Superior stays perfect in win at Charlo

The prop boys have done their jobs and the stage has been set.

Two weeks from now it will be unbeaten Superior at unbeaten Mission, Darby willing, for all the marbles in Western B, 8-player football’s season long battle.

Superior’s 56-32 win over Charlo last Friday all but clinched the big showdown will take place as scheduled.

Now only Darby’s stands in the way of an unbeaten, untied battle for the crown.

Darby will have its chance this coming Friday, to be spoiler extraordinaire when they host unblemished Superior.

After that it’s the two titans of the League this year, let the chips fall where they may.

7-0 versus 7-0. High scoring offense vs high scoring offense.

Bring it on!!

Coming into this past weekend, only third place Charlo had an outside shot of derailing this train. But those chances were blown off track after a long, hard-battle, by the boys in red, white and blue as Superior marshaled it all together and banged out a 56-32 win over the Vikings in Superior Friday night to set up the big one.

Only one other time this year have the Bobcats from Superior been pushed as hard as they were Friday and that was the season-opener this past August against the co-op St. Regis’Mullan, Idaho team that fell to them by a nearly identical score.

The the big matchup on the 21st was meant to be.

Superior senior running back Decker Milender had a career night and a key role in knocking Charlo out of the picture as he rushed for 159 yard on just two carriers for two TD’s, and piled up 53 receiving yards for another score in helping hold off the hard-charging Charlo squad.

After surrendering the lead to Charlo early in the first quarter on a 24-yard TD pass, Milender took the ensuing kick-off and rambled 73 yard from a score with just 46 second to play in the opening quarter.

A Chandon Vulles two-point conversion run put the Bobcats on top 8-6 heading into quarter number two.

Milender’s heroics continued into the second half when he offset another Charlo running TD by breaking free on a 56-yard sprint of his own in the offensive show that was the second quarter of the game.

Superior’s Lucas Kovalsky then erased another Charlo lead when he caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from Bobcat’s quarterback Orion Plakke and rolled 18 yards to paydirt.

That brief Superior lead came to an end when Charlo responded with a 65-yard kick return score of its own.

But there was Milender again, this time hauling in a 17-yard scoring strike from Jaxson Green with 19 seconds left in the first half.

When the smoke from all the first half pyro-techniques had settled, the score was knotted at 26-apiece.

At that point, Superior grabbed another gear offensively while shutting the Vikings down with their defense when the third quarter got underway.

Kovalsky broke free on a six-yard touchdown run that gave Superior a lead it would not relinquish at the 8:00 mark of the third quarter.

And while Charlo matched that score less than a minute later on a 24-yard scoring pass, the remainder of the game belonged to the home team Bobcats.

William Buchanan got in on the scoring when he tackled a Charlo runner in the end zone for the accompanying two points and the ball back as is the reward for a safety.

Superior’s Chase Woodson then plowed into the Charlo zone on a one-yard run with 2:42 left to play, giving Superior some daylight as they slowly pulled away from the relentless Vikings.

Heading into the final quarter of play, Superior held onto a 40-32 lead.

With 9:26 to play in the quarter, Woodson scored for the second time in the game on another one-yard touchdown plunge.

Then with 3:00 minutes to play, Milender rounded out the game’s scoring extravaganza with a 14-yard jaunt past the exhausted Charlo defense, giving the Bobcats a 56-32 lead and with only Darby and Mission left on Superior’ regular season diet.

So it’s Darby at Superior this Friday night in the ultimate spoiler game, then the scheduled game October 21, the battle of the unbeatens with the league regular season crown on the line.