Moorhead Takes Over St. Cloud, Beats Sartell-St. Stephen

<strong>ST. CLOUD-- </strong>I watched the score lines of the Moorhead Spuds first two games, and I said this week, "I need to see them for myself." They certainly lived up to the hype rolling over the Sabres by a 44 point margin by a score of 56-12. The Sabres were very close to hitting their end of my late afternoon game prediction (14), but the Spuds spun well over my prediction of 35 points. <strong>FIRST QUARTER</strong> After the Sabres came up empty on their drive and played fantastic defense to start the drive set up by a big sack by [player_tooltip player_id="18088" first="Ethan" last="Torgrimson"], the [player_tooltip player_id="18044" first="Trey" last="Feeney"] and [player_tooltip player_id="18076" first="Brady" last="Walthall"] night connection got started for the rest of the night, as Feeney found Walthall over the top of the Sabres secondary for a 57-yard pass for 6. <strong>Moorhead 7, Sartell-St. Stephen 0</strong> It was very late in the 1st quarter when <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="18183" first="Jacqui" last="Fitzpatrick"] </strong>picked off a [player_tooltip player_id="19010" first="Cole" last="Hentges"] pass near the end of the first quarter, which set up another [player_tooltip player_id="18076" first="Brady" last="Walthall"] touchdown from [player_tooltip player_id="18044" first="Trey" last="Feeney"] about 37 yards. <strong>Moorhead 14, Sartell-St. Stephen 0</strong> <strong>SECOND QUARTER</strong> In the second quarter, [player_tooltip player_id="18044" first="Trey" last="Feeney"] realized there are other studs with the last name Walthall as he connected with [player_tooltip player_id="18075" first="Blake" last="Walthall"] to make it a three-score game for the Moorhead Spuds. <strong>Moorhead 21, Sartell-St. Stephen 0</strong> After a critical interception for Sartell-St. Stephen deep in Spuds territory on their 5, the Sabres would put their big man to work as [player_tooltip player_id="18088" first="Ethan" last="Torgrimson"] would punch it from one yard out. Moorhead blocked XP. <strong>Moorhead 21, Sartell-St. Stephen 6</strong> Although we may keep repeating ourselves, Moorhead would take a 4th and 27 on the Sabres 36 yard line, and on that next play, [player_tooltip player_id="18044" first="Trey" last="Feeney"] would go back to his favorite target on the night in [player_tooltip player_id="18076" first="Brady" last="Walthall"] to get another big gain touchdown from 36 yards out. <strong>Moorhead 28, Sartell-St. Stephen 6. Halftime.</strong> <strong>THIRD QUARTER</strong> I said it earlier in my preview, how the Spuds have a couple of quality running backs they can go to. They did just that on their next score, finding <strong>Geroge Nyonforth, </strong>who has a nice burst from 12 yards out to make it five touchdowns for the Spuds. <strong>Moorhead 35, Sartell-St. Stephen 6</strong> The next two touchdowns would go back to [player_tooltip player_id="18076" first="Brady" last="Walthall"], who had a career game five touchdowns of over 200 yards. <strong>Moorhead 49, Sartell-St. Stephen 6</strong> After finally going to the second string, the scoring didn’t stop for the Spuds, as a couple of young guns got into the action when QB <strong>Gavin Quade </strong>hit <strong>Clayton Hagenback </strong>to make it a 50 burger from the Moorhead Spuds. <strong>Moorhead 56, Sartell-St. Stephen 6</strong> Sartell would score the last points of the game with no time remaining, but by that point, I was freezing and did not get the name of the player that scored! <strong>Final. Moorhead 56, Sartell-St. Stephen 12</strong> Find out who the Big Dogs of the Game were tomorrow morning, as I’ll give you a hint: A couple of them are a family of Spuds wide receivers and a quarterback who threw six touchdowns. &nbsp;