By JUSTIN BURKHARDT
TopSports.news
It was a nice evening Friday night at Hayden High School as the Wildcats would bounce back from a Week 4 loss at Wamego in dominating fashion with a 49-0 shutout Class 3A district win.
The game would start off with Hayden receiving and junior Kade Mitchell catching the kickoff and returning it 85 yards to the house to open up the scoring for the Wildcats.
Junior Kade Mitchell returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and scored four TDs on the night as Hayden rolled to a 49-0 win over Hiawatha. [File photo/TSN]
“I thought we did a great job blocking for him as he didn’t get touched, he made one cut and was gone.” Hayden coach Bill Arnold said.
“They kicked it to me and I was like, 'This is my time to do something,' and I made a cut and went.” Mitchell said.
That isn’t all the Wildcats would get from their standout back as he would add 112 yards on eight carries and 26 yards on three catches with a total of four touchdowns.
“It's all glory to God. I thank him every time I come out here and trust in him and he lets me come out here and play and thank you to my teammates. My o-line does a great job and its awesome to play behind them.” Mitchell said.
“I think offensively he did a good job running the ball, I thought all our kids played hard tonight.” Arnold said.
Hayden would go into halftime up 28-0 and added three more touchdowns in the second half.
The Wildcats got three touchdowns from senior Broderick Desch, who added 65 rushing yards and 19 receiving yards.
“We got to have better practices, we have to continue to get better at practice,” Arnold said on staying hot the rest of the year.
The Wildcats were led in passing by senior Jett Wahlmeier with 59 yards.
The Wildcats will compete in their biggest regular-season game of the season next week as Hayden will head north and play their rival Holton.
HAYDEN 49 - HIAWATHA 0
HIAWATHA (1-4) 0 0 0 0 — 0
HAYDEN (4-1) 14 14 14 7 — 49
Hayden - Mitchell 85 kickoff return (Becker Kick)
Hayden - Desch 29 run (Becker Kick)
Hayden - Desch 19 pass from Wahlmeier (Becker Kick)
Hayden - Mitchell 1 run (Becker Kick)
Hayden - Desch 8 run (Becker Kick)
Hayden - Mitchell 57 run (Becker Kick)
Hayden - Mitchell 38 run (Becker Kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing — Hiawatha: Monaghan 14-60, Morton 11-33, Grant 2-12, Hageman 2-7, Boeckman 2-7,Kettler 1-minus 3, Newell 6-minus 25. Hayden: Mitchell 8-112, Desch 6-65, McGivern 5-36, Samich 2-12, Wolff 2-8, Heinen 1-8, Kreutz 1-4, Lopez 1-4, Wahlmeier 1-3.
Passing— Hiawatha: Newell 1-3-8. Hayden: Wahlmeier 7-10-59.
Receiving— Hiawatha: Jensen 1-8. Hayden: Hanika 3-33, Mitchell 3-26, Desch 1-19.
