The Oakland-Craig Football Team won the C2-2 District Championship over BRLD in Lyons Friday night as the Knights earned a 40-30 victory.
The Wolverines held a 30-24 lead in the 3rd quarter, but the Knights put up 16 points in the 4th quarter and held BRLD scoreless to earn the come from behind win.
The Wolverines led 12-8 at the end of one and 24-16 at halftime.
Oakland-Craig won the 3rd quarter 8-6.
Jaron Meyer had 10 carries for 124 yards and a touchdown. Ian Lundquist had 19 carries for 105 yards and two touchdowns.
Colton Thomsen was 5-8 passing for 100 yards.
Tom Maline made 9 tackles while Blake Johnson had 8. Thomsen and Laurence Brands each totaled 7.
The Knights racked up 431 yards of total offense, including 331 on the ground.
The defense gave up 405 yards of total offense, 249 coming through the air.
Head Coach Joe Anderson on the win. "It was great for our kids to be in that situation. I wanted to see how they would respond when things were not going great. I felt we played a really strong 4th quarter. We put some great drives together on offense and then got two big stops on defense. Yes, we were able to win a district title, but more importantly it made us a better team going into the playoffs. BRLD is a very talented team, and they were able to expose some weaknesses that we can now fix before next week."
Oakland-Craig (9-0) plays host to Hartington Cedar Catholic (5-4) in the opening round of the playoffs Friday night in action that will be aired on 107.9 the Bull.
The Trojans dismantled Stanton 56-7 on the road in Thursday night's regular season finale.
The Knights whooped up on Cedar Catholic 50-13 at home in the 2nd game of the season.
Anderson says the Trojans are a different team now than they were then. "Hartington CC will be a tremendous challenge. Last time we played them, they were not at full strength and things kind of snowballed on them. They now have their all-state RB back and their whole team is playing really well. They have 2 of the best players in all of C2 with their RB and their lineman. I feel they are a top 10 team again now. They are always a very well coached team and they play really physical. It will be important for us to keep them from hitting the big plays and offense we must execute well and limit our mistakes."
I feel like the Trojans are kind of hit and miss.
Cedar Catholic will play lights out in some games and win some ugly.
Case in point the Trojans hammered Norfolk Catholic 34-7 and lost 21-14 to David City Aquinas, but only beat Crofton 13-7 and David City 20-18.
Granted NC wasn't the same this year and David City is much improved, but still the Trojans have been up and down the entire season although since losing to BRLD and Oakland-Craig early in the season without their star running back they've only lost a couple of close games and won the rest.
So I really think this game hinges on which Cedar Catholic team shows up.
If it's anything like the first time around then Oakland-Craig should win big going away.
But if the Trojans have anything to say about things this time around then it will be an absolute great game and barn burner.
It really could be too.
I want to say the Knights are going to win, but if Cedar Catholic plays lights out then they could win.
The winner gets either Centennial or Doniphan-Trumbull in next Friday night's Quarterfinals, both teams Oakland-Craig has faced in the playoffs in recent years.
If the Knights win and the Broncos win then Centennial hosts Oakland-Craig next Friday night in the Quarterfinals.
That would be a dandy of a ball game, but the Knights have to worry about getting past the Trojans first, and Centennial has to beat the Cardinals as well.
Kickoff from Oakland is set for 7:00 p.m. on the Bull.
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