Montezuma quarterback/kicker Owen Cook had a career night in the Braves’ 64-62 district championship game win over Baxter.
He had a prep career best of 437 passing yards on 32 completions in 49 attempts, including six touchdown passes to three different receivers.
Cook rushed 15 times for 37 yards and one score. That makes 474 yards of all-purpose yardage on 64 plays.
But if you include his kicking yards – and you had better! – He totaled 1,032 yards in this game!
Who does that?
Why and/or how more than 1,000 yards? He had 455 yards in total kickoff yardage, 75 yards on two punts, and 28 yards on the game-winning field goal. Add the 474 all purpose yards and the total is 1,032.
Throw in 100 yards for five PAT kicks (I didn’t), and it’s over 1,100.
But this was an incredible team win, was it not?
Was it ever! And Owen Cook would be the first to tell you that!
Braves stats
Passing – Owen Cook was 32-for-49 for 437 yards, with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions.
Rushing – Brett Plants 19-78, 2 touchdowns; Owen Cook 15-37, one touchdown; Broox Stockman 2-12, Masin Shearer 3-10. TOTALS – 39-137, 3 touchdowns.
Receiving – Garrett Watts 10-179, one touchdown; Masin Shearer 14-147, 3 touchdowns; Cruz De Jong 4-74, 2 touchdowns; Brett Plants 4-37.
Tackles – Brady Ogan 8.0, Brett Plants, 6.5 with 0.5 tackles for loss; Kennen Roadcap 6.0 (2.5), Brady Boulton 4.0, Carter Michalek 4.0, Landon Morrison 4.0, Tod Geiger 2.0 (1.0), Marty Knox 1.0, David Rose, 0.5.
Fumble recovery – Tod Geiger 1-0.
Interception – Landon Morrison 1-4.
Kickoff returns – Masin Shearer 1-17, Carter Michalek 1-4.
Kicking – Owen Cook 10 kickoffs, 9 touchbacks and 455 yards; 5-7 on PATs, and 1-1 on field goals for 28 yards.
Punts – Owen Cook 2-75 (37.5 avg.)
Two-point conversions – Masin Shearer, one.
Baxter stat highlights
The Bolts had 525 net yards on 57 plays. It’s worthy of noting the Braves had 88 snaps, so Montezuma’s offense did manage to keep the Baxter offense off the field for important amounts of time.
Cody Dammann was 13-24 passing for 291 yards and 4 touchdowns. He also ran 21 times for 127 yards and two scores.
Jake Travis caught 5 passes for 130 yards and 2 touchdowns. He rushed 5 times for 46 yards and 1 touchdown.
Baxter rushed 29 times for 182 yards, and passed 28 times, completing 16 for 343 yards.
Travis led two double figures tacklers for the Bolts with 14.5 stops, including 4.5 tackles for loss.