Carrollton Wins First Round Football Playoff Game

Retherford scored on a 34-yard touchdown run and a 48-yard reception from Hawks’ quarterback Hunter Flowers. Flowers ran for the other Hawks score from 3-yards out. Flowers was 12 of 20 passing for 227 yards and two touchdowns.

“Athletes try to make plays,” Carrollton head football coach Nick Flowers said. “We made some real nice plays out here today. We thought on film they were a physical team with good size up front. I don’t think we faced a team that big up front this year other than Beardstown. We matched that physicality. Our defense really contained them in the second half.

“Offensively we took what they were giving us they had a really good defensive plan for us. The wind was bad early. We didn’t want to take too many risks throwing deep. We ran the football pretty effectively for the game. I thought defensively in second half, Hunter Flowers made some tackles at safety with some big time second half plays. If our safety can make plays at line of scrimmage, we will win some more games. Matthew Rutherford had a good play early for a touchdown and another big play later in the game. He had a great game offensively for us.”

The Hawks play the Argenta-Oreana Bombers at Argenta on Saturday at 1 pm. Argenta has an artificial turf field and is approximately 120 miles distance from Carrollton, just north and east of Decatur.