On Sunday, Oct. 22, a mid-afternoon football championship was decided on the campus of Hastings College, and Lloyd Wilson Field. The defending champions, the Big G Jets, 6-0, versus the Hastings Pepsi Chargers, 5-1, with the Chargers lone loss coming at the hands of the Jets in the regular season.
Three Clay County players, Charlie Shaw, Landry Borer, and Lincoln Davis, of the defending champion Jets came up big.
The first quarter was dominated by the Chargers behind a primarily runheavy offense, directed by quarterback Wesley Martin, as Martin accounted for all of the Chargers’ scoring in the first two quarters.
The first possession, the Chargers took the opening kickoff, drove 67 yards to draw first blood, with Martin running it in from two-yards out, and added the extra point.