By Becky Walz,
North Butler defenders are drug along by Kyle Kuboushek in one of his 25 carries Friday night for the Warriors. The junior ran for 135 yards and scored three times in South Winn’s district win. (Photos by Becky Walz)
Last season North Butler visited Calmar and beat the Warriors 22-14. This season the South Winn football team (1-1, 1-0) countered the Bearcats as the Warriors defeated North Butler Friday 35-14 in Greene.
“We came out and established a nice opening drive that ended with a touchdown,” said Coach Jason Ohrt. “I thought our kids did a nice job offensively all night and Coach Wenthold did a great job of adjusting to North Butler coming out in a different defense then what we anticipated. On the defensive side we were needing to blitz more than we like to put pressure on North Butler’s talented quarterback. As always there is room for improvement, but I like how we came out and played a more complete football game this week. It was really important for us to get that first district win.”
Big plays
South Winn struck first, scoring on a 10-yard carry by Kyle Kuboushek midway through the opening period. It didn’t take long, and the junior was back in the end zone after Carson Streeter intercepted a pass at the Bearcat 23-yard line and returned the pigskin 40 yards. Kuboushek then spun away from the North Butler defense and scored a second time with 4:08 left in the first. Streeter’s second PAT gave the Warriors a 14-0 head start on the home team.
Just 20 seconds into the second frame, quarterback Braiden Todd then found his way through traffic, racing 62 yards to the house, scoring again for the Warriors. A back-and-forth battle ensued in the period that ended with a Bearcat touchdown.
At halftime, South Winn maintained a 21-6 advantage that wouldn’t change throughout the third as neither squad managed another trip across the goal line. It wasn’t until the fourth quarter that Kuboushek danced his way into the end zone from one yard out pushing the Warriors ahead even further, 28-6. The Bearcats weren’t ready to roll over as they struck themselves with a long 62-yard pass and completed a two-point conversion. They followed it up with a successful onside kick that North Butler was unable to capitalize on. South Winn managed one more score as Todd fired a strike to Streeter late in the game to give the Warriors the 35-14 victory.
Statistics
The Warrior rushing attack went for 268 yards while Todd threw of 116. That’s a total of 384.
Kuboushek did the brunt of the work on the ground. He carried the pigskin 25 times for 134 yards, a 5.4 average. Todd galloped eight times for 109 yards.
Todd completed eight passes for 116 yards. Streeter had five receptions for 63 yards while Eric Greve hauled in three passes for 53 yards.
Kuboushek was a rock of defense as well with seven solo and three assisted tackles, one sack and one tackle for a loss. Greve had five solo tackles, while Todd, Streeter and Gavin Feickert each had four solo stops.
Big test
It will be a big night under the lights Friday, Sept. 13, as the Warriors host Wapsie Valley who is also 1-1. The gold and black Warriors fell to Jesup week one 20-13 and bounced back week two to defeat Denver, 35-12.
Scoring sequence
1st Quarter
SW – Kyle Kuboushek 10-yd. run (Carson Streeter PAT)
SW – Kuboushek 23-yd. run (Streeter PAT)
2nd Quarter
SW – Braiden Todd 62-yd. run (Streeter PAT)
NB – 1-yd. run (2-pt. run failed)
3rd Quarter
None
4th Quarter
SW – Kuboushek 1-yd. run (Streeter PAT)
NB – 62-yd. pass (2-pt. pass)
SW – Todd 22-yd. pass to Streeter (Streeter PAT)
Game stats
Total yards: South Winn 384; North Butler 307
Passing (comp/att/yds): Braiden Todd (8-10, 116 yds., 1 TD)
Rushing (att/yds): Kyle Kuboushek (25-135, 3 TD); Todd (8-109, 1 TD); Eric Greve (3-19); Landon Humpal (1-6); Yahir Macario (2-0)
Receiving (att/yds/TD): Carson Streeter (5-63, 1 TD); Greve (3-53)
Tackles (total): Kuboushek (8.5); Streeter (5.5); Greve (5.0); Todd (4.5); Gavin Feickert (4.5); Brandon Kriener (3.0); Ayden Palafox (2.5); Humpal (2.0); Andres Macario (1.5); Logan Tieskoetter (1.5); Kolton Brummond (1.5); Y. Macario (1.0)
Interceptions (no/return yds): Streeter (1-40); Greve (1-0)
Punts (att/yds): Streeter (1-27)
Punt returns (att/yds): Streeter (1-8)
Kick-offs (att/yds): Streeter (6-303, 2TB, 5/5 PAT)
Kick-off returns (att/yds): Todd (2-30)
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