Chadron defeats Ogallala 34-14 in High School Varsity Football

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By: Evan Troxel

It was the Quinn Bailey show on Friday night in Ogallala as Quinn Bailey scored five touchdowns and the Chadron Cardinals defeated the Ogallala Indians 34-14 in High School Varsity American Football.

Ogallala's Sawyer Smith scored two touchdowns in the contest while Kolby Nowak scored the only successful two-point conversion on the second play from scrimmage of the entire game.

Chadron improves to 5-0 in the regular season (and 1-0 in Class C-1 District 7 play), while Ogallala falls to 1-4 in the regular season (and 0-1 in Class C-1 District 7 play).

Ogallala received the opening kickoff and started from their own 26.

Sawyer Smith of Ogallala ran for 74 yards on the very first play of the game from scrimmage as he ran right and left and right (while going forward this entire time of course) and scored in the center of the end zone for a touchdown to give Ogallala a six to zero lead.

Kolby Nowak ran right to left and scored the two-point conversion for Ogallala giving the Indians an eight to zero advantage.

Chadron started from their own 39 with 11:41 left in the first quarter after the kickoff by Ogallala.

Quinn Bailey for Chadron ran the football on every play except one rushing play and a passing play on the first drive of the game.

The highlight of the drive was Caden Buskirk catching a pass in the middle of the field and running from the Ogallala 34 to the Ogallala 6-yard line.

On the very next play, Quinn Bailey scored a rushing touchdown and Chadron scored in six plays from scrimmage.

Bailey then ran it in for the two-point conversion and the game was tied at eight apiece with 9:07 left in the first quarter.

Ogallala started with the football on their own 33 with 9:06 left in the first quarter and got a first down from a run by Kolby Nowak to their own 45, but couldn't get another first down after a timeout by one of the teams and Ogallala turned the ball over on downs.

Chadron had it at the Ogallala 47 with 6:15 left in the first quarter.

Bailey ran it on five straight plays, Chadron got a first down on the second play of the drive (I believe) and Bailey scored on a 32-yard run going right and forward and avoiding the Ogallala defenders.

Layne Davidson tried to run it in for the two-point conversion, but that failed and Chadron led 14 to 8.

Ogallala had the ball on their own 36 with 3:36 left in the first quarter and Ogallala went three-and-out as Nowak lost three yards, Ogallala's Edan Cain got sacked back to the Ogallala 22 and then Cain threw an incompletion.

Chadron got the ball with 1:48 left in the first quarter after the punt on the Ogallala 46.

Bricen Wright ran on the first play for Chadron of the drive and then Bailey ran the football on two more plays and that was the end of the first quarter.

Bailey ran it six additional times in a row and he scored from three yards out to give Chadron a 20-8 lead.

Bailey then ran right and scored the two-point conversion as well as Chadron lead 22-8 at that point with 9:04 left in the second quarter.

Ogallala then had a long possession which took up nearly the entirely of the remainder of the first half!

Ogallala got a first down on a five-yard run by Sawyer Smith on fourth down to the Ogallala 44.

Ogallala called timeout with 6:05 left in the first half!

The Ogallala Indians ran 7 more plays (all running plays) and Chadron called timeout with 1:27 left in the first half!

Ogallala did four more running plays and Sawyer Smith scored his second touchdown of the game from three yards out by running right with 5.8 seconds left in the quarter on a fourth down play.

Ogallala got Chadron to jump offsides on the two-point try. Ogallala then called timeout and failed to run the two-point conversion in successfully.

Chadron led Ogallala 22-14.

Chadron got the football on their own 38 with 5.3 seconds left in the second quarter.

Bailey ran it to the Ogallala 47 and Tai Le made the tackle by forcing Bailey out of bounds near the right sideline and Chadron led Ogallala 22-14 at halftime.

Chadron started with the football on their own 44 to start the second half after the Ogallala onside kick.

Chadron fumbled and Ogallala recovered on the very first play of the third quarter on the Chadron 48!

Ogallala didn't gain a first down (or any yards) on 4th and 1 on a run by Kolby Nowak and Ogallala turned the ball over on downs in four plays.

Chadron got the ball on their own 39 yard-line.

Chadron committed a few false start penalties on their next drive and then they called timeout with 5:56 left in the third quarter.

The penalties didn't deter Chadron as Quinn Bailey scored a touchdown for Chadron on at least the eight play of the drive (if not more plays). Bailey then tried to run it in for two points, but that failed as Edan Cain got a tackle.

Chadron led 28-14 with 4:46 left to play in the third quarter.

Ogallala then turned the ball over on downs early on in the fourth quarter. Ogallala got the ball to the Chadron 26 with 10:15 left in the game.

Bailey then scored another touchdown in four plays on four runs by Bailey as Chadron led 34-14. Chadron then tried a two-point conversion pass into the left corner of the west end zone, but it went over the head of the intended receiver.

Ogallala got the ball again and turned it over on downs again as Nowak was stopped for a loss of nine on the fourth down play to the Ogallala 40.

Chadron then got the ball with 4:09 left in the fourth quarter and ran out the clock and kneeled it.