in 2A-6, 2-7), Davis County (2020 in 2A-7, 3-4; 2019 in 2A-6, 2-7), EBF (2020 in 2A-7, 3-4; 2019 in 2A-6, 3-6), Mid-Prairie (2020 in 2A-7, 4-4; 2019 in 2A-6, 6-3), Williamsburg (2020 in 2A-7, 8-1; 2019 in 2A-6, 8-4)

TOTALS LAST SEASON AND CLASS 2A RANK

TDs Total Yards Passing comp-att-yards-td-int Rushes-Yards

Mid-Prairie 36 15th 3,661 13th 60-131-920 (31st) -7-5 308-2,122 10th

Centerville 37 13th 3,434 18th 106-215-1,416 (10th) -16-12 268-1,303 30th

Central Lee 15 43rd 2,385 41st 105-220-1,103 (22) -9-13 172-572 48th

Davis County 25 28th 2,660 35th 74-136-1,100 (23rd) -12-5 243-1,082 35th

EBF 17 40th 1,830 48th 11-30-109 (54th) -1-1 263-1,307 29th

Williamsburg 47 6th 3,516 15th 77-143-1,364- (14th) -19-5 292-1,502 22nd