The Central City Bison will challenge the Minden Whippets at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Last Friday, Central City and Cozad were almost perfectly matched up, but Central City suffered a 56-55 defeat. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Friday (48), the Bison still had to take the loss.
Central City might have lost, but man, Parker Zikmund was a machine: he threw for 477 yards and six touchdowns. With that strong performance, Zikmund is now averaging an impressive 362 passing yards per game. Wyatt Dent was Zikmund's top target, picking up 191 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
Even if they lost, Central City's defensive line still kept up the pressure with three sacks. Turner Hanke was especially locked on to Cozad's QB and sacked him twice. The dominant performance gave him a new career- in total yards.
Meanwhile, Minden came up short against Sidney on Friday and fell 20-7.
Minden might have lost, but man, Orrin Kuehn was a machine: he rushed for 149 yards and a touchdown while picking up 8.8 yards per carry. Kuehn got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run and that went for an incredible 77 yards.
Central City's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 1-1. As for Minden, their defeat dropped their record down to an identical 1-1.
Everything came up roses for Central City against Minden when the teams last played back in October of 2015 as the team secured a 48-21 win. Will Central City repeat their success, or does Minden have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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