BRLD's season ends in Semifinal loss to Sutton

The BRLD Football Team fell 38-28 at home to Sutton in the Class C-2 State Semifinals in Lyons Friday night.

The Wolverines led 7-6 at the end of one before the Mustangs doubled up BRLD 14-7 in the 2nd quarter to take a 20-14 lead into the locker room.

The Wolverines won the 3rd quarter 7-6 to trim the deficit to 26-21 at the end of three.

Sutton outscored BRLD 12-7 in the 4th quarter.

Will Gatzemeyer was 19-31 passing for 319 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 86 yards on 20 carries, and scoring once.

Kobe Lyons added 70 yards rushing on 12 carries, and scored once.

Jaxon Johnson hauled in 7 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown. Lucas Vogt made 7 receptions for 107 yards. Dylan Beutler had 5 receptions for 100 yards and a TD.

Gatzemeyer made 15 tackles while Derek Petersen and Tyler Vavra each had 9. Luke Kramer notched 8 while Johnson and Gus Gomez totaled 7 apiece.

The Wolverines finished with 482 yards of total offense, including 319 passing.

The defense gave up 550 yards, all on the ground.

Tough way for BRLD to go out for sure.

The Wolverines end their campaign at 10-2.

Statistical leaders for BRLD...Gatzemeyer finished with nearly 3,000 yards passing and over 1,700 yards rushing. Lyons had 946 rushing yards.

Gomez finished with 120 tackles on the year while Petersen made 106 and Gatzemeyer 102.

The Wolverines say goodbye to a host of Seniors, including Arizona Riecken, Braxton Bargmann, Gatzemeyer, Johnson, Lyons, Parker Paulson, Kramer, and Kyler Gomez.

These 8 seniors will be sorely missed without a doubt.

Key returners for BRLD include Colten Briggs, Beutler, Vogt, Luke Ronnfeldt, and Gomez.

The Wolverines have a solid group of returners back next year, and should be good once again.

BRLD has some absolute huge shoes to fill with the departure of Gatzemeyer though.

He is a big time loss for the Wolverines.

Some new players are going to have to step up and emerge for BRLD next season.

The Wolverines need to have a big offseason of working out, conditioning, and playing the game.

I'm sure BRLD is disappointed they didn't make it to the State Championship, but that's all the more reason to work even harder next year.

This was the Wolverines' chance and season to win it all though.

BRLD came up short, but still had a fine and spectacular year.

The Wolverines were undefeated until the very end when they lost to Oakland-Craig and Sutton, the two teams in the State Championship Game.

BRLD has absolutely nothing to hang their heads or be disappointed about.

The Wolverines did all they could this year I feel.

The season didn't end in a State Title, but it was still a heck of a season.

I only look for it to make BRLD stronger, tougher, and more motivated next year.

The North Bend Central win is something these kids will remember for the rest of their lives I am sure.