Wildcats fall in 60-0 mercy-rule

Sometimes it takes losing to a state champion to discover what it takes to be a state champion.

MORAN — The Marmaton Valley Wildcat football season came to an end Friday with a 60-0 loss to the defending state champion Hanover Wildcats in the second round of the KSHSAA Eight-Man DII playoffs.

Without senior running back/defensive back Cooper Scharff, who exited last week’s victory over Norwich with a knee injury, the Wildcats struggled on both sides of the ball as Hanover capitalized on great field position following Marmaton Valley turnovers and special teams’ miscues.

“We saw what a championship-caliber team looks like, and we have about 60 points to make up in order to get to that level,” Marmaton Valley coach Max Mickunas said. “We know our tackling was not good enough; the effort was not good enough when we needed it to be. They punched us in the mouth.”

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