The Washburn Rural Junior Blues used two fourth-quarter touchdowns and benefitted from six Junction City turnovers enroute to a 34-24 victory over the Blue Jays in Friday night football.

The teams played through windy, wet conditions with a fine mist and light right falling over the Rural field during the course of the game.

The Blue Jay turnovers included four fumbles, an interception and a muffed punt. Coach Randall Zimmerman felt his team didn’t play well. “We had six turnovers and we had the ball inside the 20 two different times where we did not score and you just can’t do that against a good solid football team like Washburn Rural.”

Junction City led 24-21 entering the fourth quarter but the Junior Blues scored on a 37 yard touchdown run by Jalen Carter with 10:27 remaining and then scored a TD later in the period on another touchdown run to go ahead 34-24.  The Blue Jays drove deep into Washburn Rural territory in the final four minutes but missed a field goal that would have brought Junction City back within seven points.

Junction City ( 1-1 ) play at Topeka West next Thursday, while Washburn Rural, 2-0, meets Hayden next Friday.