Stanton loses to Hartington Cedar Catholic

The Stanton Football Team competed well Friday night, but lost 21-0 at home to Hartington Cedar Catholic.

Neither team scored in the 1st quarter, but the Trojans blanked the Mustangs 14-0 in the 2nd quarter to lead by that score at halftime.

Hartington Cedar Catholic shutout Stanton 7-0 in the 3rd quarter to make up the final score as neither team scored in the 4th quarter.

Gauge Erickson led the way with 16 tackles while Ashton Flood totaled 11. Ben Hansen and Sutton Pohlman registered 10 apiece while Beau Wilke recorded 9.

The Mustangs racked up just 58 yards of total offense, 31 coming on the ground.

Very strong defensive performance from Stanton, and defense is always a good place to start, but the Mustangs couldn't get things going offensively.

Stanton (2-6) takes on Battle Creek (5-3) on the road in the season finale for the Mustangs Friday night.

The Braves shutout Crofton 38-0 on the road this past Friday night.

Stanton beat Battle Creek 13-7 at home last year to make the playoffs.

The Braves appear to be comfortably in the playoffs, but a Mustang win would give Battle Creek a pretty low seed more than likely.

This is the final game of the year for Stanton so the Mustangs really don't have anything to lose.

It's the final hoorah for these seniors, and a final chance at picking up a win.

It has been a very tough and trying year for Stanton, but a win over the Braves would no doubt make the Mustangs' season.

Stanton has to throw the kitchen sink at Battle Creek, and give the Braves every sort of look offensively, and blitzes and looks defensively.

The Mustangs have to go out there and play with reckless abandon because this is it for the year for Stanton, and for the seniors, this is it for High School Football.

Emotions tend to run high this time of year for everyone involved in High School Football, and I can only imagine what's going through these seniors' minds right now.

The Mustangs have to come out and be "perfect." I'm going to use a Friday Night Lights Reference here.

Being perfect is not what the score says on the scoreboard...being perfect is looking at your teammates in the eye and knowing there wasn't one more thing you could of done out there. That you gave your best effort on the field and there was nothing more thing you could of done.

That may not be the exact quote Billy Bob Thornton uses in the movie, but it's something of that nature.

This is it for Stanton. The final time the Mustangs will put on the Orange, Black, and White of Stanton this year. And for the seniors it's the last time in their lives they'll ever dawn the uniform of Stanton on a football field.