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BDS felled by two-fisted Stormdogs

Osceola-High Plains hosts Lutheran High Northeast on Wednesday

By Steve Moseley Oct 26, 2018 FacebookTwitterEmailSubscribe for 35¢ / day

BRUNING – The two punch combination of the Osceola-High Plains offense and the Stormdogs’ stick-it-to-’em defense sent the BDS Eagles – 8-0 on the season and holders of a 21-game winning streak – to the canvas Thursday.

The D1 playoff shocker saw the 13th seeded Stormdogs win 34-22 over the fourth-seeded Eagles on BDS’s rain-slogged home turf.

Co-coaches TJ Nielsen and Greg Ward will next lead their charges when OHP hosts the tournament’s three seed, Lutheran High Northeast, in a Halloween showdown next Wednesday. It was OHP’s fifth win against four losses this season.

The game ended quietly with OHP quarterback Dylan Soule, his team up two scores, taking a knee on the soggy BDS 4-yard line with 23 ticks left on the clock.

Up to then, however, there was much drama as the teams battled through turnovers (three by BDS, one by OHP) and a number of lead changes. Through it all Soule played brilliantly, scoring four TDs himself to go with a pick-six by sophomore Carson Watts.

The Stormdogs took the opening kickoff and parlayed a pass from Soule to a wide-open Carter Boden down the middle into a first-and-10 at the BDS 23. Another aerial to Keaton Van Housen put the ball at the 5, first-and-goal. Soule drew first blood from the 3 and OHP had its 6-nil lead after a 2-point PAT pass fell incomplete.

The Eagles answered on a 29-yard pass that came on fourth-and-8. The PAT run failed and the contest was deadlocked 6-all.

Then came the backbreaker when Watts read a BDS pass perfectly, grabbed it for himself and scampered most of the length of the field to put the underdog Stormdogs up 12-6 with 1:03 to play in the first.

The Eagles fumbled the ball away at the OHP 6 to kill a great scoring chance, but still went up 14-12 on a 45-yard TD strike, followed by a PAT pass, with 2:03 left before halftime.

But hold on. The Stormdogs weren’t quite ready for their halftime chat.

Soule connected with Van Housen on a howitzer shot pass to set up first-and-goal at the BDS 5 with 59 ticks on the clock. Soule capped the slam-bang drive with a keeper from the 2 with :35 left. The PAT pass failed but not to worry, the underdogs were up 18-14 against a BDS team no one has been able to beat in ever so long.

Need proof? The Eagles are 17-2 in playoff games alone the past four years.

BDS scratched back to lead 22-18 on a 4-yard Dylan Domeier plunge into the end zone at 8:22 of the third. Doheier added the PAT run, too.

Things looked a little shaky when OHP went three-and-out on its next series and had to punt, but then the turnover triple-whammy struck when BDS fumbled right back into Stormdog hands on the return at the 6:35 mark.

OHP overcame a holding call and got a pass from Soule to Watts on fourth-and-a-bunch. It was first-and-goal at the BDS 5 with 4:29 left in the third.

Soule called his own number yet again and dove in from the 3 at 3:49. The PAT run by Bryce Reed was good and the Stormdogs were on top again, 26-22.

OHP held on defense, took the ball over on downs and the third period ended 26-22.

The Stormdog ‘D’ knocked BDS around all night and the Eagles will have the bruises this morning to prove it. Nielsen and Wood have coached their defenders well on tackling technique, whether a mob stop at the line of scrimmage or a crunching mano a mano wrap-up in space.

Soule’s fourth and final TD came from 6 yards out with 7:02 left in the game. Van Housen caught Soule’s PAT pass in the corner of the end zone and the final score was up in lights.

Two late face mask march-offs on BDS drove the final nails in their coffin and Soule ended it with the aforementioned wet knee from the Eagles’ 4-yard line.

Game time for Lutheran High Northeast vs. OHP, assumed to be in Osceola, is expected to be announced today or Saturday.

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