The Webb City Cardinals are headed toward Springfield again this week for the last away game of the regular football season.
Kickoff will be a 7 p.m. Friday at Willard. The Cardinals and Tigers are both 2-4 seeking their third win. The teams are scoring about the same average (23.3 Webb City, 20 Willard), but Webb City is only allowing 26.2 points per game, while Willard’s opponents have scored 43.3 points on average.
The Cardinals were driving for the win at Republic last week but fell short.
They got the ball back with 5:33 on the clock after the Webb City defense held Republic on downs on their own 44-yard line.
Despite three penalties, (two holding and an illegal block) the Cardinals kept moving the ball as quarterback Jackson Lucas completed a 12-yard pass to Slade Hurd, a 10-yard pass to Derrick Wagner and an 8-yard pass to Hurd again for a first down.
Isaiah Tela gained 9 yards on the ground, and Lucas connected with Hurd again for a 27-yard pass, moving the ball to Republic’s 16-yard line.
On third-and-11, Mason Williams caught a Lucas pass at the 9-yard line. However, on fourth down, Republic’s defense stopped the run at the line of scrimmage with 27 seconds left on the clock.
Webb City didn’t score in the first half, going into the half 7 points behind the Tigers.
But on the first play of the third quarter, Andrew Young raced for an 80-yard touchdown to put the Cardinals in the lead 7-6.
Republic answered with its second touchdown – and failed point-after attempt.
Webb City got another big gain when Mason Williams ran for 75 yards to Republic’s 1-yard line. Lucas ran it in from there. An attempted 2-point conversion failed, leaving Webb City with a 13-12 lead.
As the fourth quarter started, Webb City held Republic to a 22-yard field goal to give the home team a 15-13 lead.
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