Perkins County swamps the Sutherland Sailors

by Diane Stamm

Grant tribune-sentinel

The Perkins County football team set the tone early in its dismantling of Sutherland Friday.

In their first district game of the season, the Plainsmen took the opening kickoff and drove down the field for a Dawson Tjaden two-yard touchdown run. 

PCS Head Coach Tanner Collins said he was very proud of how fast and physical the Plainsmen came out. 

“We have had issues starting games slow so we harped on that a lot. The kids listened and fixed it and came out strong from the get go,” Collins said.

PCS added another touchdown right at the end of the first quarter on a Casey Hanson 15-yard run.

The Plainsmens’ 16-0 lead was doubled in the second quarter with a Oscar Boldt TD with 4:42 on the clock and another Hanson touchdown just over two minutes later.

A huge third quarter capped scoring in the 60-0 win, including a safety by Nolan Foster and Landon Noyes.

“It was rewarding seeing a good week of practice result in that outcome. We are getting a lot better at coming off the ball and getting a push up front,” Collins said. 

Collins liked the effort in all three phases of the game, saying the offensive line played very well and the Plainsmen backs ran really hard. 

Collins went on to compliment his defense and special teams.

“Defensively the guys flew around and gang tackled all night. We even got a special teams touchdown on a punt return Coach (Steve) Snyder dialed up. It was just a great night of football in all aspects of the game for us,” Collins said.

Up next

Collins is hopeful PCS can keep up the momentum against its upcoming district opponents.

The Plainsmen, now 4-1, have three tough games remaining on their regular season schedule, including this week against 4-1 Sandhills Valley. The Mavericks’ first loss of the season was Friday against North Platte St. Pat’s.

“This is a big game for us points wise and district wise. I know they will play hard and physical. We have to come out just like we did this last week and we should be fine,” Collins said.

On Oct. 7 PCS will host 3-2 Maxwell before the regular season wraps up at Class D1 number one and undefeated NPSP Oct. 13.

The 11 D1 district champions, plus the next 21 teams will make the playoffs. PCS is currently 13th in the standings. NPSP is first, Sandhills Valley is ninth and Maxwell 30th.

Stats at a glance

Team Totals PCS SHS

Total Plays 50 48

Total Yards 318 79

Passing Yards 17 -

Rushing Yards 301 79

First Downs 18 5

Third Down Efficiency 6-10 4-13

Fourth Down Efficiency 2-2 1-2

Turnovers 1 3

Fumbles Lost - 2

Interceptions Thrown 1 1

Penalties 4/62 2/11

Tackles (solos-assists-TFL)—Ethan Sihm, 4-5-1; Tony Lyon, 2-3-0; Colson Uehling, 2-0-0; Oscar Boldt, 1-3-0; Preston Schwanebeck, 1-0-0; Colton Kroeker, 1-0-0; Nolan Foster, 1-3-1; Landon Noyes, 1-7-0; Juan Perez, 1-6-0; Alec Reese, 1-1-1; Trevor Cornelius, 1-1-0; Dom Williams, 1-0-0; Mason Toner, 0-5-0; Henry Taylor, 0-1-0; Jackson Wykert, 0-3-0; Issiah Dunn, 0-1-0; Eli Busick, 0-1-0; Team, 4-0-0.

Rushing (attempts-yards-TD)—Casey Hanson, 8-107-3; Dawson Tjaden, 14-101-2; Oscar Boldt, 11-51-1; Schwanebeck, 2-14-0; Sihm, 5-11-1; Toner, 2-10-0; Jet Peterson, 1-6-0; Kroeker, 2-1-0.

Passing (completions-attempts-yards-TD-INT)—Tjaden, 1-2-17-0-1; Peterson, 0-1-0-0-0.

Receiving (receptions-yards-TD)—Foster, 1-17-0.

Scoring

First Quarter

PCS: Dawson Tjaden 2-yd run (Ethan Sihm run)

PCS: Casey Hanson 15-yd run (Nolan Foster pass from Tjaden)

Second Quarter

PCS: Oscar Boldt 8-yd run (Henry Taylor Run)

PCS: Hanson 25-yd run (conversion no good)

Third Quarter

PCS: Sihm 4-yd run (Hanson run)

PCS: Safety

PCS: Hanson 25-yd run (conversion no good)

PCS: Ryder Potts 56-yd punt return (conversion no good)

PCS: Tjaden 21-yd run (Tjaden run)

Score by quarters:

PCS 16 14 30 0—60

Sutherland 0 0 0 0-—00