Varsity Football vs. Humphrey/ Lindsey Holy Family Bulldogs-Friday, August 25, 2023
The Niobrara-Verdigre Cougar football team opened the 2023 football season this past Friday, August 25 when the Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family Bulldogs traveled to Verdigre. The Cougars came away with a 28-14 win.
The first half started off with the Cougars sputtering their way to an early 0-14 deficit. The N-V offense had some success moving the ball into the redzone, but untimely penalties would bog them down. Defensively the Cougars played a little tentatively allowing those two early scores to Humphrey/LHF, but adjustments were made and the defense responded by holding the Bulldogs out of the redzone the rest of the game while allowing only 85 yards of total offense to H/LHF. Then with under 3 minutes in the first half the Cougar offense found some success with two Kellen Vesely TD runs (PATs failed). The second score came with under 20 seconds in the half.
| HUMPHREY/LINDSAY HOLY FAMILY | W 28-14 | ||||||||||
| OFFENSE | |||||||||||
| player | car. | rushing yards | passing | pass yards | recept | rec. yards | TD's | PAT-2 | |||
| Kellen Vesely | 6 | 56 | 2 | ||||||||
| Brady Koehn | 1 | 15 | |||||||||
| Cody Wickersham | 21 | 83 | 1 | ||||||||
| Arlan Lammers | 3 | 5 | |||||||||
| Coy Wickersham | 6 | -6 | |||||||||
| Cash Wickersham | 11 | 12 | 0--5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| totals | 165 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 first downs | |||||||||||
| 0 fumbles / 0 int | |||||||||||
| 6 penalties 33 yds | (HLHF… 4 penalties 23 yds) | ||||||||||
| top 3 blocking scores: | 1. Westin Bauer 84% | 2. Isaac Pavlik 83% | 3. Wyatt Shabram 78% | ||||||||
| DEFENSE | fum. | blocked | |||||||||
| unassisted | assisted | tackle pts | TFL | sacks | ints. | Rec. | kicks | punts | avg | ||
| Kellen Vesely | 4 | 4 | 12 | 0.5 | (1 KO ret 0 yds) | ||||||
| Brady Koehn | 2 | 2 | 6 | (1 KO ret 15 yds) | |||||||
| Cody Wickersham | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0.5 | 1 | ||||||
| Coy Wickersham | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | (5 KO 34.2 yd avg) | 2 | 27.5 | |||
| Layten Moody | 0 | 1 | 1 | (1 KO ret 1 yd) | |||||||
| Cash Wickersham | 4 | 5 | 13 | 1 | |||||||
| Jordon Ingebo | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3 | |||||||
| Jase Kotrous | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| Jacob Motacek | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||
| Isaac Pavlik | 6 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 0,5 | 1 | (1 BP) | ||||
| Westin Bauer | 8 | 6 | 22 | 1.5 | (1 FF) | ||||||
| Defense Allowed -- 52 rush yds + 33 pass yds = 85 total | |||||||||||
| 6 first downs | |||||||||||
| forced 1 turnover | |||||||||||
| SPECIAL TEAMS | |||||||||||
| allowed 6 ret for 7.2 yards per return (KO & punt) | |||||||||||
| 5 kick-offs for 34.2 yd avg (0 touchbacks) | |||||||||||
| 3 returns for 5.3 yd avg per return | |||||||||||
| 2 punts for 27.5 yd avg | |||||||||||
| 1 high punt snap | |||||||||||
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