No. 1 ranked Hills-Beaver Creek buries Spring Grove at state

MARSHALL — Spring Grove saw its season come to an end Thursday night, against the No. 1-ranked 9-Player team in the state, unbeaten Hills-Beaver Creek blasting the Lions 35-7 in the football state quarterfinals at Southwest Minnesota State University. The Patriots are the defending state champions and have reached the title game the last two years. Spring Grove had its season end at 8-4 overall. It was the Lions’ first time at state in four years. The Lions won it all in 2017 and 2018. It was their sixth trip to state overall and their fourth in the last 10 years. Hills-Beaver Creek entered the game averaging 43 points and giving up seven per game. The Patriots were simply too much for the Lions to handle. “The biggest thing we talked about all week was that we had to play physical and win the battle at the line of scrimmage,” Spring Grove coach Kody Moore said. “But they took it to us there. Their physicality in general wore us down. They played hard and were running downhill.

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