PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

Eight-Man II
Centre 56, South Haven 26

LOST SPRINGS — The Centre Cougars used 289 passing yards from Tanner Brunner with six touchdowns for a 56-26 win over South Haven Tuesday in the first round of the Eight-Man Division II playoffs in rural Lost Springs.
Brunner hit 12 of 21 passes with one interception. Brunner added 72 yards rushing with a touchdown. Alex Hajek had two catches for 77 yards and two touchdowns. Rustyn Kerbs had three catches for 43 yards and two touchdowns. Cole Svoboda and Zach Antosyzk each added a touchdown reception.
Trevor Troutt had 67 yards rushing with a touchdown.
South Haven was held to 53 yards rushing. Austin Barlow rushed for two touchdowns and caught a pass for a touchdown. Austin Showman threw two touchdown passes.
Centre led 12-0 after the first quarter, and took control of the game with a 28-point second quarter.
South Haven ends the season 6-4. Centre improves to 8-1 and plays Saturday at Hanover. The game time has not been set.
So.Haven    0    12    6    8    —26
Centre    12    28    16    0    —56
Scoring
1q. C Brunner 4-yd. run (pass failed) 10:34
1q. C Svoboda 19-yd. pass from Brunner (pass failed) 4:17
2q. C Kerbs 28-yd. pass from Brunner (run failed) 11:50
2q. SH Howell 15-yd. pass from Showman (run failed) 10:07
2q. C Antoszyk 45-yd. pass from Brunner (Brunner run) 9:08
2q. C Troutt 8-yd. run (run failed) 2:13
2q. SH Barlow 17-yd. pass from Showman (pass failed) :44
2q. C Hajek 47-yd. pass from Brunner (Troutt pass from Brunner) :31
3q. SH Barlow 2-yd. run (run failed) 10:23
3q. C Hajek 50-yd. pass from Brunner (Svoboda pass from Brunner) 6:39
3q. C Kerbs 9-yd. pass from Brunner (Burhoop pass from Hajek) :51
4q. SH Barlow 1-yd. run (Dugan pass from Wilkey) 11:14
Team stats
    SH    Ctr
Rushing-yards    28-53    38-165
Passing yards    294    289
Comp-att-int    18-38-1    12-21-1
Punts-avg.    4-26.0    0-0
Individual stats
RUSHING — Centre: Brunner 18-72, Troutt 10-67, Kerbs 10-37.
PASSING — Centre: Brunner 12-21-1, 289 yards.
RECEIVING — Centre: Svoboda 2-53, Antoszyk 2-49, Troutt 2-50, Burhoop 1-17, Kerbs 3-43, Hajek 2-77.

Eight-Man I
Goessel 50, Central-Burden 20

BURDEN — The Goessel High School football team advanced to the Eight-Man Division I quarterfinals with a 50-20 win over Central of Burden Tuesday in Burden.
Scoring details and stats were not listed at press time.
Goessel, 8-2, hosts Baileyville B&B Saturday. Central ends the season 7-3.