The Tekamah-Herman Football Team lost 50-14 at home to Fremont Bergan Friday night to close out the 2018 season.
The Knights led 15-0 at the end of the 1st quarter, and outscored the Tigers 22-6 in the 2nd quarter to take a 37-6 lead into the locker room.
Tekamah-Herman won the 3rd quarter 8-7 to make it a 44-14 game at the end of three.
Bergan won the 4th quarter 6-0.
Clay Beaumont was 7-19 passing for 93 yards with two interceptions. Luke Wakehouse added 53 yards rushing on 16 carries, and scored once.
Cody Elliot made 10 tackles while Tristan Metzger notched 8. Gage Drummond chipped in 7.
The Tigers racked up 263 yards of total offense, including 170 on the ground.
The defense gave up 353 yards of total offense, 195 of them passing.
It looks like the game was closer from a yardage standpoint than the final score would indicate.
Tekamah-Herman wraps up the year at 2-7.
I think there was a lot of improvement shown by the Tigers from the start of the season through the end of the season.
This team was a lot more competitive than they have been in recent years, and the win over Yutan was a big deal for sure.
Tekamah-Herman says goodbye to seniors Mark Stark, Metzger, Brandon Schram, Tyler Petersen, Elliot, Braden Ball, Drummond, Jacob Jensen, Alex Skinner, Cody Arnold, Cameron Douglas, Alex Camp, Derek Conety, Kegan Tilmon, Dillon Myre, and Fox Redman.
Head Coach Graig McElmuray says this year's senior class will be sorely missed. "We saw 12 incredible young men play their last game as Tigers Friday Night. These young men left our program in a much better place then when we came together four years ago. Their Attitudes and Effort have helped make our program competitive in a various aspects. Their work ethic and ability to take coaching has made our program better and has shown our underclassman how you act in the face of incredible odds and adversity."
McElmuray adds the class is particularly special to him. "I have had to opportunity to coach these seniors for five years. I had them as eighth graders, and came up to varsity with them. They have been a good group of young men, they have had adversity and a whole lot of opportunities to quit and never did they. Their Attitude and Effort has been amazing and their parents very supportive of them and the program. Their leadership will be missed."
A lot of these kids saw time as freshmen due to upperclassmen getting injured.
They were certainly a big part of this program the last 4 years, and their dedication and leadership will not be easy to replace there's no doubt about that.
Key returners for Tekamah-Herman include Wakehouse, Dylan Chatt, Beaumont, Cole Freidel, and Chauncey Rogers.
These players are all very good, and I look for the Tigers to continue to climb the latter in Class C-2.
McElmuray says the future of Tekamah-Herman Football looks bright. "I think we have found an offensive system that fits us, and can be manipulated enough by us as coaches to fit the kids that will be coming through the system the next four or five years. We will continue to work on our defense, and work on defending the spread teams that we face. Our young men have a lot of confidence moving forward."
In closing, I would say everyone on the team needs to be dedicated to offseason workouts, conditioning, camps, drills, etc., for this team to get to where they want to be.
I feel like the Tigers made a lot of strides from last year to this year, and now it's a matter of building off this year and making more strides and improvements next year.
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