Superior stays unbeaten with win over Darby

The recipe for a delicious evening of football includes:

Take two heaping helpings of football team, preferably unbeaten.

Add high-powered offenses and tough, swarming defenses.

Mix in large, grass-bottom bowl.

Serves large crowd.

All the ingredients have been assembled and the chefs (coaches) are ready to cook.

Unbeaten Superior put the finishing touches on it’s preparation with a routine 56-20 blending of the Darby Tigers this past Friday night in Superior.

Awaiting them are the also unbeaten Mission Bulldogs, who had a strategic bye this past weekend after frying Darby 44-0 the weekend before.

Superior could have whipped and stirred the visiting Tigers even worse than the final score but coach Jeff Schultz and staff used the second half to get some valuable playing time in the books for his younger players.

The Bobcats had rung up 42 points on the visitors in the first quarter before turning the blender down to low speed the rest of the way.

And once again, senior speedster Decker Milender was the key ingredient in the early and solid rout of the Tigers.

Superior got things going the first time they touched the ball, putting six points on the board via a 40 yard aerial touchdown bomb from Jaxson Green to Lucas Kovalsky with just nine second gone in the first quarter. The PAT was good and right out of the gate the Bobcats had an 8-0 lead.

The home team got the ball right back via turnover and capitalized in a hurry when Green tossed a 15-yard scoring strike to Orion Plakke just seven clock ticks after their first touchdown. In less than 20 seconds of clock time, the Bobcats held a 14-0 lead.

Then, with Darby still swirling in the cake pan, Milender got it going with a one-yard touchdown plunge at the 8:29 mark of the first quarter.

Less than two minutes later, as the Superior defense was once again making life miserable for Darby, Kovalsky scored his second TD of the game, this one a five-yard hop into the end zone. At that point the Superior lead stood at 28-0.

The two teams traded defensive stands until, with less than two minutes to play in the first quarter, Milender broke free from the Darby defense and showed them his heels for the next 61-yards on his way to his second score of the contest.

Superior once again got the ball right back and with 10 seconds left, Milender visited his old friend the end zone yet again, this time from 30 yards out.

When the first quarter came mercifully to an end for Darby, the Bobcats were up 42-0, enough to put the Mercy Rule, non-stop clock in action.

With reserves seeing plenty of playing time, Darby’s defense managed to hold the Bobcats out of the end zone until Milender once again paid a visit, this time via a 50-yard pick six interception return that made it 50-0 Superior with 3:35 to play in the first half.

Darby got on the scoreboard with seven seconds to play in the opening half on an eight yard touchdown run. The PAT was no good and at the half, Superior was up 50-6.

Darby would add a three-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and a 43-yard TD pass in the final two quarters of play, sandwiched around a two-yard touchdown run by Bobcat freshman Phin Cataldo in the third quarter.

So now it’s on to the highly anticipated Mission vs Superior match-up, with both teams coming in at 7-0 in Western 8-player conference action.

And both bring potent offenses into the mix, with Mission averaging 64.4 point per game and Superior coming in at 60.3 points per game.

Mission has allowed 14.5 points per game while Superior has surrendered 18.5 points per contest.

The contest is set for 6 p.m. this Friday in St. Ignatius. Up next after that for both teams will be the beginning of playoff action.