The North Bend Central Football Team dropped their final game of the season Friday night, falling 20-12 at David City.
The Scouts led 7-0 after one, and won the 2nd quarter 7-6 to take a 14-6 lead into the locker room.
Neither team scored in the 3rd quarter. Both teams scored 6 points in the 4th quarter.
Austin Endorf was 13-30 passing for 158 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.
John Emanuel hauled in 6 passes for 67 yards, including a touchdown, while James Seymour made one catch for 60 yards, a touchdown.
Brock Ray made 19 tackles while Joel Hines totaled 10. Jeremy Doernemann and Gavin Peterson added 9 apiece while Colton Mitties registered 8.
The Tigers had 215 yards of total offense, 185 coming on the ground.
Head Coach Ryan Stieren says it was tough to go out the way his team did this year. "We made too many mistakes to win against a team that doesn't hurt themselves. Definitely a disappointing way to end the season but it is a good lesson that I hope will motivate us this offseason to improve and to prepare better each and every week."
North Bend Central wraps up the year at 2-6.
Definitely not what the Tigers were hoping for after going 4-4 last year, but I thought North Bend Central competed better against the Wahoo Schools and David City Aquinas than they did last year.
The Tigers lose quite a few talented seniors, including Brandon Wardman, Peter Emanuel, Hines, Mitties, Dalton Mueller, Joshua Strauss, Noah Brodd, Ray, Joe Bautista, Tyler Obershaw, Brendan Pojar, Jared Spiker, and Seymour.
A lot of talent was lost with this senior class, and a lot of these players and their contributions will be sorely missed, but all North Bend Central can do is move on and prepare for next year.
Key returners for the Tigers next season include Endorf, Zach Ortmeier, John Emanuel, Trevor Nelson, and others.
North Bend Central needs to have a really good offseason, and see lots of growth and development.
The Tigers have to breathe, live, sleep, and eat football as much as possible.
The players need to be weightroom junkies, and must work on getting stronger, bigger, faster, and more athletic.
Working on agility drills would be a good idea I would say because North Bend Central could definitely benefit from being faster and more fleet of foot.
The Tigers should work on becoming more shifty, and improving their range.
North Bend Central has to bring the lunch pail to work every single day this offseason, and kids not out for a winter and/or a spring sport should be working on football related activities as much as possible.
I realize a lot of these kids go out for basketball, wrestling, track, etc., but the Tigers could really benefit from improvement at the game of Football.
It will be interesting to see who North Bend Central gets in their district next year.
Perhaps the Tigers will get a full 9-game schedule next year with more winnable district games.
This year was tough and all thrown out of whack with North Bend Central only playing 8 games, and the Madison game getting cut in half due to the weather, and the Aquinas game getting called early.
Perhaps the challenges and obstacles that the Tigers faced this year will make North Bend Central a stronger team next year and for years after that.
The Tigers just have to keep getting better and improving as football players, athletes, and young men.
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