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All 3 phases contribute to 55-20 district win at Hinton

Contributions in all three phases added up to a dominating performance by Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn in a 55-20 win at Hinton. H-M-S kept its Class A District 1 record unblemished at 5-0 with the win on Oct. 7.

Those contributions were especially evident during the second quarter when both teams combined to score 56 points.

Hinton struck first on a 54-yard run by Beau DeRocher, erasing H-M-S's early lead which had come on a 34-yard run by Kooper Ebel. The Hawks immediately regained the lead thanks to an 82-yard kickoff return by Ethan Diehm.

"Huge moment," Hawk coach Jay Eilers acknowledged. "Our...