Football Recap: Holcomb Skates Past Cimarron with Ease

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Previous Games

09/12/25 - Home	50-6 W
09/13/24 - Away	34-13 W
09/08/23 - Home	49-10 W
09/09/22 - Away	54-6 W
09/03/21 - Home	23-16 W
+ 4 more games

Holcomb had to skate by with only a two-point margin when they last took the field, which might have inspired the 44-point drubbing they dealt Cimarron on Friday. The Longhorns took their contest with ease, bagging a 50-6 victory over the Bluejays. The Longhorns haven't had any issues with the Bluejays recently, as the game was their ninth consecutive win against them.

Cooper Cranston was a one-man wrecking crew as he rushed for 173 yards and a pair of TDs on only eight carries, and also threw for 148 yards and two touchdowns on only 14 passes. Those 173 rushing yards gave him a new career-high. Haegen Hartman was another key player, picking up 85 receiving yards and two scores.

Wins are hard to come by when you can't run the rock, something Holcomb proved: they limited Cimarron to a paltry 3.4 yards per carry. The team can thank Reese Rome for the heroic effort on defense: he. Holcomb didn't have any issues in that department, having averaged 8.4.

Holcomb didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off four passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Cranston and Clay Tolbert. Cranston got in on the action too, converting a pick into a touchdown.

Holcomb's victory bumped their record up to 2-0. As for Cimarron, they dropped their record down to 0-2 with the loss, which was their fourth straight on the road dating back to last season.

Holcomb has already played their next match, a 32-0 win against Ulysses on the 19th. As for Cimarron, they also wasted no time getting back out on the field and have already played their next game, a 39-0 victory against Colby on the 19th.