Prep Football- With the 2026 Iowa High School Football season getting ready to kick off next week and scrimmages playing out throughout the state tonight, here’s a look at our local team’s upcoming schedule and last year’s results for 8-Player District 5. Both teams will be playing on Friday, August 28th.
WACO: 3-6 (2-3) qualified for playoffs last year
Week 1: Central City (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Beat the Wildcats 49-0 as Hayden Shelman scored four total touchdowns.
Week 2: Winfield-Mt. Union (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Defeated the Wolves 41-22 behind Shelman’s 250 rushing yards and six total touchdowns.
Week 3: HLV-TC (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Won 48-7 with the Warriors rushing for 367 total yards.
Week 4: Freemont-Mills (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 54-13.
Week 5: Belle-Plaine (Homecoming) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 34-24.
Week 6: English Valleys (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 54-52 despite scoring 45 points in the second half.
Week 7: Springville (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 52-33.
Week 8: Iowa Valley (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 60-20.
Winfield-Mt. Union: 2-5 (2-3) last year
Week 1: Easton Valley (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 59-22.
Week 2: WACO (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 41-22 despite 236 passing yards and two touchdowns from Cody Milks.
Week 3: English Valleys (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Beat English Valleys 28-26 as Milks threw two touchdowns and nabbed an interception on defense.
Week 4: Wayne (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 55-24.
Week 5: Iowa Valley (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 69-22.
Week 6: HLV-TC (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Won 50-34 with Milks tossing for 250 yards and three touchdowns and picking off a pass on defense.
Week 7: Murray (Home) at 7 pm. Last Year: Did not play.
Week 8: Belle Plaine (Away) at 7 pm. Last Year: Lost 56-42 as Tayson Samuels caught 14 passes for 190 yards and two touchdowns.
Wolves head coach Scott McCarty talked about the expectations for his team,
“One thing we’ve been talking about is be brilliant at the basics. You know, just the basic fundamentals. You’d be surprised how well you can do, not just in football, but in every aspect of your life. If you’re just good at the basic things, you know, so we work on that a lot, just being really good at the fundamentals. And I expect them to come to work, right? And, you know, just do your job. If your job is to do this, you do this at a high level, right? I mean, it comes down to being a person of integrity, you know, doing what you’re supposed to do, how you’re supposed to do it for as long as it needs to be done. And that’s kind of what we preach to our kids every day is do what you’re supposed to do, do it how you’re supposed to do it, and then do it until it’s done. You know, there’s two ways to do things, right and again. You know, so you got to make sure that you’re doing it right every time.”