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The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk football team returns home tonight to take on the Davis County Mustangs in a Class 2A District 5 contest. The Hawks are 1-3 on the season, 1-0 in district play after a 42-21 win at undefeated West Burlington Notre Dame a week ago. The Hawks scored the final 21 unanswered points to pull away for the win. Mid-Prairie won the total yards battle 306 to 300, including 213 to 61 through the air. Hudson Ehrenfelt led the Hawks with 120 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns. Brady Weber was 13 of 20 throwing for 213 yards and a pair of scores, one to Ace Peck who led with four grabs for 100 yards, the other to Kaden Kos. Kos led the Golden Hawk defense with 13 tackles, five for loss, a forced fumble and a pick. Keatyn Myers recovered the fumble. Mid-Prairie had 11 total tackles for loss. This season, the Golden Hawks score 22 per game and give up 20, averaging 267 yards per night, 200 through the air. Weber is the leader in the pass game at 56 of 90 for 802 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions. Ehrenfelt has 82 total touches, 474 all-purpose yards, and eight total touchdowns. Kos leads the defense with 44 total stops, 11 for loss with a sack. Kos, Ehrenfelt and Meyers each have a takeaway. The Golden Hawks rank in the top 10 of Class 2A in nine different team and individual categories.
Davis County is 3-1 this season, 0-1 in district. The Mustangs were bounced from the 2A top ten a week ago, following their first loss of the season, at home to Central Lee 21-14. Davis County was outgained 371-244 in total yards. Cason Young was the offensive leader with 136 all-purpose yards and a touchdown. Carter Will had the other score. Blaine Meyer led the defense with nine tackles, Houstin Schooley recovered a fumble. This season, the Mustangs average 42 points per game, giving up 20 on 340 yards per night, 308 on the ground. On the season, Young leads with 86 touches, 896 total yards, including 670 on the ground and nine touchdowns, seven of them rushing. The Mustangs rank in the top 10 of Class 2A in nine different team and individual categories. This week, Golden Hawk head football coach Daren Lambert talked with KCII Sports at practice about the keys to a win Friday.
Lambert said, “They are similar to us. They lose a few guys but, they return a lot. We’ll go back and look through what we had success with in this game last year. Physicality is something that we have shown every week and we are looking to bring again this Friday. The more physical team wins most games. We need to stack successful plays on offense and defense. Bring relentless effort, have attention to detail, be disciplined in assignments, create explosive plays on offense and turnovers on defense. If we do all of those things on Friday, we’ll be just fine.”
Mid-Prairie has won eight of the 10 all-time meetings, including seven straight and a 42-7 road victory in Bloomfield last season. You can hear all of the action live tonight on AM 1380, FM 102.5, the KCII2 App and KCIIradio.com, beginning with the Golden Hawk Football Pregame Show at 7p.m. and Yotty’s Incorporated kickoff at 7:30 from Dwight G. Sattler Field in Wellman.