This was a tough one for the Blue Dragons. MCM scored four touchdowns in a row during the first three quarters of the game.
"McCook Central is a big and physical team,” said GHS head coach Chris Long. “They executed things well on the offensive side of the ball and we didn't have an answer to them running the ball."
But MCM didn’t get everything their own way. GHS got two back to back touchdowns starting with only 3:30 seconds left in the third quarter. First, Parker Schlenker made a 31 yard run for a TD! GHS then managed to wrest control of the ball from MCM and Dylan Kindt made a 17 yard pass to Cole Skadsen for 17 yards for another touchdown. Cody Erikson made each TD count with solid kicking for an extra point. The third quarter ended 28 to 14. MCM however wasn’t done and scored another touchdown with two point conversion at the start of the fourth quarter. The Dragons managed to keep them from scoring again, but it was a brutal matchup.
"We have to take what we do in practice to the games,” said Coach Long. “We had a lot of guys, especially on the defensive side, revert to doing things their way and not the way they were coached to do it. That makes it difficult to execute a game plan. We'll go back to working on the fundamentals this week and next in our bye week. Overall, I'm happy with the fact that our guys play hard! We just have to execute better. After our bye week we run into a tough stretch of opponents, we have to improve so we can have success in that stretch of our schedule."
The next game is away in Flandreau. The school sent out the following Public Service Announcement Tuesday Morning:
Due to water behind Flandreau's Football Complex there won't be parking behind the stadium Friday Night when we travel to Flandreau for Friday's football game. All parking will be to the south of the High School (BB/VB/WR spectator parking or to the east of the elementary school). If people park in the south parking lot, they will enter through the High School doors and leave by the loading dock area and walk around the track to some portable steps to the stadium. The concession stand and bathrooms will be in the High School – same place as if there was events hosted in their main gym.
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