By Jim Misunas

HOISINGTON— At any minute, you expected Hoisington’s Chris Wright to tear off his football uniform and display a “S” shirt underneath.

The mild-mannered Wright performed like Superman in Hoisington’s dominating 42-0 football victory over Kingman that clinched the Central Kansas West Division title Friday night.

Wright played like a super hero, sacking Kingman quarterback Logan Adelhardt several times and throwing a perfect block to free Steffan Dolechek on a 28-yard TD for a 35-0 lead.

“Probably one of my sacks was my best play tonight,” Wright said. “I had really good energy tonight and had a good night. That was one of my best games. Our offensive line blocked really good tonight. We’re not the biggest line, but we get the job done.”

Tailback Hunter Hanzlick rushed for 190 yards and converted a 1-yard touchdown. The Cardinals got rolling when speedster Steffan Dolechek busted a 27-yard run on fourth down for a TD and a 7-0 lead.

Zade Sanders, Tyler Specht and Sean Urban added touchdowns and Dolechek converted a second run for another touchdown sprung by Wright’s block.

“I give all the credit to our offensive line, which is playing great,” Dolechek said. “It’s great to see those big openings to run through tonight. That was a lot of fun.”

Hoisington (5-0, 4-0 CKL) clinches the CKL West and Kingman drops to 3-2 overall and 3-2 in CKL play.

The Cardinals rushed for 401 yards on 39 attempts behind a dominating offensive line of center Justin Umphrey, guards Landen Urban and Justin Bradley, tackles Ben Schneider and Chris Wright and tight end Grant Dolechek.

“I was really happy with how hard and how well the guys played tonight. It definitely was a step in the right direction,” said Hoisington coach Zach Baird. “The offensive line did an excellent job. I’m excited because that’s a good Kingman football team we beat.”

Baird said he was pleasantly surprised by how well the Cardinals played.

“If someone would’ve told me, we’d beat Kingman 42-0, I would not have believed them,” Baird said. “We got better as a football team tonight.”

Hoisington’s Rudy Gearhart and Kody Lang intercepted passes and Justin Umphrey recovered a fumble. Landen Urban and Chris Wright took turns punishing Kingman runners.

Little went right for Kingman, which gained 24 yards rushing and 23 yards passing.

Kingman coach Curtis Albin gave all the credit to the Cardinals. Nick Giefer led the Eagles with 22 yards rushing.
“We learned that’s a really good Hoisington football team,” Albin said. “We made some big mistakes early and didn’t tackle. We knew we had our hands full tonight. There were big momentum points and once they got rolling, they never lost it.”

The Cardinals rolled 34, 63, 66 71 and 80 yards on first-half scoring drives for a 35-0 lead. The Cardinals rushed for 309 yards and gained 339 fist-half yards. The second half was played with a running clock with a 35-point deficit.

The Cardinals play at Smoky Valley (2-3) and Kingman plays at Sterling (3-2) next week in non-league games.

HOISINGTON 42, KINGMAN 0
Kingman 0 0 0 0 – 0
Hoisington 21 14 0 7– 42
H—Steffan Dolechek 27 run (Chris Wright kick), 7:20
H—Zade Sanders 6 run (Wright kick), 3:29
H—Tyler Specht 56 run (Wright kick), 1:13
H—Hunter Hanzlick 1 run (run failed), 6:42
H—Dolechek 28 run (Sanders run), 3:23
H—Sean Urban 47 run (Wright kick), 2:14
RUSHING—K, Nick Giefer 8-22; Caden Knoblauch 2-9; Gage Pickering 1-0; Chris Ontiveros 1-5; Payton Pickering 9-(-2); Logan Adelhardt 7-(-15); H, Hanzlick 23-190; Dolechek 7-96; Specht 4-55; Urban 2-53; Sanders 2-7; Rudy Gearhart 1-0.
PASSING—K, Adelhardt, 2-11-0, 23; G. Pickering 0-1-0; Ontiveros 0-1-1; H, Specht 1-1-0, 30.
RECEIVING—K, Tal Hartley 2-23; H, Cameron Davis 1-30.
 
Other area competition:

No. 2 Central Plains-52, Canton-Galva-0

CANTON— Jacob Warnken scored the first two touchdowns for the Oilers as Central Plains cruised to a 52-0 road victory over Canton-Galva.

CPHS put up 38 points in the first quarter and nailed down the win with a 14-0 run in the second period.

As a team the second ranked Oilers recorded 159 yards on the ground and added 55 yard through the air.

Warnken worked both ways as he led the defense with 14 tackles, ten of those solo.
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Otis-Bison-50, Thunder Ridge-0

KENSINGTON—It was Brad Lightfoot’s night scoring the first three touchdowns leading Otis-Bison to a 50-0 road win over Thunder Ridge.

The Cougars are undefeated at 5-0.

OBHS munched up 390 yards of total while holding the Longhorns to 75. The Cougars rushed 37 times for 377 yards with Lightfoot accounting for 177.

Defensively Trenton Welsh led OBHS with 12 tackles for the night.
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Pratt-Skyline-22, Macksville-14

MACKSVILLE—The Mustangs scored first in the second quarter and led 6-0 at intermission. Skyline took the go ahead in the third period with a touchdown and two-point conversion.

Macksville stole the lead right back and led 12-8 at the end of the third.

Skyline put up a 14-6 attack in the final period which was too much for Macksville to recover as the Thunderbirds posted the 22-18 victory.

The win over Macksville is Skyline’s first victory of the season while the Mustangs are still looking for their first season win.
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St. John/Tipton-36, Stafford-6

BELOIT—Stafford was unable to recover from a 36-0 assault by the Blujays over the first three quarters as St. John/Tipton upended the Trojans, 36-6.

Fourteen penalties crippled the Stafford effort. The Trojans only score came in the fourth quarter as Caleb Hildebrand connected with Josh Harter on a 12 yard touchdown pass. Hildebrand led Stafford defenders with 12 tackles.
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Kinsley-34, St. John-28

ST. JOHN— The Kinsley Coyotes put their first points on the board and collected their first win of the season on Friday in a 34-28 road victory over St. John.

Up 20-14 at the half Kinsley scattered 14 points over the third and fourth quarters as the Tigers were unable to recover from their halftime deficit.

The Coyotes won the offensive battle with 374 yards of total offense. St. John totaled 235.

St. John’s Troy Devine led the effort with 12 carries for 95 yards and four touchdowns.

Eddy Ybarra and Hunter Hanson collected ten tackles each in the effort.
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Solomon-46, Ellinwood-20

SOLOMON—Ellinwood suffered their second loss of the season as the Eagles dropped a 46-20 road decision to Solomon Friday evening. Details of Friday’s contest were not available at press time.