The Big Sandy Pioneer football team concluded their 2018 season this past Saturday with a 46-14 loss to the Wibaux Longhorns in the quarterfinals of the Montana Class C Six-man football playoffs. The Pioneers finish the campaign with a 8-3 overall record. The team accomplished a lot this season under first year head coach Chuck Terry. The team will look to make a return trip to the playoffs once again in 2019 and return many key contributors from this years squad.
Pioneers finish season 8-3, will be loaded again next fall.
The Big Sandy Pioneer football team headed to Wibaux County this past Saturday to take on the top ranked and undefeated Longhorns in a quarterfinal contest of the Montana Class C State football playoffs.
Head Coach Chuck Terry and his team knew they were in for a battle, but one they weren't going to back down from.
The Longhorns have had their way with opponents every time they took the field this fall. The Pioneers let the Longhorns know early on that they weren't like evey other opponent.
In a defensive struggle to begin the game it was the Longhorns that found the end zone first but in a game between to explosive offenses the score was just 6-0 at the end of the first quarter in favor of Wibaux Co.
Junior Ryan Roth hauled in a 9 yard pass from sophomore quarterback Parker Proulx early in the second quarter and after a successful conversion kick from sophomore Kade Strutz the Pioneers led the top ranked longhorns 8-6.
Wibaux responded by closing out the half with 20 unanswered points to lead 26-8 at the break.
The Pioneer defense again stood tall in the third quarter allowing a single score from the Longhorns. The offense struggled to get anything going and the teams headed to the fourth quarter with the Pioneers down 32-6.
Roth again found paydirt early in the fourth quarter, scoring on a five yard pass from Proulx to give Big Sandy a glimmer of hope.
The Longhorns responded with two more scores to end the Pioneers season with a 46-14 defeat.
Big Sandy finishes the season with an 8-3 overall record and will say good bye to seniors Jordan Schwarzbach and Everett Sipler.
Every year seniors graduate and the following season new players are asked to fill those shoes. The Pioneers qualified for the State Playoffs each of the past two seasons, reaching the quarterfinals both times.
They will return a ton of experience from both those teams next fall. Juniors Ryan Roth, Hunter Jappe, Brock Proulx and Elijah Wagoner were key contributors this fall and along with sophomores Kade Strutz, Parker Proulx, Brady Pleninger, Clint Darlington, Dillon Geyer and Cam Schwarzbach, Coach Terry and his staff will have plenty to work with.
Big Sandy 0 8 0 6 14
Wibaux 6 20 6 14 46
Wibaux - Chance Larson 10 run (kick failed)
Big Sandy - Ryan Roth 9 pass from Parker Proulx ( kick)
Wibaux - Chance Larson 48 run (Cade Dschaak pass from Tel Lunde)
Wibaux - Chance Larson 18 pass from Tel Lunde (Chance Larson pass from Tel Lunde)
Wibaux - Chance Larson 40 pass from Tel Lunde (pass failed)
Wibaux - Cade Dschaak 3 run (kick failed)
Big Sandy - Ryan Roth 5 pass from Parker Proulx (kick failed)
Wibaux - Cade Dschaak 1 run (Wyatt Davis run)
Wibaux - Jared Fisher 9 pass from Tel Lunde (Wyatt Davis run)
