Commanders cap unbeaten title run; Colts and Cowboys prevail

The Commanders’ Beau Bednar (18) breaks free from Rams while scoring on a 76-yard run and 31-yard interception return which helped clinch their McCook Footbal League division championship at Weiland Field Thursday night.

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McCOOK, Neb. — The Commanders are McCook Football League Fifth-Sixth Grade champions with their 15-6 win over Rams Thursday night.

Beau Bednar delivered two more touchdowns for five total through these three contests.

Meanwhile, 6-6-6 never looked better cosidering that’s all the Caommander defense permitted during this 3-o champion season.

The Colts’ Breck Horner (85) was an unstoppable force with three touchdowns in a 24-0 McCook Football League over the Chiefs Thursday night. The Colts can complete an unbeaten seventh-eighth grade championship season tonight.

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The Rams could have taken this title but places second overall at 2-1.

The Cowboys earned a final win over Eagles (0-3) in Thursday’s other fifth-sixth grade finale.

Meanwhile, the Colts can cap a 3-0 season if they take down Raiders tonight. They blanked the Chiefs, 24-0, on Thursday benind Breck Horner’s three TD runs with an average scoring distance of 38 yards.

Seventh-eighth finales are tonight starting at 8.

Seventh-Eighth

Grade

COLTS 24

CHIEFS 0

1st qtr-Colts-Colton Foster 1 yard TD run (PAT failed)

2nd qtr-Colts-Breck Horner 40 yard TD run (PAT failed)

3rd qtr-Colts-Horner 45 yard TD run (PAT failed)

4th qtr-Colts-Horner 39 yard TD run (PAT failed)

Fifth-Sixth

Commanders 15,

Rams 6

1st qtr-Commanders-Beau Bednar 31 yard interception return for TD (Barrett Frecks pass to Wesley Musgrave)

2nd qtr-Commmanders-Bednar 76 yard TD run (Barrett Frecks run)

4th qtr-Rams-Isaac Snyder 19 yard TD pass to Ashton Guthrie (PAT failed)

Cowboys 12,

Eagles 0

1st qtr-Cowboys-Parker Anderson 38 yard TD pass to Javan Houghtelling (PAT failed)

3rd qtr-Cowboys-Anderson 65 yard TD pass to Houghtelling (PAT failed)