*Evan Haisch-Laurel-Concord-Coleridge - Junior running back lit up the scoreboard with his 7 touchdowns in the LCC Bears 76-46 win over Thayer Central in the opening round of the Eight-Man 1 football playoffs. Haisch, who cracked the 1000 yard rushing barrier a few weeks back, rolled up 302 yards rushing on a grueling 47 carries...

*5000 Yard Career Rusher AlertEli Larson-St. Paul - The St. Paul All-Stater that excels on both sides of the ball, surpassed the coveted 5000 yard career rushing mark in the Wildcats 69-6 victory over Twin River last week. Eli ran for 137 yards on just 7 carries to raise his career rushing total to 5,109 yards...

VIKING FIELD, GRAND ISLAND, NE Alright high school football sports fans, raise your right hand if you think Hastings is primarily a passing team. If you indicated “yes”, you are probably right. Through the first four games of 2020 that is. Yep, we’re talking somewhere in the vicinity of 78/22 pass/run ratio...

*Koa McIntyre-Fremont Bergan - Junior quarterback led his Knights to a 28-24 overtime win over C-2, #1 and defending state champion Oakland-Craig. The win over those “other” Knights marked the first victory by Bergan over Oakland-Craig since 2017 and ended a 21 game winning streak for the defending C-2 champs...

ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Class C-1, 3rd rated St. Paul was the last one standing when all the smoke cleared in a classic, smashmouth football game for the ages at Adams Central high school Friday night. Two of C-1’s finest programs traded big time punches in a heavyweight bout not suited for the weak at heart, and when all the smoke cleared, St. Paul was the last team standing in a defensive struggle that would rival some of the best games this guy has witnessed in the past 5 years...

FULLERTON, NE It appears that Fullerton was not only prepared to handle Nebraska Lutheran’s vaunted high octane passing offense, but the Warriors own offense was more than rarin’ to go in the regular season finale for both schools...

*Keagan Brodersen-Ravenna - 5-10, 155 pound senior caught 7 passes for 213 yards in Ravenna’s nail-biting 44-38 victory over Amherst. Brodersen, son of UNK and Nebraska high school and college sports PA Announcing Legend Rich Brodersen, was on the receiving end of three long distance touchdown passes from Bluejay quarterback Zach Lewandowski...

*Ethan Shaw, Mack Owens-Aurora - 6-3, 200 pound junior All-State Athlete Mack Owens rushed for 159 yards on 21 carries with touchdown runs of 6, 5, 2 and 13 yards in the Huskies 55-34 win over then #1 Hastings. Owens was also a sparkler on defense, recording at least a pair of sacks I can recall...

Undefeated and Class D-1, #1 rated Dundy County/Stratton blew into the scenic facility at Southern Valley like a hurricane forced wind, leaving the 4-2 Eagles wondering what hit them. The raging Tigers offense came at the home team like a well oiled, finely tuned offensive machine, piling up 54 first half points enroute to a resounding 78-20 win over Southern Valley...

*1000 Yard Rusher Alert*Evan Haisch-Laurel-Concord-Coleridge - The 6-1, 195 pound junior running back was a definitely a thorn in Plainview’s side last week in the Bears 50-14 win over the Pirates. Haisch powered his way to 268 yards on 27 carries with touchdown runs of 25, 30, 23, 4 and 49 yards in the romp. That vaults Haisch overe the one thousand yard rushing mark and sets him at 1,046 yards going into Bears big matchup with undefeated Wakefield this week...

*Jimmy Allen-Crofton - Jimmy “Ironman” Allen should receive the “Ironman” award based on his rushing for 485 yards and 10 touchdowns during an EIGHT DAY span for the Warriors. Allen, a 5-9, 180 pound junior and his Crofton football team had a Monday night makeup game sandwiched in between a pair of regularly scheduled Friday night contests...

*Koa McIntyre, Knights Defense-Fremont Bergan - Junior quarterback Koa McIntyre completed 13 of 27 passes for 171 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the Knights impressive victory over perennial power David City Aquinas. McIntyre also had a rushing touchdown in the win (3 yards)...

DAVID CITY, NE Archbishop Bergan spotted Aquinas an early 7-0 lead, then reeled off thirty one unanswered points, to take a 31-7 win over David City Aquinas, spoiling the Monarchs homecoming. All-State candidate and Dual-Threat quarterback Koa McIntyre threw for a pair of touchdowns and ran for another, fueling the Knights first victory over Ron Mimick’s Aquinas forces since 2013...

*1000 Yard Rusher Alert*Caleb Busch-Burwell - Rambled for 313 yards on 33 carries and 6 touchdowns in the Longhorns 70-26 win over North Central. I have Caleb unofficially at 1,090 yards with 22 touchdowns this season. There will definitely be more where these 1,090 came from...

*Coulter Thiele, Knights Defense - Oakland-Craig - The 5-11, 170 pound senior receiver pulled off a rare offensive gem against a traditionally stellar, stingy David City Aquinas defense in Oakland-Craig’s 28-12 win over the Monarchs...

*Cole Payton, Dominic Rezac, Warriors “D” - North Dakota State commit threw three touchdown passes and ran for another pair of scores in top rated Omaha Westside’s 42-0 win over Grand Island. The 6-3, 215 pound quarterback completed 10 of his 12 pass attempts for 141 yards, with scoring strikes to Avante Dickerson (23 yards), Grant Guyette (23 yds) and Husker commit Koby Bretz (9 yds). Payton also hit paydirt with rushing TDs of 1 and 3 yards...

#1 Omaha Westside executed as close to a perfect opening half of football as I’ve seen in ton of Friday nights. The Warriors of super coach Brent Froendt couldn’t have done it much better offensively or defensively, as Omaha Westside put this game away in the first quarter, eventually racing to a 42-0 win over Grand Island...

*Isaac Noyd, Cougar Offensive Line-Cross County - Senior flyer sliced and diced for 338 yards on 20 carries and 5 touchdowns in Cross County’s 52-32 road victory over a pesky Nebraska Christian team that controlled the pace of the game. There is more to this story though...

*Caleb Busch-Burwell - 6-0, 180 pound Longhorn junior stepped into the role as featured back when three time 1000 yard rusher Jase Williams departed via graduation this spring. It’s a ‘next man” up deal at Burwell as far as that role is concerned, and Busch has embraced the opportunity and is off an running in 2020...

VIKING FIELD, GRAND ISLAND, NE The battle between Class B’s #5 Waverly and #7 GI Northwest came down to a PAT kick in overtime. All-State kicker Parker Janky of Northwest made his. Waverly’s Evan Canoyer just missed his. There’s obviously much more to this storyline than that, but the fact of the matter is, when it came down to crunch time, you would not expect either Canoyer, who hadn’t missed a PAT since September 21st, 2018 (58-58 since), or Janky, who had not muffed one since August 30th of last season (49-49 since then), to miss a PAT kick.. ...