The Oakland-Craig Football Team ended their season Friday night in the Class C-2 State Semifinals, falling 35-14 at Centennial.
The Broncos led 7-0 at the end of one and doubled up the Knights 14-7 in the 2nd quarter to take a 21-7 lead into the locker room.
After neither team scored in the third quarter, Centennial doubled up Oakland-Craig 14-7 in the 4th quarter.
Robby Mayberry had 95 yards rushing on 25 carries, including a score. Jefferson McNeill added 66 yards rushing on 10 carries, and scored once.
Ian Lundquist had 10 tackles.
The Knights racked up 216 yards of total offense, 182 coming on the ground.
The defense gave up 302 yards of total offense, including 185 rushing.
Solid effort from Oakland-Craig, but the weather and some injuries were simply too much to overcome.
The Knights end the 2018 season with an 11-1 record.
It was a season filled with memories for Oakland-Craig, who beat the likes of Hartington Cedar Catholic, Ponca, Fremont Bergan, Yutan, and BRLD in the regular season, and Shelby-Rising City and Wilber-Clatonia in the playoffs.
Winning a District Championship and finishing with an undefeated regular season is something to be very proud of.
Jared Mulder finished with 1,084 yards passing and 10 touchdowns on the season while Mayberry had 1300 yards and 20 TD's rushing. McNeill added 607 yards on the ground and 7 touchdowns.
Mike Brands led the way in tackles with 62.
The Knights say goodbye to a very talented senior class that includes Mayberry, Garrison Dodge, Mulder, McNeill, Wyatt Uhing, Daniel Sechler, John Werner, Tyson Harney, Cole Bures, and Justyn Hale.
Oakland-Craig is hit hard by graduation this year, and these seniors will be greatly and sorely missed no doubt.
These kids accomplished a lot in their 4 years at Oakland-Craig, including a State Champion Game appearance.
It's onto the future though, and key returners for the Knights are Laurence Brands, Wyatt Seagren, Tom Maline, Lundquist, Jack Pille, and Colton Thomsen.
There is some talent returning for Oakland-Craig next year, and the Knights always seem to reload.
The Knights should be good and solid once again next season, and I'm very excited to see what they can do.
In the meantime though these kids need to enjoy their winter sports season and spring sports season when it comes.
Oakland-Craig has to sit back and enjoy everything as four years of high school goes pretty fast.
The Knights had a great season and should be very proud of their efforts, but next season starts now.
So the sooner Oakland-Craig hits the weights and gets back on the gridiron the better they will be next season.
The Knights need to have an excellent offseason of hard work and conditioning, and must get ready to take it home once again in 2019.
Oakland-Craig has to enjoy time with each other and friends off the field, but also put in the time in the weightroom and on the playing field to be successful next season.
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