Gallatin’s unorthodox extra point conversion alignment has confounded opponents all season long. It worked five times Friday night against Braymer, with four different Bulldogs tacking on the two-point try.
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For the second time under the new MSHSAA football playoff formula, Gallatin finds itself going up against South Harrison in the opening round of district play.
Despite both teams winning last Friday, there was no wiggle room to move up in district standings. Of the top five rated Class 1, District 8 teams, only Hamilton suffered a loss last week, but that did not alter the Hornets’ #2 seeding position behind top-seeded Polo.
The Gallatin-South Harrison winner will likely travel to Polo on the following Friday. The Panthers take on Braymer this week in order to advance. Other first round district games pit Hamilton against Princeton and #3 Maysville against King City.
Gallatin defeated South Harrison on the road, 17-14, during week five of the regular season. South Harrison won last season’s district playoff game, 32-0.
The Bulldogs made short work of the Braymer Bobcats last Friday, scoring early and often on their way to a 47-0 shutout.
Gallatin needed just over a minute to get on the board with a four-play drive set up by Logan Jeffers’ kickoff return to the Bulldog 48-yard line. Jacob Boyd scored from four yards out and Brandon Bradley added the two-point conversion.
Four minutes later, Trystan Sunby found the end zone on a 23-yard run from scrimmage. Bradley again tacked on the two-point conversion. The next three scores fell like dominos. Boyd hit Chad Walker with an 18-yard scoring pass. A Michael Stanley interception led to a Sunby two-yard scoring run. A Boyd to Colten Beck pass of 25 yards made it 40-0 heading into the fourth quarter.
Wyatt Bird ran 39 yards for the Bulldogs to account for the lone fourth quarter score.
Sunby finished with 157 yards rushing before leaving the game at the end of the third quarter. Stanley led the GHS defense with 12 solo tackles and three assists.