Stanton loses final game at Battle Creek

The Stanton Football Team played their final game of the 2017 season Friday night, losing 48-8 at Battle Creek.

The Braves led 14-0 after one, and blanked the Mustangs 14-0 in the 2nd quarter to take a 28-0 lead into the locker room.

Battle Creek won the 3rd quarter 14-8 to extend their lead to 42-8 at the end of three.

The Braves shutout Stanton 6-0 in the 4th quarter.

Beau Wilke carried the ball 5 times for 71 yards, and scored a touchdown in final game as a Mustang.

Ashton Flood had 19 tackles while Gauge Erickson made 16. Wilke, Sutton Pohlman, and Nathan Wragge registered 10 each.

Stanton had 213 yards of total offense, including 177 on the ground. Battle Creek totaled 386 yards of offense, 244 coming on the ground.

Tough way to end a difficult season for the Mustangs. To Stanton's defense they were pretty young though.

The Mustangs conclude the 2017 campaign with a 2-7 record.

Stanton started the year 2-1, and lost their last 6 games to tough competition.

Junior Quarterback Marcus Spotanski finished the season 40-97 passing for 586 yards with 2 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

Erickson was the team's leading rusher with 363 yards on the season. Wilke added 339 yards rushing, scoring a touchdown in his last ever game, his only one of the year.

Flood led the team in tackles on the season with 96 while Erickson notched 90.

Stanton parts ways with Wilke, Flood, Ben Hansen, and Logan Kage.

These four seniors meant a lot to the Mustangs without a doubt, and will be sorely missed, you can bet on that.

Stanton returns a lot though, including Pohlman, Spotanski, Nathan Arens, and others.

The Mustangs need to get much stronger, bigger, faster, and athletic in the offseason.

Stanton's athletes have winter and spring sports to worry about too, but whenever they can workout and play the game of football, the better they will be at the sport next year.

Growth and development as players and young men should happen naturally, but the Mustangs have to go out there and make it happen.

Stanton has to work their tails off in the offseason, and feel the burn.

The Mustangs have to work hard together as a team in the weightroom and in places they run.

Stanton's players need to participate in summer camps and workouts, and work on improving themselves.

The Mustangs need good weightroom participation, and players not out for a winter and/or spring sport should be working out as much as possible to get ready for next Football season.

All these freshmen, sophomores, and juniors that played this year will be sophomores, juniors, and seniors next year so Stanton should be better next year than they were this year.

It will be interesting to see what the schedule is like for the Mustangs too because their district was absolutely brutal the last two years.

I look for Stanton to have a better year next year than they did this year when it's all said and done.