The Hutchinson Tigers were on their A Game Friday afternoon as Alex Elliot and Andrew Ladwig scored two touchdowns apiece to lead them to a 42-14 win over the Kasson-Mantorville KoMets 42-14 in the Class AAAA Football Championship Game at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
It was the sixth state championship for Hutchinson in their 24th tournament appearance.
Elliot would account for the Tigers only first quarter touchdown when he broke a tackle and headed 40 yards into the end zone.
Hutchinson would start the second quarter with Ladwig scoring a two yard touchdown run following Elliot's 20 yard run that ended the first quarter. It looked like the Komets would be in striking distance of the Tigers on Brooks Buchanan's 72 yard kickoff return. A sideline interference penalty on the Tigers would move the ball to the Hutchinson six yard line. However, on the next play, K-M quarterback Matthew Donovan fumbled and Logan Hoppe recovered the ball for the Tigers. Two plays later, Mitchell Piehl peeled down the left sideline like the team bus heading down Highway 7 and he scored a 90 yard touchdown to give Hutchinson a 20-0 lead. There would be no shutout for the Tigers as Donovan kept the ball and ran 30 yards to the end zone. Elliot would score his second touchdown of the game on the pitch from quarterback Colin Nagel and he scored from 12 yards to give the Tigers a 28-7 halftime lead.
Both teams would tally in the third quarter. Ladwig reached the end zone for the second time on a two yard run for the Tigers and the KoMets got a 14 yard run from Anthony Moe-Tucker.
K-M had a chance to score their third touchdown in the fourth quarter but they lost the ball on downs to Hutchinson. Nagel would keep the ball for runs of five and four yards before concluding the scoring on a two yard run.
The Tigers ran for 423 yards with Piehl the leading rusher at 128 and Elliot with 127.
Hutchinson ends their season with a record of 12-1 and K-M finishes with a record of 9-4.
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