By Chad Koenen

Publisher

New York Mills made the trek to Menahga on Friday night in search of their first win of the season. Unfortunately, the Braves were able to rush for 343 yards and outgained the Eagles by a 426-152 margin in total offense as they came away with a 46-6 win over the Eagles. 

The Braves wasted little time getting on the scoreboard on Friday night as Connor Foley scored the first of his three touchdowns on a 42-yard run in the first quarter. He converted the two-point conversion to leave the Braves up 8-0. Later in the quarter, Brad Pietila found Fynn Bakke on a 20-yard pass and the Braves converted the two-point conversion to jump out to a 16-0 lead.

In the second quarter, Foley found the end zone on a 15-yard run and he also converted the two-point conversion to take a 24-0 lead at halftime.

The Braves added two more touchdowns in the third quarter on another Pietila pass to Bakke and a third Foley touchdown run to put Menahga up 38-0. Menahga made the score 46-0 on an 11-yard run in the fourth quarter, before Everett Ruther put the Eagles on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter on a 58-yard run to make the score 46-6.

In all, NY Mills picked up just 152 yards of offense with 100 of those yards coming on the ground. The Braves held the Eagles to just 1-11 on third down and stopped all three of NY Mills’ fourth down attempts.

Creed Mursu led the way passing as he went 5-17 for 52 yards and a touchdown. 

Ruther rushed 15 times for 96 yards and a touchdown, while Ryder Davis rushed twice for eight yards. Jaxton Perry rushed one time for no yards, Mursu rushed four times for a loss of one yard and Tony Nichols rushed one time for a loss of three yards. 

Carlyle Tumberg caught a pair of passes for 37 yards, while Blake Hiltner caught one pass for eight yards and Ruther caught a pair of passes for seven yards. 

Defensively, Nichols led the way with five tackles and two assists, Ruther had one tackle and six assists, Davis had six assists, Oakley Kern had two tackles and four assists, while Sean Dresser and Jacobey Wilhelmi finished with one tackle and four assists apiece.

The loss drops the Eagles to 0-6 on the season as they will look to rebound this week against undefeated Breckenridge at home in NY Mills’ final regular season home game. The game is set for Wednesday night at 7 p.m.

The Cowboys come into the game with a perfect 6-0 record after defeating Lake Park-Audubon by a score of 42-13 on Friday night. The Cowboys are currently ranked sixth in the state and average 29.5 points per game on offense, while surrendering 8.5 points per game on defense.

NY Mills averages 5.7 points per game on offense, while giving up 34.8 points per game on defense.

The Eagles will wrap up their regular season on Wednesday, Oct. 21 against Wadena-Deer Creek on the road.