The 2025 Football Homecoming Queen is Ella Meyerkorth and the King is Ryder Herron. Crownbearers were Sophie Smith, left, and Ray Herron, right.
Members of the 2025 Rock Port High School Homecoming Court, from left to right, are: front row – Sophie Smith and Ray Herron, crownbearers; and back row – Bertie Meyerkorth and Jagger Jones, sixth grade attendants; Aleyda Clodfelter and Briar Daugherty, eighth grade attendants; Karlie Gebhards and Jaxson Smith, sophomore attendants; Jacoby Driskell and Emma Teten, queen candidates; Queen Ella Meyerkorth and King Ryder Herron; Quentin Jackson and Tayden Cook, king candidates; Audrey Dougherty and Gabe Gebhards, junior attendants; Anna Weber and Colt Seiter, freshman attendants; and Nella Steuter and Jack Bailey, seventh grade attendants.
Football captains Brock Holmes, Tayden Cook, and Ryder Herron give their talk at the bonfire.
The Rock Port Marching Blue Jays added to the spirit of the bonfire on Thursday night.
Wyatt Amthor, the voice of the Blue Jays, gave a great pep talk at the bonfire.
The junior high and high school cheerleaders led the pep rally with a group cheer.
The Rock Port football players and the cheerleaders bring up the end of the parade.
Joanna Burke with Rock Port Teammates, along with some of her mentors, Theresa Crawford, Melissa Pierpoint, Angela Mace, and Kristen Lucas, joined in the homecoming parade.
The Rock Port senior class gets into the spirit with their float.
The freshman class locked up the South Holt Knights for their float in the homecoming parade.
The king candidates, Quentin Jackson, Tayden Cook, and Ryder Herron, were asked a series of questions to see how well they knew their queen candidates, Emma Teten, Jacoby Driskell, and Ella Meyerkorth.
Jack Meyerkorth hauls in a 40 yard pass from Westyn Amthor for a touchdown.
Gabe Gebhards gets in the back field for a sack.
Ryder Herron fights through a hold in pursuit of the Knights’ quarterback.
Quentin Jackson plugs up the middle to get the quarterback sack.
Brock Holmes has a big lane on his way to the endzone.
Case Millsap gives a stiff arm to pick up the first down.
Camden McEnaney shoots in hard and wraps up for the tackle and loss of yards.
Reid Ellis wraps up to get the tackle for a loss.
Blue Jays move to 7-0 with homecoming win over South Holt Knights
The Rock Port Blue Jays hosted the South Holt Knights in their Fall Homecoming game Friday, October 10, 2025.
From the beginning of the game Rock Port continued their dominance, putting up 48 points in the first quarter.
Brock Holmes would get things going with a 55-yard run on the first play of the game, followed by two touchdowns by Jack Meyerkorth. Meyerkorth’s first touchdown came from a 40-yard pass from Westyn Amthor. Jack then returned the Knight’s punt for a touchdown. The Jays’ defense would force another punt that gave the Blue Jays great field position inside their own territory. Holmes took Amthor’s hand-off down to the 8-yard line before punching it in on the next play. Once again, the Jays’ defense didn’t allow a first down, forcing the Knights to punt. With Meyerkorth back on the 30-yard line, he would field the ball and take it 50 yards for his third touchdown of the night, bringing the score to 40-0. In the next defensive series, Brock Holmes intercepted the ball, taking it back to the 17-yard line. Quarterback Jack Meyerkorth would take the ball up the middle for his final touchdown of the night. This brought the score to 48-0 with all 2-point conversions being good.
In the second quarter, Rock Port started to get some of the second-string backfield in the game with Logan Ellis, Case Millsap and Blaise Krogen. The Jays were able to move the ball to the 18-yard line before Blaise Krogen would go up the middle to add the final score of the game. Defensively, the Jays held the Knights to only one first down on the night and no points.
The Blue Jays are on the road this Friday as they travel to Burlington Junction to take on the Nodaway Valley Thunder. The game begins at 7:00 p.m.
