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Vikings can't run past Titans, injuries on 105.1 The Vikings

In a heavyweight match-up between the Peninsula Conference's top two teams, it was Lena/St. Thomas Aquinas delivering the knockout blows in the third quarter of a 30-21 victory over the Gibraltar Vikings in the first round of the WIAA Eight-Player Playoffs.

 

The  Vikings stood firm in the game's first two quarters, forcing the Titans into a number of failed fourth-down conversions and a scoreless second frame. Braden Sitte opened the scoring with an eight-yard touchdown  only to be answered by the Titans' Sam Marquardt passing to Sidney  Sylvester to make it 8-6 at the end of one quarter.


Sitte would score the only touchdown of the second quarter on a one-yard keeper to send the Vikings to a 13-8 halftime lead. Hayden Reetz picked off a Marquardt pass that stemmed off one of the Titans' second quarter drives.

 

 

Paired with an injury to Sitte late in the second quarter, the Titans turned up the pressure in the third quarter which would change the tide for the rest of the game for the Vikings. Marquardt immediately turned a blocked punt into a 16-yard touchdown run, giving the Titans a lead they would not give up. He would also score on a 58-yard quarterback to keeper to make it 22-13.

 

The Titans would put the game on ice early in the fourth quarter with Marquardt's fourth total touchdown, this time on a 13-yard  rush. The Vikings gave their fans two lasting memories in the game's final minutes. With all the seniors on the field, an injured Sitte retook the field to kneel the ball, allowing a curtain call for the over 10 players that played their final home game. William Lecy would add one last bright spot, turning a Giovanni Mercier screen pass into a 64-yard touchdown for the final score of the game.

 

The Vikings ended their season 8-1 and the champions of the Peninsula Conference.

 

 

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