The Alcester-Hudson Cubs football team finished their regular season at home on Friday, October 14th against the Irene-Wakonda Eagles. After an early 8-8 tie in the first quarter, the Cubs pulled away for a 36-14 victory.
Owen Bovill scored the first touchdown with 9:39 on the clock on a 37-yard run. Evan Brown scored the two-point conversion for an early 8-0 lead. The Eagles tied the game on a 23-yard pass and two-point conversion with 3:50 to play in the quarter. The Cubs got one more score in the opening quarter. Jose Topete-Lopez had a one-yard touchdown run, and Mateo Kleinhans scored the two-point conversion with 1:55 to play. Neither team scored the rest of the half, and the Cubs led 16-8 at halftime.
Alcester-Hudson started to pull away in the third quarter. Brown had a 65-yard touchdown run with 11:44 in the third quarter for a 22-8 lead. Brown added another score on a 15-yard run with 4:25 to play in the third quarter. Kleinhans scored the two-point conversion for a 30-8 lead.
The Eagles scored right at the end of the third quarter on a 30-yard run, but Alcester-Hudson led 30-14 heading the fourth quarter. Kleinhans had a 13-yard touchdown pass to Dominic Van Egdom with 6:57 left in the game for the final score.
The Cubs tallied 467 yards of offense, 403 rushing yards and 64 passing yards. Irene-Wakonda had 262 yards of offense, 129 rushing yards and 133 passing yards.
Kleinhans was 3-7 passing for 64 yards and a touchdown. Van Egdom had two catches for 59 yards and a touchdown. Brown had a catch for five yards. Brown also had 11 carries for 164 yards and two touchdowns. Kleinhans had six carries for 76 yards. Topete-Lopez had 10 carries for 72 yards and a touchdown. Bovill finished with one carries for 37 yards and a touchdown.
Brown also led the team with 9.5 tackles. Aden Moller had 7.5 tackles. Kleinhans and Jensen Christensen each had 6.5 tackles. William Hallaway finished with five tackles.
Alcester-Hudson finished the regular season 7-1 and as the #8 seed in the 9A playoffs. The Cubs will host the Canistota Hawks on Thursday, October 20th.
