The North Bend Central Football Team won 32-25 at David City Friday night in the regular season finale to claim the C2-4 District Championship.
Here is Head Coach Ryan Stieren to break things down:
We took the first drive 69 yards for a Touchdown capped by a Breckin Peters Touchdown reception which broke the school record for touchdown catches. We stopped them on their first drive but fumbled our punt return. They took over at our 10 yard line and scored a couple plays later. Then, Allan Orellana took the ensuing kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown. We took a 25-12 lead into the half but they battled back in the 2nd half to tie it 25-25 but with 3 minutes left in the game we drove 65 yards and scored on 5 yard TD run by Austin Endorf to seal the game.
Endorf was 21-31 passing for 189 yards and a touchdown. Peters had 9 receptions for 58 yards and a TD.
Ethan Mullally had 131 yards rushing on 26 carries, and scored once.
Cody Pospisil had 10 tackles while Cole Johnson and Ian Virka made 8 apiece. Peters and Gavin Peterson totaled 7 each.
Stieren on the win. "We didn't deserve to win this game but good teams win ugly and that's what we did tonight. We had at least 8 dropped passes, 1 of which was intercepted by the opposing team. We fumbled a punt return to give them the ball deep in our territory and we allowed them to break off a big explosive play. But, at the end of the day we won the district championship which is huge for our program."
North Bend Central (8-1) plays host to North Platte St. Pat's (6-3) in the first round of the playoffs Friday night.
The Irish drilled Gordon-Rushville 62-7 at home in Friday night's regular season finale.
The two teams have one common opponent in Grand Island Central Catholic.
The Tigers beat the Crusaders 24-17 in overtime at home while North Platte St. Pat's lost 28-7 to GICC on the road.
The Irish only lost 17-7 to top seeded Sutton in their season opener though so you know they can play some football.
North Platte St. Pat's won their last 6 games after losing their first three.
With that said, North Bend Central has played and beaten some very good teams, and we all know how good Football and High School Sports are in this part of the State.
So based on that I look for the Tigers to win and advance.
North Bend Central has to play like they did against Aquinas and Shelby-Rising City though, not David City.
Anyone can be beat on any given night, and the Tigers have to realize and understand that.
The winner gets either BRLD or Wilber-Clatonia in the Quarterfinals next Friday night.
It would be a tough game against either Wolverine team, but North Bend Central has to focus on and worry about beating North Platte St. Pat's first.
The Tigers have to defend their home field and beat the Irish.
It's a long road trip and bus ride to North Bend from North Platte, and the Tigers have to make sure it's a long trip home for the Irish Friday night.
NBC has to get pumped and fired up and try and go out there and win a playoff game this year.
The Tigers got there last year, now North Bend Central has to take that next step and win a game.
It will be really interesting to see how this one goes.
I think the Tigers could win big, or it could be a close game, but either way I look for NBC to find a way to win.
Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. in North Bend.
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