BY JIM MISUNAS

jmisunas@gbtribune.com

Down 23-7, Great Bend's football team will have to dig deep.

So far, so good.

Cooper Ohnmacht's dazzling 56-yard touchdown reception was followed by Daxton Minton's 23-yard scoring dash for a 23-21 deficit against Salina Central. 
OOO

Salina Central's hard-running Cooper Reves lived up to his reputation. Reves dashed for 95 first-half yards and scored two touchdowns for a 16-6 halftime lead in Friday's 5A football semifinal.

Multi-time 5A state champion Salina Central rushed for 126 yards in 26 carries. 

The Mustangs led 6-0 on a Reves 4-yard run. The drive covered 49 yards in nine plays. The Panthers tied the game on Conner Holladay's 14-yard run.

Mustang coach Mark Sandbo pulled off a pair of fourth-down conversions for the half's two key plays. Quarterback Griffin Hall connected with Keaton Smith for a 4th-down conversion that set up Reves' 16 yard score that capped a 68-yard drive.

Salina Central 6 10 7 0 — 

Great Bend 6 0 15 0 —

SC—Cooper Reves 4 run (kick fails)

GB—Conner Holladay 14 run (kick blocked)

SC—Reves 16 run (Eli Duxler kick)

SC—Duxler 32 FG

SCBodie Rodriguez 7 pass from Hall (Duxler kick)

GB—Cooper Ohnmacht 56 pass from Daxton Minton (Ohnmacht pass from Minton) 

GB—Minton 23 run (Geovanni Cruz kick)

RUSHING—SC—Reves 30-126; Griffin Hall 6-31; GB—Ian Premer; 7-51; Daxton Minton 4-7; Holladay 3-18; Ohnmacht.

PASSING—SC—Hall 3-7-0, 38; Eli Kreighbaum 1-1-0, 6; GB—Minton 3-76-0, 39

RECEIVING—SC—Keaton Smith 3-25; Bodie Rodriguez 3-26; GB—Premer 2-4; Ohnmacht 4-100; Jacob Hall.

Hoisington 0 0 0 0 — 

SE Saline 0 0 0 0 —

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SE—

RUSHING—H—Taylen Morales; C.J. Bryant; Mason Martin; Brody Pfannenstiel; SE—30 Grady Gephardt; 10 Tiernan Ptacek; 9 Lavone Hopkins.

PASSING—H—Martin; SE—10 Tiernan Ptacek.

RECEIVING—H—Carson Mason; Pfannenstiel; Morales; SE—11 Kadan Barragan; 9 L. Hopkins; 30 Gephardt; 39 Amarion Holub; 24 Kanyon Douglas; 48 Bryson Lippold.