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Titans Again Oust St. Edward From Six-Man Playoffs

November 11, 2009

In 2008, it was the six-man football state championship game.
This time, it was the playoff semi-finals.
Each time the Greeley-Wolbach Titans ended St. Edward’s season short of a title.
Greeley-Wolbach (8-1) used explosive second and third quarters Thursday to defeat visiting St. Edward 66-40 and earn a return trip to the six-man state final in Kearney.
St. Edward finishes its second year in the six-man ranks with a 7-3 record.
Thursday’s contest began in odd fashion for the wide-open six-man game, but heated up quickly after a scoreless first quarter. Greeley-Wolbach Coach William Steele said the teams began the game “feeling each other out”.
The Titans, who edged St. Edward 53-52 in the regular season, got the feel for the game in the second stanza, bursting to a 38-19 lead. There were a pair of three-touchdown flurries in the quarter - consuming 46 and 42 seconds - with Greeley-Wolbach holding a 2-to-1 advantage each time.
The Titans refused to kick deep to dangerous return man Ramone Brown, giving St. Edward several short-field advantages that the Beavers turned into one-play scoring drives early in the second period.
Greeley-Wolbach countered with three TD passes from Dustin Nordhues to Patrick Kennedy.
St. Edward tried to mount a rally with three touchdowns in the third quarter, but Greeley-Wolbach maintained its advantage with 20 points of its own and secured the victory with a fourth-period score.

G/W finished with a 314-209 rushing advantage in the contest and also outyarded the Beavers through the air 212-180.
Brown’s 198 rushing yards and 171 passing yards led St. Edward. Top Beaver receivers were Christian Spath (5 for 83 yards) and Landon Hemmer (5 for 39).
Nordhues paced the Titans, rushing for 163 yards and passing for 212.
With both teams exploring the option of co-ops with other schools, this might have been the final meeting in a brief six-man rivalry.
It’s been a spirited, competitive and entertaining - if brief - series, with Greeley-Wolbach holding the slimmest of edges each time.

Written by jflanagan · Filed Under Sports