Kimball's 8-man football team has had a record season. Winning their home opener for the first time since they were an 11-man squad and going 2-0 for the first time in 14 years. The middle of the season got rough for the longhorns as they took on western Nebraska's premier teams, and a strong finish was necessary to keep post-season hopes alive.

That strong finish came Friday night in the form of a 50-8 victory over the Morrill Lions on the Lions home field. Morrill has endured a tough season with just 11 players on the roster, but the longhorns took nothing for granted and stuck with what got them there, a strong running game.

Quarterback Lincoln Behrend pitched, handed, and made short passes to Luke Berger and Greg Bingham to carry the longhorns to a 24 point lead in the first quarter. As the game went on, Brayden Foos, Mason Brown and Ryker Behrend all saw the ball a lot more too. While the lions did make one scoring drive in the second half and converted on the two point try, the rest of the game belonged to the deep bench of the longhorns.

No. 28 Kimball (4-4) travels to No. 5 Crofton (6-2) Thursday in the first round of the Class D1 Playoffs. It's the Longhorns first appearance in the postseason since 2013, 14th overall.