Devils win shootout with Bruins

 

October 4, 2018

John Hamilton

OFF TO THE RACES - Pictured in action several weeks ago against Hot Springs, Noxon's Levi Brubaker racked up over 700 total yards of offense versus Gardiner Friday.

Talk about your high-scoring shootouts.

The Noxon Red Devils kept their hand in the Western C 6-Man playoff race last week with a key 73-60 win over the Gardiner Bruins in Noxon Friday.

Now 4-2 in Western C play, coach Bart Haflich and his Red Devils will have the week off and extra time to prepare for 5-1 West Yellowstone in a game with definite State C playoff implications. The Devils were scheduled to play St. Regis this week but St. Regis is cooperating with a team in Wallace this season instead of playing in Montana.

The game with West Yellowstone will be played in Noxon Oct. 12.

"It's not a bad deal getting the week off like this," Haflich said. "It will give us a little extra time to heal up some of our nagging injuries and to concentrate on game-planning for West."

Last week's game with Gardiner resembled a track meet with all the running back and forth and to and fro.

"It was a wild one, an offensive 6-Man battle," Haflich said. "We spent most of the night trading touchdowns."

Noxon led the high-scoring contest 16-13 after one quarter and 46-40 by halftime. Haflich said Noxon's defense finally turned the tide in the second half.

"We finally made a couple stops and created a little separation in the second half," Haflich offered, "and we feel pretty good about it. Gardiner is a good team and we managed to battle through and win a close game."

Hafich said the Devils, particularly Levi Brubaker, posted some eye-popping numbers in Noxon's latest big gridiron win.

Brubaker carried the ball 33 times and picked up an amazing 440 yards rushing in addition to returning kicks for 225 yards and catching passes for another 40 receiving yards. Brubaker also completed a touchdown pass to Edison VanVleet and VanVleet reportedly made a great catch on that TD play.

Brubaker scored five touchdowns during his 700-yard evening of football.

Edison VanVleet's little brother Cade VanVleet carried the ball 19 times from his fullback position, picking up another 156 yards on the ground.

 

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