Osage rides by Cowboys
By Kristi Nixon
OSAGE — Right after Clarion-Goldfield-Dows had scored to come within 14-12 with a little more than a minute left in the first half of this Class 2A playoff football game, Osage head coach Torian Wolf could be seen exhorting his team to score right back before the break to answer and switch back the momentum.
Freshman kick returner Quinn Street took his words to heart, taking the Cowboys’ kickoff 75 yards, zigging and zagging his way across the field for likely more than 100 total yards in what only took 17 seconds off the clock as momentum fully switched back to the seventh-ranked Green Devils.
“When we watched film (last) Sunday, I said, ‘If they ever kick it deep to us, it’s a touchdown,’” Wolf said. “We knew they had a weakness there, and we knew where to go with it. Quinn is just a phenomenal athlete – think of him as just a freshman right now, how great he is. We have all of the confidence for him to perform like that, zigging and zagging like that.”
That translated to a big second half in which Osage scored four touchdowns and held the Cowboys to a field goal the rest of the way in a 49-15 rout at Sawyer Field. It was the first playoff win for the Green Devils since 2009 and was a school record for points in a playoff game.
“It’s an awesome feeling,” Wolf said…
The full story appears in the Oct. 26 print and online editions of the Enterprise Journal.
