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Clear Creek Amana used the comforts of playing at home to get back on track last week.

On Friday the Clippers took their success on the road.

Clear Creek Amana snapped a five-game road losing skid with a 41-14 win over Newton (0-5, 0-3) on Friday in a Class 3A, District 6 contest at H.A. Lynn Stadium in Newton.

The win was the second straight for Clear Creek Amana (3-2) and the first win away from home for the Clippers since a 35-13 victory at Fort Madison on September 13 of 2019.

Senior quarterback Ryan Navara ran for three touchdowns and accounted for  254 total yards on Friday as the Clippers improved to 2-1 in district play.

Navara was brilliant on Friday, completing 12-of-16 passes for 159 yards as Clear Creek Amana piled up a season-high 477 yards of offense.

The senior signal caller had rushed for 95 yards with all three of his carries going for touchdowns.

Navara had touchdown runs of 15, 21 and 60 yards helping the Clippers rush for a season-best 300 yards.

Figueroa rushed for 90 yards and a touchdown and Gage Freeman added 69 yards and a score in the 300-yard rushing effort.

Navara got the Clippers on the board with a 15-yard touchdown run with 6:22 left in the opening quarter.

Freeman made it 14-0 with a 43-yard touchdown run on the final play of the first quarter.

Figueroa had a 46-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and Navara put Clear Creek Amana up 28-0 at intermission with a 20-yard scoring jaunt.

The final touchdown of the game for Navara, a 60-yard scamper with 8:30 left in the third quarter gave Clear Creek Amana a 35-0 cushion.

The Clear Creek Amana defense forced four turnovers with Jayden Massey and Ethan Pegump each picking off passes for the Clippers and Harrison Rosenberg collecting an interception and recovery a fumble.

Will Haughey had a sack as Clear Creek Amana made seven tackles for loss. Nate Beckmann had a team-high 6.5 tackles with a stop for loss while senior Anthony Hennes had six tackles, including four solo stops.

Clear Creek Amana closes out the season with back-to-back home games against Oskaloosa (1-4, 0-3) on Friday and Grinnell (4-1, 3-0) in its season finale.

                                   CCA                NEW

First downs                 21                     15

Rushes-yards              30-300           38-197

Comp-Att-Int              14-23-0           8-21-3

Passing yards              177                   38

Total yards                  477                   254

Punts-avg                    3-37               5-38.6

Fumbles-lost               1-1                   1-1

Penalties-yards           4-30                8-80

Newton                                      0    0   7  7  –  14       

Clear Creek Amana              14  14  7  6  –  41

CCA – Ryan Navara 15 run (Anthony Hennes kick)

CCA – Gage Freeman 43 run (Hennes kick)

CCA – Alex Figueroa 46 run (Hennes kick)

CCA – Navara 20 run (Hennes kick)

CCA – Navara 60 run (Hennes kick)

NEW – Cade Cupples 1 pass from Zay Arguello (Josh Meyer kick)

CCA – Ben Swails 20 run (Run failed)

NEW – Cupples 37 run (Meyer kick)

Individual Statistics

RUSHING – Clear Creek Amana: Alex Figueroa 12-90, Ryan Navara 3-95, Gage Freeman 9-69, Ben Swails 2-36, Brock Sherman 1-4, Xavier Williams 1-3, Nate Beckmann 1-2, Ethan Pegump 1-1. Newton: Zay Arguello 14-103, Cade Cupples 4-71, Gavin Urias 13-50, A.J. Holdefer 7-36, Keith Moko 2-13, Brody Bauer 1-2, Reese Hammons 1-(-2).

PASSING – Clear Creek Amana: Ryan Navara 12-16-0 159, Ben Swails 2-7-0 18. Newton: Zay Arguello 6-17-2 34, Cade Cupples 1-1-0 11, Brody Bauer 1-3-1 3, Gabe Abrams 1-1-0 8, Josh Meyer 1-1-0 (-18).

RECEIVING – Clear Creek Amana: Tom Johnson 6-76, Brock Reade 3-20, Gage Freeman 1-32, Treyton Bickel 1-21, Mason Stanfield 1-13, Alex Figueroa 1-10, Blaine Stockman 1-5. Newton: Keith Moko 4-30, Zay Arguello 2-14, A.J. Holdefer 2-11, Cade Cupples 2-(-17).

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