On Senior Day at Soldotna High School, the SoHi Stars football team with all seniors on both sides of the ball, dominated Eagle River building a 69-0 lead at the half; then, SoHi gave all of the starters the second half off as the Stars closed-out the Wolves 81-7 in Northern Lights Conference football action.
On a day with twelve touchdowns, ten for the offense and two for the defense, it was the SoHi defense that set the tone for the Stars’ sixth-straight victory. The Stars forced five, first quarter punts by Eagle River, each resulting in a SoHi touchdown. In the second quarter Eagle River chose not to punt and to attempt to retain possession by going on fourth down. That strategy resulted in two rushing touchdowns, one interception for a touchdown and one fumble recovery for a touchdown for SoHi. Half time score: SoHi 69, Eagle River 0.
The second half belonged to the SoHi reserves and the future of SoHi football. The Stars added a pair of rushing touchdowns and allowed a single score.
Final score: SoHi 81, Eagle River 7.
Game Scoring Highlights: SoHi
Wyatt Medcoff 82-yard touchdown run on game’s third play.
Aaron Faletoi 40-yard touchdown run on Stars’ fourth play from scrimmage
Wyatt Medcoff 52-yard punt return for touchdown
Hudson Metcalf 33-yard touchdown run (SoHi scores four touchdowns on 6 plays)
Hudson Metcalf 20-yard reception from Jersey Truesdell for touchdown
End of First Quarter 35-0 SoHi
Wyatt Medcoff 4-yard touchdown run
Zach Hanson 2-yard touchdown reception from Truesdell
Tyler Morrison interception return for touchdown
Zach Zeigler fumble recovery for touchdown
Galen Brantley III 29-yard run for touchdown
End of First Half 69-0 SoHi
Wayne Mellon 5-yard touchdown run
Wayne Mellon 52-yard touchdown run
(Eagle River scores on Andrew Hamilton 3-yard run.)
Final Score: SoHi 81, Eagle River 7
Northern Lights Conference
The Soldotna Stars clinch the top seed for the Northern Lights Conference into the Division II football playoffs. SoHi improves to 2-0 in the NLC with a final regular season pairing against the Kenai Kardinals in Kenai on Saturday October 5th. Eagle River will be the #2 seed from the NLC with a 2-1 conference record.
SoHi stands at 6-0 on the season and the Stars improve their Alaska football consecutive win streak to 15 straight games.
