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Wadena-Deer Creek overcame a 20-7 third quarter deficit on Friday night to defeat the Menahga Braves by the score of 21-20. Tyson Barthel hauled in a 32-yard TD pass from Payton Rondestvedt to bring the Wolverines to within a point and the two-point conversion run by Rondestvedt put the winning points on the board.
Rondestvedt completed 10-of-22 passes for 126 yards and 3 touchdowns on the night, while adding a team high 47 yards on 14 carries. Josh Dykhoff caught the other two TD passes, the first one from 5 yards out in the first quarter and the second one from 21 yards out in the third quarter. Barthel finished the game with 4 catches for 79 yards and Dykhoff had 3 receptions for 43 yards. Defensively, Isaac Christianson had 5 solo tackles and 7 assisted tackles.
Brock Berttunen scored the first Menahga touchdown on a one yard run. The Braves also scored on a 70 yard run by Ethan Hendrickson and a 5 yard run by Hendrickson, with both TD’s coming in the third quarter. Logan Torma ran the ball in for a two-point conversion following Hendrickson's first TD.
Hendrickson led Menahga with 140 rushing yards on 19 carries. Torma finished with 12 attempts for 75 yards.
Wadena-Deer Creek had 228 yards of offense (126 passing, 102 rushing) and Menahga had 248 (61 passing, 187 rushing). Each team recorded 12 first downs.