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The Cougars' remarkable playoff run came to a quick end in the 1A six-player title game, an 81-0 loss to Harper Charter.
The highlight for the Crow Cougars in the state 1A six-player championship game Saturday, Nov. 29 came on the game’s first play.
A player for the Harper Charter Hornets mishandled the opening kickoff and the Cougars recovered the ball. They took over on the Hornet 25.
But four plays later, the Cougars turned the ball over on downs.
And the Hornets scored touchdowns on their next 12 possessions, rolling to an 81-0 victory over Crow in the title game at Redmond High School.
It was the first championship for the No. 2 Hornets (12-0), who lost to Powers in last year’s title game.
For the Cougars (9-3), who claimed the runner-up trophy, it marked an emphatic end to a charmed playoff run in which the team, the No. 9 seed in the 16-team tournament, knocked off three higher-seeded teams on the road, including a quarterfinal victory over No. 1 seed Triangle Lake.
But Nick Nevins, the Crow coach, said before the championship game that he thought Harper Charter, in Malheur County on the eastern edge of the state, was the best 1A six-player team in the state. Saturday, the Hornets wasted little time showing why, racking up four touchdowns in the first quarter and five more in the second to claim a 62-0 halftime lead.
Nevins also worried about the Hornets’ athleticism and ability to move to the ball, and Harper never allowed Crow’s offense to get rolling: The Cougars got just two first downs in the game, and one of those came on a penalty. Crow was held to 9 yards in total offense; Harper had 623.
Saturday’s game wasn’t the first time this season the Hornets piled on the points: The team scored 81 against Huntington Sept. 12 and scored 60 points or more in all but one of its games.
Aiden DeLeon, a running back and defensive end, was named the player of the game for the Cougars; he rushed for 23 yards and completed his only pass attempt for a 6-yard gain. Madoxx Martinez earned player of the game honors for the Hornets; he rushed for 160 yards and completed four of six passes for 207 yards.
The runner-up finish for the Cougars marks Crow’s best football season since 1993, when the team lost in the 2A title game. The Cougars will lose just three seniors to graduation — Foster Otley, Cayden Hernandez and Evan Barth.
Crow is about 16 miles southwest of Eugene. The Cougars were the only Lane County high school football team to advance to a championship game this season.
