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Senior Brian Poston hit a career milestone and the Tigers’ defense posted its fourth shutout of the year on Thursday in Carthage’s 49-0 win over McDonald County in the regular season finale for both teams.
Carthage, the Class 4 District 11 runner up, advances to the MSHSAA football playoffs for the fifth straight season under head coach John Guidie and prepares to travel to Jefferson City to play Helias, the Class 4 District 12 champion, on Wednesday.
Poston finished the day with 131 yards on seven carries, putting him over 5,000 yards for his career and over 1,500 for the season.
“That couldn’t happen to a nicer kid,” Guidie said. “He’s very deserving and a very hard working young man. He’s started for the past four years and he’s just been very consistent all along and he’s very deserving of it.”
It was also the third time this season that Carthage has hung a goose egg on its opponent.
Carthage’s defense has blanked opponents four times this season, but Republic returned a fumble for a touchdown against the Tiger offense.
No Tiger team going back to 2004 has shut out more than two opponents in a season.
“We were worried about their physicality, they’ve got some horses up front and we knew they’d come right at us and they did,” Guidie said. “Our defense stepped up and got us the ball back over and over. We were able to hit the big play again early and take the pressure off the D. We had pretty good execution overall.”
McDonald County coach Chris Gwartney said his young Mustangs were outmatched the past two weeks, giving up 104 points to Webb City and Carthage.
“Our program’s got a long way to go and we’re working on it, but when you play two top-five football teams in the state your last two football games it’s really tough,” Gwartney said. “Webb City and Carthage are two tremendous football teams, very well coached, good talent, sound, they do things right and it’s tough on you. We won three in a row then we hit these two teams, it sort of brought us down but we can’t let these last two games put a damper on what we’ve done.”
Senior Brian Poston hit a career milestone and the Tigers’ defense posted its fourth shutout of the year on Thursday in Carthage’s 49-0 win over McDonald County in the regular season finale for both teams.
Carthage, the Class 4 District 11 runner up, advances to the MSHSAA football playoffs for the fifth straight season under head coach John Guidie and prepares to travel to Jefferson City to play Helias, the Class 4 District 12 champion, on Wednesday.
Poston finished the day with 131 yards on seven carries, putting him over 5,000 yards for his career and over 1,500 for the season.
“That couldn’t happen to a nicer kid,” Guidie said. “He’s very deserving and a very hard working young man. He’s started for the past four years and he’s just been very consistent all along and he’s very deserving of it.”
It was also the third time this season that Carthage has hung a goose egg on its opponent.
Carthage’s defense has blanked opponents four times this season, but Republic returned a fumble for a touchdown against the Tiger offense.
No Tiger team going back to 2004 has shut out more than two opponents in a season.
“We were worried about their physicality, they’ve got some horses up front and we knew they’d come right at us and they did,” Guidie said. “Our defense stepped up and got us the ball back over and over. We were able to hit the big play again early and take the pressure off the D. We had pretty good execution overall.”
McDonald County coach Chris Gwartney said his young Mustangs were outmatched the past two weeks, giving up 104 points to Webb City and Carthage.
“Our program’s got a long way to go and we’re working on it, but when you play two top-five football teams in the state your last two football games it’s really tough,” Gwartney said. “Webb City and Carthage are two tremendous football teams, very well coached, good talent, sound, they do things right and it’s tough on you. We won three in a row then we hit these two teams, it sort of brought us down but we can’t let these last two games put a damper on what we’ve done.”
