If you read my game preview, I pretty much hit this one on the head.  I felt that Bellevue would be contentious early, and that we would draw off to post the win later.  I also pointed out that Bellevue was pretty much a one-dimensional running team, while utilizing several different backs and running schemes.  The Mustangs get passing grades for containing the run.  I also thought that most of our damage would be done through the air, which also proved to be true.

The game began rather ominously on this foggy, misty, chilly fall night in Alexandria.  The Tigers won the toss and deferred until the second half.  Our Mustangs immediately obliged them by going three and out.  Bellevue then proceeded from their own 43 yard line to the Brossart 31 where their drive stalled out, and this time, despite obtaining possession of the ball at our own 19 yard line, woud score an early-game touchdown on a 94 yard pass play from Landon Spaulding to Landon Ruth, giving the Mustangs a 7-0 lead with 2:27 left in the first period, when Max Runge split the uprights for the 72nd time in his career, raising the school record bar.  On the very next possession the Tigers threw an interception, hauled in by Isaac Amin, who took it to the 6 yard line where Sophomore Bentley McKinzie finished it off, making the advantage 13-0.   Bellevue answered at the 3:21 mark in the second quarter, when Kayden Brown carried the piggy 15 yards for a touchdown.  The 2-Point attempt went for naught.  With time running out in the half, and the Mustangs marching to the Bellevue 15 yard line, we employed Max Runge to connect on a 37 yard Field Goal, sending the two teams to the locker rooms at halftime with the home team enjoying a 16-6 lead.  

NOTE:  I will go out on a limb and say that the 94 yard Spaulding to Ruth touchdown pass is s school record.  My paperwork shows the former standard being an 80 yard Craig Pfefferman to Chase Keller aerial back in 2015.

While Landon Spaulding would connect on a 20 yard pass to Isaac Amin in the third period, neither team was able to add numbers to the scoreboard.

In the final twelve minutes our Mustangs would tack on two more scores, a Spaulding to Brady Boruske 21 yard touchdown connection, and a late-game squibbed kick that Landon Ketron corralled and carried the requisite five yards for our final score of the night.   Runge hit on both of those PAT attempts.  Brossart advances to the second round of the Class 1A playoffs with the 30-6 win and we go up a game in the Win-Loss column with a 6-5 record.  With a myriad of candidates to choose from, Landon Ruth was selected as the offensive Player of the Game, and Matthew Riegler his Defensive POG counterpart.