HUMBOLDT — Humboldt’s JV football team stomped Neodesha with a dominant ground game at home Monday in a 48-0 blowout win.
The Cubs scored 20 points in the opening quarter, 14 more points in the second and then eight points in the third before tacking on six more points in the final quarter. Mason Sterling accounted for five of the Cubs’ touchdowns, running in all of them.
“This was a good win for us,” Humboldt head coach Jeremy Weilert said. “Our offensive line and defensive lines were very dominant tonight. It all starts up front. Mason Sterling did a great job at quarterback. Kage Daniels had an impressive game at linebacker.”
Sterling wasted little time getting Humboldt on the board less than a minute into the game when he dashed for a 42-yard touchdown run. It was followed by a Kage Daniels two-point conversion run for the 8-0 lead.
Layne Wagner took in the Cubs’ second score when he burst into the end zone for a four-yard touchdown run. The two-point conversion was no good and Humboldt led Neodesha, 14-0.
Humboldt’s main scorer of the afternoon, Sterling struck again at the end of the first quarter when he broke off a 72-yard touchdown run to put Humboldt up, 20-0.
Sterling topped his earlier touchdown with an impressive 90-yard touchdown run before halftime. Layne Wagner ran in the two-point conversion and the Cubs led the Bluestreaks, 28-0. And just when the Humboldt fans didn’t think they could see anymore, Sterling rumbled his way into the end zone yet again from one yard out for the 34-0 edge.
Gavin Gunderman poked the ball across for the 42-0 lead with a minute left in the third quarter. Daniels was again successful on the two-point conversion run.
A 34-yard touchdown run almost midway through the fourth gave Sterling his fifth touchdown run and a 48-0 final score for the Humboldt victory.
Sterling finished his day going for 255 rushing yards on 10 carries and the five touchdowns. Wagner had five carries for 35 yards and one touchdown. Daniels rushed for five yards and three successful two-point conversion runs.
Defensively, the Cubs forced five turnovers. Daniels had a team-high 14 tackles while Hudson Rees had six tackles, two sacks and a fumble recovery. Brody Gunderman accounted for Humboldt’s lone interception as well as five tackles while Tanner King had a fumble recovery and four tackles.
Gunner Stone also had a fumble recovery and three tackles while Wagner scooped up the other fumble recovery for the Cubs.
Humboldt hosts Chanute next Monday at 6 p.m.
