{"id":339545,"date":"2026-09-06T21:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339545\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:14:46","slug":"manhattan-high-football-falls-in-season-opener-against-rockhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339545\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan High football falls in season opener against Rockhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan High head coach Joe Schartz said it would be a four-quarter fight for the Indians\u2019 home-opener, and that\u2019s exactly what transpired Friday night at Bishop Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The nightcap to a blazing hot day in the Flint Hills saw Manhattan\u2019s season opener spoiled by one of Missouri\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>In the first matchup between Manhattan and Rockhurst, the Hawklets (1-1) had one more answer than the Indians could handle, taking a 32-28 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a lot of competitive spirit,\u201d Schartz said after the game. \u201cPlayed really hard. Just wasn\u2019t able to execute down the stretch when it mattered. Lots of missed execution. First game, you expect that a little bit against a quality opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/sports\/mhs-football-falls-in-season-opener-against-rockhurst\/article_773fd667-24a2-4c2c-ad19-6a617eecba02.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest and subscribe to The Mercury!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High head coach Joe Schartz said it would be a four-quarter fight for the Indians\u2019 home-opener, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-339545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}