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For one final time the B&B Falcons football program will take flight and they do so with the chance to go out on top as 8-Man Division II State championship when they square off with Wallace County (12-0) on Saturday in Newton at Fischer Field, kickoff at 3:30pm.  

The Falcons have put on an aerial display of mastery with their passing game this season orchestrating a high flying offense that’s posting 51.5 points per game, while having a ball hawking defense that holds opponents to just 12.3 points per game and touts a +36 turnover margin.

On Saturday the Falcons will have their hands full with the best scoring defense in all of 8-Man football in Kansas in the Wallace County Wildcats who have only allowed 52 points this season and 28 of those in one game; giving up and average of 4.3 points per game to their opponents, while scoring 42.3 points per game behind their rushing attack on offense. The Wildcats defense forces turnovers and Wallace County has only turned it over themselves three times this season.

The matchup that will decide the game the offense of B&B against the defense of Wallace County and the Falcons have a senior leader at the helm of the offensive attack with Dustin Rottinghaus. Rottinghaus this season has thrown for 2,262 yards and 41 TDs to just 6 interceptions, while surpassing the 4,000 yard mark in his career in the latest win over Hanover.

Rottinghaus has a stable full of weapons that have been at his disposal all season leading to the dissecting of defenses all year by the Falcons. Seniors, Blake Deters, Cameron Haug, Dylan Schmitz, Dylan Steinlage and Brendon Bergman all have great playmaking ability and sophomore, Neil Sudbeck has been the go to guy in the backfield this season.

The Falcons defense has been nothing to snuff at either this season as that unit has forced turnovers all season creating turnovers and creating extra possessions for the offense and negating what their opponents do best.

B&B used the ground attack to run past Southern Cloud in the opening round of the playoffs, then flew past Waverly in the second round and dominated Hanover in Sub-State action to earn the school’s six straight trip to a state championship game.

Falcons take their 11-1 record to Newton looking to cap off a storybook season with a state title and end the B&B Falcon football tradition sitting atop the perch as State champs once again.