The Plainview Pirate football team were able to finish their final regular season game of the year with a win over Elkhorn Valley last Thursday evening after a rain delay held up the game’s beginning. With the win, the Pirates of 2023 added their name to history books with their perfect regular season finish at 8-0.
The State playoff games will start on Thursday, Oct. 19 with Plainview’s first game at 7 p.m. against Hartington-New Castle’s Wildcats. The Pirates defeated the Wildcats in the regular season of play with a score of 42-6, and are ranked #4 in their side of the district bracket.
The top 4 teams all are sporting an 8-0 record, and none of the top four have played each other this season. Stanton, Crofton, Cross County and Plainview are the top four teams in their side of the bracket, and all are 8-0. Following the first game of the playoffs, the bracketing will be redone, and the second round game for Class D will be on Friday, Oct. 27. The Pirates put up six in the first quarter, and seven in the second to lead the game 13-0 at the halftime break.
In the third quarter both teams scored, 7 for the Pirates and 6 for the Falcons, 20-6, and the fourth was the same, another 7-6 quarter, for the final score, 27-12 in the Pirates’ favor. The Pirates put up 25 first downs, 67 plays and took 25 penalty yards during the game.
It was a slippery four quarters, but the PIrates battled through with Spencer Hille, Gage Walton
and Jacson King posting most of the Pirate all-purpose yardage. Hille had 26 receiving, 42 kick
return and 22 punt return yards for his 90 total during the game. Walton marked 89 rushing yards, and King was just behind with 86 total rushing yards.
Brendan Weber had 53 yards from receptions and Ty Diedrichsen and and Karter Lingenfelter evened out the stats with a few positive yards as well. Adding in reception yards, Walton posted 168 total with his 89 rushing and 79 credited through the air to his chosen receivers. Scoring went to Gage Walton with 18 points off three touchdowns, Spencer Hille with one touchdown and Kohen Lingenfelter with three points from his field goal kicks.
Tackles were marked by Diedrichsen and Walton with seven each. King had five, Hille and Weber each had four, Wyatt Doerr had three, Harrison Thor marked two and Hayven Stewart, Karter Lingenfelter and Corben Kment each had one.
