Friday night had the playoff football feeling up in the air. As the temperature dropped down into the 30s the play by both teams continued to get better. This football game went back and forth from the start and it started on the first possession of the game for each team as the defense came up with huge stops on 4th down to force the turnover on downs. West Bend Mallard stuffed a QB sneak attempt on 4th and goal from the 1 yard line and that sparked the Wolverine offense to get going as Logan Montag led the Wolverines on a 79 yard goal line to goal line drive for a touchdown for the first points of the night. The Wolverines rushing trio of Logan Montag, Cole Fehr, and Leyden Grimm had their way vs the Cougars defense as the Wolverines would rush for nearly 400 yards of offense on the night. In 4 four possessions in the 2d quarter the Wolverines would score on all four to put up 28 points in the 2d quarter alone. Cam’s offense would strike for two huge plays in back to back possessions as Chase Spieker would hit his intended receiver Jack Follmann for a touchdown from 52 yards out and 48 yards out to make it a 28-14 game going into the half. Spieker would finish with over 200 yards in the air with two touchdown passes.

The third quarter would look similar to the first as both offenses struggled to get going as the defenses made some big plays on crucial downs to get off the field as both teams would score once to give West Bend Mallard a 12 point lead going into the final quarter and that is right when the drama and excitement really kicked in. After forcing a punt the Cougars offense got the football with about eight and a half minutes to go in the game. Spieker led the cougars on a touchdown drive but failed the 2pt attempt and the Cougars cut the lead to six. The defense on the biggest play of the night stuffed the Wolverines for a loss of yards and forced a punt. The Cougars had three minutes to go for a chance to stay undefeated and advance to next week. Spieker and the Cougars would put together their best drive of the night running the football. And with the time winding down under the 30 second mark Spieker took the snap and scrambled to the right side where he was able to dive into the endzone for a touchdown to tie the game up with the all-important 2pt attempt deciding between the game or overtime. Spieker would dive into the endzone and with under 30 seconds to play the Cougars had their first lead of the night and would survive the Wolverine hailmary attempt and come out victorious 36-34 to improve to 11-0.

Cougars head football coach Barry Bower said after the game in all his years coaching his teams have never played a team like the Wolverines.

The Cougars went through adversity throughout the night and Coach Bower credited his team’s toughness and mentality to help them pull off the win.

The Cougars will advance to the next round of 8 Player Playoffs where they will take on the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears next Thursday night.