It was a cold Friday night in Lindstrom as Ricky Floyd heated up the Benilde-St. Margaret's offense by scoring four touchdowns and rushing for 225 yards to lead the Red Knights to a 42-7 rout of the Cloquet Lumberjacks in the Class AAAA state quarterfinals at Chisago Lakes High School.
Floyd scored his first touchdown on the Red Knights opening drive, going around left guard and scoring from seven yards. He would reach the end zone a second time with 2:09 left in the first quarter and BSM led 14-0.
Though the Red Knights began the second quarter with two straight penalties that put them first and all the way to Taylor's Falls, they would eventually go up by 21 on their next drive as Floyd, who had 325 rushing yards in the Section 5AAAA against Holy Angels, scored another two yard touchdown.
In the third quarter, it was Floyd who would score his fourth touchdown on a 31 yard pass from quarterback Will Whitmore. But it wasn't "The Ricky Floyd Show" in the Class AAAA quarterfinals on this frigid Friday night. Give credit to the Red Knight defense as Braeden Fitzgerald intercepted a pass from Cloquet quarterback Tim Pokornowski and scored a 57 yard touchdown to put BSM ahead by 35.
Going to the fourth quarter as the Red Knights would increase their lead to 42 on a three yard left side keeper touchdown by Will Whitmore. The Lumberjacks made sure there would be no shutout when Pokornowski threw a 29 yard touchdown pass to Mitchell Gerlach with :07.6 left in the game.
BSM improved their record to 8-3 and will play the unbeaten Marshall Tigers in the Class AAAA semifinals on Thursday, November 17 at 4:30 PM at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Tigers secured a semifinal berth by flushing the Fridley Tigers 40-7.
Cloquet ended their season with a record of 7-4.
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